I'm thankful I spoiled myself for basically what to expect - not in great detail, but it turns out that the two worst bits (West and Candace) I pretty much knew all about. So I'm fairly sure I enjoyed the episode a lot more than I would have.
Every scene he was in this episode made me loathe him more and more.
His harrassing Claire (in public, even!), and only revealing his power *after* he'd bullied her into admitting hers, was the truly unforgivable part. He knew they were both "freaks" and she *didn't*. It would have been an order of magnitude better if he'd told her/shown her straight after seeing her toe incident. There are times when it *is* (more or less) appropriate to demand someone actually verbally admit to what they can do (Peter insisting Nathan stop with the denial), and this was not one of them.
This makes me hate West, not the show, but of course that's dependent on them either making West a bad guy, *or* remembering to come back and address his behaviour, if he does wind up on Claire's side.
My continuing faith that West is not there to be some straightforward romantic interest for Claire is partly based on him having no reason to *start* stalking her in the first place, if he didn't already know who she was. While characters do keep coincidentally running in to people they have connections with, I think it's a different thing that this guy at her new school just happens to have been abducted for The Company by Claire's dad.
If I wind up being wrong, I will hate the show for this whole storyline, for sure.
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The entire Candace bit was the worst part of this episode, for me, cause I've got no justifications for how it might not be so bad as it appeared.
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With Hiro, I'm back to "maybe it'll turn out better than it looks now". While Hiro running off after Yaeko doesn't look good, I have hope that this way, there's an opportunity for more of the Yaeko and Kensei dodgy aspects to be made better.
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Every scene he was in this episode made me loathe him more and more.
His harrassing Claire (in public, even!), and only revealing his power *after* he'd bullied her into admitting hers, was the truly unforgivable part. He knew they were both "freaks" and she *didn't*. It would have been an order of magnitude better if he'd told her/shown her straight after seeing her toe incident. There are times when it *is* (more or less) appropriate to demand someone actually verbally admit to what they can do (Peter insisting Nathan stop with the denial), and this was not one of them.
This makes me hate West, not the show, but of course that's dependent on them either making West a bad guy, *or* remembering to come back and address his behaviour, if he does wind up on Claire's side.
My continuing faith that West is not there to be some straightforward romantic interest for Claire is partly based on him having no reason to *start* stalking her in the first place, if he didn't already know who she was. While characters do keep coincidentally running in to people they have connections with, I think it's a different thing that this guy at her new school just happens to have been abducted for The Company by Claire's dad.
If I wind up being wrong, I will hate the show for this whole storyline, for sure.
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The entire Candace bit was the worst part of this episode, for me, cause I've got no justifications for how it might not be so bad as it appeared.
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With Hiro, I'm back to "maybe it'll turn out better than it looks now". While Hiro running off after Yaeko doesn't look good, I have hope that this way, there's an opportunity for more of the Yaeko and Kensei dodgy aspects to be made better.