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trinityvixen) wrote2008-10-14 12:32 am
trinityvixen) wrote2008-10-14 12:32 am
Free advice to the show
We have come to the everything-including-the-kitchen-sink point. Time to condense. Things that are working for me right now:
1) The fucked-up-ed-ness of Bennet's teaming with Sylar leading him to bring his daughter's cerebral rapist back into her life.
I do not like Good Boy Sylar. I do like the interaction between Sylar and Claire, however. It appeals to all her dirty-wrong-bad buttons, not least of which is the fact that her sympathy and lust for him is incestuous like whoa. (It's a Petrelli thing.) Make no mistake, Claire finding things in common with Sylar is really workable. They're both coming at it from different angles, but their common ground is believable now that neutered!Sylar is a given. I think that his conversion is either slipping or suspect because he seemed dangerously close to some super roid rage over Mr. Bennet wanting to kill him. Maybe converting Claire to his way of thinking is his ultimate revenge.
2) Nathan being a synthetic super.
I love that development because it makes him even more my wubby. Poor Nathan. He's the only super who is still a human being at heart--conflicted, imperfect, determined, struggling. It's really heart-breaking that he's nothing more than a trial run for Mama's better boys. It also explains how come his brothers are so overpowered and he can, uh, fly.
...that's it.
I'm pretty sure if I pulled a South Park and had manatees pick out words with which to make plot developments, you couldn't come up with more unlikely, improbable, or staggeringly moronic developments.
I watched My Own Worst Enemy afterwards. It was terrible. It was still better than Heroes. There was also a frightening moment where someone quoted something pithy (they did that a lot) and I said, "That makes no sense." Then Christian Slater said the exact same thing. I could totally write for NBC.
1) The fucked-up-ed-ness of Bennet's teaming with Sylar leading him to bring his daughter's cerebral rapist back into her life.
I do not like Good Boy Sylar. I do like the interaction between Sylar and Claire, however. It appeals to all her dirty-wrong-bad buttons, not least of which is the fact that her sympathy and lust for him is incestuous like whoa. (It's a Petrelli thing.) Make no mistake, Claire finding things in common with Sylar is really workable. They're both coming at it from different angles, but their common ground is believable now that neutered!Sylar is a given. I think that his conversion is either slipping or suspect because he seemed dangerously close to some super roid rage over Mr. Bennet wanting to kill him. Maybe converting Claire to his way of thinking is his ultimate revenge.
2) Nathan being a synthetic super.
I love that development because it makes him even more my wubby. Poor Nathan. He's the only super who is still a human being at heart--conflicted, imperfect, determined, struggling. It's really heart-breaking that he's nothing more than a trial run for Mama's better boys. It also explains how come his brothers are so overpowered and he can, uh, fly.
...that's it.
I'm pretty sure if I pulled a South Park and had manatees pick out words with which to make plot developments, you couldn't come up with more unlikely, improbable, or staggeringly moronic developments.
I watched My Own Worst Enemy afterwards. It was terrible. It was still better than Heroes. There was also a frightening moment where someone quoted something pithy (they did that a lot) and I said, "That makes no sense." Then Christian Slater said the exact same thing. I could totally write for NBC.
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I think those were tears of w0e. That's what it looked like to me.
Sylar's been Spiked! They just need a chip in his head to deal with those "urges" and then we can just forget his murderous past and accept him as a good guy, right?
Peter has been turned into a walking disaster that is either a weak and causing mayhem or in a coma. Remember in season one where there was that whole good son/bad son complicated family dynamic between the Petrellis, where they actually acted like a believable dysfunctional family? I miss those dies. *sigh* At least Nathan occasionally pays lip service to actually giving a fuck what's happening to Peter.
Also--do they know how to end an episode without some big reveal involving the word "Petrelli"? I don't think they do.
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I love that term. Because that's exactly when I started giving Buffy the stink-eye. I hate that popular must = good. You know what? Villains? Are awesome. Let them be fucking villains. Do you see movies called The Adventures of Laurie Strode and Nancy Thompson? FUCK NO, you go see Freddy vs Jason. Let villains be villains, damn it.
Remember in season one where there was that whole good son/bad son complicated family dynamic between the Petrellis, where they actually acted like a believable dysfunctional family?
I remember. I also fucking remember that there was a time when absorbing too many goddamned powers nearly killed Peter and left Sylar permanently psychotic. Hey, remember when the uber-powerful Marty Stus had limitations!?!?one!!?
I miss the Petrelli dynamic because it was authentic. You had the overbearing father and the mother who played favorites and the children who were an obvious result of that upbringing. Now you have Angela gunning for Clytemnestra's place in the history books and illegitimate Petrelli scions (assuming that's why Sylar was ever given away in the first place) popping up all over. I remember when people used to have normal reactions and how awesome it was that they had to square increasingly bizarre shit with reality. Omg reality.
Also--do they know how to end an episode without some big reveal involving the word "Petrelli"? I don't think they do.
They tried other families--the Saunders, Sureshes, Parkmans, et al.--but none had half the inappropriate subtext. So they thought they could make some up by making everyone a Petrelli. It's not working...