Great Women I

Carter  (copy from:Baidu)

Zoe (copy from: Weibo)

This week I would like to talk about the female characters in the Peron of Interest. POI is the most feminist TV show that I have ever watched before the Agent Carter came out few weeks ago. There are plenty of powerful and independent women characters in this show: Detective Carter, Shaw, Root and Zoe; they all are intelligent and outstanding women who represent the new roles of modern female.  

Never underestimate women’s capability is one thing I learn from this show. Female character can be ambitious, smart and crafty, but they are not tender girls who need to hide behind men. Clichés, bias or judgment about female’s traditional role is not depicted by the writers. Since feminism acts as a necessary element of this show, POI attracts a large number of feminist fans.

Shaw

Sameen Shaw is my favorite ever since she directly transfused a Russian mob’s blood into her body. Shaw is so bad-ass that I am thrilled every time when she shoot someone. She is just too AWESOME!!!

Shaw is a former government assassin who is supposed to be taken off by the government because she and her partner get involved in national secret; however, Hoard Finch and John Reese rescued her, after that she stayed with them and help them save other people.  She is a very unique person. Dark humor, smart, strong, anti-social and rude all can be used to describe her, but at the same time, these adjectives all fail to depict her. She does not feel emotion but she sacrifice herself for numerous people. She is irritable, however she is also very reliable that I feel like I would marry her and rely on her for the rest of my life. Anyway, Shaw’ contradictory personality is really appealing to me.

copy from: Zap2it

Also, the actress of Sameen Shaw – Sarah Shahi is not an eye candy who know few about acting, she has her own inner sight about acting. I am not going to give a whole speech on how she great is, because I love her so so much. She is like sunshine to me.

Besides Shaw, various great women characters can be seen in this show. They all have their unique personalities which the audiences can only love, but never dislike. The writers of this show contribute a lot for creating them. I truly appreciate them for valuing women.

Sarah Shahi (copy from: Mtime )

Sarah Shahi once said these on the Santiago Comic-Con:

            “In a world, unfortunately, where women are still treated as second class citizens in a lot of parts of the world, I think it’s so important and so commendable they [the writers] recognize that they [the writers] have responsibility to put women in the forefront; to say that these girls are nor secretaries, they’re not the finger-pointing girlfriends, but they are very capable, very individualistic strong women. They are not relying on the size of their chests to get what they want. And I just think that [it] is very important for women. Just as a woman, I’m proud and thank you [to the writers] for recognizing it.”

Root (copy from: Wikia)

Next week, I will continue to interpret these excellent female in POI, so stay tuned!                       

TO BE CONTINUED….