Zoey sees a fellow classmate of hers coughing up blood. He's panicking, he's bleeding everywhere, he's terrified that he's going to die, and he has to be wheeled out of class on a stretcher.
And her reaction to all of this is to call him "whiny?" Her reaction is to complain to her friend about how nobody will miss him because he was annoying?
And we're supposed to be rooting for her? We're supposed to see her as a nice girl who deserves to win the day and get the guy?
I-I just...
WHAT IS THIS?
How on earth are we supposed to like her now? How can *anyone* like her now after this scene? Zoey doesn't come across as likable; she comes across as a complete sociopath! This poor kid is *dying* and she doesn't even feel the least bit sorry for him! I don't care how annoying Elliot was, *nobody* deserves that!
Tell me something, Zoey, what is the same thing happened to you? What if blood started oozing out of your orifices like it did with Eli in "Let the Right One In?" Would you be calm and collected? Or would you yourself be "whiny?" What if someone started complaining about you, then? Would you think that that person was kind, compassionate, and considerate? Or would you think that that person was a completely heartless, callous monster?
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Date: 2011-03-08 03:07 pm (UTC)Zoey sees a fellow classmate of hers coughing up blood. He's panicking, he's bleeding everywhere, he's terrified that he's going to die, and he has to be wheeled out of class on a stretcher.
And her reaction to all of this is to call him "whiny?" Her reaction is to complain to her friend about how nobody will miss him because he was annoying?
And we're supposed to be rooting for her? We're supposed to see her as a nice girl who deserves to win the day and get the guy?
I-I just...
WHAT IS THIS?
How on earth are we supposed to like her now? How can *anyone* like her now after this scene? Zoey doesn't come across as likable; she comes across as a complete sociopath! This poor kid is *dying* and she doesn't even feel the least bit sorry for him! I don't care how annoying Elliot was, *nobody* deserves that!
Tell me something, Zoey, what is the same thing happened to you? What if blood started oozing out of your orifices like it did with Eli in "Let the Right One In?" Would you be calm and collected? Or would you yourself be "whiny?" What if someone started complaining about you, then? Would you think that that person was kind, compassionate, and considerate? Or would you think that that person was a completely heartless, callous monster?