While I'm on the subject...
May. 26th, 2009 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasThe notion trotted forth at the end of the show, that there's an indelible personality or 'soul' that can't be expunged by changes to the brain... :/ It seems romantic and a 'triumph of the human spirit' on the surface, but what about personalities who succumb completely to dementia or brain injury? If I had lost someone I cared about in such a way, I don't know that I would be very uplifted.
Probably the most effective part of the show for me was November's relationship with 'obsessed agent guy.' (The only character names I can remember are the dolls and Topher for some reason.) The gradual set-up to that, and their pain when he realizes what she is, was nicely done. He's bonked a doll, his personal model of icky behavior, and come to love someone who doesn't exist. She is programmed perfectly to push his buttons and to truly suffer when he withdraws from her, and he can't do anything to ease her. Even to try would put himself and his quest in mortal danger. A beautiful tangle!
ETA: A select group of 'Good' vampires/werepersons fight the 'Bad' vampires/werepersons who prey on the largely ignorant human populace. Who did this first I wonder, and why does it seem to be the basis for most paranormal romance? The first place I read it is Christine Feehan's Dark series. Now I feel compelled to think of another way. Werepersons who were created as guardians for the 'fey' perhaps. Hybrids who can cope with mortal dangers that the otherwise powerful fey cannot. Tension in that the proud purebreds must rely on the WPs for their lives, yet they consider them lesser and alien and find it difficult to trust them. Evil beings who are not evil so much as really, really hungry.
Probably the most effective part of the show for me was November's relationship with 'obsessed agent guy.' (The only character names I can remember are the dolls and Topher for some reason.) The gradual set-up to that, and their pain when he realizes what she is, was nicely done. He's bonked a doll, his personal model of icky behavior, and come to love someone who doesn't exist. She is programmed perfectly to push his buttons and to truly suffer when he withdraws from her, and he can't do anything to ease her. Even to try would put himself and his quest in mortal danger. A beautiful tangle!
ETA: A select group of 'Good' vampires/werepersons fight the 'Bad' vampires/werepersons who prey on the largely ignorant human populace. Who did this first I wonder, and why does it seem to be the basis for most paranormal romance? The first place I read it is Christine Feehan's Dark series. Now I feel compelled to think of another way. Werepersons who were created as guardians for the 'fey' perhaps. Hybrids who can cope with mortal dangers that the otherwise powerful fey cannot. Tension in that the proud purebreds must rely on the WPs for their lives, yet they consider them lesser and alien and find it difficult to trust them. Evil beings who are not evil so much as really, really hungry.
