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beccaelizabethThe more I think on it, the more it's bugging me that there is no one on Alphas with a disability but no alpha abilities.
Not that I've been thinking that continuously since last night. Just the thought keeps recurring.
Was there someone and I missed them? Am I forgetting anyone?
There's the meeting Hicks goes to, the alcoholism or addiction or whatever it was meeting. So there are other addicts.
But it bothers me that Gary has no context outside of the alphas group and his mum, and then he meets Anna who is autistic spectrum like him and then she's his friend. Like, his only friend. Does he not know other autistic people? My college is a specialist center for people with aspergers so there's a room with comfy chairs and lots of people with aspergers. And there's the AS social groups run by AS East Anglia. So there's opportunities to meet people. And for people who are not so much going to go to college there's the training center and lots of people to meet there. These are geographically specific but that's the stuff I know. And, okay, being socially isolated is perfectly plausible, it's kind of in the definitions, but ... There's something that feels weird in there, the assumption both that he'd get along really well with someone who was like him in that way, and that he hasn't already met someone. And it's not just that she's alpha, because he knows other alphas and Rosen makes a point of saying he's never connected that well. So is it that she's alpha and autistic? There's story in there though, that his alpha ability makes him unusual even among unusual people. And then there would be lots of people with disabilities and no superpowers. Which would be a relief.
Also, I keep saying she's autistic, because that was the first label they hung on her, but they changed the label later. Apraxia. So then it's just that his alpha ability let him understand hers, not that their disabilities match. Which is a lot less creepy.
All the characters are somewhat skinny on the context though. They have family but no friends. Half of them don't talk to people outside the group about being alphas or the stuff they can do. Gary, who isn't great at secrets, his mum knows he's watching TV. And the Sentinel girl, her family knows what she can do, they just think it's a bad 'condition' for most of the season. The other three don't seem to mention it outside. If married dude is keeping his super strength secret from his wife that's kind of wonky. One has a wife, one has an ex wife and son he doesn't get to see, one has... people who only logically exist to let her push them into lending her stuff. Huh. Wow, she's totally the most isolated, the prettiest one with all the rich stuff. So there's some family, but there's no people they go chat with ever. It makes Rosen's group be all their friendships and connections. If he's doing their therapy I didn't think only ever talking to your therapy group was thought of as a good thing.
Their situation is meant to be messed up and the last episode has Rosen admitting he used his daughter for creepy reasons so he's probably meant to be being creepy. Secrecy and isolation does not stability and happiness make.
okay, so it's probably meant to be creepy that they don't know other people. that's better than I was thinking.
But... context. They need more of it.
Not that I've been thinking that continuously since last night. Just the thought keeps recurring.
Was there someone and I missed them? Am I forgetting anyone?
There's the meeting Hicks goes to, the alcoholism or addiction or whatever it was meeting. So there are other addicts.
But it bothers me that Gary has no context outside of the alphas group and his mum, and then he meets Anna who is autistic spectrum like him and then she's his friend. Like, his only friend. Does he not know other autistic people? My college is a specialist center for people with aspergers so there's a room with comfy chairs and lots of people with aspergers. And there's the AS social groups run by AS East Anglia. So there's opportunities to meet people. And for people who are not so much going to go to college there's the training center and lots of people to meet there. These are geographically specific but that's the stuff I know. And, okay, being socially isolated is perfectly plausible, it's kind of in the definitions, but ... There's something that feels weird in there, the assumption both that he'd get along really well with someone who was like him in that way, and that he hasn't already met someone. And it's not just that she's alpha, because he knows other alphas and Rosen makes a point of saying he's never connected that well. So is it that she's alpha and autistic? There's story in there though, that his alpha ability makes him unusual even among unusual people. And then there would be lots of people with disabilities and no superpowers. Which would be a relief.
Also, I keep saying she's autistic, because that was the first label they hung on her, but they changed the label later. Apraxia. So then it's just that his alpha ability let him understand hers, not that their disabilities match. Which is a lot less creepy.
All the characters are somewhat skinny on the context though. They have family but no friends. Half of them don't talk to people outside the group about being alphas or the stuff they can do. Gary, who isn't great at secrets, his mum knows he's watching TV. And the Sentinel girl, her family knows what she can do, they just think it's a bad 'condition' for most of the season. The other three don't seem to mention it outside. If married dude is keeping his super strength secret from his wife that's kind of wonky. One has a wife, one has an ex wife and son he doesn't get to see, one has... people who only logically exist to let her push them into lending her stuff. Huh. Wow, she's totally the most isolated, the prettiest one with all the rich stuff. So there's some family, but there's no people they go chat with ever. It makes Rosen's group be all their friendships and connections. If he's doing their therapy I didn't think only ever talking to your therapy group was thought of as a good thing.
Their situation is meant to be messed up and the last episode has Rosen admitting he used his daughter for creepy reasons so he's probably meant to be being creepy. Secrecy and isolation does not stability and happiness make.
okay, so it's probably meant to be creepy that they don't know other people. that's better than I was thinking.
But... context. They need more of it.