Nathan & Kelly ramblings

[falafel_musings]

I finished my Misfits watch last night. All 13 episodes! I'm now completely up to date. And being that I'm finished watching, I can respond to daybreak777's meme asking new Misfits fans: What is your favorite aspect of the show and why?

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[daybreak777]

Yay, more Misfits posts! I like that this is a show that most people like, that is quick to watch and that inspires us to write long posts! I posted my response over at my journal but I'll post it here for anyone else to see.

My favorite part of the show is the relationships between all five characters. Misfits looks good, has great music, a new setting to me and a fast-paced plot. That's all wonderful. But none of that would matter if I hadn't fallen in love with each of the characters separately. Nathan has a mouth on him. And I wouldn't exactly say he has a heart of gold. He's mean and completely obnoxious at times. But he likes little children and he's loyal and lonely and seems real. A real ass at times, but real. And he's proven he can be a good friend. I like Simon. He's so creepy and awkward that he's painful to watch sometimes. But he's probably the smartest of them all and watches science fiction and is loyal to them. Curtis tries to protect them in his way too. Kelly is kind of a violent mother figure, but she'll

[falafel_musings]

I enjoy the gang scenes and the Nathan/Simon bromance is another one of my favourite aspects of the show. However from the perspective of me looking at Misfits as a British social commentary, the other characters just aren't as effective as Nathan or Kelly. I find characters like Curtis and Nikki very bland. I had loved Simon in S1 and thought he was another great archetype of alienated anti-social British youth. But the Super-Simon alterego has spoilt his character for me. In the 'Making Of' on my DVD the writers said that they wanted to give Simon a Clark Kent/Superman split personality between awkward geek and dashing hero. But as a fan who doesn't care for the superhero aspect, it just feel like the writers are placing Americanised story conventions on Simon and Alisha (Simon's Lois Lane?). It's interesting that Misfits seems to have become an internet hit with worldwide viewers around the same time as the Simon/Alisha story started. I think it's much more of a traditional USA superpowers story, i.e. the geek becomes the hero and

[daybreak777]

Interesting to think of Misfits as a social commentary on British youth. I had no idea these characters were archetypes at all. I'm so glad you started watching because I really hadn't gotten that. I thought Nathan was just . . . Nathan. Kelly, however, did seem like a working class person who was very concerned what people thought of her but I didn't know why

[falafel_musings]

I don't mind Simon/Alisha. As someone who loved a ship so much that I found fandom to express it, I understand that that can add a lot to a TV show for some fans. Especially some fans who've shipped them all along. My only question is, what now? How to keep that relationship interesting?

I like Simon/Alisha a little more now that Alisha is in love with the real Simon and not SuperHoodie. I'm just kind of saddened by the idea that Simon must change for Alisha; that he has to become unrealistically idealised and heroic. I don't know. Ep 1x5 was one of my favourite eps because it explored Simon's sweetness and his darkness. I fear they are losing the complexity of Simon's character with this story.

Are the kids that disruptive that they are discriminated against? In a word? Yes. I've seen both sides of it. I used to work in a video rentals and we'd get gangs of chav kids coming in to shoplift and harass the staff on a regular basis. I found it sad because these kids were bored, their parents didn't want them at home and they had

[daybreak777]

I understand you about Simon. I was worried about the same thing. If I could love Simon even when he creeped me out, why couldn't Alisha? The way I reconciled it for myself is that she had to have fallen for him naturally the first go round. We didn't see that and it annoys me that we didn't but it had to have happened. And I can see a bit more chemistry between them now. Alisha is changing too. Some couples will hook up eventually, no matter what timeline, no matter what life. They are not my ship, but maybe they are like that. We'll see

[falafel_musings]

I don't think we'll see future!Simon again. I hope they keep the complexity of Simon too. I do think he may have lied about selling his powers. Good for him.

I'm thinking that future!Simon will have to be erased somehow because otherwise they'd have to kill Simon off. At first I thought SuperHoodie would turn out to be Simon from a parallel universe. When Simon pulled up his Hoodie after he found Alisha murdered I thought the Simon from that timeline would become the future super Simon. But then Milkman stabbed him (??)

I wonder if they are all going to buy back different powers? I kind of like the powers they've got, but I get the feeling they might change them. I also think Alisha will choose to remain powerless from now on.

[daybreak777]

It's hard to know what happened. I'm sure the future!Simon we saw died saving Alisha in episode 2x04. There is only one Simon now and that's the present one. As for ep 2x06. None of that happened. No one has the memory of it except Curtis and it's not clear if he told all of them. All that happened is they found Milk Man before he became evil and probably killed him? We don't know for sure and might not know.

I hope Alisha doesn't remain powerless. I want her to be powerful and strong! Yep. I want that for each of them.

The Vicky Pollard character was hysterical! And you're right! That's what they probably got Nathan stealing the Pic-n-Mix from!