Zeonprime
IreneStand by your man
June 2nd 2009 17:32
There are several women in Terminator Salvation. Don’t feel bad if you missed them, because you might have blinked or slurped your soda or something to that effect. But there are several women acting in this film: we have the eminently creepy Helena Bonham-Carter, Moon Bloodgood, and Bryce Dallas Howard, the purpose of whom appear only to support the endeavours of the male counterparts. Howard plays Kate Connor, wife to John Connor and his second-in-command. She also doubles as the resistance cell medic whose advanced training in veterinary medicine qualifies her to conduct open-heart surgery in a tent (to which I call bullshit).
I will allow that Kate, before being saddled with her middle-school crush at the end of T3, appears to be a fairly competent and educated woman and would most likely have learned a fair bit of battlefield medicine during the fifteen years between the two movies, so I’ll swing McG a bit of leeway on Kate being the resistance doctor.
Sadly enough, McG does not provide what should have been an impressive female character with little to do other than comment on Marcus’s medical condition and try to bolster Connor’s waning confidence. Maybe McG is having a difficult time showing a strong female character in a serious manner. Remember Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle?
This leads us to Bloodgood's role as Blair. Blair starts out as a tough A-10 Warthog fighter plane jock, but she's challenged by a miraculous sudden love for Marcus (it is amazing how much you can get to know a person in just a two-day walk). Blair is also subject to the stereotype of a woman needing to be saved. Even though she can raise hell from 10,000 feet, she can’t handle three untrained and starving rednecks who want to have a little fun.
Kate stands by her man.
I will allow that Kate, before being saddled with her middle-school crush at the end of T3, appears to be a fairly competent and educated woman and would most likely have learned a fair bit of battlefield medicine during the fifteen years between the two movies, so I’ll swing McG a bit of leeway on Kate being the resistance doctor.
Sadly enough, McG does not provide what should have been an impressive female character with little to do other than comment on Marcus’s medical condition and try to bolster Connor’s waning confidence. Maybe McG is having a difficult time showing a strong female character in a serious manner. Remember Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle?
This leads us to Bloodgood's role as Blair. Blair starts out as a tough A-10 Warthog fighter plane jock, but she's challenged by a miraculous sudden love for Marcus (it is amazing how much you can get to know a person in just a two-day walk). Blair is also subject to the stereotype of a woman needing to be saved. Even though she can raise hell from 10,000 feet, she can’t handle three untrained and starving rednecks who want to have a little fun.
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