You would feel some genuine dislike for Thomas if you saw the first season, where he was just Mr. Nasty. In the episode you just saw, he's actually gone a way to redeeming himself
There's a character in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun (1993—1996) about whom I would feel very differently if I had read the books in their proper order.
One thing I **don't* like is how his nastiness and ambition seem, in the writers' eyes, to be tied up with his sexual identity.
Since he's the only visibly gay character in the cast so far, it would be a problem if he were also the most conniving and least trustworthy, yes. To Courtenay, he mostly talks about what it's like to be marginalized: "All my life they've pushed me around just because I'm different . . . You're not a victim. Don't let them make you into one." (And that all ends as happily as most characters that interest me . . .)
But maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
I think you need to unpack that statement for me.
Mr. Bates was as annoyingly self-sacrificing in the first season, but it built gradually, and you also saw him trying to overcome a handicap and prove himself, so he was more likable (imo).
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There's a character in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun (1993—1996) about whom I would feel very differently if I had read the books in their proper order.
One thing I **don't* like is how his nastiness and ambition seem, in the writers' eyes, to be tied up with his sexual identity.
Since he's the only visibly gay character in the cast so far, it would be a problem if he were also the most conniving and least trustworthy, yes. To Courtenay, he mostly talks about what it's like to be marginalized: "All my life they've pushed me around just because I'm different . . . You're not a victim. Don't let them make you into one." (And that all ends as happily as most characters that interest me . . .)
But maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
I think you need to unpack that statement for me.
Mr. Bates was as annoyingly self-sacrificing in the first season, but it built gradually, and you also saw him trying to overcome a handicap and prove himself, so he was more likable (imo).
The first season is worth going back for, then?