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can you identify with these characters?

posted 9 years ago by trfruin
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on the male side; one was an oddball that could have mental problems as well. The other is a complete scumbag that ruined two other relationships all ready in just one episode(could be a third if the wedding couple goes sour)

female side; not much explanation given to the Indian girl, she dumps her live in boyfriend and goes home with the oddball, with no real explanation given.
The only person I was rooting for was the Becki Newton character, but she too was a bit loose, giving in~~within seconds, to the scumbags charm.

don't know, but only way a show is going to work if you can sympathise with the characters, I'll give this show another try, but I can't see it working unless it's people you really want to be with. Hopefully they'll show more of Becki's roommate, the one person that had my interest peaking!

[–] Bilwick1 9 years ago

When I heard about this show, I jokingly e-mailed my friends, "At last--a show about me and my people!" I generally enjoyed the show, but the characters did disappoint. I used to live in NYC (in fact, I grew up in Queens, the borough where the show is mostly set), but since then have marooned myself (for the nonce) in a Sunbelt city which is extremely conventional and "whitebread" (where it isn't Ghetto or Barrio--and those areas seem to have their own rigid conventions). None of the characters on WEIRD LONERS struck me as especially weird (except maybe for the chubby Puppet Guy) or a loner (except for maybe the artist). I don't mind that they formed a kind of team by the end; loners have friends, too. (I do.) Maybe the artist in the show would be "weird" in the Sunbelt city where I'm currently living, where--unless they're best-selling authors or acting in popular mainstream movies--people who are in the arts are generally considered "weird." Maybe in NYC, too, now that it's more Yuppified. But the characters weren't people I could identify with.

[–] lnoft97 9 years ago

I suppose it's possible these people COULD magically all converge to live in that building and have cute adventures and make up/break up/hook up. All of them being approximately the same age and level of wealth. I find it irritating that they are thrown together when in REAL life, a single girl or a single guy in that situation would find her or himself living with neighbors having nothing at all in common. In fact, either crazy, hostile, or good family types, or not interested at all. I have many friends who have lived in similar circumstances, and not a single one of them made a good friend/hooked up with a cute neighbor. Chatting politely in the laundry room, saying good morning - they all lived separate lives. In real life, no sit-com material there. Maybe a little drama, but no soap opera/romance.

[–] blondiebear_17 9 years ago

I think what is charming about these characters is that they all seem flawed so I think everyone can relate to at least one of them and whatever mistakes they have made. I thought they all seemed cool. After a while you get tired of the same cookie cutter characters and you want to see something different this looks like it. I mean I could see all of them as loners to a degree. I mean the womanizer character probably doesn't have any friends because he looks like he screws people over all the time sleeps tries to sleep with his friends girlfriends and is generally selfish. Chubby guy no explanation needed. The blonde girl didn't seem to have any friends maybe she was too career focused it looked like she had her own business so maybe when she was younger she spent so much time trying to make that happen and trying to find the right guy she neglected to make friends or drifted away from them. The dark haired girl seems like she is afraid of commitment and gets bored easily.

RIP Cory Monteith your fans miss you dearly

[–] kay_cee_d 9 years ago

I disagree that these characters aren't cookie cutter though. I find them (so far, so I won't totally judge) to be pretty much like most main characters you see in these types of shows. The neurotic single girl, the womanizer, the stoner or blunt person and the silly overweight guy. They're not really "that" weird so far, but we'll see.

[–] blondiebear_17 9 years ago

I think they are portraying it a bit more honestly though like they make it very obvious that these people are hurting and have no direction in life and that they need each other for now. In other shows yes they have those characters but they glamorize it quite a bit and most people won't see the characters as being a little sad. Like Joey and Barney on Friends and How I met your mother they rarely touch on the fact that hey these guys have a problem and will die alone if they don't change. Stosh is a character like that and they play it a little truer to life than those shows he is a guy that has some problems and needs to get his act together they show just how slimy he is and are not afraid to go there.

RIP Cory Monteith your fans miss you dearly

[–] undomiel152003-1 9 years ago

No, not at all. I think we all or at least many of us have been or felt those feelings of being different to the people around us. What I see though as another poster mentioned is the sameness of so many characters on tv as late. There are so many varieties of personalities in real life with many quirks and idiosyncracies and yet, tv show writers insist on giving us the same stereotypes.
Quit ya moanin

[–] AtheistRevolution 9 years ago

I can identify with them. I have two sisters that are married with kids and of course people think I should settle down. When I think of marriage it seems like a step to waiting to die. Plus its most likely to end in divorce,anyway. It sucks when your friends get married because then they start hanging around with couples. And then the wives don't like the single friend hanging around to remind them of freedom.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

[–] I_Guard_Tanelorn 8 years ago

I have rarely seen such a group of unlikable leads for a tv show. They are each selfish horrible people with callus disregard for others and zero empathy. Mind you, it's pretty funny. But this premise was DOA.

"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"