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Re: Everything I've Come to Expect *SP* | |
Posted By: Frankie | Date: 11/7/09 12:12 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Everything I've Come to Expect *SP* (Jillybean) : Ehhh I knew she was a girl from the moment she stepped out of her pod. : Honestly. Also, she would not have long flowing locks. I realise it's : about the only way to show she was a chick, but it bugged me. She should : have been shaved, cyborged up and fugly from battle (like Dare!) and then : I'd have been more willing to believe that O'Brian was just sad about the : sacrifice and not wishing he'd boned her when he had the chance. She behaved the way she should have and her gender up 'til that point had been irrelevant - she behaved like a Spartan. Really the "point" of that dramatically was as you said, to subvert expectations of what the strong silent type is, and further expose O'Brien's ego and bias. It's the 26th century, he isn't looking at her and thinking "zomg a girl" but rather realizing that he never even bothered to speak to her to find out. And to telegraph the fact that the Spartan/ODST rivalry is a completely one-sided artifice. Spartans probably don't give it a second thought. As for the Metroid comparison, it's impossible not to think about that - obviously we did when we were making this, and in some ways we wrote O'Brien to be a mirror for that audience of boys - he's having some of the reaction a generation of Nintendo fans had - and that it's weird to have that reaction because it has no real meaning.
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