Okay, I'll concede that Harper's hair is in the running for Best Part Of Season 5. XD It's like they were trying to make up for Gordon being the shortest member of the cast by giving him the tallest hair. *pets*
Re: Penny...throughout the storyline, she never makes an active choice. She doesn't control her own future at all. The closest she gets is sneaking offstage during the Everyone's A Hero speech, and even then...she doesn't confront Hammer, she doesn't make any effort to show that she doesn't agree with what's being said, she doesn't even actually leave the ceremony.
I get that for the sake of the narrative she had to die, and in the way that she did. But I feel like even giving her one moment in the earlier acts where she exercises agency could have fixed the dodgy subtext. Let her actively choose to date Hammer instead of just sort of falling into it and not knowing how to get out. Let her do something more active for her cause than collecting signatures on a petition -- or, hell, let the petition itself matter somehow.
I don't know. I just feel like she doesn't actually do anything. She has a personality, she has a backstory, she has motives...and she sits back and lets the plot happen around her instead of actually doing anything.
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Date: 2009-03-12 11:36 pm (UTC)Re: Penny...throughout the storyline, she never makes an active choice. She doesn't control her own future at all. The closest she gets is sneaking offstage during the Everyone's A Hero speech, and even then...she doesn't confront Hammer, she doesn't make any effort to show that she doesn't agree with what's being said, she doesn't even actually leave the ceremony.
I get that for the sake of the narrative she had to die, and in the way that she did. But I feel like even giving her one moment in the earlier acts where she exercises agency could have fixed the dodgy subtext. Let her actively choose to date Hammer instead of just sort of falling into it and not knowing how to get out. Let her do something more active for her cause than collecting signatures on a petition -- or, hell, let the petition itself matter somehow.
I don't know. I just feel like she doesn't actually do anything. She has a personality, she has a backstory, she has motives...and she sits back and lets the plot happen around her instead of actually doing anything.
I'm not explaining myself very well.