No matter how you read it--and I totally go back and forth on this issue, because most of my friends write P-cest (and I have, for a friend as a birthday gift) but I see more Nathan/Niki and Peter/Claire going on--they are adorababble together. I just lurve them. I did not always like Peter very much--as you know--but what won me over was when he started to act on his views and what got me in the end was seeing what he gives to Nathan--his humanity, basically, in the face of Mommie Dearest.
One of the things I love about Heroes is this sort of complexity - relationships aren't set up in the usual easy geometrical shapes. I was thinking today how many love relationships we have in that show and though at least one of them is a marriage (I'm thinking Niki and DL, though I guess there is also Mr and Mrs Bennet) - none of them is the usual boy-meets-girl development that you see in most other shows - well, just about everywhere else. And some of the relationships are very intense - of course that makes them slashy, but it works in numerous ways and I love it. For one thing, it gives the viewer a lot of freedom to interpret and choose. And even if you're looking at Peter/Claire, the love between Peter and Nathan is still there as an important part of the plot, the brotherly bond; as is Claire/Mr Bennet, as a deep father-daughter bond.
I find this fascinating. And I find myself wondering not so much why Heroes does it, but why more shows don't.
I suppose soap operas do it. But it isn't a run of the mill thing for TV drama.
what got me in the end was seeing what he gives to Nathan--his humanity, basically, in the face of Mommie Dearest.
I've been wondering if Ma Petrelli is Molly's bogeyman. I think her hands are very scary, and she has this habit of putting them flat against people's backs or their chest or their face.... Is it manipulation, or something else?
Ma Petrelli appeared just as Peter was reading thoughts in Nathan's mind that didn't seem very Nathan-like to me.
I agree absolutely - don't entirely know what to make of it, though.
The bogeyman might be someone we haven't met. With Linderman and Thompson dead (assuming Linderman and Thompson are dead!) they are unlikely candidates - it could of course be someone we haven't met. Of the characters we have met, she seems the best bet at present.
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Date: 2007-05-23 09:22 pm (UTC)(Love your icon.)
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Date: 2007-05-24 03:14 am (UTC)One of the things I love about Heroes is this sort of complexity - relationships aren't set up in the usual easy geometrical shapes. I was thinking today how many love relationships we have in that show and though at least one of them is a marriage (I'm thinking Niki and DL, though I guess there is also Mr and Mrs Bennet) - none of them is the usual boy-meets-girl development that you see in most other shows - well, just about everywhere else. And some of the relationships are very intense - of course that makes them slashy, but it works in numerous ways and I love it. For one thing, it gives the viewer a lot of freedom to interpret and choose. And even if you're looking at Peter/Claire, the love between Peter and Nathan is still there as an important part of the plot, the brotherly bond; as is Claire/Mr Bennet, as a deep father-daughter bond.
I find this fascinating. And I find myself wondering not so much why Heroes does it, but why more shows don't.
I suppose soap operas do it. But it isn't a run of the mill thing for TV drama.
what got me in the end was seeing what he gives to Nathan--his humanity, basically, in the face of Mommie Dearest.
I've been wondering if Ma Petrelli is Molly's bogeyman. I think her hands are very scary, and she has this habit of putting them flat against people's backs or their chest or their face.... Is it manipulation, or something else?
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Date: 2007-05-24 03:18 am (UTC)You are not the first person to have suggested that she is Molly's bogeyman, and I would not dispute that claim.
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Date: 2007-05-24 03:45 am (UTC)I agree absolutely - don't entirely know what to make of it, though.
The bogeyman might be someone we haven't met. With Linderman and Thompson dead (assuming Linderman and Thompson are dead!) they are unlikely candidates - it could of course be someone we haven't met. Of the characters we have met, she seems the best bet at present.
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