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So if any of you were trying to get me to watch Hellcats while I wasn't paying attention, I apologise from the bottom of my heart for not listening to you. If any of you were watching Hellcats and not trying to get me to watch it, HAVE YOU MET ME? :D :D

But it's all good now, because the endlessly wonderful kohl_rimmed_eye is watching it and threatening to maybe write femslash about it, and that made me perk up and get as far as hot and awesome girls in short skirts being kick-ass, which led me straight to searching for episodes.

I am not exactly sure what I was expecting, but IT'S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD. like, in addition to being about kick-ass girls in short skirts. I mean. It's a CW show. Produced by TOM WELLING. I didn't have all that high hopes beyond the pretty. But by and large the characters actually communicate with each other. And when lying happens to push plot forward, they don't string it out forever, they have the character be truthful. And the response to that seems generally to be mostly rational behaviour. It's not White Collar in this regard, for sure, but it is trying! And the few times that they've done something that I was thinking, "Oh, god, faily," one of the characters on the show has said, "Oh my god, why so faily?" to the perpetrator of the fail. It does a little preaching (don't cheat!) and a little glossing over of finance issues in institutional settings, and stuff like that, but nothing that isn't worse on a lot of other shows.

Plus. PLUS. It has competitive cheerleading. BRING IT ON. It has cheerleading uniforms. It has a guy and a girl who are BFFs. WITH EACH OTHER. It has female characters supporting each other and helping each other and hugging each other. The guys who aren't just generally assholes actually respect women. And I haven't noticed any slut shaming. Even when the two rivals are an inexperienced in life in general Christian girl and a girl who both enjoys sex and has no problem using it to get what she wants.

It's not perfect. I'm totally not saying it's perfect (even if it sounds like I am) but it really is so much better on an actual TV-show level than I was anticipating. better enough that I watched 6 episodes yesterday. so much for writing lots of fic