Y'know, maybe it's a good thing that Ben never really knew Grissom all that well in Dive. I don't know how Kevin would react to random Shakespeare.
Yeah. I understand Julie, but I've got to say it just doesn't match with what we've seen of her character. Especially when she JUST told Ben that she was going to be there for him through the unmasking. Now she knows what Ben was going through, but instead of empathizing with him, she just got mad at him--and before he really did something to warrant it.
Agreed so much about Gwen. Julie's tennis match is important, but it's not as important as the end of the world. Ben's got to blow off his own soccer games to save the world; why expect him to treat anyone else differently? Priorities, girl!
Oh yeah. We don't need to see Ben completely heartbroken, forced into an awkward relationship with a girl who's liked him in the past and really deserved a better written relationship than a rebound, or his friends setting him up with a ski instructor twice his age, or Julie coming back a year later while on a scuba trip with a friend they said goodbye to in the finale, only for them both to be sacrificed to an evil volcano god and brainwashed into evil, and Ben has to get strangled by his brainwashed friend before they break through the spell.
...Though, on the other hand, I wouldn't mind seeing a fic ten years later, after Ben's mysteriously become a doctor and a teacher, his students beg him to take them to an "Alien Force Day" back in his hometown of Bellwood, and he winds up in a lot of bizarre situations as all of his friends team up with his students in the attempt to set Ben and Julie back up again. Oh, and it involves Mr. Mongolian Hamster and Ms. Syrian Gerbil.
Yeah, Julie's got a lot of potential, and it bothers me that they never really use her as anything other than "Ben's girlfriend" (and sometimes, I think, Gwen's). It bugs me about a few characters, actually, including the Tennyson family and Elena--you've got these people on the border of normality, who know what's going on and while aren't superheroes, certainly know how to hold their own. They can act as the liaison between normal life and the weird life, and there's really not a lot of exploration of that.
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Date: 2010-05-03 09:31 pm (UTC)Y'know, maybe it's a good thing that Ben never really knew Grissom all that well in Dive. I don't know how Kevin would react to random Shakespeare.
Yeah. I understand Julie, but I've got to say it just doesn't match with what we've seen of her character. Especially when she JUST told Ben that she was going to be there for him through the unmasking. Now she knows what Ben was going through, but instead of empathizing with him, she just got mad at him--and before he really did something to warrant it.
Agreed so much about Gwen. Julie's tennis match is important, but it's not as important as the end of the world. Ben's got to blow off his own soccer games to save the world; why expect him to treat anyone else differently? Priorities, girl!
Oh yeah. We don't need to see Ben completely heartbroken, forced into an awkward relationship with a girl who's liked him in the past and really deserved a better written relationship than a rebound, or his friends setting him up with a ski instructor twice his age, or Julie coming back a year later while on a scuba trip with a friend they said goodbye to in the finale, only for them both to be sacrificed to an evil volcano god and brainwashed into evil, and Ben has to get strangled by his brainwashed friend before they break through the spell.
...Though, on the other hand, I wouldn't mind seeing a fic ten years later, after Ben's mysteriously become a doctor and a teacher, his students beg him to take them to an "Alien Force Day" back in his hometown of Bellwood, and he winds up in a lot of bizarre situations as all of his friends team up with his students in the attempt to set Ben and Julie back up again. Oh, and it involves Mr. Mongolian Hamster and Ms. Syrian Gerbil.
Yeah, Julie's got a lot of potential, and it bothers me that they never really use her as anything other than "Ben's girlfriend" (and sometimes, I think, Gwen's). It bugs me about a few characters, actually, including the Tennyson family and Elena--you've got these people on the border of normality, who know what's going on and while aren't superheroes, certainly know how to hold their own. They can act as the liaison between normal life and the weird life, and there's really not a lot of exploration of that.