Can Carter be there too, jealously guarding his over-priced heavenly theater slurpee?
I figured Carter was there, maybe he's guarding his over-priced heavenly slurpee from Meg who finished off her large heavenly I-cee and is now aggressively gnawing on her straw. Actually I think I may have just started afterlife shipping Carter/Meg by accident. And Edward didn't really want to watch this episode.
For a long time, this show has been treating a lot of their characters as functions. They're there to fulfill some specific purpose, not to be interesting, well-rounded people... It's... bad form, I tell you. Well-written shows have characters serving functions as well, but they offset it with good character development and thoughtful plotting.
Seriously, one of my favorite shows EVER is Babylon 5 and a lot of the characters do serve their function in the story, but they're also real characters too. It can work with good writing, which this show is sadly lacking. And yeah, the secondary characters have suffered that a LOT this season (not that they didn't in the past too). I still have no idea who Tuck really is, his entire character is summer up as Robin's PR fighting monk. Allan's been that double sword wielding and accent making man this season. Much has only gotten any character arc through his crush on Kate which has just twisted his character into such a mess that I know they can't untangle it in one more episode.
They have every reason not to, though, and I almost wouldn't blame them for thinking he'd been playing them all along.
I know, as much as I want them not to turn on him, it'll be perfectly justifiable if they do. It'll hurt but I won't feel it came out of nowhere at least. But Guy truly wants Vasey dead more than the outlaws, who just want him to stop being head evil dude, Guy wants it to end in blood.
(I kind of want to see him be tempted and MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE for once.) To have him come this far and then go back to Vasey would be throwing everything he's gone through all season out the window. (Wait... that complaint sounds familiar... where have I heard that befo-- oh crap. *is now terrified for Guy's developing morality*)
Yeah, that's basically where I'm at. If I had any faith in this show, or even hadn't had last season's finale I'm not sure I would have even brought it up, but after last year...I worry. I'm trying to maintain optimism because there's really no good reason for the story to go that way, but that hasn't stopped them before.
That's about my order of odds of surviving too, although I think there's at least a bit of a gap between Much's odds and Guy's. Just because Guy's life has been in immediate peril too often of late, for him to wind up dead would make it all pointless (again, not really putting it past the writers though).
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Date: 2009-06-26 08:04 pm (UTC)I figured Carter was there, maybe he's guarding his over-priced heavenly slurpee from Meg who finished off her large heavenly I-cee and is now aggressively gnawing on her straw. Actually I think I may have just started afterlife shipping Carter/Meg by accident. And Edward didn't really want to watch this episode.
For a long time, this show has been treating a lot of their characters as functions. They're there to fulfill some specific purpose, not to be interesting, well-rounded people... It's... bad form, I tell you. Well-written shows have characters serving functions as well, but they offset it with good character development and thoughtful plotting.
Seriously, one of my favorite shows EVER is Babylon 5 and a lot of the characters do serve their function in the story, but they're also real characters too. It can work with good writing, which this show is sadly lacking. And yeah, the secondary characters have suffered that a LOT this season (not that they didn't in the past too). I still have no idea who Tuck really is, his entire character is summer up as Robin's PR fighting monk. Allan's been that double sword wielding and accent making man this season. Much has only gotten any character arc through his crush on Kate which has just twisted his character into such a mess that I know they can't untangle it in one more episode.
They have every reason not to, though, and I almost wouldn't blame them for thinking he'd been playing them all along.
I know, as much as I want them not to turn on him, it'll be perfectly justifiable if they do. It'll hurt but I won't feel it came out of nowhere at least. But Guy truly wants Vasey dead more than the outlaws, who just want him to stop being head evil dude, Guy wants it to end in blood.
(I kind of want to see him be tempted and MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE for once.) To have him come this far and then go back to Vasey would be throwing everything he's gone through all season out the window. (Wait... that complaint sounds familiar... where have I heard that befo-- oh crap. *is now terrified for Guy's developing morality*)
Yeah, that's basically where I'm at. If I had any faith in this show, or even hadn't had last season's finale I'm not sure I would have even brought it up, but after last year...I worry. I'm trying to maintain optimism because there's really no good reason for the story to go that way, but that hasn't stopped them before.
That's about my order of odds of surviving too, although I think there's at least a bit of a gap between Much's odds and Guy's. Just because Guy's life has been in immediate peril too often of late, for him to wind up dead would make it all pointless (again, not really putting it past the writers though).