Rory's quiet, or maybe...he doesn't have a need to be showy might be a better way to put it, and I think that made it easy for the show to trick viewers into underestimating him, dismissing him. Especially all the comments I've seen on earlier episodes along the lines of, "oh, he's the drippy boyfriend. The placeholder. What the hell is Amy supposed to see in him, anyway."
And I loved how much that's changed, without really changing HIM. Perspective shift rather than character shift. I mean, at first the whole Last Centurion thing might have seemed like Taking A Level in Badass, which it was...but they did a good job, I think, of showing that it merely revealed strengths he already had- tempering them, maybe- rather than the character shift they did with Mickey because they'd kind of painted themselves in a corner with him. (I actually liked Mickey. I felt sorry for him. And in different hands, maybe he would have been a more interesting character. His character had some justifiable complaints- it would have been interesting if they'd been given some weight, rather than dismissed as silly and pathetic.)
I honestly don't get the (rare) comments I see that say Rory is boring. what show are they watching, anyway?
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Date: 2011-10-03 07:00 pm (UTC)And I loved how much that's changed, without really changing HIM. Perspective shift rather than character shift. I mean, at first the whole Last Centurion thing might have seemed like Taking A Level in Badass, which it was...but they did a good job, I think, of showing that it merely revealed strengths he already had- tempering them, maybe- rather than the character shift they did with Mickey because they'd kind of painted themselves in a corner with him. (I actually liked Mickey. I felt sorry for him. And in different hands, maybe he would have been a more interesting character. His character had some justifiable complaints- it would have been interesting if they'd been given some weight, rather than dismissed as silly and pathetic.)
I honestly don't get the (rare) comments I see that say Rory is boring. what show are they watching, anyway?