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Women ruled the original V television series

posted 15 years ago by jeffyoung1
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The 1984-85 V television series was ahead of its time in this respect. Women were among the top leaders in the tv show. Especially among the alien visitors, it was the females who were the most dominant and most lethal. Besides Jane Badler's sexily lethal evil bitch character, Diana, in came a higher-ranking officer, squadron commander, Pamela - Sara Douglas' character. Sara Douglas, an English actress, fit the bill to a tee. She is 5'10", beautiful and looks every bit as evil. Pamela is Diana's military superior and yet during a private conversation in a ship lab, both women verbally spar with all fangs and claws out, demeaning each other's purported use of sex to climb the rank ladder. Both women are aliens and yet so human-like. It's hard to believe that in any military organization a superior ranking officer would take that kind of crap from a immediate subordinate. But between women, I notice, it's not about the rank, it's woman versus woman.

[–] SCY385-1 15 years ago

One of the things I miss about the 80's is the trend of having women portray strong, dominant characters no matter how good or bad. V was not the only show that did that. Dynasty was really driven by the female characters. Murder She Wrote's lead was an actress. Falcon Crest had a strong, female villain. Moonlighting had a strong female lead. Even a show that was on HBO called 1st & 10 had a female played by Delta Burke who owned the football team. Which leads me to two more female driven shows, The Golden Girls and Designing Women. Not only were these shows featuring strong women but they were showing strong, OLDER women with somewhat realistic bodies. There were a few youngsters on at the time doing their thing, but there were quite a few 30 and 40 somethings too. I don't know where things went off the track because it seems to me that things are completely different now. I feel sorry for these young girls coming up now because all they are being exposed to is some kind of porned-up, plastic dumb-asses. I am now in my 40's and I have never been afraid to be here because I grew up with such positive images of older women. Oh the good ole days!

[–] dpcole7 15 years ago

Not entirely. The women were evil.

Heck, Servalan ("Blake's 7" (1978-1981)) was the lead baddie and she was a woman.

The media is only as feminist as the guys in their suits allow it to be.

[–] brunhilda2013 11 years ago

Pamela and Diana's conversation strongly implies that both women slept their way through the ranks instead of rising legitimately through hard work and dedication. Read into that what you want.