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Feb. 13th, 2007 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsA day behind everyone else:
I liked lots of things about this episode. I liked Matt actually getting to act sort of heroic, even if it went wonky at the end; I liked poor Mohinder meeting Sylar, even if half of me wants to go "come on, he got conned by a double agent in disguise already"; I even like Mrs. Bennet's illness (sorry, Shati!) because I really, really want to see how Mr. Bennet reacts if it gets worse. (Sidenote, here: I love Mr. Bennet reacting to things just in general. He's so interestingly complex, and ambiguous, and I love him when he's creepy at the good guys and I love him more when he's genuinely concerned for his family. I also perhaps think it's hilarious that he remembered and liked my mom from high school even though she couldn't remember him at all.
. . . hang on, that's a little fishy, now that I think about it. OH NOES MR. BENNET BRAINWASHED MY MOM!!!!!!!!
. . . anyways.)
But what I want to talk about is Hiro and Ando's storyline, here. In general, I'm kind of sad that they've gone back on their own, because I loved their dynamics with . . . well, everyone else. They just kind of enhanced the awesome quotient of everyone on the show. But now they're on their own again, their storyline feels - cute, but vaguely irrelevant; it doesn't really seem important to SAVING THE WORLD that Hiro's family dynamics have been sorted out in a single-episode storyline.
This episode, I hope, will lead to something more relevant, so it's not that that I'm poking at. What bothered me about them this time was this: it's turning out that Ando never gets to be right. As a lifelong lover of the sidekick, this distresses me beyond measure, because it's something I always worry is going to happen. It happens in Harry Potter; whenever Ron and Harry argue, it's because Ron is in the wrong. It doesn't happen in Avatar, which is one of the reasons that I love it, because Sokka - the comic relief, the only one without OMGPOWERS - gets to disagree with the main characters because he's right, not just to create difficulties for them. Having superpowers does not automatically make you wiser than everyone else. And Ando's points to Hiro in this episode about doing what's right, about being a hero despite being ordinary, were completely valid and something I'd been hoping to see from him. And then it turns out it's just silly Ando falling for the wrong hot chick again.
I love Hiro. But - pretty soon - I really, really want him to be wrong, judgment-wise, and to let Ando be right.
I liked lots of things about this episode. I liked Matt actually getting to act sort of heroic, even if it went wonky at the end; I liked poor Mohinder meeting Sylar, even if half of me wants to go "come on, he got conned by a double agent in disguise already"; I even like Mrs. Bennet's illness (sorry, Shati!) because I really, really want to see how Mr. Bennet reacts if it gets worse. (Sidenote, here: I love Mr. Bennet reacting to things just in general. He's so interestingly complex, and ambiguous, and I love him when he's creepy at the good guys and I love him more when he's genuinely concerned for his family. I also perhaps think it's hilarious that he remembered and liked my mom from high school even though she couldn't remember him at all.
. . . hang on, that's a little fishy, now that I think about it. OH NOES MR. BENNET BRAINWASHED MY MOM!!!!!!!!
. . . anyways.)
But what I want to talk about is Hiro and Ando's storyline, here. In general, I'm kind of sad that they've gone back on their own, because I loved their dynamics with . . . well, everyone else. They just kind of enhanced the awesome quotient of everyone on the show. But now they're on their own again, their storyline feels - cute, but vaguely irrelevant; it doesn't really seem important to SAVING THE WORLD that Hiro's family dynamics have been sorted out in a single-episode storyline.
This episode, I hope, will lead to something more relevant, so it's not that that I'm poking at. What bothered me about them this time was this: it's turning out that Ando never gets to be right. As a lifelong lover of the sidekick, this distresses me beyond measure, because it's something I always worry is going to happen. It happens in Harry Potter; whenever Ron and Harry argue, it's because Ron is in the wrong. It doesn't happen in Avatar, which is one of the reasons that I love it, because Sokka - the comic relief, the only one without OMGPOWERS - gets to disagree with the main characters because he's right, not just to create difficulties for them. Having superpowers does not automatically make you wiser than everyone else. And Ando's points to Hiro in this episode about doing what's right, about being a hero despite being ordinary, were completely valid and something I'd been hoping to see from him. And then it turns out it's just silly Ando falling for the wrong hot chick again.
I love Hiro. But - pretty soon - I really, really want him to be wrong, judgment-wise, and to let Ando be right.
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:21 am (UTC)I mean, even in this episode, Ando goes "we went back to save Charlie for you!" and Hiro is all "CHARLIE WAS SPECIAL," which, okay, she was, I am not denying Charlie's awesomeness especially as compared with Giant Vegas Stripper, but throws the support right back to Hiro's side in both arguments. If you see what I mean.
(Random sidenote: when the stripper stood up to dwarf Ando, I totally thought she was going to turn out to be a guy. Which . . . would have reinforced the 'Ando is always wrong' theme, but would also have been hilarious.)
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:26 am (UTC)And I didn't get the impression the show agreed with Hiro re: "CHARLIE WAS SPECIAL." I thought we were supposed to agree with Ando.
(ME TOO. Man. *sad*)
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Date: 2007-02-14 06:43 am (UTC)Well, I agreed with Ando! *giggles* But I was not sure that the show wanted me to. Because Vegas Lady was clearly not as cool as Charlie, etc.
(He would have been classier about it than Dick, at any rate.
. . . awww, how cute would the alternative storyline have been, where she turns out to be a guy and Hiro and Ando chivalrously help her anyways?)
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Date: 2007-02-14 07:07 am (UTC)I think possibly I agree with you that Ando is not coming out gold here, but don't actually mind. Also I should possibly rewatch. Honestly, though, I thought Hiro come off pretty bad here too, and was meant to.
(AWWW. WANT!)
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Date: 2007-02-14 07:23 am (UTC)(ME TOO. Someone write the fanfic!)
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Date: 2007-02-14 07:29 am (UTC)