I found the idea of getting to grow and learn something about themselves and others through some very unique characters powers, one of the most interesting of the series And in this episode I get that the aim was to create some tensions in order for Jen to develop, but I feel like she got denaturalized compared to the character we've known in the first episodes. Yeah she made some unwise choices and sometimes she was stinging and overly sarcastic, but in the way some insecure people tend to cope to their self doubts. Not as an actual mean person, even if in certain sitch one can be brought to unintended behaviours. Here was overwritten, out of character IMO. There are plenty of unpleasant series' protagonists I may not enjoy as people, but whose portrayal was coherent, even with occasional and surprising act of kindness on their part (see House M.D.). With this episode I found it difficult to give an explanation to Jen's behaviour, considered how she interacted with others up until helping Jizzlord. It seemed forced to have those contrasts both with Andy and Carrie, which I guess will be solved at least partially with some personal growth before S1 ends. Like, if the explanation is: "she's hurt because of the lack of powers, so sometimes she's mean (or she turns out she was always rude-ish and self-centered) to the point of bringing it too far before realizing she made a mistake", I can get it but not in such an oblivious and continuous way. Or one's generally rude for whatever reason and therefore keeps dragging it, but no lovely-but-insecure-and-sarcastic-as-a-defense believable character does the combo "sister's speech+standing on the chair+treating Carrie like that" all at once. Cause you can't recover in a believable way from that, as a series: are they gonna leave it all behind in a couple of episodes? People are not rational beings and for whatever reason they act well out of their true self, and I totally get it if there was a nice build up to that, something that led them over the edge. Going back to school was too much of a stretch to be the reason. Rant over
Review by JoJoConejoBlockedParent2023-01-28T16:08:36Z
I found the idea of getting to grow and learn something about themselves and others through some very unique characters powers, one of the most interesting of the series
And in this episode I get that the aim was to create some tensions in order for Jen to develop, but I feel like she got denaturalized compared to the character we've known in the first episodes. Yeah she made some unwise choices and sometimes she was stinging and overly sarcastic, but in the way some insecure people tend to cope to their self doubts. Not as an actual mean person, even if in certain sitch one can be brought to unintended behaviours.
Here was overwritten, out of character IMO.
There are plenty of unpleasant series' protagonists I may not enjoy as people, but whose portrayal was coherent, even with occasional and surprising act of kindness on their part (see House M.D.). With this episode I found it difficult to give an explanation to Jen's behaviour, considered how she interacted with others up until helping Jizzlord. It seemed forced to have those contrasts both with Andy and Carrie, which I guess will be solved at least partially with some personal growth before S1 ends.
Like, if the explanation is: "she's hurt because of the lack of powers, so sometimes she's mean (or she turns out she was always rude-ish and self-centered) to the point of bringing it too far before realizing she made a mistake", I can get it but not in such an oblivious and continuous way. Or one's generally rude for whatever reason and therefore keeps dragging it, but no lovely-but-insecure-and-sarcastic-as-a-defense believable character does the combo "sister's speech+standing on the chair+treating Carrie like that" all at once.
Cause you can't recover in a believable way from that, as a series: are they gonna leave it all behind in a couple of episodes?
People are not rational beings and for whatever reason they act well out of their true self, and I totally get it if there was a nice build up to that, something that led them over the edge. Going back to school was too much of a stretch to be the reason.
Rant over