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Are we supposed to like her?

posted 11 years ago by UncleRob
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Jensen is cold, psychotic, selfish, needy, suicidal, erratic and a skank.

I understand the concept of damaged anti-heroes, but I've seen two episodes now and I kinda wish somebody shoots her. That ain't good for a TV series.

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[–] whatever_it_takes 11 years ago

Kinda? One look at her haircut and I wanted to shoot her already.

[–] Love_spreads 11 years ago

LOL about the haircut, it's horrendous.

All aboard, Dead of Night Express.

[–] coco_la_nata 11 years ago

Besides WTF hair style, she always seems have tears hanging in her eyes.

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[–] Ithilfaen 11 years ago

Guess you only like unlikable people when they are on reality tv crap, eh?

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[–] EllenRipley47 11 years ago

I think right now you're supposed to be interested in her, not necessarily like her. She's not likeable. Because she hunts psychos that may win you over in time, depending on the storyline. Plus, there are hints that she's really tortured which may help you like her more later, when you discover more of her past. I like the idea of starting out with someone not likeable who later will (may) grow on you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Y-AG5BNiM

[–] UncleRob 11 years ago

el -- a nice, considered response and entirely possible, but I gotta tell you, she better grow on me fast, 'cause I don't have a lot of patience for sub-humans like her.

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[–] ToHelenBackAgain 11 years ago

Like... no, I don't think so. This isn't exactly a charming and delightful personality, nor does she give a rat's patootie about that.

Take an interest in her, on the other hand, root for her, yes. Which I do.

This isn't the kind of world where you mop up everything.

[–] seekermatt 11 years ago

i think it's part of the real war on women.
and marriage.
and values.
laugh all you want.

[–] Doctor_Professor 11 years ago

its not so much that we're supposed to like her, but at least empathize with her.

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[–] shaye22 11 years ago

If you replaced her character with a guy who had these traits, people would be calling him a "flawed hero". When a woman plays someone with a dark side, she's horrible...

[–] ToHelenBackAgain 11 years ago

I do consider her a flawed hero. She reminds me a lot of Martin Hart on True Detective. I didn't like Marty, but I did ultimately care about him all the same.

This is not to compare the two shows. That was a masterpiece. This one... to be charitable, needed work that wasn't done before finishing it for release.

But the characters have some striking similarities.

This isn't the kind of world where you mop up everything.

[–] GaelinW 11 years ago

I do consider her a flawed hero. She reminds me a lot of Martin Hart on True Detective. I didn't like Marty, but I did ultimately care about him all the same.

I understand the reference to Marty, but unlike Marty she is written in such a way that makes it hard to even care what happens to her.

I think of the scenes where they both killed suspects. Marty, it seemed killed the suspect because he was overwhelmed by what the guy had done to the kids. On the other hand, it seemed like Jensen killed the suspect because she wanted to. She seemed to take pleasure in doing it.

It's like in one scene she's the tortured cop (ala Rusty Cohle or Will Graham). In the next she's an (sex) addict (ala Marty). In the next, she's Dexter or Hannibal.

It's like they're combining many different flawed characters in her one character. There's way too much going on. And so far we've only seen the flaws. They haven't yet shown us anything to empathize with.

Ok. So she believes her stepfather killed her brother. But they only thing they've shown us regarding that is her creeping around her step father's house. And not in a particularly endearing or investigative way.

Someone else mentioned that if this were a male character, we'd love him. I think that depends. If this were a male character, they would have made him a better cop. So far, all we've seen is her screw over her coworkers and get her ass kicked repeatedly by a suspect only to later murder him. That just made it look like revenge for getting her ass kicked.

If the character is a kickass cop, the audience will usually overlook the flaws no matter how annoying.

The character is just badly written.

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[–] peterlc-2 11 years ago

Nope. She has no redeeming qualities at all. I'd say the same thing about a male character. It's all about her. She doesn't seem to care who she screws or screws over to get what she wants or whose career she jeopardises. No one truly believes that she shot the security guard in self-defence and she would have been sacked in reality.

[–] UncleRob 11 years ago

... and maybe charged with murder.

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