Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season?

• danielbln@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll leave you with two links:

  tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…/Flanderization

  tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…/LiveActionTV (search for Scrubs there)

  Careful, don’t get sucked into the TVTropes website, it’s a black hole.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think he’s asking for examples of it. Not what it means.

    I can think of a few with Dr Cox and Dr Kelso in the later seasons.

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    • ominouslemon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t agree with the example of Kelso. In the latter seasons he goes from being a horrible human to a somewhat empathetic and cool sage. I love it

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    • Blakerboy777@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @Potatos_are_not_friends

      @delitomatoes @NABDad @danielbln @fartsparkles

      There are examples in the second link, but I can paste them here for you:

      Scrubs:
      J.D. started as fairly emotionally needy due to him wanting a father figure to replace his own dysfunctional family. Fast forward to season five where J.D. is an appletini (light on the tini)-swilling "sensey" (that's "sensitive person") who can't hold on to his "man cards" (which would be taken away from him if he did something girly) for a full day. This is lampshaded by Zach Braff in the bloopers to Season 8.
      "You haven't been here in a while, my character's really gay now."
      Carla was initially a tough cookie Team Mom. As the seasons went on, the writers Flanderised her obsession with gossip and her domineering tendencies over Turk. She also went from giving advice to forcing her opinions on everyone else and admitting that taking the moral high ground "is like crack for me".
      Elliot went from being a pretty normal, slightly quirky, girl with no interest in kids and a high degree of efficiency coupled with no personal skills to highly neurotic, obsessed with getting married and having kids, and the most compassionate doctor in the hospital that was only there because she wanted to help people. The family part is at least somewhat justified by the fact that she as she got old she had a stronger desire to settle down.

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    • danielbln@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My second link shows a bunch of Scrubs examples.

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