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Also came to show my agreement towards this. 60s would have had them both insist to everyone the other is in charge of the family and is the smart/competent one, all while never actually being together in the same room as one another when singing the praises of the other. Tish would praise Gomez's sound investment and business strategies (which would obviously be a joke given how he's terrible at both but with nat 20 luck that lets him succeed whenever he fails) and he would praise her quick wit and eye for character. They would then ultimately agree that it's their love for their children and the rest of their family that allows them to be and do their best.
Wednesday doesn't make Gomez and Morticia not be madly in love, it just fails at making them stupid for one another. Gomez in this is a great visual translation from comic to live action, but he's missing the optimistic confidence. He's certainly cheerful and optimistic, but he lacks a quality that Astin had. Naive, but confident. The one that's willing to go all in on a bad business deal because the fellow who sold him on it let him have half his sandwich at a bus stop and was nice to him in a moment of need. And when things go balls up and the business fails, he laughs it off because his oil investments just quadrupled and he made all his money back thrice over. And my biggest gripe with this Morticia isn't that she's smart or in charge, it's that she lacks that unshakable warmth and innocence that Jones had. This morticia is too cold and untrusting of others. Fester is fucking fantastic, though, and so is Thing.
