Eureka & Chuck: the shows where the only permanently dead major characters are straight white dudes

Aug 09, 2012 18:08


(Well, it's true, unless I've forgotten characters...)

A few weeks ago I finished the last season of Chuck.  It had it's ups and downs but was largely pretty fun.  Not as good as the first 2 or 4th seasons but better than the third.  This week I watched the final season of Eureka (glad I was warned about the beginning of the season, always happy to ( Read more... )

tv: chuck, tv: eureka

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fairest1 August 10 2012, 01:15:31 UTC
Eh. I gave up on caring about Allison after she was thrilled at having a "normal" son in the new timeline. I've never been a parent, doubly so a parent of a child with problems like Kevin's, but she was so cheerful about having a kid who wasn't the same boy she'd raised.

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mfirefly10 August 10 2012, 03:45:38 UTC
Also, Eureka, as annoying as the Matrix-verse thing was, why did you have to choose the least interesting drama to explore? Grace was forced to kill her husband (fake, but she'd only known for about an hour) and worried that she may have been partly responsible because of past associations even beyond being incharge of the abducted mission, but you thought an out-of-nowhere love triangle in which Allison is suddenly uncharacteristical;ly jealous (to the point of pettiness) was the better move? Pthbt.

THIS, YES! Really, show? I hated the VR-world and everything about it but if a storyline had to carry over from there, why make it be this manufactured love triangle? Especially since it also implied that attractive, straight men and women can't be JUST friends and took turns turning both Jo and Allison into objects for teh menz to fight over.

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meganbmoore August 10 2012, 03:57:31 UTC
ESPECIALLY when they've played up Jo and Jack as surrogate family since...what? Season 2? (I mean, I think they've even done the face touching thing before and no one thought it was romantic. Not much, but I'm pretty sure I remember it once or twice.) It also came dangerously close to "two women of color at odds over a white dude."

Plus, they already did the manufactured triangle thing last season with Zoe, Zane and Jo, except, while off on some levels, that actually made sense (Zoe's young, Zane's the cool-slightly-dangerous-but-actually-safe dude who is conveniently attractive and much nicer to teens and kids than to adults, it seems, and assumed [not being too bright in anything non-sciency] that it would pass and it wouldn't hurt to piss Jack off, and Jo was dealing with old!Zane and new!Zane and lots of confusion) and contributed to character growth for all 3, as well as factored in to Jo getting to bond with the new Zoe.

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mfirefly10 August 10 2012, 09:15:50 UTC
Right? Like, I just don't get why they felt the need to go there. Jo/Jack is a semi-popular non-canon ship, but that's taking fan-service to a ridiculous level, especially since it was never actually going anywhere and only served to make all 4 characters (Zane included) look bad.

Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the Zoe/Zane/Jo triangle but it at least made sense in the new timeline and like you said, gave all three characters some development. Allison/Jack/Jo(/Zane) was completely pointless and took up far too much screen-time.

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