I forgot there was ever any bus riding in this show period. Wow. WTF was with that?
The show takes awhile to sort of suss out the characters and the relationships and see what works and is interesting to the audience. It's a bit tricky because the show later realized that Chuck worked out really well as a tortured anti-hero... but they'd already made him all creepy raper in the pilot. So basically the show goes "FORGET ABOUT RAPEY CHUCK!" and moves on. Some people are personally affronted by this and have vowed to hate Chuck forever on general principle, but I've just sort of accepted it. Obviously in real life people wouldn't just move on and forget about attempted rape, but it's a teen drama, they hadn't figured out the character yet, ok, fine.
I have no problem with Jenny, and I don't really get why everyone hates her. I think part of it is hate for the actress that spills over to the character. (I'm not sure why they hate her, either. She does a lot of drugs? Maybe? She's way pretentious? Not sure.)
Nate is very boring. The most exciting Nate scenes are the ones where he raises his eyebrows in badly acted surprise. Mostly he stands there and looks pretty.
I love Rufus and Lily. That's all I'll say on that.
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Date: 2009-02-23 08:58 am (UTC)The show takes awhile to sort of suss out the characters and the relationships and see what works and is interesting to the audience. It's a bit tricky because the show later realized that Chuck worked out really well as a tortured anti-hero... but they'd already made him all creepy raper in the pilot. So basically the show goes "FORGET ABOUT RAPEY CHUCK!" and moves on. Some people are personally affronted by this and have vowed to hate Chuck forever on general principle, but I've just sort of accepted it. Obviously in real life people wouldn't just move on and forget about attempted rape, but it's a teen drama, they hadn't figured out the character yet, ok, fine.
I have no problem with Jenny, and I don't really get why everyone hates her. I think part of it is hate for the actress that spills over to the character. (I'm not sure why they hate her, either. She does a lot of drugs? Maybe? She's way pretentious? Not sure.)
Nate is very boring. The most exciting Nate scenes are the ones where he raises his eyebrows in badly acted surprise. Mostly he stands there and looks pretty.
I love Rufus and Lily. That's all I'll say on that.