"I hate heroes"

Nov 25, 2008 20:13

What I hated: (if you love Claire, skip this)

Why is it always me?

My point exactly. Why must be always her? I never hated a character in a TV show, but now I hate Claire. The whining masochistic irritating selfish annoying cheerleader. I've hoped for some development, but, as noted here starwarsgeek (and I quote)

I've found her character development to be quite repetitive...
Volume 1:
"Hi, I'm Claire Bennet. I hurt myself for fun and despise the fact that my suicide attempts failed."
"Hmm...there seems to be a conspiracy here."
"My dad's envolved in that conspiracy; I don't trust him anymore!"
"I should have trusted him all along :'("
*season finale*

Volume 2:
"Hi, I'm Claire Benn...Butler. I hurt myself for fun!"
"Hmm...dad's going off on trips again; I bet there's some kind of conspiracy!"
"*Gasp* He captured my annoying boyfriend like...five years ago. I don't trust him anymore!"
"*snif* Now that he's gone I wish I had trusted him all along :'("
*season finale*

Volume 3 (thus far, of course):
"Hi, I'm Claire Bennet, and I try to hurt myself for fun, but I can't feel pain anymore. Woe is me...ect."
"Dad working with Sylar?!? Will the conspiracies never end?"
"I don't trust him anymore; he got that innocent black-hole guy to kill himself!"
"In retrospect I should've trusted him all along :'("

And somewhere in the middle of those she turns into a plot device (her ability in season 1, her blood in season 2, and the catalyst now.)

"That's enough!" Kill her, please! Sylar, please, take Hiro's power, kidnap Claire, go back to 1789 France, put her under a guillotine and enjoy the show... (Unfortunately, this is not going to happen, and we'll have the "Claire crying show" for ever and ever.)

What I liked:

How our heroes reacted to the loss of their power: on one hand the most powerful (Peter few weeks ago, Sylar yesterday) have a reaction like "uh, I've lost my powers? Who cares!", on the other hand people who have always been indifferent (Nathan) or worried about having it (Matt) miss them.
Elle's reaction: she grew up with her power, her identity is closely linked to her power. Her power define who she is. Without it she feel lost, she doesn't know who is. Poor Elle, come here you for an hug ... oh, you prefer Sylar... I understand you, lucky girl!
Then there is "miss masochism": you are happy because can feel pain again? WTF? you have some serious serious problems, girl.

Now everyone out there are ranting about the powerless Sylar who still killed Alejaaaaaaaaaaaandro (and almost EVERYONE said HURRAY! when he did it, btw) in season two. I don't care. For me season two is irrelevant, has served only to add a couple of interesting characters, useful for the third season: Elle and Angela (we barely saw her in the first season).
If you (and the writer) can ignore at all what has happened to Caitlin, I can safely ignore that Sylar killed someone when he was powerless in the second season. And that he did everything to have his powers back. I really don't care. I like and enjoy Sylar's development , this year and he wasn't my favorite character before.

What I loved: (and I'm not alone in this. No surprise that they always have some old pervert peeping on them... they are so hot but strangely cute together)
Sylar Elle Sylar Elle Sylar Elle. ZQ and KB are so perfect together. And I always loved how graciously ZQ perform a fall. Best Acting, again, from this two. (and HRG)
I didn't understand Elle motivation at first, then dana_serenity opened my eyes with this.

Sylar Elle = Bonnie & Clyde. (and I'm going to do a vid about it...) Hopefully minus the tragic end.

Heroes of the week:

HRG: when everyone else is powerless, he is the king.

Quote of the week:

Sylar: "I hate heroes"

Now, writers, please, don't kill little Noah. Again.

heroes|volume 3, meta, heroes

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