(It wasn't lack of detail that bothered me; I just flat-out don't find concern for the victims' "innocence" consistent with the guy who gleefully cat-and-moused Mrs. Bennet. I would have enjoyed the scene if it had played more as simple concern for the practicality -- he is blowing up a lot of useful brains, after all.
My concerns with the rest of the scenes fall more along the lines of: (1) it takes a long-ass time to contribute almost nothing to building to the finale, (2) up until that episode, I'd been okay with the gender balance of parents in the show; after the paralleling of Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Petrelli and shark teeth Candice, I'm not, (3) the way it woobifies Sylar bothers me. He is a serial killer who eats brains, and the episode got waves of "I want to hug Sylar" and "poor woobie Sylar" in reaction for a reason -- that reason being, it totally angled for them -- and that doesn't do anything for the story and is frustrating after my issues with other fandoms' treatment of woobified serial killers.
I read a fair amount of discussion of the episode after it aired, in an attempt to figure out exactly why I was so dissatisfied, and I think it was this comment that pinged my frustration best. The subplot does read as origin story to me, given its placement in the end run and the show's genre, and it doesn't have to read that way to you, but then what is the subplot doing there at all? And Sylar's mom as the reason he is the way he is -- not something that works for me, at all.
I like the creepiness of the scenes, but I have to turn off my meta brain to enjoy them entirely. (And then I can, because omg! So beautifully unsettling!) And I can see how it would work for the many people it does work for. I'm not trying to persuade you, just to explain my reaction.
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Date: 2007-06-12 08:32 pm (UTC)(It wasn't lack of detail that bothered me; I just flat-out don't find concern for the victims' "innocence" consistent with the guy who gleefully cat-and-moused Mrs. Bennet. I would have enjoyed the scene if it had played more as simple concern for the practicality -- he is blowing up a lot of useful brains, after all.
My concerns with the rest of the scenes fall more along the lines of: (1) it takes a long-ass time to contribute almost nothing to building to the finale, (2) up until that episode, I'd been okay with the gender balance of parents in the show; after the paralleling of Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Petrelli and shark teeth Candice, I'm not, (3) the way it woobifies Sylar bothers me. He is a serial killer who eats brains, and the episode got waves of "I want to hug Sylar" and "poor woobie Sylar" in reaction for a reason -- that reason being, it totally angled for them -- and that doesn't do anything for the story and is frustrating after my issues with other fandoms' treatment of woobified serial killers.
I read a fair amount of discussion of the episode after it aired, in an attempt to figure out exactly why I was so dissatisfied, and I think it was this comment that pinged my frustration best. The subplot does read as origin story to me, given its placement in the end run and the show's genre, and it doesn't have to read that way to you, but then what is the subplot doing there at all? And Sylar's mom as the reason he is the way he is -- not something that works for me, at all.
I like the creepiness of the scenes, but I have to turn off my meta brain to enjoy them entirely. (And then I can, because omg! So beautifully unsettling!) And I can see how it would work for the many people it does work for. I'm not trying to persuade you, just to explain my reaction.
HI ADIVA. Im in ur journal, respondin 2 ur friendz. AT GREAT LENGTH!)