The fandom seems to be divided on Mohinder. Earlier that episode people were demanding that Elle be maimed/killed just because she touched him. (Heroes fandom: making me *headdesk* since 2006.)
Whaaaat? 80%? Really? I haven't seen any of this in any of the Heroes communities I frequent, but the way you describe the situation reminds me a lot of how the LOST fanbase treated Ana Lucia because she beat up Sawyer - a fan favourite, and white male - despite the fact that Sawyer made a living by ruining other people's lives, and killed lots of people in cold blood. Yet Ana was the "deplorable" one. Go fig.
I don't know about other communities, but "kill MoHo" comments were all over ontd_discussion and ontd Heroes posts after the episode aired. Not that we would expect much out of ontd ;)
Only white men are allowed to be "badass".sabonasiNovember 22 2007, 03:38:35 UTC
I'm seeing Mohinder-hatred at both eonline.com/gossip/kristin (in the recap; I didn't look at the comments) and televisionwithoutpity.com (in thread for discussing race and gender issues, which is the only thread besides the hoyay one I've looked at). And it's really really disturbing.
Because the fans all seem perfectly capable as to why Noah committed the actions he did, no matter how wrong they were. But Mohinder is not being extended the same empathy, even though his reasons were just as valid. I mean, Noah killed Ivan in cold blood, was perfectly willing to kill Mohinder in cold blood, and was about to kill Bob in cold blood. Yeah, Bob's not winning #1 Human of the Year any time soon, but Mohinder had damn good reasons for seeing Noah as out of control and needing to be taken down. I also rather liked that in shooting Noah, Mohinder took control of the action, determing the course of events rather than [often unwittingly] following another's plan. Except for the part where Noah doesn't die because he's a white man
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Because the fans all seem perfectly capable as to why Noah committed the actions he did, no matter how wrong they were. But Mohinder is not being extended the same empathy, even though his reasons were just as valid. I mean, Noah killed Ivan in cold blood, was perfectly willing to kill Mohinder in cold blood, and was about to kill Bob in cold blood. Yeah, Bob's not winning #1 Human of the Year any time soon, but Mohinder had damn good reasons for seeing Noah as out of control and needing to be taken down. I also rather liked that in shooting Noah, Mohinder took control of the action, determing the course of events rather than [often unwittingly] following another's plan. Except for the part where Noah doesn't die because he's a white man ( ... )
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And they say women don't objectify men.
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