So I created a thread after the pilot aired because of the, IMO, pretty random and unnecessary sex scene in it. I posed the question whether or sex scenes (or possibly just sex, or at least I meant to ask that as well) was going to play a large part in the show, or at least in Scott's characterization.
Episode 3 rolls around and lo and behold, what's the first thing we find out about Scott in the flashbacks of the episode (which is kinda significant seeing as how the aforementioned sex scene took place in flashback as well)? More info about how Scott got tail.
Don't get me wrong, I'm infinitely happy that at least this time, it served merely as a way to portray his character, as a way of telling his past. There was no actual sex scene, heck, we didn't even get to see the girl.
However, the fact that the first thing we get to hear about Scott's past is how he got a girl pregnant as a young man (we later found out that it was when he was 16 or younger) worries me. Will this play a large part in his characterization?
So will he actually, as I feared, become Sheppard 2.0? The new Sheppard of the show and getting much further than John and constantly getting tail? I mean, this time, he didn't get tail in the episode itself and we didn't see him get the tail, but we were told about it.
How at 16 (or younger), he had reckless sex with another 16 yearold and got her pregnant, probably without there being any love involved (the priest asks him if he loves her and he says that it doesn't matter, you probably wouldn't say that if you actually loved someone). So basically, every few episodes, we're gonna either see or hear about how Scott gets/is going to get/once got tail in one way or another?
I mean, if we are to interpret his characterization insofar logically, it's basically based on sex... a lot. In the pilot, the only thing we find out about him in the flashback was that he likes to shirk his duties to have sex in supply closet. Some people said that this was merely to portray him as someone irresponsible who is not thrust into command and that he'll grow out of it.
Fine. Then episode 3 rolls around and we find out that he already has been irresponsible when it comes to sex before, at 16, getting a girl pregnant no less. So, basically, he didn't learn his lesson at all and is still going around screwing people without fear of consequences (seeing as how there appears to be indications of him and James not actually being an item but merely having sex for the sake of having sex)? Despite the fact that he's, apparently, been haunted by the death of his adoptive father due to massive shame because of his actions (this is inferred in the episode) since he was 16?
I mean, at least we don't have to actually see it anymore, but will we have to keep hearing about it? I'm not saying this episode was bad. It was really good (except for the fact that we never find out what that sand-wind-maybe-Ascended-being really was). I liked it a lot (I hated the sex scene in the pilot, this time, I liked the way Scott was portrayed).
However, if we keep having to hear/watch Scott's sex life unfold before out very eyes, it's going to get tired pretty fast for people like me, even if it's written in a good way because it'll still just be a whole bunch of episodes at least partially dedicated to Scott's sex life (and I bet no one else's).
Episode 3 rolls around and lo and behold, what's the first thing we find out about Scott in the flashbacks of the episode (which is kinda significant seeing as how the aforementioned sex scene took place in flashback as well)? More info about how Scott got tail.
Don't get me wrong, I'm infinitely happy that at least this time, it served merely as a way to portray his character, as a way of telling his past. There was no actual sex scene, heck, we didn't even get to see the girl.
However, the fact that the first thing we get to hear about Scott's past is how he got a girl pregnant as a young man (we later found out that it was when he was 16 or younger) worries me. Will this play a large part in his characterization?
So will he actually, as I feared, become Sheppard 2.0? The new Sheppard of the show and getting much further than John and constantly getting tail? I mean, this time, he didn't get tail in the episode itself and we didn't see him get the tail, but we were told about it.
How at 16 (or younger), he had reckless sex with another 16 yearold and got her pregnant, probably without there being any love involved (the priest asks him if he loves her and he says that it doesn't matter, you probably wouldn't say that if you actually loved someone). So basically, every few episodes, we're gonna either see or hear about how Scott gets/is going to get/once got tail in one way or another?
I mean, if we are to interpret his characterization insofar logically, it's basically based on sex... a lot. In the pilot, the only thing we find out about him in the flashback was that he likes to shirk his duties to have sex in supply closet. Some people said that this was merely to portray him as someone irresponsible who is not thrust into command and that he'll grow out of it.
Fine. Then episode 3 rolls around and we find out that he already has been irresponsible when it comes to sex before, at 16, getting a girl pregnant no less. So, basically, he didn't learn his lesson at all and is still going around screwing people without fear of consequences (seeing as how there appears to be indications of him and James not actually being an item but merely having sex for the sake of having sex)? Despite the fact that he's, apparently, been haunted by the death of his adoptive father due to massive shame because of his actions (this is inferred in the episode) since he was 16?
I mean, at least we don't have to actually see it anymore, but will we have to keep hearing about it? I'm not saying this episode was bad. It was really good (except for the fact that we never find out what that sand-wind-maybe-Ascended-being really was). I liked it a lot (I hated the sex scene in the pilot, this time, I liked the way Scott was portrayed).
However, if we keep having to hear/watch Scott's sex life unfold before out very eyes, it's going to get tired pretty fast for people like me, even if it's written in a good way because it'll still just be a whole bunch of episodes at least partially dedicated to Scott's sex life (and I bet no one else's).
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