Info Dump and musey musings.

[happydalek]

Not much fandomish going on in my life right now.  Working full time (ish...two part time jobs) has kild my muse ded for the tiem being, it seems.  Still watching Heroes but haven't made time for a proper reaction post because, frankly, most of the episodes have left me feeling rather "meh."  Not much to report.  Still trying to attempt a MMSR

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[alto2]

Am I rude now?" Yes, you are. You're a power-tripping jerk. I guess I kept thinking he'd get over it, or I was imagining it. I kept trying to look past it, but Rusty, in his authorial brilliance, wouldn't let me, because he's been steadily emphasizing it.

It baffles me why you would deliberately make your lead character, especially a hero, unlikeable. It baffles me even more why you would be David Tennant and gush about how the writer who decided to make your character unlikeable and make the audience long for you to leave the part is the most wonderful writer since William Shakespeare, if not before. I wanted to like Ten so, so much. And there were moments where I did. And yet...there were enough moments where I just wanted to smack him that this era is forever tainted for me. And I can't help feeling it was such a waste of David Tennant's talents that he should be asking for his time back to go to do other projects better suited to him.

I've never been so glad to see the back of anyone associated with a TV show. And I was pretty damn eager to see the end of Rose Tyler, so that's saying something.

[happydalek]

"Unlikeable" heroes are the new thing. But even in those cases, the heroes are only unlikeable to the other characters, not to the audience. Ten isn't a guy I love to hate, I just plain don't like him. Maybe it's a personal thing, considering how incredibly popular the show continues to be. Maybe Rusty's grating worldview resonates with the masses and we're a vocal minority of disgruntled fans. And maybe I'm just desperate to be optimistic. ;)

I guess my bottom line is that if Rusty was making some Big Point about hubris and greed, he took waaaaay too long to do it, at the expense of a character and premise that I love. It really is like he's breaking his toys so no one else can play with them.

[alto2]

I don't think it's a personal thing, unless it's a personal thing for a fair number of us. I think kids love him, and I think nostalgia keeps things floating along, but the simple fact of it is that Ten has done quite a lot of things that most people wouldn't put up with from people they wanted to consider friends (and I don't even mean things that go as far as committing genocide on the Racnoss, I mean things as basic as Harriet Jones, right there in TCI. Shoulda known right then and there that things weren't all they seemed with Ten).

I guess my bottom line is that if Rusty was making some Big Point about hubris and greed, he took waaaaay too long to do it, at the expense of a character and premise that I love.

YES. YES YES YES YES YES. THIS. Only Uncle Russ would take FIVE YEARS to do what Icarus did in a few paragraphs. And I think you're right about him breaking his toys. He must've been a real pill as a child.