Jennifer Keller was that one chick who many (I'll use that term even if some of you might disagree) fans thought was a Mary Sue. She swooped into the show and many (again I'll use that term) fans felt that she was shoehorned into a lot of episodes.
I kinda feel like that's what's happening to Chloe now. I mean, for one thing, she's a Mary Sue. For another, she doesn't really do much on the ship. All she does is have sex with Scott and then we got a lot of angst about her dead father (which was good TV) and then a lot of angst about her best friend sleeping with her ex-boyfriend (which was bad TV, especially considering the fact that she's sleeping with Scott anyway, so what the hell does it matter). Yet she gets a lot of screen time with her not-doing-muchness.
And then in "Justice", the writers obviously shoe-horned her into the episode just to have her have something to do. I mean, she got, what, 10 lines and none them were anything that none of us (me, you, that cat over there) could've done just as well or better ourselves.
I mean, the questions she was asking the witnesses, I could do that much better. It's not like she did anything special. I mean, she studied political science and Young chose her to be his defender. That just screamed shoehorning to me.
I mean, she wasn't a terrible defense attorney. But the PTB want us to believe that out of all of the people on the ship, Young felt that Chloe was the closest thing he could find to a defense attorney? Come on! This is getting ridiculous.
I mean, I wouldn't mind if they just explored her character more, gave us more insight into what makes her tick, give her character development, make her a better, more mature character, like, for instance, have her grow out of that BS we saw in "Earth". Just... don't obviously shoehorn her into episodes and have her do things she's clearly under-qualified to do.
I serenely hope that the PTB will refrain from such obvious (and ineffectual) shoehorning in the future.
I kinda feel like that's what's happening to Chloe now. I mean, for one thing, she's a Mary Sue. For another, she doesn't really do much on the ship. All she does is have sex with Scott and then we got a lot of angst about her dead father (which was good TV) and then a lot of angst about her best friend sleeping with her ex-boyfriend (which was bad TV, especially considering the fact that she's sleeping with Scott anyway, so what the hell does it matter). Yet she gets a lot of screen time with her not-doing-muchness.
And then in "Justice", the writers obviously shoe-horned her into the episode just to have her have something to do. I mean, she got, what, 10 lines and none them were anything that none of us (me, you, that cat over there) could've done just as well or better ourselves.
I mean, the questions she was asking the witnesses, I could do that much better. It's not like she did anything special. I mean, she studied political science and Young chose her to be his defender. That just screamed shoehorning to me.
I mean, she wasn't a terrible defense attorney. But the PTB want us to believe that out of all of the people on the ship, Young felt that Chloe was the closest thing he could find to a defense attorney? Come on! This is getting ridiculous.
I mean, I wouldn't mind if they just explored her character more, gave us more insight into what makes her tick, give her character development, make her a better, more mature character, like, for instance, have her grow out of that BS we saw in "Earth". Just... don't obviously shoehorn her into episodes and have her do things she's clearly under-qualified to do.
I serenely hope that the PTB will refrain from such obvious (and ineffectual) shoehorning in the future.
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