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Nov. 13th, 2007 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiants. . . *facepalms* Oh, Heroes.
I did not think it was possible for you to make Niki more problematic! Really, I didn't! I wasn't expecting anything from her bits in this episode. You could have brought back Jessica! I sort of figured you would!
And then you went and made it worse.
Let's tally up Niki's personalities now, okay?
1. Niki: the 'good' one; aka, as made very very very explicit in this episode, the good wife and mother. Because she's an adult woman, so how else could she possibly be the good one? Obviously her personality need have no other facets!
2. Jessica: the 'bad' one; violent killer and bad mother. In control of her power, but that doesn't matter, because she's dangerous and a BAD MOTHER.
3. Gina: the other 'bad' one; sex object and even worse mother! Because if you're neither a good wife and mother nor a dangerous bitch, this is obviously the only option! Right? . . . Right?
Show. I want so hard to believe in you. I go into each episode with an overwhelming sense of optimism! Why must you do this to me! I am not even going to talk about DL's pointless death; I will focus on the fact that he was TOTALLY A HERO AND AWESOME and Micah's overwhelming adorableness and ignore the rest. Yes.
(And you didn't even explain where the iPods went!)
I did not think it was possible for you to make Niki more problematic! Really, I didn't! I wasn't expecting anything from her bits in this episode. You could have brought back Jessica! I sort of figured you would!
And then you went and made it worse.
Let's tally up Niki's personalities now, okay?
1. Niki: the 'good' one; aka, as made very very very explicit in this episode, the good wife and mother. Because she's an adult woman, so how else could she possibly be the good one? Obviously her personality need have no other facets!
2. Jessica: the 'bad' one; violent killer and bad mother. In control of her power, but that doesn't matter, because she's dangerous and a BAD MOTHER.
3. Gina: the other 'bad' one; sex object and even worse mother! Because if you're neither a good wife and mother nor a dangerous bitch, this is obviously the only option! Right? . . . Right?
Show. I want so hard to believe in you. I go into each episode with an overwhelming sense of optimism! Why must you do this to me! I am not even going to talk about DL's pointless death; I will focus on the fact that he was TOTALLY A HERO AND AWESOME and Micah's overwhelming adorableness and ignore the rest. Yes.
(And you didn't even explain where the iPods went!)
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Date: 2007-11-13 09:02 pm (UTC)Then again, it's telling that at no point this season have we gotten any sense that anyone among the writing staff has considered the possibility of sitting Niki done with a real psychiatrist to resolve her issues. Some of that is plot point-ish, in that I think Bob wants he to stay broken. But a lot of that is the usual approach on TV to major psychological traumas. With the exception of that show on HBO with the mobster and his shrink (which I've never seen), no one on TV ever seems to be in long term therapy. Which is the only way such things can be treated.
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Date: 2007-11-14 12:28 am (UTC). . . and then beat her to a pulp, in one of the most mystifying acts of Jessica's ever. Jessica wanted the shrink! Jessica is violent but definitely not dumb! I was both confused and annoyed by that development, and in retrospect I am even more irritated, because this could have been fixed. A year ago.