[ SECRET POST #1687 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1687 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

This is not your forum to identify and call out specific people just to call them assholes. Call out general actions you find reprehensible, mod ability/inability, that kind of stuff, but once you get into what basically amounts to 'this person is a stupid bitch and here are some icons/an lj layout/add. info to identify them with' - no.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Haven't watched it, looked interesting, checked out the wiki...

So... the womens' powers are heightened observation and mental/emotional manipulation, and the mens' powers are bullet time and superstrength.


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Sigh.

[curseangel.livejournal.com]

It's basically as bad with that as you'd think, too, at least in the pilot (I stopped watching after that-- ugh). The woman who can manipulate emotions is portrayed just like, well, every other "seductress" type woman ever on television, and... well, the woman who can strengthen one of her senses does so at the cost of obliterating every other sense and is nearly caught in the frigging pilot, because portraying a woman as observant, intelligent, and competent is apparently way too hard for them.

Meanwhile, yeah, the guys are shown as competent and useful while the girls... well, one does nothing and the other is a damsel in distress. Oh, I was overjoyed, let me tell you. */bitter*

[helenadax.livejournal.com]

Gary's a man and he has a "mental" power. Unless you're saying that autistic boys are women, your description isn't accurate.

[lit-wolf.livejournal.com]

I sure as hell don't think that's what the anon is saying. Stop putting words in other people's mouths.

[helenadax.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll try again: Anon, since I don't think you believe that Gary is a woman, I'm sure you can see how your description isn't accurate.

Better?

[the-jackalope.livejournal.com]

Also not anon, but that fact doesn't really change the fact that both female characters have mental/observational powers. It's not really that the men have active powers and the women have passive powers, it's that the women have only passive powers. It's one of the reasons I stopped watching the show.

[helenadax.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't think Nina's powers are passive. It's true they aren't physical powers, but she can force almost anyone to do whatever she wants. She could kill people with that.

I agree though that it would be interesting to show an woman with physical powers, but I'm sure we'll have one eventually. Tbh, having Claire being a badass in "Heroes" or that superfast mom in "Not ordinary family" or whatever didn't make those shows good. But I like what they're doing with "Alphas".

[antiva.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that part bothers the hell out of me as well. The show has some decent moments but wtf @ the powers for the girls.

[bayonetta.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even really paid attention to that until you pointed it out. I'm not sure if I like Alphas so much now . . .