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The whole Brazil subplot

posted 9 years ago by Johnny0581
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In my opinion, the whole story line taking place in Brazil was completely unnecessary. It didn't add anything to the show. I think they just threw Brazil in there to make honor to the 2014 World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics.

Roar's Brazilian bride was a character I absolutely despised. I mean, why become engaged to a foreigner you're not even in love with and possibly not even attracted to? It's not like he was rich or anything. She was very quick to cheat on him with Frank/Johnny and quickly ignored him once she got established as Frank's and then as the other NY thug's girlfriend. She came across as being very easy and as kind of a whore. And what was up with her all of a sudden being all spiritual and trying to find her "inner angel" or whatever the hell she did at the end? I still hated her for what she did to Roar. I mean, why couldn't an average Joe like Roar end up happily ever after with an attractive woman who was clearly out of his league for once? Also, what was the deal with Roar briefly becoming a telenovela actor? Completely ridiculous and irrelevant to the show! The whole subplot about the Brazilian thugs doing drug business with some obscure thugs in Norway didn't make too much sense to me either. The whole plot involving Brazil felt like it was written in a rush and just to add a few more episodes to the show. I just think Brazil as a whole should have not been included on season 3, period. The show is only about NYC and Norway, that's it. Those are the only two places that make sense to the story line.

[–] drakkar 9 years ago

They did throw in a few slapsticks about Norwegians behaving silly abroad, but except from that I agree with you it was a waste of time.

For the heart life is simple. It beats as long as it can.

[–] HHellraiser 8 years ago

The show tried to justify her golddigger attitude by perpetuating the idea that you "cannot afford emotions" while growing up outside of wealthy countries like Northern Europe.

That is not true at all. Not all women living in third world or developing countries are hypergamous golddigging "whores" who instantly swap from one man to another to extract favors or financial resources from them.

There are plenty of decent women capable of love in poor countries, and women who even risk their lives to be with someone they love rather than someone their family set up for them on financial grounds. I think that storyline was very shallow and the character was disgusting.

[–] matthank-1 8 years ago

I am responding to one point you raised....the part about "Rio Roar" becoming a telenovela actor.

The crackhead writer who got him to go back to Brazil was one of the prisoners when Roar was in jail in Brazil. I saw this as a deliberate ploy to get him back to Brazil so he could be forced to make up for the money lost by the criminal gang when he and Oscarito [Alex's criminal brother]got busted.

As the writer was a crackhead, that was enough of a hint to me to believe that he was connected or at least indebted to the gang, and they used him to get Roar back there.