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| Kochana |
 Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:49 am |
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Quote: He didn't kill anyone? What do you call what he did to Eckhart & the wheelchair lady?
And to the heat-generating mutant in "Within These Walls"? Couldn't he have merely stunned the guy?
Brennan most likely has a spread sheet of considerable length.
In the very first episode, we saw him rob a bank. In the US, bank robbery is a CRIME. |
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| Blackpanther |
| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:07 pm |
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MarisolEckhart wrote: Blackpanther wrote: I think Dark means that he never killed anyone. In romanian "crima" means "murder", in english "crime" is used for anything that breaks the law.
He didn't kill anyone? What do you call what he did to Eckhart & the wheelchair lady?
~~Lina 
I am regarding the first part season 3 as non canon (awfull awfull writing and too much mis-charcaterisations), but you're right.
Quote: In the very first episode, we saw him rob a bank. In the US, bank robbery is a CRIME.
I was explaining a confusion of terms, read my post again. |
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| darkanger4u |
| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:22 pm |
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Well,if you would have been treated the way he was..
And Kochana...What is your problem with Brennan?You do have a thing with him |
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| MarisolEckhart |
| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 9:37 pm |
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darkanger4u wrote: Well,if you would have been treated the way he was..
What do you mean the way he was treated? Just because he was abused, didn't have a father or whatever other problems Brennan may have had, it doesn't excuse the crimes he comitted. You don't commit crimes just because you've had a shi**y life... 
In reality, Brennan would have been in prison for so many years by now.
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| darkanger4u |
| Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:50 am |
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Well,have you seen the first episode from the third series of Mutant X?The way Brennan is treated there?
And you all acuse him,but if you had his fate ?I think if you were him you would understand better his way to be....
You know how is the word:Never judge a book by it's cover |
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| Kochana |
| Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 8:18 pm |
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darkanger4u wrote: Well,have you seen the first episode from the third series of Mutant X?The way Brennan is treated there?
And you all acuse him,but if you had his fate ?I think if you were him you would understand better his way to be....
You know how is the word:Never judge a book by it's cover
Many people have terrible childhoods, but they turn out decent people. A bad childhood is not a free pass to commit crimes without consequences with a kind of open season on the rest of society. Brennan is a career criminal by his choosing; in a just society, crimes are punished.
I have not judged Brennan by his looks. I have judged him by his actions, which are damning. He is not a lovable rogue. He robs, he kills, and blithely dismisses it all by saying his victims deserved it. He is a dangerous street criminal, not one time in three seasons showing that he has any regrets for anything he has ever done.
Go ahead and admire this lowlife animal if it amuses you, but in reality, a person like this would split your skull open if they were short of cash and wanted a hamburger.
In the US, we arrest people like this, and if they are convicted often enough, we lock them away from their potential victims for life. Most crimes are committed by the same scum-life over and over again, repeaters like Brennan, and by locking up such thugs, crime has gone down here.
I don't have a "thing" about Brennan. I have a "thing" about thugs and criminals, and about entertainment that glamorizes such lowlifes. |
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| Tryncza |
| Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 8:51 pm |
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cut and pasted with permission
What’s So Bad About Brennan?
Or, If You’re Pretty Enough, Does That Mean the Rules Don’t Apply to You?
One of the few consistencies of Mutant X is the implication that society’s rules apply selectively. The MX universe is full of contradictions and perversities, but the most peculiar element is the MX universe “hero”.
Heroes are supposed to be the good guys. They can be reformed bad guys, which makes for a more credible character. If a character has gone through such a transformation, they must suffer guilt for their misdeeds, repent their bad ways, and attempt to atone for past sins. Failure to experience this passage clearly indicates they are still bad guys.
The Designated heroes of MX are heroes in name only.
Heroes don’t gloat over grease spots on the pavement that used to be people. They don’t chat nostalgically about not paying a check at a particular restaurant not once, but many times as standard practice. Heroes don’t choose criminals as lovers. They do not punch frail people and laugh. They don’t murder in cold blood and pick the pockets of strangers when they find themselves short of cash.
The ‘heroes’ of MX do as they wish, and their actions are presented as good, acceptable practice.
Choosing between Adam and Brennan as UnHeroes is difficult. Adam outpaces Brennan in terms of total lives blighted, but for self-serving predation upon other people, Brennan has no match.
What is operating in the MX universe? Cruelty, murder, and theft are all perfectly acceptable behavior if the perpetrator is good-looking? That theme has come up time and again over three seasons. The disgusting part is the way there are fans accepting Brennan as he is without difficulty, an unrepentant, unreformed thug. Why?
I’ve asked Brennan fans why they like the character, and many of them cannot come up with anything beyond his looks, finding his ‘street smarts’ and shady past exciting. If Brennan has street smarts, I’m a venus flytrap. Brennan is a sheltered suburban notion of a street personality. He is not a lovable, charming rascal, but an ordinary thug ready to return to crime if his soft spot at Sanctuary is no more. Despite some peculiar story lines in S2 with Brennan telling everyone else what to do, he is not a leader. Leaders do more than tell other people what to do—they make clear why they should do these things, and motivate them to do them. If people fail to meekly follow him, Brennan just goes off and does what he wants, giving no thought to the way he may just be putting others at risk.
I’m uncertain why anyone was surprised by Brennan’s double murder. We saw Brennan’s brutal streak in S1’s “In the Presence of Mine Enemies”. Go back and watch the way he flings Kendra against the wall. Was he trying to kill her with a spinal chord injury? This is not the way a hero behaves.
The question Brennan fans never get around to answering is “If Brennan was short, fat, pimply, and smelly, would you still like the character?”
So, what is it? What makes anyone a fan of Brennan? |
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| Turbofan |
| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:05 am |
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| Maybe in the universe of Mutant X, theft, mugging, and murder are all considered admirable. |
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| darkanger4u |
| Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:35 pm |
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| Ahhh let it go...It's not his fault that the writers made him like that... |
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| La Troienne |
| Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:10 am |
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darkanger4u wrote: Ahhh let it go...It's not his fault that the writers made him like that...
Huh?
The writers made the characters. Brennan is human trash as per their portrayal. No has to interpret anything to conclude that. |
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| Electra |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 1:47 pm |
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| Pan Zareta |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:03 pm |
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Electra wrote: Do you think Adam would have chosen Brennan as well if Brennan had had a highschool degree?
I suspect Adam chose Brennan for the same kinds of reasons that he picked all of the others:
1-lack of human connections in the outside world
2-need to hide from the outside world
3-an easily led personality--a follower, not a leader
4-someone who could be compelled to do illegal things |
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