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beccaelizabethSo, last episode of Heroes.
... which I was looking forward to so little I almost forgot it was going to be on.
But okay, I turned on half way through the episode I'd watched on BBC3 last week.
That remained an okay episode.
And then there was the last episode intro, and I find the guy isn't dead after all, yaay!
... and it then spent so long telling us things from previouslies that I nearly changed the channel.
I mean whatever momentum the story had up until then ground to a halt completely for me.
But whatever. Final episode, dark moral choices, wrestling with conscience, finding own power, and hey, love saves the day! I should be all over this, right? All sorts of good stuff.
But... I'm just really not. It doesn't work for me at all. And the only reason I can find is the treatment of women.
You see that final confrontation? There's seven men, or six and a little boy if you count it a bit different, but Micah got a save the day moment so I think I'll count him. On the other hand there's two women and a little girl. The little girl hid and was scared and decided the guy who got shot was her hero... and not, say, the strong woman. The strong woman? Was sent back to look after her family. And then the cheerleader turns up! Save the cheerleader, save the world! So she's going to do something awesome, right?
... only if you call 'inspiring men' to be awesome. Because, you know, that's our role in life. We stand there and cry and the men have to save us.
"You saved the cheerleader so we could save the world."
The aspect of brotherly love triumphing over greed for power should have been awesome. Yet that line right there sums up why I just cannot get in to this show. Because there's nowhere for me to be. Whenever I feel like I could be into it, it sends me back to looking after family and standing there crying.
I'm sorry, I know a ton of people like it, but I just can't.
... which I was looking forward to so little I almost forgot it was going to be on.
But okay, I turned on half way through the episode I'd watched on BBC3 last week.
That remained an okay episode.
And then there was the last episode intro, and I find the guy isn't dead after all, yaay!
... and it then spent so long telling us things from previouslies that I nearly changed the channel.
I mean whatever momentum the story had up until then ground to a halt completely for me.
But whatever. Final episode, dark moral choices, wrestling with conscience, finding own power, and hey, love saves the day! I should be all over this, right? All sorts of good stuff.
But... I'm just really not. It doesn't work for me at all. And the only reason I can find is the treatment of women.
You see that final confrontation? There's seven men, or six and a little boy if you count it a bit different, but Micah got a save the day moment so I think I'll count him. On the other hand there's two women and a little girl. The little girl hid and was scared and decided the guy who got shot was her hero... and not, say, the strong woman. The strong woman? Was sent back to look after her family. And then the cheerleader turns up! Save the cheerleader, save the world! So she's going to do something awesome, right?
... only if you call 'inspiring men' to be awesome. Because, you know, that's our role in life. We stand there and cry and the men have to save us.
"You saved the cheerleader so we could save the world."
The aspect of brotherly love triumphing over greed for power should have been awesome. Yet that line right there sums up why I just cannot get in to this show. Because there's nowhere for me to be. Whenever I feel like I could be into it, it sends me back to looking after family and standing there crying.
I'm sorry, I know a ton of people like it, but I just can't.