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bookblather and I were talking on Sunday night, and Root came up (mostly because she was trying to get me to write an AU fic in which Hanna lived). I mentioned how much I like the contrast of Samantha Groves and Samantha Shaw--the different ways they turned out despite their similarities--and how having two excellent female characters with the same first name, which brings up that contrast, says a lot about the show. For instance, Shaw and Root are both very good at killing people, but Root does it to get what she wants or to make things go her way (among other reasons). Shaw, on the other hand, killed people for a cause she believed in--and she did it because she got information from the Machine, not to further attempts to get access to the Machine. Another big parallel is that Root knows about the Machine because she's clever and put it together; Shaw knows about the Machine because Harold and John told her (something they clearly thought she should know, since she first knew it as Research).
I have other parallels I quite like, like "The High Road"'s contrast of the Wylers versus Harold and Grace, which I'll go into more in the comments. What are some parallels you like? Good contrasts you've noticed?
bookblather and I were talking on Sunday night, and Root came up (mostly because she was trying to get me to write an AU fic in which Hanna lived). I mentioned how much I like the contrast of Samantha Groves and Samantha Shaw--the different ways they turned out despite their similarities--and how having two excellent female characters with the same first name, which brings up that contrast, says a lot about the show. For instance, Shaw and Root are both very good at killing people, but Root does it to get what she wants or to make things go her way (among other reasons). Shaw, on the other hand, killed people for a cause she believed in--and she did it because she got information from the Machine, not to further attempts to get access to the Machine. Another big parallel is that Root knows about the Machine because she's clever and put it together; Shaw knows about the Machine because Harold and John told her (something they clearly thought she should know, since she first knew it as Research).I have other parallels I quite like, like "The High Road"'s contrast of the Wylers versus Harold and Grace, which I'll go into more in the comments. What are some parallels you like? Good contrasts you've noticed?
