Killing one love interest to give your male characters angst? Completely reasonable plot development. Killing two? Please to not be sticking all your women in the refrigerator, kthnx.
And that's on top of the murder of the female mechanic, who was terrific in her brief appearance and who I wouldn't have minded at all seeing more of. (And not just because my reaction to her powers was "hey! Daredevil!" *g*) But that did make sense, you know? Sylar wants to kill all the people with powers, he's traveling with someone who's trying to find those people--the odds were definitely that he would kill at least one person given that situation, and it just happened to be her.
Whereas Simone just left me thinking, "okay, she's just died the most stupid, unfair death ever. What was the point?" It didn't give her any agency (unlike Eden), it didn't seem like an inevitable Grand Tragedy resulting from the flaws of the characters, it wasn't even because there are dangerous people out there...it was just a stupid accident. And you know, I could never get interested in Simone, I was not sorry to lose her from the cast, but dammit she was trying, and she thoroughly deserved better than that.
Am so looking forward to Company Man!
I really, really want to hear your reactions to that one.
I sincerely hope that Mohinder isn't going to keep driving Sylar around the country so he can eat brains more conveniently. Once may be considered an accident, twice looks like carelessness.
*cracks up* No, the road trip will not continue indefinitely. (Except in the sense that this entire show is a never-ending series of road trips.) Some of Mohinder's best material (IMO) is coming up in "Parasite," although I will remain silent on whether he develops a brain.
And then Hiro tells Ando to take the Versa back to the rental agency and go home.
At the time, I was actually incredibly relieved by this. Because a misleading solicit had left me thinking that Ando was going to die, and I was terrified. --which puts me in the same position as Hiro, actually, although I didn't think about it at the time. It is an understandable response, but Ando is an adult and gets to make his own decisions, to say nothing of how well Hiro can function without him. I might feel differently if Hiro was an experienced professional and Ando was going to get in his way/slow him down, but...not so much. :) Also, even if I thought it was the lesser of two evils, separating Hiro and Ando is just wrong. *nods decisively*
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And that's on top of the murder of the female mechanic, who was terrific in her brief appearance and who I wouldn't have minded at all seeing more of. (And not just because my reaction to her powers was "hey! Daredevil!" *g*) But that did make sense, you know? Sylar wants to kill all the people with powers, he's traveling with someone who's trying to find those people--the odds were definitely that he would kill at least one person given that situation, and it just happened to be her.
Whereas Simone just left me thinking, "okay, she's just died the most stupid, unfair death ever. What was the point?" It didn't give her any agency (unlike Eden), it didn't seem like an inevitable Grand Tragedy resulting from the flaws of the characters, it wasn't even because there are dangerous people out there...it was just a stupid accident. And you know, I could never get interested in Simone, I was not sorry to lose her from the cast, but dammit she was trying, and she thoroughly deserved better than that.
Am so looking forward to Company Man!
I really, really want to hear your reactions to that one.
I sincerely hope that Mohinder isn't going to keep driving Sylar around the country so he can eat brains more conveniently. Once may be considered an accident, twice looks like carelessness.
*cracks up* No, the road trip will not continue indefinitely. (Except in the sense that this entire show is a never-ending series of road trips.) Some of Mohinder's best material (IMO) is coming up in "Parasite," although I will remain silent on whether he develops a brain.
And then Hiro tells Ando to take the Versa back to the rental agency and go home.
At the time, I was actually incredibly relieved by this. Because a misleading solicit had left me thinking that Ando was going to die, and I was terrified. --which puts me in the same position as Hiro, actually, although I didn't think about it at the time. It is an understandable response, but Ando is an adult and gets to make his own decisions, to say nothing of how well Hiro can function without him. I might feel differently if Hiro was an experienced professional and Ando was going to get in his way/slow him down, but...not so much. :) Also, even if I thought it was the lesser of two evils, separating Hiro and Ando is just wrong. *nods decisively*