Supergirl the TV show

[james_davis_nicoll]

Is it becoming a distaff harem comedy?

Comments

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

What is a distaff harem comedy?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Instead of it being a guy slowly accumulating a collection of would-be girlfriends/wives, it is a woman accumulating a collection of would-be boyfriends.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Ah.

She does seem to be lacking in friends who are also women, doesn't she?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Indeed, which is somewhat odd for a show which would actually need to work hard to not pass the Bechdel test every episode.

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

Well, she has a sister whom she's close to, and has developed a strong mentoring relationship with her female boss.

She doesn't have any female friends of her own age, but then she only has one friend of her own age period. You can fanwank that by saying that a person with her secret to hide, and her rather complex history, would have trouble getting close to people. But probably it's just the TV convention whereby most people's social circle doesn't reach into the double digits.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as of the pilot, it seems like Kara just didn't have *any* friends at all, besides her sister or Winn (a work friend).

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

More friends would mean more actors to pay and more continuing characters for the audience to remember. As it is she only has three coworkers who do anything more than fill space, and the Secret Government Agency employs two named people and a bunch of extras.

[undomielregina]

If it helps, there's already a genre term for that in Japanese fandoms, because they're increasingly common (and have been around for decades now, almost as long as harem comedies themselves.) There, you'll generally see them called reverse harems.