Here's what continues to puzzle me

[serafina20]

Why is it that Mahone is a crazy, bad, irredemable, stupid, dumb, annoying character who must die a horrible horrible death but Kellerman--a man who hunted a teenage boy, bragged to him about killing his parents, killed his own partner in cold blood, and is undeinably not as smart as Mahone--a wonderful, masterful character?

I like Kellerman (as a bad guy), don't get me wrong, but I don't get what's so great about him and what's so bad about Mahone.

*grr*

Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Which one is prettier?

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Mahone. Totally.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

But Kellerman has shorter hair.

OK, I admit it, I got nothin'.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

How this: Mahone has a less conventional face, more interesting bone structure. This means that the ickle fangrrls will perceive him as having *unacceptable levels of moral ambiguity*, and so he is icky.

Best I can come up with.

[kyla-grievous.livejournal.com]

I agree... I see so many I hate Mahone clubs, threads and such... It's getting on my nerves, grr! All those people will really get smacked right in the face when Mahone is going to turn his back to the company, and possibly even help the brothers! I have faith in him. He is a tormented character, not a one-dimensional "mwahahaha I'm eviiiil" type of villain. There is more to this guy than meets the eye...

And Kellerman... I was kinda hoping for a change of heart, but it seems that the writers decided not to go that way. I am just annoyed to see the bastard still alive so far, when I just know Mahone will not get past season 2... I do like Kellerman's character. Let's say I love to hate him.

But Mahone is far more interesting.

And far, far, far more sexier. Period.

[interpretthis.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. At least we all know at heart that Mahone is fifty-million kinds of awesome, while Kellerman averages about...ten.

[latxcvi.livejournal.com]

That's easy:

Because Mahone killed Tweener, who was basically the human equivalent of a big, dumb puppy.

What do you mean it was pretty obvious he didn't really want to do it and he seemed pretty broken up about it and even went so far as to question why all of Team Escape has to die this week? None of that matters! Canon doesn't really matter as long as you can be unhappy about how someone treated one of your favorites.

I'm just going to laugh a lot when Mahone eventually turns on the Company and helps Michael and Lincoln. Because mark my words, when that happens, everyone will suddenly forget how much they hated him before.

[(Anonymous)]

But Tweener said "cellie phone". For that alone he deserved to die.

/hangs head mournfully

I'm just going to laugh a lot when Mahone eventually turns on the Company and helps Michael and Lincoln. Because mark my words, when that happens, everyone will suddenly forget how much they hated him before.

I will join you in the laughter. Until then, I grit my teeth in frustration.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Last comment was me; LJ logged me out without telling me.

Stupid LJ.

...

The journal, not the character.

[latxcvi.livejournal.com]

You know the other thing that's weird to me? Some people seem more willing to believe that Kellerman would have an attack of conscience and switch sides than that Mahone would.

I don't get that at all. Kellerman didn't bat an eye when he shot LJ's mom or Danny Hale or Latisha Barrett or the bishop in the pilot. He had no qualms whatsoever with leaving Quinn (the Company clean-up guy) to die down in that well**. Not once in 30 episodes has Paul Kellerman demonstrated the slightest degree of remorse or regret for anything he's done. Meanwhile, Alex Mahone is torn up enough about what he did to Oscar Shales that it still haunts him. He was unhappy after Abruzzi's death. He had to work himself up to shooting Tweener and practically fell apart afterward. And just this week, he openly questioned the Company/Conspiracy's edict that everyone on Team Escape has to die despite the fact that that they're all criminals. Let me repeat that: Mahone wasn't entirely on-board with a directive that criminals should be killed.

But Kellerman's the one most likely to have the change or heart or to try to protect Sara? Whatever, PB fandom. Whatever.

** To be completely fair, I do think Quinn was sent to kill Kellerman and Hale because they were screwing things up. So I can almost rationalize what they did to him as self-defense.