Heroes: Hair Matters
By Lisa Fary
Please let Claire grow up, take some martial arts classes, and break out of that damsel in distress box for good.
I liked Claire as a mutant Harriet Tubman. She had purpose. She had drive. Then she had another stupid scene in a comic shop.
Show, please stop. We already know you hate your viewership, resent us for our geekdom and compulsive need for continuity. Unless, Show, you think you’re flattering us by making our domain a set location, in which case, you’re the worst give giver ever (even rivaling the time a family member gave me a taupe sweatshirt for Christmas).
Then Claire had to be rescued – again – by the end. Seriously. Let Claire go down a road that makes her a stronger person. She keeps starting, but someone in the writers’ room has been blocking her. (Hopefully, that person got sacked.)
And for god’s sake, stop making Hayden Panettiere wear that awful Barbie wig. That’s the worst wig I’ve seen on television since Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: TNG.
It’s a girl’s prerogative to change her hair. It’s a common thing for a gal to do after a life change and it wouldn’t be inappropriate for Claire to show up with a choppy layered bob after everything she’s been though. Get a freaking clue.
Even Peter has changed his hair. His emo bangs are now a relic of season one. If only Nathan’s 1990’s era hair wall would follow.
That was pretty much my thought process while watching “Shades of Gray”. My thoughts also wandered to my new G1 phone and Agent Barker from Chuck, who just might find himself to be the latest addition to the TV Boyfriend Petting Zoo.
Oh, well. At least the red wire-black wire drama didn’t go on for too long. And Mama Petrelli is getting back into her bad ass mode.
I think I want Angela Petrelli to be my nana.
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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i think i'd like her to be my nana, too.
You make an interesting point about the hair.
Much of my energy this episode was spent wondering why more casting directors won't let John Glover play nice dads instead of evil ones. I really liked him on Smallville after Lionel went all soft-hearted, save-the-world on us. He seems like such a sweetheart in interviews, yet people keep making him be awful to young men instead of helping them.
I don't want Angela as a grandmother, because I've seen how she treats Claire, and she never even mentions Nathan's normal kids anymore. (Not that anyone else does either, but that's beside the point. Poor little punkins. Don't the writers realize that having Nathan be a Bad Dad (TM) will only scar them and make them seek vengeance in ten years or so?)