thoughts on each of the characters’ development/ changes over the seasons?
Oh boy, I have a lot to say about this one. I think Mac has seen the most changes to his character and I’ve been pretty vocal about kinda being conflicted on his recent characterization. One of my main issues with it is that he hasn’t been as immoral as he was in earlier seasons(which is something I kinda see in all the characters but I’ll get into that later). Mac I think has fallen victim to being characterized by his feelings for Dennis at times which sucks because now a lot of his plots don’t revolve around him as a person but rather his feelings for another character/his attraction to men in general like now that he has came out they don’t know what to do with him. I mostly just wish they would remember that just because a character is gay or has a heartfelt moment doesn’t mean he has to stop being a seedy, terrible, person!! I know parts of it are intentional and supposed to satire Macs belief he has to be characterized by one thing because he is trying to find out his purpose now that he knows he’s gay , but I also think they have kinda just focused too much on his whole finding his identity or “thing” arc? Like I think him discovering his identity is important but also I think important other parts of his identity have been completely overlooked recently. I also feel like Mac putting anyone before him would have been out of character in earlier seasons even if he was in love with them!! It was kinda the whole point of the gang that the were selfish and always put themselves over everyone including other members of the gang. When they are taken hostage by the Mcpoyles they alI go against each other because, despite the fact that they are all very close, they value their own lives more than anyone else’s to a comical degree. With Dennis my feelings are a bit more complex, while I think making him outwardly constantly angry at Mac often bordering on cruel is out of character, it’s usually in response to Macs equally out of character treatment of Dennis if that makes sense? I think if they plan on making Dennis have repressed feelings for Mac then his characterization from the past couple seasons works, but if not then I don’t think it would make sense for the same Dennis who couldn’t go a day without texting or talking to Mac would act the way he has recently without it being under the guise of some sort of underlying emotions. With the gang in general the show has kinda as of recent seasons done this thing where the characters are simultaneously getting better and worse. We haven’t seen them ruin someone’s life or do a scheme that revolves around one of them or someone else getting seriously injured or just their general lack of care for anyone but themselves nearly as often as we did in earlier seasons . It’s like they want to reflect the characters lack of morality but aren’t working it into the story the same way they used to imo. Overall I still love the characters, I think there has been very minimal change in characterization of Dee, Charlie, and Frank (when there is differences in Frank or Charlie I think they are nonsensical characters enough that it often just plays as them being their “weird” selves and still works) and honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the things I listed were somehow intentional because I do really think rcg and the always sunny writers usually know what they are doing (or at least I hope they do lmao) and I just hope that season 16 gives us some evil Mac and Mac and Dennis genuinely enjoying each others company again!
it’s supposed to snow and be gross all day tomorrow but i wanna go to the gym and thrift and go for a walk😭 i have a little bit of school work to catch up on and i wanna revise my notes for a test that’s coming up at the end of the month. but i wanna go outside first omg
that nolan is lowkey, we all know that but when he's at winnipeg he's just gets more expressive and shows us his personality (i love it) and when he was in philly he was stoic, serious and with no emotions. he acted like this bc he didn't like philly OR bc he was there to work and he take a more serious posture?
I wouldn't say his whole stoic, emotionless demeanour was due to wanting to come off more serious? maybe to the slightest... but to me it just seemed like his whole demeanour stemmed from how much he's never liked doing media... having to answer the same questions over and over, people writing nonsense about you... camera and mics shoved in your face... so I cannot even blame him for the moderate asshole-ish front...
The only things I could see him dislike was the obvious dealing with the media and obnoxious fans, but it's almost inevitable in his profession. Other than that he seemed like he didn't mind the actual city and organisation.
Also we have to keep in mind the times we did see him full of life was when he was back in his hometown during the off season, fully in his element with all his good buddies... so it's not a surprise we witnessed this complete 180 of him aksjdaskjds.
slyly suggesting to my mom that we should consider seeing an opera in nyc instead of a musical this year since broadway is so disappointing atm and helpfully passing along the met spring schedule
really would just settle for three days off work or perhaps a week of short shifts so i can please please please please do literally anything that is not work or sleep around here
YO I'm sorry if this is weird but I'm moving across the country to philly in February and don't know anybody there. do I pass the vibe check. ignore me if this is abnormal behavior :p
perfectly normal behavior. the most important rules of living in philly are KEEP MOVING and SHOW NO FEAR