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A more realistic heroine who gets beat up

posted 8 years ago by jeffyoung1
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I found out this show has been on for several seasons but I just starting watching it two weekends ago.

Michelle Overton seems to be a more realistic heroine. She fights hard and often viciously but she doesn't beat every guy who's twice her size and strength. In the two episodes I've watched, I've seen Van Helsing get beat up several times by the bad guys. Somehow she escapes by the skin of her teeth. I'm not rooting for her to get beat up, mind you, I just appreciate the realism of the scenario. You can't expect slender, trim women, no matter how athletic, to prevail over a 6'5" vicious undead killer.

STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE is coming out in two weeks. You're going to see a 5'3" woman take on and beat up fully grown fighters and armored stormtroopers. Just how realistic is that?

Michelle Overton's Van Helsing knows that brute force is not enough, especially if the bad guys have much more brute force than her. It's going to take more than brains and skills and personal fighting ability. She's going to have to rely on male friends who have her back and can take on the big vicious villains coming after her.

[–] sammyxander 8 years ago

While you have made a good point and I agree with you on the realism point.. the show did make a little more about her abilities when she woke up out of her coma/deep sleep and decimated the vampires almost flawlessly. Also, some other scenes from earlier episodes show her take on more than one un-dead male successfully. We do not know if her strength and skills come from her bloodline ability or from being taught by her parents.. this hasn't been explained so quite naturally we make assumptions.

Given her special ability to turn vampires back to human and the fact Rebecca said she is just like them but she walks in sunlight, it should follow her strength/skills should be more than human because she is MORE than just a human female..

This is why her fight with SAM was pitiful because he was just turned and had not fed.. that is the weakest any vampire could be at and she has been whatever she is for much longer.. By vampire standards (older is stronger), she should have finished him off quite easily..

If I were to direct that scene, I would have written it in such a way that as she was about to finish him, Mohammed intervenes and lets him escape.. that would be a lot more convincing...

[–] Tybasedgoddess 8 years ago

Agreed! At first I was like wth? Where is this super strength and better fighting abilities?

[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

jeffyoung, this show is still in it's first season. the season 1 finale is next Friday (episode 13).

[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

jeffyoung1, her name is Kelly Overton not Michelle Overton...just sayin'.

[–] avnrulz 8 years ago

JJ, I find it interesting the O.P. comes on here praising the show, but gets so much incorrect (Several seasons, really? Several episodes).

Then, as to the 'a more realistic heroine who gets beat up': she kicks three vamps butts from out of a coma, and seems to have fighting skills when it suits the story, and doesn't when it doesn't.

MAGA!

[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

avnrulz,

"Then, as to the 'a more realistic heroine who gets beat up': she kicks three vamps butts from out of a coma, and seems to have fighting skills when it suits the story, and doesn't when it doesn't."

that has been frustrating this whole season. she was Alice from the RES EVIL movies in the first ep or 2 with her badass fighting skills but then those fighting skills are only there when the writers need it to be (in other words her skills are completely inconsistent).