12-05-2014, 01:49 PM
(12-05-2014, 11:59 AM)Lou Wrote: Is it a character flaw of Nick's? or is it that writer's think this technique makes for good story telling? Or wait, have i just lost touch with reality? Anyway, i think if its a flaw it lies in the writing.
Oh, I totally agree it's in the writing, but the writers are the ones who get to apply judgment, values, and belief systems to their characters. Because the writers/writing is flawed, Nick is also flawed. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing to have your good guys have flaws. I just think the writers do this a little too often with Nick. But then again, I didn't particularly care for Aunt Marie's and Kelly's personalities either. They were a little too "grim" for me, but this could be where Nick ends up eventually.
Someone once told me, while discussing the Thor/Loki and Superman movies, the good guys are never as interesting as the bad guys because the good guys have to follow the viewers' perceptions of right and wrong. The bad guys can be taken in directions no one expects (including having a conscience sometimes). I agree with that. I don't expect the good guys to live in shades of only light and dark....it's all about the grey for me. That's where life gets interesting.
syscrash Wrote:Thing to remember. Wu has never really seen a wesen woge.
Of course, Wu has seen a Wesen woge...a full-on woge of an Aswang in S3Ep14 where his face is slashed after he tries to protect his old girlfriend from losing her baby to the Aswang, which was the baby's grandmother in woge form who wanted the baby's powers of youth.
The writers need to tie up this loose end. I thought it sucked eggs for the Scoobie gang to allow Wu to go to a mental institution. In real life this would have ended his career in law enforcement so I had trouble suspending disbelief here. This is another writing decision to put good people in a gray area by giving them flaws. Sometimes we viewers REALLY don't like it.
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