The quarterback thing I will admit was ridiculous. (But hey, we know why that is. It's because he was a quarterback of EEEEEEEEEVIL, right? It was not Claire's fault, it was his evil that turned her head around!)
A skilled cheerleader could land that jump, but we never saw that Claire was particularly skilled. She was a late addition to the squad; she only got on when Lori Trammel got cut, and that was with her being Jackie's BFF.
And - yeah, true, but at the same time I kind of like that they show her responses as being different from everyone else's. Because, yeah, she has sixteen years of conditioning, but her talents were also manifesting somewhat before she or anyone was aware of them - she did, after all, survive the fire. It makes sense to me that she just doesn't feel pain the same way that other people do, and she wouldn't have any way of knowing that it wasn't normal until the acceleration of the healing sped up. If that makes sense. And that would affect someone's responses to the world; they're overdoing it, definitely, but at least they're overdoing it in a way that says to me that they've thought about it.
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Date: 2007-09-25 07:54 pm (UTC)A skilled cheerleader could land that jump, but we never saw that Claire was particularly skilled. She was a late addition to the squad; she only got on when Lori Trammel got cut, and that was with her being Jackie's BFF.
And - yeah, true, but at the same time I kind of like that they show her responses as being different from everyone else's. Because, yeah, she has sixteen years of conditioning, but her talents were also manifesting somewhat before she or anyone was aware of them - she did, after all, survive the fire. It makes sense to me that she just doesn't feel pain the same way that other people do, and she wouldn't have any way of knowing that it wasn't normal until the acceleration of the healing sped up. If that makes sense. And that would affect someone's responses to the world; they're overdoing it, definitely, but at least they're overdoing it in a way that says to me that they've thought about it.
. . . though I could just be a cockeyed optimist.