Wonder what they'll do next week?
The same thing they do every week, Pinky...
Maybe D.L. can inhabit Niki's body too, just as Jessica did/does??
Oh, that would be pretty cool, if her power is to absorb dead loved ones. (And...combine their strength with her own? Or something? I suppose the superstrength could be unrelated, but her powers have never really made any sense to me.)
Although I guess that doesn't square with Niki going to see the Company to be cured.
I thought she was there to be cured of the virus, not her powers.
It bothered me that we couldn't see her face, and it bothered me that seeing her overweight body felt like it was supposed to be a final indignity.
Yes, very much this.
Mr. Bennet sending Claire to a school where he had previously kidnapped a kid.
Didn't West say that they were living in St. Louis when he was taken?
It bothered me that we couldn't see her face, and it bothered me that seeing her overweight body felt like it was supposed to be a final indignity.
Word.
It bothered me that we couldn't see her face, and it bothered me that seeing her overweight body felt like it was supposed to be a final indignity.
Plus there's the whole concept that we never saw her as herself in life, which implies that being overweight is too awful to show the world.
I had almost wanted her to be larger, but not necessarily terribly overweight. Her bitterness, and subsequent use of her powers to disguise herself, stemmed from being mocked for her size, but what if she wasn't even really that big? Like how anorexic women have a distorted body image. That might have been more resonant.
Plus there's the whole concept that we never saw her as herself in life, which implies that being overweight is too awful to show the world.
As I recall, I got the sense from the previous episode where she hinted that she wasn't thin and beautiful that she projected that kind of appearance to manipulate people. I liked that idea -- not that she hated what she looked like, but that she used other people's preconceptions against them.
Last night, though, put pretty much the worst possible spin on it.
Oh, that would be pretty cool, if her power is to absorb dead loved ones. (And...combine their strength with her own? Or something? I suppose the superstrength could be unrelated, but her powers have never really made any sense to me.)
I always figured that the super strength was Jessica's power, but I really wish we would get a clearer explanation of Nikki's powers soon. Considering how much they focused on her last season, I really thought the writers should have been clearer about the powers then.
My take on Candace was the same as Dana's.
Didn't West say that they were living in St. Louis when he was taken?
I missed that but it would make a bit more sense. Or at least make him look less like a plant in Claire's life.
My theory continues to be (and I've seen nothing to contradict it) that Niki/Jessica are one person with a split personality caused by her father's abuse. Nothing powers-y about it. That the strength initially could be tapped only by "Jessica" was a result of her psychosis and nothing more.
That's always been my take on it too, Jon.
something about the way the father talked about Jessica led me to believe they were two separate people, but it's been so long since i've seen it i could be wrong.
oh and i thought it was complete crap that Candace's "true form" showed up when she "died" (quotes because i'm still not positive she's actually dead) too. she was knocked out in the finale last year. why didn't she revert back to that form then too? she would have no control over her powers if she was unconscious.
