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labellementeuseOkay, some actual thoughts, but not meta-organised or anything, about Heroes 1x04: Collision (I just clicked to that. Very, um, unclever.) Some pretty direct and IMO solid meta on Claire in there, though, which I might x-post somewhere. Um, Newsletter peoples, no need to link to this cause I'd hate for people to read this twice.
WHAT AN AWESOME EPISODE HOLY CRAP OMG. NO COHERENCY.
Okay, the first thing I want to say about this episode? We're gonna need a "boobs don't work like that" tag. I don't know a lot about the show's origins and to what extent it's supposed to be reminiscent of comics, but to me, anyway, some of the shots remind me graphically of, say, the pornface post on scans_daily, or what can be seen by perusing the "boobs don't work like that" tag. (I mean, clearly because this show is live action boobs can work like that, I just. Well.)
FOR EXAMPLE: why would you stand like this? No, really, why? Hey, ladies, try it - I just climbed out of bed to stand in front of the mirror and give it a go, and a) it's hard, b) it's kind of painful! Really! I mean, I guess Ali Larter doesn't mind it too much, but.
Or alternatively: Those disgusting shots of Claire, er, zipping herself up post-autopsy? WHERE ARE HER BREASTS?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sixth_light suggested that possibly they actually remove the breats for autopsy (um, anyone have any idea about that?) which may well be true, except there also weren't, you know, GIANT WOUNDS. And she sure seemed to have breasts straight after she climbed off the table, so if that's the case they must have regenerated really damn fast.
Slightly relatedly, does Claire strike anyone as peculiarly fragile for someone indestructible? She died gruesomely twice in one day - it just can't be that easy to kill yourself unless you're really unlucky, or the human race wouldn't survive five minutes.
Also, it continues to strike me as totally bizarre that an MD would perform an autopsy, you know, opening her chest right up, before removing the branch. It doesn't make sense to me and it makes it fairly clear that it was just an excuse to have cool gruesome shots, which I sympathise with, I just think it's a bad kind of storytelling. That moment should have been significant for more than grossness.
Hiro from the future? OMFG. OMFG OMFG OMFG. So. Damn. Cool. And that is all I can really say about that.
I really liked our glimpse of ikiN, although I'm confused as to, well, what her superpower really is. So far all we've seen is that Niki has a very serious split personality disorder... which has solved some problems for Niki, but isn't a superpower and it isn't really going to help save the world. ikiN is a bitchin' lady but, great, she can take a guy by surprise and beat him up... doesn't make her superwoman.
Micah was awesome as ever and I liked what we saw of the blousy woman whose name I can't remember - awesome vocabulary, heh.
Claire's revenge thingy... hmm, I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, I'm not sure if it was necessarily the right thing to do - it seems to me that Claire should be able to find a way to use her powers offensively in more subtle ways, ways that maybe don't involve this blunt-instrument kind of attack. On the other hand, I think she really did it for the right reasons. When Claire was the only one involved, the only one hurt - and let's not forget that she fought off a rape, was killed violently if not intentionally, then was stripped naked and dumped in a river and woke up with her chest split open, okay? When she was the only one who'd experienced that, she had every intention to leave it alone. Yes, it was mostly motivated by fear, and yes, she probably did want to get back at Dickhead some... but she wasn't going to do anything. Even when she was approached by Lori (Laurie?) - that obviously changed her attitude, because it wasn't just her involved, so she decided to find out more. But watching the conversation in the car - she did want to punish him, but it wasn't until he confirmed that not only did he feel absolutely no remorse for what he did to her or Laurie/ori but that he had every intention of doing the same thing again and again - it wasn't until then that she truly decided to do what she did. And at that point she was really out of options - she couldn't go through official channels and she couldn't have anyone else do it because investigation might expose her. But she also had to stop him - and it would have been real easy for her to just let it go. While in some ways this was an act of revenge, mostly it was someone who was powerless getting her power, her agency, back.
Okay, I've made up my mind, I do like it.
OTOH I'm not wild about the fact that both of the "gifted" women on this show have sexual assault as a significant part of their development and motivation. This is another area where this is transparently harking back to comics. While I think they're actually handling it sort of well with Claire, I just really am not grooving to what they're doing with Niki; it's so Milleresque (WHORES WHORES WHORES).
Peter, Nathan, and Simone all bored me as ever, but Isaac had something of a personality transplant and became almost maybe a little bit interesting? Certainly he was significantly more dynamic onscreen. At some point soon I'm going to hunt down and read the companion comics that are available somewhere online and maybe I'll like Nathan more after that, but until then NY remains pretty dull, except for Mohinder who's smokin' hot and - heh, I loved what he said about scepticism and a romantic view of evolution, because seriously I have never taken a biology class in my life and I know the science on this show is total crap.
What am I forgetting? MATT. OMG MATT MY BABY. *cuddles him* I don't want him to lose his memories :( :( :( Also, I miss ladycop.
In short, someone who knows comics and feminism real well needs to watch Heroes and do some meta-ing. (Actually! I bet someone on the g-w.org forums is doing that already. and I'm right. Eeeexcellent.)
