Guys, can we have a discussion about Karen in season 2?
If people know Karen in the comics, then it seems there's a lot of hinting in the series that Karen has had her own downward spiral and when she comes to NYC it's to move beyond all her bad years (from the comics in a nutshell: porn and drug addiction), but something Father Lantom tells Matt is worrying me: 'Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked.' [when the righteous succumb to sin, it is as harmful as if the public well were poisoned. Because the darkness of such an act... of taking a life... will spread to friends, neighbors... the entire community.] That sounds like ominous foreshadowing to me. Maybe it was a red herring about DD, but would Karen be considered 'righteous'?
She's killed Wesley, she claims it wasn't the first time, she's got some guilt (and some legit blame) for Ben's death, too, and there's a lot of drinking and exhaustion happening with her there in eps 12&13 and some nods about maybe drugs coming back into the picture. Unlike Matt who has finally opened up about his own DD-shaped secret and now has a support system in place, Karen is being crushed under her own silence.
Where do you guys see her character going next season? Does she become the Ben Urich reporter replacement on the show? Does she remain a secretary to N&M? I don't want to see her paired up with Matt at all, but she spent most of S1 looking at him with some obvious designs but never really acting on it, and god help us all if she finds out he's DD because I feel like she's already crushing on DD, too. And if Karen is holding a torch for Matt, what happens to that when Elektra comes into the picture next season? I don't think things will go the Foggy/Karen route, either, so where does Karen go from here?
Karen, S2?
If people know Karen in the comics, then it seems there's a lot of hinting in the series that Karen has had her own downward spiral and when she comes to NYC it's to move beyond all her bad years (from the comics in a nutshell: porn and drug addiction), but something Father Lantom tells Matt is worrying me: 'Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked.' [when the righteous succumb to sin, it is as harmful as if the public well were poisoned. Because the darkness of such an act... of taking a life... will spread to friends, neighbors... the entire community.] That sounds like ominous foreshadowing to me. Maybe it was a red herring about DD, but would Karen be considered 'righteous'?
She's killed Wesley, she claims it wasn't the first time, she's got some guilt (and some legit blame) for Ben's death, too, and there's a lot of drinking and exhaustion happening with her there in eps 12&13 and some nods about maybe drugs coming back into the picture. Unlike Matt who has finally opened up about his own DD-shaped secret and now has a support system in place, Karen is being crushed under her own silence.
Where do you guys see her character going next season? Does she become the Ben Urich reporter replacement on the show? Does she remain a secretary to N&M? I don't want to see her paired up with Matt at all, but she spent most of S1 looking at him with some obvious designs but never really acting on it, and god help us all if she finds out he's DD because I feel like she's already crushing on DD, too. And if Karen is holding a torch for Matt, what happens to that when Elektra comes into the picture next season? I don't think things will go the Foggy/Karen route, either, so where does Karen go from here?