Non-PR Heroes reaction
Oct. 9th, 2007 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenPrison Break: WHY!?!
RIP Doctor Sara. I'm more pissed that they killed an interesting, intelligent character than I am about the stupid shippers' snit-fits. I actually liked Sara, and that so rarely happens with heroines on TV. She was complicated and difficult but not weak or angsty. Her struggle with addiction was one of the most realistic representations I've ever seen. This is even more senseless with what I've read about why Sara was offed. I can't begrudge the actress' needs changing post-baby and her wanting to stay with her family, but I'm severely disappointed that she wasn't at least willing to work more with the producers to give Sara any kind of a proper send-off. It sounds like they really did try to accommodate her and she shut them down. When a film crew is ready to go to you, far away from where the rest of the cast and crew is shooting, and you still are like, "fuck that," that's bad form.
And I disagree that killing Sara is necessary to move Michael to some emotional point. Instead, all I get from that is, "Great. He threw himself in prison to spare her and now she's dead. Congratulations, you've proved the entire third season pointless." Sigh. And they'll just try to throw in some new love interest because god forbid Michael do it for his nephew and brother. You know, that brother he was willing to go to prison for the first time? Sheesh.
*
Heroes at least did not hurt as much. Sylar was in the episode! Trinity go SQUEEE!
I was giggling internally pretty damned hard as I watched the scene with him and "Candice." Because she did get a tad less annoying at the end of last season, but she's still a dumb ho. Who was not told anything about her charge, clearly. Because Sylar is not distracted by the tits. He's like Dexter: throw him a victim if you want his attention. Loved, loved, loved Candice resorting to taking on his image to get him worked up. Hee. They totally went there. And then he killed her. I am still wondering if he actually killed her or if it's another mirage of Candice's doing (I cannot believe they'd leave her alone with him and assume that she could control him, with or without his abilities and a hole in the chest). I kinda like the idea of Sylar being the monster on LOST though.
Nah, can't be bothered to care. I'm still all "Heh. Heh. She totally came onto him...as HIMSELF. AND IT WORKED."
Speaking of the gay, though: wow, Matt and Mohinder are married. Like, it's a joke--ha, ha, two dudes living together with a kid--but it's not. Because they are so married. The way they play off each other--"I don't like you bringing home your unsafe work while our baby is at risk!" "You never trust me to know what I'm doing!"--is just too much. I need to know how the hell the two of them ever got together. Obviously, Molly did it, since she loves Matt and Mohinder dotes on her/worked on her. They're the second most believable married couple after Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
Hurrah, Peter's story sucks and I hope he lives forever anonymously in Ireland and never bothers us again. I did mention I hated him, right? Ditto for Maya and Alejandro (except, you know, in Mexico). Maya and Alejandro are the Matt Parkman storyline of this season. I couldn't give a shit at this point. I take that back: if Alejandro grows some testicles and does what is necessary and kills Maya, all is forgiven. He seemed really freaked that she would provoke her powers just to bust him out of jail, and I hope they don't drop that threat of her using violence that way. I really liked the discussion Mohinder and the Company guy had about how, realistically, there are just some of these people who cannot be trusted with their abilities (hello, Sylar), and it's for the greater good to take them out (reproductively speaking, not so, unless you believe there's a greater genetic component to psychosis in Sylar's case; personally, I don't think there is, plus his crazy is totally from the brain-schisming, which is probably not extended beyond his somatic cells).
So, yeah, I'd like to see how hard the choice is to kill some of these people. They're not all Sylars--some times they are going to be normal, even nice people, but their powers are too dangerous to leave them alive.
*
Listening to Dexter in the Dark is just not going to happen. Jeff Lindsay isn't the best writer in the world, but his prose moves along snappily enough that I'm always breezing through it. Listening to the audiobook of the third in the Dexter series is just painful. There is no acting to it. I'm totally spoiled by the voice-over work by Michael C. Hall on the show, I do realize that; I'm so used to his interpretation of how Dexter's inner monologue runs, the cadences and dryness and wryness of it that anything else has a jarring falseness to it. Even so, this audiobook performance is barely more animated than someone reading the lines off the page into a microphone. Dexter isn't an animated character, I realize, but there are ways to bring even his flat cynicism to life and whoever it is doing the reading is just not trying.
Also, this book starts off with more negativity about Rita than the other two books combined had throughout their pages. I get that Book-Dexter is a lot less adorably human and dependent in his relationship than Show-Dexter, but there's no need for the meanness to Rita because she's been snowed under by Book-Dexter. He literally loathes her, and there's this unnecessary, unsuccessful attempt to make her look a moron so that his loathing is justified. Instead of the more natural progression which would be having him admit there's only as much stupid and inane about her as there is to the rest of humanity in his opinion. It just feels needlessly mean to harp on her quite so much.
