Jenny's death is what I find a little bit over-hyped actually. Like of course the death scene itself was extremely-done, but come on at all the talk of the show being daring enough to kill off a major character and a fan favourite. I'm sure that most fans liked Jenny well enough, but IMO people really exaggerate when they act like it was such a brave choice to kill off one of the main characters. Seriously, Jenny Calendar?
Yeah. TBH, I've always thought Passion was overrated as an episode and Jenny's death kinda blown up. I wasn't in fandom back then, but I just have a hard time imagining Jenny was *that* beloved, you know? Even as a teen watching it I thought she had Plot Bait written all over her. I was surprised at the graphic nature for a teen show on the WB part of it but not that she died.
I mean, I don't know. I don't want to dismiss feelings about it, but I do wonder if some of it isn't an 'my favs always die, woe is me!' sort of thing. Modern fandom seems to want to place more importance on this stuff than there was at the time, I feel like. I've seen Kendra called a fan favorite and I'm like 'What?'
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Date: 2015-12-23 09:59 pm (UTC)Jenny's death is what I find a little bit over-hyped actually. Like of course the death scene itself was extremely-done, but come on at all the talk of the show being daring enough to kill off a major character and a fan favourite. I'm sure that most fans liked Jenny well enough, but IMO people really exaggerate when they act like it was such a brave choice to kill off one of the main characters. Seriously, Jenny Calendar?
Yeah. TBH, I've always thought Passion was overrated as an episode and Jenny's death kinda blown up. I wasn't in fandom back then, but I just have a hard time imagining Jenny was *that* beloved, you know? Even as a teen watching it I thought she had Plot Bait written all over her. I was surprised at the graphic nature for a teen show on the WB part of it but not that she died.
I mean, I don't know. I don't want to dismiss feelings about it, but I do wonder if some of it isn't an 'my favs always die, woe is me!' sort of thing. Modern fandom seems to want to place more importance on this stuff than there was at the time, I feel like. I've seen Kendra called a fan favorite and I'm like 'What?'