I was always hoping... that there would be this big reveal and there would actually be something interesting/fucked up about Piz
EXACTLY. Like you, I spent the whole season hoping that they'd built up the "sweet guy" to have a kind of epic reveal at the end. Maybe it's a cliche about the noir world, but if you're going to spend that much time on a character, you kind of want the payoff: the skeletons in the closet, the secret weakness, and more importantly the motivation. Who was Piz, really ? Where does he fit in Neptune ? What does he believe in, what pushes his buttons, what lines won't he cross, where does he come from, what does he want ?
And the show already had a good, normal guy: Wallace. He was still a complex character- his history with his dad, his relationship with his mom, his need to be a good brother and a good role model, the times he fucked up and then tried to make it right. "Normal" doesn't have to mean "blank slate," and I think they forgot that when they crafted Piz.
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THAT GIF IMPROVES ANYTHING.
Date: Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 09:35 pm (UTC)EXACTLY. Like you, I spent the whole season hoping that they'd built up the "sweet guy" to have a kind of epic reveal at the end. Maybe it's a cliche about the noir world, but if you're going to spend that much time on a character, you kind of want the payoff: the skeletons in the closet, the secret weakness, and more importantly the motivation. Who was Piz, really ? Where does he fit in Neptune ? What does he believe in, what pushes his buttons, what lines won't he cross, where does he come from, what does he want ?
And the show already had a good, normal guy: Wallace. He was still a complex character- his history with his dad, his relationship with his mom, his need to be a good brother and a good role model, the times he fucked up and then tried to make it right. "Normal" doesn't have to mean "blank slate," and I think they forgot that when they crafted Piz.