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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: 2007-11-14 12:36 am (UTC)And yes, Niki was starting a job in sales! But . . . she never makes it. And that is presented entirely in the context of Happy Family Life, which I guess is better than her being just the Happy Homemaker, but . . . not all that much better. It is not like she has a sales calling. (Though that would be great if she did. I support Niki having a dream of being in sales! I support Niki having a dream, period, that is not 'stop splitting my personalities off!')
. . . yeah. I was complaining to my friend about this, and she said, "Well, what were they going to do, make her a Ph.D?" and I was like "YES. YES PLEASE. MAKE HER A PH.D." Make her anything that is not the Sexy Bad Girl. Like Niki needed to be more of a walking Madonna/Whore complex.