Should heroes be heroes?

In one of the GW forums, someone posted this part of an interview with Brad Wright about what SGU's characters will be like:

And the characters themselves will prove to have moralities that are surprisingly like quicksilver. "In Universe, all of our characters are both heroes and villains," explained Wright, "and remarkably have the ability to slip in and out of the skin of both." Source

Well, my response to that was:

I like my heroes to be heroes. Yes, making tough decisions but not to the point where it's hard for me to like them. I'm the old school gal that likes her heroes to do the "right thing", to have some "code of honor", morals that they stick to not only when it's convenient. That's what I do in real life and that's what I like to see in my shows. I stopped watching BSG for the very reason that the "grey areas" became a stinking sludge of immoral, selfish behavior. Glorifying villainism and selfishness under the pretense of "flawed characters" is not my thing.

And of course, immediately I was told how wrong my opinions are etc. Whatever.

I know that it's really "trendy" and "in" these days to have characters that are less then stellar when it comes down to integrity but I hate this trend, I really do. When I watch a show, I like to root for my characters, I want to be able to say "I would like to be like that one day." Pollyanna-ish? Sure.

I don't mind flawed characters. I mean, can you imagine anyone more flawed than Rodney McKay with his bitchiness and hypochondria and neuroses etc.? But I could still love him because he was in no way a coward. He knew what was right and he did it - even though he yelled and whined and complained all the time. Would I be able to even like him if he hadn't risked his life to save Elizabeth's in "The Storm"? Or if he hadn't rushed out to save Sheppard in "The Defiant One"? No, I don't think so. And I can't watch someone I don't like week in, week out.

I'll rather not be "hip" or "in" or whatever and support characters with integrity and "code of honor" than swoon over someone with "quicksilver morals".

The Guardian

Hey, I know that there are fans of Simon Baker's previous show called The Guardian on my flist and I just wanted to let you know that it will finally come out on DVD! 6 DVDs in the first season box set, Oct. 27th 2009. You can check out the package art here!

Moon Called

This line in Patricia Briggs' "Moon Called" never fails to make me cry:

Sometime before the sun's first pale rays lit the eastern sky, the wolf who had been Carter Wallace went to sleep, curled up next to his Alpha, and never woke up again.

That whole sequence is really heart-rending.

Gay, gay people everywhere ;)

SyFy reacts to GLAAD's "F" grade for its depiction of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters.

Well, I think that it's nice that there will be a married lesbian on SGU, that's true. But the other characters they mentioned... I mean, Vincent on Eureka is gay? Since when? Was it actually mentioned or do they base their opinion on the way he talks and behaves? And was it somehow used or is he just the "token gay character"? I like what some of the comments said about the article: When you have a gay character, use it somehow in the plot, otherwise it loses any meaning - it'll be like Mallozzi's belated "Oh, BTW, Vega was lesbian" weeks after SGA ended.

And since I'm talking about that - was it ever mentioned if the medic that Sheppard wanted to save in SGA's Vegas was a man or a woman? If I remember it right, it was pretty left to our imagination. I haven't seen the eps with the audio commentaries yet so maybe it'll be explained there... But I would prefer if they left it ambiguous.

Oh, BTW, who do you think was the other gay character on SGA? Mallozzi said that there was another one besides Vega. People's money was on Lorne or Zelenka.

Leverage 1x04

1x04, The Snow Job: I saw this episode for the first time tonight and... Is it just me or was this ep quite lame? It felt like not just the script was boring but even the actors were bored, not up to their usual bounciness. The "kids" - Eliot, Hardison and Parker - saved the day somewhat, their scenes were the best but other than that... There was just something missing. But maybe it's just the fact that I have absolutely no sympathy at all for drunks. So, kinda disappointed. Maybe it'll seem better after I have watched it with the audio commentary?