Jeannie or Samantha?

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kohkae just posed that question. What do you think?

     
We're talking about the characters here folks, not the actresses, and the whole characters, not their bodies.

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the couples



Sam


Jeannie

Comments

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that Samantha at least (even though she WAS more deferential to Darren than she ought to be) had the potential and the mindset to be more independent than Jeannie ever seemed to be capable of. That's why I think I liked her better.

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

Jeannie was kindhearted and well-meaning, but she seemed pretty stupid (more so than her naivite would explain). Also impulsive and overly subservient.

Samantha was more of a real person, more independent and savvy. Although I never got why she was attached to such a sad sack/worrywart like Darren.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Sam seemed more real.

Why I picked the wrong answer

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I never watched Bewitched as a kid. I remember fantasizing about how cool it would be to have a Genie like Jeannie as a kid. Now that I've seen I Dream of Jeannie as an adult, I find the show painful. But Jeannie has rockets in it, and, well, I'm sorry but, yeah, the idea of a hot young fine babe with supernatural powers devoted to my wish fulfillment still appeals to me. I can easily see that if I were to watch both today, I'd find Bewitched more watchable.

So I guess I'm not rating the content of their character so much as the degree to which I envy their leading men. To some extent, the question to me is "would you prefer a direct conduit to supernatural powers, or would you want to be married to someone with supernatural powers?" Jeannie would make my life easy, Samantha would make it more complicated.

Re: Why I picked the wrong answer

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on most of this....Actually, I think Jeannie is my short-term fantasy, but Samantha would be more spiritually fulfilling long-term.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I only like to call people "master" for pretend...

Of course I watched both shows as a kid, and didn't realize until later how fucked up it is that Jeanne was bound to Tony Nelson and how her culture forced her to serve him (and she really, really liked being that subserviant). Plus I hated when they got married and she still called him "master".

Although I do find it funny that B Eden was able to wear that outfit on TV on a show with plenty of veiled innuendo (I daresay the most until 3's company) and it was just fine as long as you couldn't see her dirty, filthy, navel.

Neither

[eve-l-incarnata.livejournal.com]

I remember watching them as a kid, but now they make me wince.