Minor spoilers ahoy!
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trinityvixenI just like that this confirms my suspicion from episode two.
From E!Online: And in next week's episode, Claire and HRG have a showdown, as you might have guessed from the trailer, and Claire ends up bonding with Sylar while they fight the Vortex villain.
Called it. S'all I'm gonna say.
No, I lied, I have this to say as well: Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaalled it.
And this: Seriously, Claire is f'ed up. And I'm not mad about this--there's definitely more dramatic potential in her going a little sociopathic, much more so than the other bullshit rigors they've thrown at her (the attempted rape, the bullying cheertator, West, etc.). Because from the first moment we met Claire, we knew she had a death wish and a pain kink. It comes from being invulnerable, and there's the metaphor of her being young and all young people are like that. They drive drunk, get high, rough-house, jump off really high buildings and pop their bones back under their skin, and so on. Claire's invulnerability really plays well into that idea of fearless youth.
The only thing that keeps fearlessness from becoming foolishness is pain and the lessons we learn from it. Claire is now immune to pain as well. So her desperation is more pointed--she has to make up the physical void with the emotional one. Which is why I noted how creepily sexual her attack by Sylar was. It should really have been like rape--less about the sexual, more about power--but Claire made it about sex, too, because she needed the pain of both to have any drive in her life. Without physical pain, all she's got is scars on her brain. (Literally and figuratively.) How better to pick at those scars than to hang around the abuser and internalize shame and pain together?
And it doesn't hurt that Gabriel is apparently her uncle. Inappropriate Petrelli-on-Petrelli love? No, you don't say!
One other spoiler, also minor, just to prove (as I was saying to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gryphonrose) that the show has lost track of its continuity entirely:
We'll see the first time Sylar ever killed, in episode eight.
The first time Sylar ever killed was when he brained the telekinetic to steal his powers. We saw that. It defeats the drama of that moment and the creep factor of Sylar murdering a guy out of nowhere just to be powerful if it wasn't like he'd be doing anything differently if the guy weren't a super. It doesn't scan. Stop re-writing Sylar because you love Zach Quinto, stupid writers! I like him, too, but I'd sooner he were written off the show still in character than kept around like a defanged, neutered pet.
From E!Online: And in next week's episode, Claire and HRG have a showdown, as you might have guessed from the trailer, and Claire ends up bonding with Sylar while they fight the Vortex villain.
Called it. S'all I'm gonna say.
No, I lied, I have this to say as well: Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaalled it.
And this: Seriously, Claire is f'ed up. And I'm not mad about this--there's definitely more dramatic potential in her going a little sociopathic, much more so than the other bullshit rigors they've thrown at her (the attempted rape, the bullying cheertator, West, etc.). Because from the first moment we met Claire, we knew she had a death wish and a pain kink. It comes from being invulnerable, and there's the metaphor of her being young and all young people are like that. They drive drunk, get high, rough-house, jump off really high buildings and pop their bones back under their skin, and so on. Claire's invulnerability really plays well into that idea of fearless youth.
The only thing that keeps fearlessness from becoming foolishness is pain and the lessons we learn from it. Claire is now immune to pain as well. So her desperation is more pointed--she has to make up the physical void with the emotional one. Which is why I noted how creepily sexual her attack by Sylar was. It should really have been like rape--less about the sexual, more about power--but Claire made it about sex, too, because she needed the pain of both to have any drive in her life. Without physical pain, all she's got is scars on her brain. (Literally and figuratively.) How better to pick at those scars than to hang around the abuser and internalize shame and pain together?
And it doesn't hurt that Gabriel is apparently her uncle. Inappropriate Petrelli-on-Petrelli love? No, you don't say!
One other spoiler, also minor, just to prove (as I was saying to
gryphonrose) that the show has lost track of its continuity entirely: We'll see the first time Sylar ever killed, in episode eight.
The first time Sylar ever killed was when he brained the telekinetic to steal his powers. We saw that. It defeats the drama of that moment and the creep factor of Sylar murdering a guy out of nowhere just to be powerful if it wasn't like he'd be doing anything differently if the guy weren't a super. It doesn't scan. Stop re-writing Sylar because you love Zach Quinto, stupid writers! I like him, too, but I'd sooner he were written off the show still in character than kept around like a defanged, neutered pet.
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Date: 2008-10-07 08:51 pm (UTC)Doesn't mean I'm not DYING over how stupid this is, just that it could be stupid and dull. I feel like I'm huffing glue whenever something happens and I'm all WTF? but still, yeah, glue fumes > boredom.