I've been a fan of the show from day one and missed a few episodes, but caught the most recent one with Ali Larter and her black man in bed. From the beginning i knew the show would feature some kind of IR since she had a mixed son. But i wasnt sure if we'd ever meet the father. Well we did. Now IR couple are usually perceived as troubled since in real life, most IR couples are troubled (maybe because one or both families, do not approve, or just general issues with being in public and having people call you names, one or both partners being generally unhappy with their own culture, or whatever reasons why one or both is extremely, sad, argumentative, or difficult to deal with).
I do agree though that I wish they did show an IR couple that got along great. I dont think this is your typical IR couple though. First of all both of them have super powers, which is kinda weird (must make for great sex though LOL), and the black guy has been in jail for quite some time and hasnt seen his son in a while. So he is NOT the ideal father. She also has a backstory of doing porn. So that feeds middle american audiences with the already rampant assumption that any white girl who shacks up with a black guy MUST be trashy, hence all the pornography she did. They didnt make her a sophisticated lawyer or something. Same with the blonde that banged that black guy on friday night lights. She was the school slut, bad girl. Not some prissy goody two shoes straight A student whose family we see on a regular basis. Usually IR in these types of shows consist of a cocky troublesome black male and slutty trashy white female looking for a fast buck (and a fast Fu*k, which of course the black dude is more than happy to give her).
On friday night lights it was just a one night stand but on heroes they seem to really love each other. Although from the most recent episode, her evil twin is gonna cause her to do something really bad to the guy for that 2 million dollars. So i doubt we'll see anymore sweet morning bedroom scenes between those two. I did like that scene though because of the part where he played with her hair and talked about how much he liked it. Reminded me of when I did the same to girls I've been with.
But...there's NO WAY an IR couple could be happy and normal on TV riiight? It's either doomed to fail...or some one time only, one night stand, experimental hook up. Thanks alot NBC.