Thread:FirstDrellSpectre/@comment-25100807-20171119034231/@comment-24200891-20180406080358

New topics I'd like to discuss are antagonists and exaggerations. Tell me, what you think about them, please.

I am fine with most episodes of the show working without antagonists. It's because earlier I found writting a story without antagonists impossible to write. However when antagonists in the show appear, they are shallow and forgetable. Tetherby is a typical snob looking down on poor, I've seen those types many times. Chandler is an apathetic jerk with big ego. Stankos are just father and son bullies, enjoying bullying and humiliating others and they have no sense of dignity. Hank and Hawk are even worse, because they are generic bullies doing evil just for evil. Principal Huggins was an antagonist in Frog Wild, only because Lana and Lincoln stole the frogs, nobody can blame him for doing his job in getting back school properity. Huggins was clear antagonist in Pulp Friction, becuase he abused his authority to get rid of rival in comic contest. This episode gave his backstory, what makes him the deepest antagonist of the show. Flip is just and expy of Mr Krabs, the writers should get more original and more creative. Luan has very clever strategies in April Fools, but she does humiliate and hurt her family for nothing, but amusement, what makes her unlikable and those episodes are very divisive.

I know exaggeration in the show is played for laughs, but the characters exaggerate too much and too far. I will skip Brawl. In Lincoln's flashback he cut himself with paper, so the sisters checked his temperature, gave him bandages, chicken soup and x-ray. This was just stupid instead of funny. Similar thing happened in "One of the boys". Security systems in Lock N Loud and Pipe Dreams are criticized even by the characters themselves. Lynn Sr in vantastic voyage got attatched to his new van far too much and it's unbelievable, he as an adult should have realised it's wrong, he didn't listen carefully to his relatives' justified complains. This episode made him look incredibly jerkish and stupid. Because of Lisa's inhuman knowledge I find her the least credible character. Lori and Bobby's romance is so cliche and cheesy that I don't care, what happens to them. Lola in Patching things up was weird instead of funny, because she was so afraid of germs that she took only a can by tool and was in hazmat suit, also puking, when she heard what's latrine was just gross.