Ranty McRant Rant. Not so much of the stupid.

[acaciaonnastik]

Well, it's meta time again. This time it's not specific to Heroes, but it is prompted by goings-on in that fandom- specifically, the trash-talking of Mohinder Suresh, which is reaching a level where I'm actually starting to find it personally offensive. This took some doing, but the claims that he should have "heard the insincerity in [spoiler]'s

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[talk_back]

Or charmingly clueless. ^.^ Completely in agreement with everything you've said here. I know I would have been fooled by Sylar especially as hot as he is, and I don't think my people skills would be classified as 'bad'.
From personal experiance alone, I know how amazingly smart people can have little to no common sense. And how geniuses can lack all sorts of people skills. One never expects a popular charismatic hostess to know everything about genetics or astrophysics or whatever else: why expect a geneticist to know everything about catching liars?
Well said. :)

[acaciaonnastik]

"Clueless" I can live with, yeah.

Thanks for the support; I always like to know I'm not alone...

[chrryblssmninja]

Thank you.

[acaciaonnastik]

You're welcome. ^_^

[ravensgurl211]

LMAO Wow. I guess this is why I try not to stray too far into Heroes fandom, because if Mohinder was to die (like this person(s) said..) you'd be missing an integral piece of Heroes. Every supergroup needs a Professor X to bring everyone together (and then after that he can die, though, I'm hoping Mohinder doesn't).

what day of the week the 25th of May would have been fifty years ago but not tie their shoelaces.

I know lots of people like this, so I guess that's why even though I'm annoyed at Mohinder from the "I-can-see-the-other-plot-lines-through-my-TV" POV... I also understand why he seems to be so naive and stuff about the fact that not every person with these abilities want to be found or are good people.

[acaciaonnastik]

Or even if he doesn't bring them together, we need unpowered characters to keep it real, I think. And I certainly don't think that failure to possess one specific skillset makes him deserving of death, and since I don't have it either I look somewhat askance at those who do...

It is, as a friend of mine and I have said to each other, like watching a horror movie and shouting at the screen. We know there's a guy with a chainsaw behind that door. How should they?

[acaciaonnastik]

Lectures are eeeevil.

Of course, Mrs. Bennet has much less reason for a general sense of paranoia than has Mohinder, who's been spied on before (and, more importantly, remembers that.)

...also, new low in the Unreasonable Expectations stakes: Someone said he should have known the moment Sylar opened the door. And I'm like... bzuh?

(Also, I have stumbled across one other person online who can stand Mrs. Parkman! In a commentary on the last episode... "You know, I used to not like Janice, but after the drubbing she gives him about the diamonds, I think we need her around to tell him when he's doing something stupid.")

[acaciaonnastik]

When I saw that scene my "like" of her grew to unexeptional levels. But I was thinking that a lot of people would dislike her for it, I am glad they don't <3

Oh, a lot of people do. Or, rather, they all disliked her already, so they just took that as another reason to do so. But this person didn't.

Also, the haters will complain about seeing her again, but I really want to see what she thinks of these new Matt developments!

(Also, I don't doubt the OWI will eventually try to tell Matt his kid belongs to them. Which is something that he will take amiss.)

[lobotronic]

Agreed.It's frustrating to watch Mohinder be duped so easily by Sylar, but how COULD he possibly know? Mohinder's charm is that he has a bit of a naive side to him. He's a geneticist, not a psychologist. In that situation, almost anyone could be fooled by Sylar. He's very good at fooling people, and that's something fans are gonna have to accept. Mohinder will figure it out eventually; we'll all just have to hope it's soon.

[acaciaonnastik]

And don't people complain about heroes being too perfect? Now we're complaining because Mohinder doesn't know everything? And, of course, it has to be because he's very bad at it. It can't just be that Sylar has mad acting skillz, oh no...

And not realizing something was wrong after the first death? He's IN SHOCK, guys. Heard of it? Notice the vomiting, perhaps? Not only doesn't he have our closer-to-omniscient POV, he doesn't have our leisure and comfort to put the pieces together.