Ah, you probably aren't alone. A lot of Buffy fans don't get why Andrew and Harm get on my nerves.
I should probably qualify the above statement, or clarify it by stating - that I actually liked both characters on Angel or rather the episodes featuring them on Angel - Damage, Harms Way, Disharmony - partly because they were used sparringly and not in a way that tends to push my buttons. For some reason - the Angel writers developed the characters better and provided them with a depth that you don't see in Buffy. That said Espenson dealt with both rather well.
Harmony annoys me because she represents the girly girls that so many people stereotype women or believe women should be like. Pretty. Petite. Girly. With unicorns. And tiny fuffy doggies. And makeup. And skirts. She's such, if you will excuse the term, a bimbo. I don't mind male bimbos - because we see them in tv so rarely. Spike in some respects was depicted as a male bimbo on Buffy or sex object. So that felt different and rare. But women as bimbos are on every tv show out there - particularly sci-fi and comics. Girls who exist for another reason but to titilate the male viewer and make him feel all manly and protective. Like I said, the character just pushed my buttons - particularly on Buffy, not so much on Angel - where she was oddly enough depicted as a bit less girly. There were exceptions - Fool For Love was one. But mostly, she felt like the stereotypical bimbo.
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Date: 2009-01-13 07:02 pm (UTC)I should probably qualify the above statement, or clarify it by stating - that I actually liked both characters on Angel or rather the episodes featuring them on Angel - Damage, Harms Way, Disharmony - partly because they were used sparringly and not in a way that tends to push my buttons. For some reason - the Angel writers developed the characters better and provided them with a depth that you don't see in Buffy. That said Espenson dealt with both rather well.
Harmony annoys me because she represents the girly girls that so many people stereotype women or believe women should be like. Pretty. Petite. Girly. With unicorns. And tiny fuffy doggies. And makeup. And skirts. She's such, if you will excuse the term, a bimbo. I don't mind male bimbos - because we see them in tv so rarely. Spike in some respects was depicted as a male bimbo on Buffy or sex object. So that felt different and rare. But women as bimbos are on every tv show out there - particularly sci-fi and comics.
Girls who exist for another reason but to titilate the male viewer and make him feel all manly and protective.
Like I said, the character just pushed my buttons - particularly on Buffy, not so much on Angel - where she was oddly enough depicted as a bit less girly. There were exceptions - Fool For Love was one. But mostly, she felt like the stereotypical bimbo.