There seems to have been -- honestly it's just little comments I see here and there, or completely dismissing the show (and Joss) for that reason, etc. -- it feels like a lot of fans feel this way.

I guess my theory about it is, Joss has made it a point many times to tell women's stories. Women are humans and all humans suffer. (And most of us don't kick ass and take names afterward.) So to not show their suffering would be disingenuous and false and BORING. I can't care about characters who aren't treated like real people, even in the high-fantasy worlds that Joss usually deals in.

If it's entirely arbitrary, has no meaning, or if the show portrays an overwhelming bias against women, if the female characters aren't treated like people or like they're worthless, or are treated like scenery/props, etc. then I am fully on board with the pointing and the spitting. But I don't think this is one of those cases -- at least not yet.

There's only been three episodes. I'm not gonna shake it down just yet. Sometimes I guess people just see what they want to see.