> Since the writers repeatedly let Max call the other transgenics as her brothers, sisters, siblings and family it was their intention that Max sees them as that. If the writers wanted to imply it that Max means it in a Brethren/My People kind of way, why didn’t they let her describe her fellow transgenics as ‘My People’, comrades or friends in the first place?
I see it as something similar to how many black people refer to each other as brothers and sisters when they aren't. It's about racial identity, forming a community bond. Transgenics are a minority who are being persecuted, just as other peoples have been in RL. I'm a pagan, a religious minority that has faced prejudice and persecution in the past, and we often refer to each other as brothers, sisters, cousins. I don't think she would have called them comrades - its too military a term, and she clearly loathes the military parts of the Transgenic identity. I don't think she would have used the term friend - it seems to be a term that she uses only when there is true meaning, not in the casual way that so many people do, there are very few people she calls friend.
>Please don’t twist the writers' words. I wasn't. It is simply my perception of their words. We all have our own interpretations.
> She even considered Ames White and C.J. as kinda related to her. CJ maybe, but I don't perceive her as considering Ames as anywhere in the same universe.
>I think that at first Alec was giving Max the creeps since he is Ben’s clone. Sometimes it seamed to me that she kinda resented Alec and was annoyed by his presence.
I don't think she was creeped out in anyway. The clone idea didn't seem to bother her. I only saw resentment as you say - at first she resented the fact that he was alive and sane when Ben wasn't, later that she resented the contrast with Ben: ie that he was in Manticore twice as long as Ben, suffered because of Ben and yet was sane, whereas Ben was free and could have done so much with his life but became a serial killer and kind of longed for Manticore. I think she was also annoyed by him because he seemed to delight in needling her.
>Later in season 2 she got closer to him but not more as in a brotherly/sisterly or platonic way. I think even late on most times you'd be pushing it to say she treated him like a friend let alone a sibling. Maybe she even would have seen a sibling relationship with Alec as a betrayal of Ben.
>By the way, they didn’t need to create new love interests for either of them. They just had to cure the virus so that Max could be with Logan. Plus, they already had a love interest for Alec. Her name was Asha! I didn't really see Asha as a serious love interest, more of a flirtation leading to friendship.
> Since the writers repeatedly let Max call the other transgenics as her brothers, sisters, siblings and family it was their intention that Max sees them as that. If the writers wanted to imply it that Max means it in a Brethren/My People kind of way, why didn’t they let her describe her fellow transgenics as ‘My People’, comrades or friends in the first place?
I see it as something similar to how many black people refer to each other as brothers and sisters when they aren't. It's about racial identity, forming a community bond. Transgenics are a minority who are being persecuted, just as other peoples have been in RL. I'm a pagan, a religious minority that has faced prejudice and persecution in the past, and we often refer to each other as brothers, sisters, cousins.
I don't think she would have called them comrades - its too military a term, and she clearly loathes the military parts of the Transgenic identity.
I don't think she would have used the term friend - it seems to be a term that she uses only when there is true meaning, not in the casual way that so many people do, there are very few people she calls friend.
>Please don’t twist the writers' words.
I wasn't. It is simply my perception of their words. We all have our own interpretations.
> She even considered Ames White and C.J. as kinda related to her.
CJ maybe, but I don't perceive her as considering Ames as anywhere in the same universe.
>I think that at first Alec was giving Max the creeps since he is Ben’s clone. Sometimes it seamed to me that she kinda resented Alec and was annoyed by his presence.
I don't think she was creeped out in anyway. The clone idea didn't seem to bother her. I only saw resentment as you say - at first she resented the fact that he was alive and sane when Ben wasn't, later that she resented the contrast with Ben: ie that he was in Manticore twice as long as Ben, suffered because of Ben and yet was sane, whereas Ben was free and could have done so much with his life but became a serial killer and kind of longed for Manticore.
I think she was also annoyed by him because he seemed to delight in needling her.
>Later in season 2 she got closer to him but not more as in a brotherly/sisterly or platonic way.
I think even late on most times you'd be pushing it to say she treated him like a friend let alone a sibling. Maybe she even would have seen a sibling relationship with Alec as a betrayal of Ben.
>By the way, they didn’t need to create new love interests for either of them. They just had to cure the virus so that Max could be with Logan. Plus, they already had a love interest for Alec. Her name was Asha!
I didn't really see Asha as a serious love interest, more of a flirtation leading to friendship.
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