Anonymous
10/20/2025, 4:11:07 AM
No.150919020
>>150918416
I think it's more that Batiuk didn't care about writing characters who were too dissimilar by himself. It's why the only '98 class members to get any real attention or show up after the timeskip are Darin and Pete who were low social status nerds into comics. Or why everyone in Summer's class, including seemingly Summer herself, gets shafted and a lot more attention is paid to Owen and Cody who are... low social status nerds into comic books.
>>150918886
Never because that could be a way to develop her sympathetically (a gay girl raised in a fire and brimstone evangelical community who covers up her own self-loathing and internalized conflict between how she was raised and her desires) when Willis and his readers only want her to exist as a strawman. Remember, his readers were horrified at the thought that she might be gay and into Carla because it would take away their favorite punching bag. Who needs well-developed or rouded characters?
I think it's more that Batiuk didn't care about writing characters who were too dissimilar by himself. It's why the only '98 class members to get any real attention or show up after the timeskip are Darin and Pete who were low social status nerds into comics. Or why everyone in Summer's class, including seemingly Summer herself, gets shafted and a lot more attention is paid to Owen and Cody who are... low social status nerds into comic books.
>>150918886
Never because that could be a way to develop her sympathetically (a gay girl raised in a fire and brimstone evangelical community who covers up her own self-loathing and internalized conflict between how she was raised and her desires) when Willis and his readers only want her to exist as a strawman. Remember, his readers were horrified at the thought that she might be gay and into Carla because it would take away their favorite punching bag. Who needs well-developed or rouded characters?