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   From: janeanddano@yahoo.com   
      
   trag wrote:   
   > On Mar 29, 12:10 am, "Dano"  wrote:   
   >> "OM"  wrote in message   
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   >> news:uh2tq5tao55304uuq81b3ej5qlv4slru19@4ax.com...   
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   >>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:03:32 -0400, "Dano"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> Frankenstein...   
   >>   
   >>>> Did you "root" for the monster in that one?     
   >>   
   >>> ...Who the fuck doesn't? Hell, you even get people rooting for   
   >>> Frankie in the versions when he tosses the little girl in the lake.   
   >>> Same thing applies to the Hulk. He tears NYC not one but *three*   
   >>> new assholes, and you still want to see him castrate General   
   >>> Thunderbolt Ross and all of his troops in one blow.   
   >>   
   >>> All misunderstood monsters are rooted for. It's the ones that do   
   >>> deliberate evil for the sake of doing deliberate evil that receive   
   >>> the hate.   
   >>   
   >> I guess you can't see the difference between "rooting for" versus   
   >> understanding or having some sympathy for.  So what's the point in   
   >> continuing?   
   >   
   > I was using "rooting for" as shorthand for sympathizing with.  As Zoe   
   > is looking like a religious/prudish fruitcake, I will not be   
   > sympathizing with her.  If the show is about sympathizing with her   
   > position/predicament, then it will be a failure for me.   
   >   
   > Are we meant to be thinking, "Oh, poor little dead girl wihtout a   
   > body."?   Because mostly I'm thinking, "Oh, stupid spoiled little brat   
   > who played with fire and now wants sympathy for getting the expected   
   > results."   
      
   That's funny.  I don't recall her asking for any sympathy.  Why does that   
   matter anyway?  You either care or you don't.  It's not that I like her   
   character at all.  There really aren't many characters in this show to like.   
   But I find it interesting nonetheless.  When I don't, I will stop watching   
   and I won't offer further opinions at that point.  I guess what keeps me   
   watching is to see how the events brought this civilization to the point of   
   near extinction that we saw in BSG.  We're seeing how it all went so   
   terribly wrong.  Stands to reason...knowing what we do...how this world   
   eventually gets destroyed and the humans all but exterminated...that it's   
   not going to be upbeat and filled with the usual heroes.   
      
   But back to Zoe and the other young people.  Here you have a sort of   
   nihilistic society these kids are being raised in.  They have carried the   
   notion of video games in the form of virtual reality to the extreme...where   
   for entertainment they take part in the most amoral (if not immoral)   
   activities in this virtual world that Zoe's own dad is most responsible for   
   creating and popularizing.  It's not at all surprising to me that many of   
   these youths are all screwed up as a result.  Just because a kid gets   
   "spoiled" with all types of worldly benefits and "stuff" doesn't mean they   
   aren't looking for guidance and wisdom...and limits even, from their elders.   
   That's what seems to be sorely lacking...especially in this young woman's   
   development.  You needn't "like" her or sympathize...but you might just try   
   to understand her.  Or not.  But if it bothers you, I really don't know why   
   you would watch.  I AM curious.  Who DO you sympathize...root for on this   
   show?  Do you need to?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)