Grigsby Answers Questions on "Pass/Fail"

[imperiumfine]

 
All,

Oliver Grigsby, author of "Pass/Fail," commented on questions people posed of him regarding the episode. Most of the questions regard Sylar/Claire or Claire/Gretchen.

Here's the link:
www.9thwonders.com/oliver_grigsby/

Spoilers for Season Four of Heroes (especially "Pass/Fail")...so be warned! 

Comments

[imperiumfine]

I agree. I asked him three of the questions he responded to, but I'm not sure I understand his answers to some of them or rather where he's coming to those conclusions. For example

tl;dr? Bratty meta

[missbreese]

So is Sylar not really a good guy at this point? Because it seems to me that he goes from zero to sixty in three point two seconds... - I'm used to watching Sylar go back and forth on what he wants, and I tend to find it endearing, just... in this case... Or, at least, how Grigsby talked about it for his ep, it made me facepalm. I'm left wondering if it's solely due to ZQ's acting ability that it's pulled off at all.

Or are you saying that despite future episodes (The Wall, Brave New World) he's still a bad guy underneath it all? - That bugged me, too! This whole ep is supposed to be about Sylar figuring out how to be a new person, how to figure out what's wrong and what he wants and etc so the writer thinks it's a good idea to... have him be a bad guy? As opposed to... Being a guy trying to get answers?

Yeah, again, gotta say, thank you ZQ for your awesome acting 'cause when I watched it? I didn't get a malicious evil vibe off of Sylar.

But...

why would Sylar be frustrated that Claire wasn't providing him answers? I thought

Re: tl;dr? Bratty meta

[imperiumfine]

"why would Sylar be frustrated that Claire wasn't providing him answers? I thought it was his intention to push her over the edge, so she'd go running to Gretchen (Sylar!Gretchen) and be able to get answers that way? - In that instance, Sylar didn't have that plan until after he kissed the info out of her. Just... Hearing the writer's reasoning for the kiss makes my eye twitch

[loveisafool]

So... Sylar just kissed Claire because he got *frustrated* with her? Well then, he needs to get frustrated more often.

[selenakyle]

*nods* I wish he would get frustrated with me.

[vespaer]

My hubby says I'm pretty frustrating... does this mean I can expect some SYLAR kisseez?

But to be on topic, I really think this Oliver Grigsby guy is nothing more than a red herring machine. I agree with everything stated - he's a walking contradiction to the point that I wonder if he's paid for it.

[charliepaceluv]

THIS! Haha.

[cabela_787]

I posted some of the comments (the blog I think has four parts). I don't know. In regard to all of it he seems to contradict himself. Imperiumfine you must be Liz on the posts, when I was reading your comments, I kept thinking I love how you’re pointing out some of those contradictions. Reading his blog helped me to understand why I feel confused on some of the issues (whether it be Claire/Gretchen or Sylaire), if one writer can't even keep his thoughts in a line, I can only imagine what happens with there are several disagreeing writers This is one of the reasons why I think the Claire/Gretchen stuff is hazy, some want it while some don't. Also, I feel this might be why some of his answers conflict with one another. Oliver wants it one way or felt this way, but someone else higher up disagrees and therefore he's being political and not saying "I was told not to do this", does that make sense? For example, I get the feeling that the real reasons Claire didn't kiss Gretchen was because Oliver was told to change it by someone

[imperiumfine]

Guilty I am "Liz" as that is my real name...

[imperiumfine]

Cabela 787: On Authorial Intent...guess that depends on you. Are you a new critic who believes authorial intent doesn't matter (sorry I think my English Degree is showing through

[cabela_787]

No, I don’t believe the Authorial intent should be ignored in general, I meant more like on a show such as Heroes with many writers and producers and such involved, especially when Oliver is not the head or at least near the top. You know since he only writes one or two episodes a season and of course helps with the general storyline he is not the sole voice is why I question whether his intentions hold as much weight as an author normally would for the bigger picture. And there is the issue that what he intended (at least to me) did not translate that way on screen clearly. At least Krings were a bit clearer. However, unless something happens it the show in the future to counteract what Grigsby intended then his intentions for the pairing (as confusing as it may be to some) is what we’ll be left with

[alexia_drake]

Well, I really don't wanna see more Claire/Gretchen, so I'll juts keep hoping for some Sylar/Claire scenes if we get another season. *fingers crossed*