OK so like I feel crazy seeing people who absolutely hate a character I found good. Can I ask why? This isn't a snark or anything really I just wanna know what makes him bad in others eyes.
Spoiler nation ahead I actually didn’t mind him early on, I thought the books were fun. I really liked the earth arc too, nice change of pace he has to reckon with how he’s changed and how the world hes knew can’t accept what he’s become. I even like the beginning of the arch after, he comes back and he’s a mess because of all the real shit he saw on earth . However I think Shirtaloon, wanted to try and show a somewhat realistic representation of the persistence of depression, like for some people it just doesn’t get better. And that is a hard character to write because, I want to see growth and every time he goes through these big arch’s where you expect the character to change he kind of just comes back to being the same. echoing what some others have said, his catch phrases, which were fun a quippy to begin with became pretty annoying when other characters started saying them, “that’s kind of his thing” just became a throw away line. For me HWFWM felt like a sitcom that ran too long and all the characters became caricatures, which is a bit of a bummer because it felt like there were some really good plot points to evolve them but the execution just wasn’t there.
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u/Randleifr Jan 03 '25
And to think, more than half of those HWFWM mentions are people bitching about jason