[LMB] OT: Fantasy crushes

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Elizabeth Holden wrote:

> Speaking of Mohinder Suresh, I said:
>
> > > I do hope and believe the man is capable of
> > > mastering a steep learning curve when it comes to guile.
>
> Malfoy said:
>
> > He'd better, or they'll eat him alive.
>
> Yes, whoever 'they' are.  I pretty much gave up on him last
> year, but this year he looks better already.
>
> > And I'll be massively
> > irritated if they make their bad guys stupider just so that
> > Mohinder can continue to be an idiot.
>
> Agreed. There's no reason for Mohinder to be clueless. The show
> has proved it can feature highly intelligent characters, and
> there's no reason Mohinder shouldn't be one of them.  All the
> more so in that he appears to have no powers.  (Though I'm not
> laying any bets on that.)

Me neither.

> For a long time in first season I was annoyed with Matt Parkman
> for being so incredibly dumb.  But when Bennet came to use him
> in a way that benefitted them both - I started loving Matt's
> role.  Yup, dumb as a post, but even the stupid ones can have
> their place in the story and be interesting. I also like him as
> being Molly's caretaker.  We shall see what develops.

I never thought Parkman was dumb.  LOL!  He's always been one of
my favourites.  He's dyslexic, but not stupid.

> > Frex, I still don't know how Peter Petrelli manages to tie
> > his shoes in the first half of the first season.
>
> LOL.  As you know, I've never had any problem with Peter
> Petrelli on any level whatsoever.  Rather the contrary.  I
> guess it's another case of compassion trumping other
> attributes, but I find him incredibly sexy.

I don't see a lot of compassion there actually, and he was
unspeakably uncompassionate in the unaired version of the pilot.
I think that if that had been aired a lot of people would have
hated him.

> > In the first few episodes I had enormous sympathy for Nathan
> > Petrelli.  "Everyone in my family is b at tsh*t ...<snip>"  is a
> > mindset with which I am so intimately familiar.
>
> I'm not, but it's also always been clear that you and I look at
> Nathan and see entirely different characters. On the other
> hand, I think Mama Petrelli *is* b at tsh*t and it will be
> interesting so see how things go in that household. (I haven't
> seen this week's episode yet.)  I quite loved Nathan in season
> 2 episode 1.

I know and I don't get it.  I loved him too, but I always do.  I
wanted to pick him up and cuddle him, except he bites.

I don't know that we do see different characters.  I sometimes
think we see the same character, and I just happen to like that
type of person.  I worked on a fair number of campaigns in my
20s.

Ditto for Peter in reverse.  Peter is a kind of person I used to
like.  Until I got tired of bailing them out.  I might still like
them if I had Petrelli money.

> > I still have enormous sympathy for Nathan but at least Peter
> > has shown himself to be a tremendous source of emotional
> > support for Nathan
>
> Putting it mildly.

I don't know that I'm putting it mildly.  We've still never seen
exactly how that works since when he's on screen mostly what he
does is b*tch at Nathan for being himself.  We know he is,
because Nathan said so when he thought Peter was dead, and
because Nathan is handling his absence so badly.  But I'm still
not sure how that works.

It may not be anything Peter does at all.  It may just be that
Peter has always been there for him to love, unconditionally, and
the fact that he has no one else to love that way.

> > and nothing I could say about Angela is fit to print, except
> > that someday she'll be sitting in Hell next to Bobbi
> > Stakowski (Jim Profit's mum).
>
> I think she might be the scariest demon on TV.  Not really
> because of what she's said and done - half of it's implication
> and the look in her eye.

Yeah.  Oh oh yeah.

~malfoy  :)
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