There's Something About Nora

[corycides]

First things first, I'm not a huge fan of Nora. I like the actress and I don't hate the character, but Nora never connected with me for a variety of reasons. Mostly I thought they short-cut too much with the character, I was told everything so I felt I never got to get to know her. There's other stuff, but that's not what this is about; I just

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[ivy_b]

This was one of the things that disappointed me when she came in. We basically ended up swapping Maggie - who was bad-ass in a different way to Miles - for Nora - who was bad-ass in a fairly similar way. It stripped away a lot of narrative conflict - I can't see Maggie agreeing with a lot of what Miles does and it would have been interesting to see her interact with Rachel.

I'd definitely take Maggie over Nora any day. Maggie could use a knife, but she wasn't an expert fighter, she used tricks and her smarts to get the better of people. Plus I would have loved to see the Maggie-Charlie-Rachel dynamic. Though I do think Maggie and Rachel are very similar in their pragmatic approach to things (and being science-based rather than fighters, though still nifty with a knife).

They've not given us a reason to care about her as a love interest (and I have a terrible fear we're going to find out her miscarried baby was sired by Miles for in-built plug-in angst) or anything else.

I don't think the baby is Miles (she implied the douche boyfriend was the father) but I agree that I have no reason to care about her as a love interest or a character. Maybe I'll warm up to them when they give us their Bonnie and Clyde flashback, but so far I'm not feeling it. I wish the writers would give a damn about her as a character- there's so much you can do with an ex-bounty hunter rebel, who has to be at least a little shady to hook up with evil General Matheson. I almost wrote Monroe.