WHAT AN AWESOME EPISODE HOLY CRAP OMG. NO COHERENCY.
Okay, the first thing I want to say about this episode? We're gonna need a "boobs don't work like that" tag. I don't know a lot about the show's origins and to what extent it's supposed to be reminiscent of comics, but to me, anyway, some of the shots remind me graphically of, say, the pornface post on scans_daily, or what can be seen by perusing the "boobs don't work like that" tag. (I mean, clearly because this show is live action boobs can work like that, I just. Well.)
FOR EXAMPLE: why would you stand like this? No, really, why? Hey, ladies, try it - I just climbed out of bed to stand in front of the mirror and give it a go, and a) it's hard, b) it's kind of painful! Really! I mean, I guess Ali Larter doesn't mind it too much, but.
Or alternatively: Those disgusting shots of Claire, er, zipping herself up post-autopsy? WHERE ARE HER BREASTS?
sixth_light suggested that possibly they actually remove the breats for autopsy (um, anyone have any idea about that?) which may well be true, except there also weren't, you know, GIANT WOUNDS. And she sure seemed to have breasts straight after she climbed off the table, so if that's the case they must have regenerated really damn fast.Slightly relatedly, does Claire strike anyone as peculiarly fragile for someone indestructible? She died gruesomely twice in one day - it just can't be that easy to kill yourself unless you're really unlucky, or the human race wouldn't survive five minutes.
Also, it continues to strike me as totally bizarre that an MD would perform an autopsy, you know, opening her chest right up, before removing the branch. It doesn't make sense to me and it makes it fairly clear that it was just an excuse to have cool gruesome shots, which I sympathise with, I just think it's a bad kind of storytelling. That moment should have been significant for more than grossness.
Hiro from the future? OMFG. OMFG OMFG OMFG. So. Damn. Cool. And that is all I can really say about that.
I really liked our glimpse of ikiN, although I'm confused as to, well, what her superpower really is. So far all we've seen is that Niki has a very serious split personality disorder... which has solved some problems for Niki, but isn't a superpower and it isn't really going to help save the world. ikiN is a bitchin' lady but, great, she can take a guy by surprise and beat him up... doesn't make her superwoman.
Micah was awesome as ever and I liked what we saw of the blousy woman whose name I can't remember - awesome vocabulary, heh.
Claire's revenge thingy... hmm, I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, I'm not sure if it was necessarily the right thing to do - it seems to me that Claire should be able to find a way to use her powers offensively in more subtle ways, ways that maybe don't involve this blunt-instrument kind of attack. On the other hand, I think she really did it for the right reasons. When Claire was the only one involved, the only one hurt - and let's not forget that she fought off a rape, was killed violently if not intentionally, then was stripped naked and dumped in a river and woke up with her chest split open, okay? When she was the only one who'd experienced that, she had every intention to leave it alone. Yes, it was mostly motivated by fear, and yes, she probably did want to get back at Dickhead some... but she wasn't going to do anything. Even when she was approached by Lori (Laurie?) - that obviously changed her attitude, because it wasn't just her involved, so she decided to find out more. But watching the conversation in the car - she did want to punish him, but it wasn't until he confirmed that not only did he feel absolutely no remorse for what he did to her or Laurie/ori but that he had every intention of doing the same thing again and again - it wasn't until then that she truly decided to do what she did. And at that point she was really out of options - she couldn't go through official channels and she couldn't have anyone else do it because investigation might expose her. But she also had to stop him - and it would have been real easy for her to just let it go. While in some ways this was an act of revenge, mostly it was someone who was powerless getting her power, her agency, back.
Okay, I've made up my mind, I do like it.
OTOH I'm not wild about the fact that both of the "gifted" women on this show have sexual assault as a significant part of their development and motivation. This is another area where this is transparently harking back to comics. While I think they're actually handling it sort of well with Claire, I just really am not grooving to what they're doing with Niki; it's so Milleresque (WHORES WHORES WHORES).
Peter, Nathan, and Simone all bored me as ever, but Isaac had something of a personality transplant and became almost maybe a little bit interesting? Certainly he was significantly more dynamic onscreen. At some point soon I'm going to hunt down and read the companion comics that are available somewhere online and maybe I'll like Nathan more after that, but until then NY remains pretty dull, except for Mohinder who's smokin' hot and - heh, I loved what he said about scepticism and a romantic view of evolution, because seriously I have never taken a biology class in my life and I know the science on this show is total crap.
What am I forgetting? MATT. OMG MATT MY BABY. *cuddles him* I don't want him to lose his memories :( :( :( Also, I miss ladycop.
In short, someone who knows comics and feminism real well needs to watch Heroes and do some meta-ing. (Actually! I bet someone on the g-w.org forums is doing that already. and I'm right. Eeeexcellent.)
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Date: 2006-10-19 07:54 pm (UTC)ikiN's gotta have super-strength, right? No way she could tear a guy in half otherwise. I suspect we might learn more about that as the show goes on.