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the assumption that he's a real Nice Guy in a Crazy Situation is fannish creation, show intention or Dawson's Creek transference See I couldn't stand Pacey or the air around him. SMUG! So I transferred my years-old dislike of Pacey right to Peter. You inspired an interesting thought in me. That it's okay for these guys to be unlikable. Walter's not likeable. I like him but as one friend has recently said, what's he's done is reprehensible. I didn't like Olivia at first. She's likeable but it was so hard for me to know who she was. But that could be interesting! That these people are thrown together for other purposes. That it's not for us to like them and them to save the world and live happily ever after. Maybe that's not always the best or most interesting ending.
Maybe they try and become a family and learn a lot about themselves and the world. Yes, they can save it but not without personal cost. To themselves and in lives. Maybe they realize they'll always be family after this--always--even if they can't live and love together after all is said and done. And wouldn't that be more real and more interesting?
But don't mind me. Remember, I wanted all the BSG people to die in the end. I dunno. I didn't really want them dead. I just want shows to do something different and interesting and . . . real. I want them to honor who these characters on Fringe are since I really have had a difficult and long road to finally begin to maybe understand them.
Mostly I just hope that they don't handle it the way they handled Olivia's feelings after she found out about Peter and Fauxlivia - i.e. setting up a complicated, painful, real situation, then resolving it because "it's been a while, let's resolve it" rather than because any common ground actually seemed to have been reached. I have to rewatch for her reaction. Again, I feel they set up a lot with Olivia and then don't fully let it play out. I don't know if it's because they are so in love with the alt!verse or they think viewers will get bored or they just don't know what to do with it.
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Date: 2011-03-16 10:12 pm (UTC)the assumption that he's a real Nice Guy in a Crazy Situation is fannish creation, show intention or Dawson's Creek transference
See I couldn't stand Pacey or the air around him. SMUG! So I transferred my years-old dislike of Pacey right to Peter. You inspired an interesting thought in me. That it's okay for these guys to be unlikable. Walter's not likeable. I like him but as one friend has recently said, what's he's done is reprehensible. I didn't like Olivia at first. She's likeable but it was so hard for me to know who she was. But that could be interesting! That these people are thrown together for other purposes. That it's not for us to like them and them to save the world and live happily ever after. Maybe that's not always the best or most interesting ending.
Maybe they try and become a family and learn a lot about themselves and the world. Yes, they can save it but not without personal cost. To themselves and in lives. Maybe they realize they'll always be family after this--always--even if they can't live and love together after all is said and done. And wouldn't that be more real and more interesting?
But don't mind me. Remember, I wanted all the BSG people to die in the end. I dunno. I didn't really want them dead. I just want shows to do something different and interesting and . . . real. I want them to honor who these characters on Fringe are since I really have had a difficult and long road to finally begin to maybe understand them.
Mostly I just hope that they don't handle it the way they handled Olivia's feelings after she found out about Peter and Fauxlivia - i.e. setting up a complicated, painful, real situation, then resolving it because "it's been a while, let's resolve it" rather than because any common ground actually seemed to have been reached.
I have to rewatch for her reaction. Again, I feel they set up a lot with Olivia and then don't fully let it play out. I don't know if it's because they are so in love with the alt!verse or they think viewers will get bored or they just don't know what to do with it.