He was, and if you want proof that despite changes, the attitude can still be encountered, check out the most recent review I got for "Five Lies...", only about a week ago:
She's probably not very observant (or hates politicians rather a lot). While the first five episodes of Season 2 don't necessarily have to make you love Nathan, they certainly humanize him to a massive degree.
Noah: I have greatest difficulties with his views on people and what you're allowed to do to them and his undeniable love for his family isn't balanced out by that for me - especially since he's so over-controlling with them. The same issues I have with Angela, btw - purely an anti-kink, nothing to do with the actors who are both fabulous, but certainly influenced in very different ways by both fandom worship for Noah and fandom dislike for Angela, as well as the fact that at this moment, she's one of the few female characters I still find watchable. Thus I end up not liking Angela, but enjoying her appearances a lot more than Noah's, paradoxically enough. I certainly agree that the show keeps him more ambiguous than fandom, though.
Sidenote: sadly enough, I thought the best and most dimensional Lauren was written post - "Full Disclosure" was in season 4, when she was a corpse, both in terms of her relationship with Vaughn and her relationship with Sark.
Sigh. She certainly was a prime example of How Not To Write a Character. (Still kudos to Melissa George both for returning for a corpse cameo and carrying the general hostilities so very well, though.)
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Date: 2008-01-16 08:41 pm (UTC)She's probably not very observant (or hates politicians rather a lot). While the first five episodes of Season 2 don't necessarily have to make you love Nathan, they certainly humanize him to a massive degree.
Noah: I have greatest difficulties with his views on people and what you're allowed to do to them and his undeniable love for his family isn't balanced out by that for me - especially since he's so over-controlling with them. The same issues I have with Angela, btw - purely an anti-kink, nothing to do with the actors who are both fabulous, but certainly influenced in very different ways by both fandom worship for Noah and fandom dislike for Angela, as well as the fact that at this moment, she's one of the few female characters I still find watchable. Thus I end up not liking Angela, but enjoying her appearances a lot more than Noah's, paradoxically enough.
I certainly agree that the show keeps him more ambiguous than fandom, though.
Sidenote: sadly enough, I thought the best and most dimensional Lauren was written post - "Full Disclosure" was in season 4, when she was a corpse, both in terms of her relationship with Vaughn and her relationship with Sark.
Sigh. She certainly was a prime example of How Not To Write a Character. (Still kudos to Melissa George both for returning for a corpse cameo and carrying the general hostilities so very well, though.)