This is not going to be the security blanket to keep me until the next new episode that I'd hoped it would be, I guess.
RIP Doctor Sara. I'm more pissed that they killed an interesting, intelligent character than I am about the stupid shippers' snit-fits. I actually liked Sara, and that so rarely happens with heroines on TV. She was complicated and difficult but not weak or angsty. Her struggle with addiction was one of the most realistic representations I've ever seen. This is even more senseless with what I've read about why Sara was offed. I can't begrudge the actress' needs changing post-baby and her wanting to stay with her family, but I'm severely disappointed that she wasn't at least willing to work more with the producers to give Sara any kind of a proper send-off. It sounds like they really did try to accommodate her and she shut them down. When a film crew is ready to go to you, far away from where the rest of the cast and crew is shooting, and you still are like, "fuck that," that's bad form.
And I disagree that killing Sara is necessary to move Michael to some emotional point. Instead, all I get from that is, "Great. He threw himself in prison to spare her and now she's dead. Congratulations, you've proved the entire third season pointless." Sigh. And they'll just try to throw in some new love interest because god forbid Michael do it for his nephew and brother. You know, that brother he was willing to go to prison for the first time? Sheesh.
*
Heroes at least did not hurt as much. Sylar was in the episode! Trinity go SQUEEE!
I was giggling internally pretty damned hard as I watched the scene with him and "Candice." Because she did get a tad less annoying at the end of last season, but she's still a dumb ho. Who was not told anything about her charge, clearly. Because Sylar is not distracted by the tits. He's like Dexter: throw him a victim if you want his attention. Loved, loved, loved Candice resorting to taking on his image to get him worked up. Hee. They totally went there. And then he killed her. I am still wondering if he actually killed her or if it's another mirage of Candice's doing (I cannot believe they'd leave her alone with him and assume that she could control him, with or without his abilities and a hole in the chest). I kinda like the idea of Sylar being the monster on LOST though.
Nah, can't be bothered to care. I'm still all "Heh. Heh. She totally came onto him...as HIMSELF. AND IT WORKED."
Speaking of the gay, though: wow, Matt and Mohinder are married. Like, it's a joke--ha, ha, two dudes living together with a kid--but it's not. Because they are so married. The way they play off each other--"I don't like you bringing home your unsafe work while our baby is at risk!" "You never trust me to know what I'm doing!"--is just too much. I need to know how the hell the two of them ever got together. Obviously, Molly did it, since she loves Matt and Mohinder dotes on her/worked on her. They're the second most believable married couple after Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
Hurrah, Peter's story sucks and I hope he lives forever anonymously in Ireland and never bothers us again. I did mention I hated him, right? Ditto for Maya and Alejandro (except, you know, in Mexico). Maya and Alejandro are the Matt Parkman storyline of this season. I couldn't give a shit at this point. I take that back: if Alejandro grows some testicles and does what is necessary and kills Maya, all is forgiven. He seemed really freaked that she would provoke her powers just to bust him out of jail, and I hope they don't drop that threat of her using violence that way. I really liked the discussion Mohinder and the Company guy had about how, realistically, there are just some of these people who cannot be trusted with their abilities (hello, Sylar), and it's for the greater good to take them out (reproductively speaking, not so, unless you believe there's a greater genetic component to psychosis in Sylar's case; personally, I don't think there is, plus his crazy is totally from the brain-schisming, which is probably not extended beyond his somatic cells).
So, yeah, I'd like to see how hard the choice is to kill some of these people. They're not all Sylars--some times they are going to be normal, even nice people, but their powers are too dangerous to leave them alive.
*
Listening to Dexter in the Dark is just not going to happen. Jeff Lindsay isn't the best writer in the world, but his prose moves along snappily enough that I'm always breezing through it. Listening to the audiobook of the third in the Dexter series is just painful. There is no acting to it. I'm totally spoiled by the voice-over work by Michael C. Hall on the show, I do realize that; I'm so used to his interpretation of how Dexter's inner monologue runs, the cadences and dryness and wryness of it that anything else has a jarring falseness to it. Even so, this audiobook performance is barely more animated than someone reading the lines off the page into a microphone. Dexter isn't an animated character, I realize, but there are ways to bring even his flat cynicism to life and whoever it is doing the reading is just not trying.
Also, this book starts off with more negativity about Rita than the other two books combined had throughout their pages. I get that Book-Dexter is a lot less adorably human and dependent in his relationship than Show-Dexter, but there's no need for the meanness to Rita because she's been snowed under by Book-Dexter. He literally loathes her, and there's this unnecessary, unsuccessful attempt to make her look a moron so that his loathing is justified. Instead of the more natural progression which would be having him admit there's only as much stupid and inane about her as there is to the rest of humanity in his opinion. It just feels needlessly mean to harp on her quite so much.
This is not going to be the security blanket to keep me until the next new episode that I'd hoped it would be, I guess.
