Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150212230234/@comment-26013337-20150214053659


 * Incoming Lars rants, feel free to try and defend his character, I can't find anything to help me like him*

I can't help but still be further annoyed at Lars' actions, he's such a whiny sniveling insecure selfish coward and good lord is he desperate at times, to the point of being near shameless. He got saved by literally EVERYONE in the room, he never lifted a single finger to help them in the attack and then merely shoved blame at the easiest target and when he himself was under fire, he pathetically looked to Sadie to blindly agree with him because he knows she still might have lingering feelings for him and was fully willing to use that fact to his advantage because he clearly knows no shame.

Everything this guys does bugs me to no end it seems. They make him look worse and worse with every single episode all trying to build up his "tragic teen" character that's harboring some hidden deep emotional scar that's responsible for the mess of a character he currently is. And yet here I am, waiting and waiting for this great reveal of this tragic moment in his life, all the while having to put up with his pathetic antics. The problem is, and I don't know if any one else has realized it, but if they really want to go with this "Jerk with a secret heart of Gold" archetype than they need to show us this "heart of Gold" in SOME capacity, show us he cares in some way, give us definitive proof that somewhere buried deep inside of him lies a man who's worthy to have friends as good and true as Sadie and Steven, who isn't just a pathetic, insecure coward. It wouldn't take much, just a simple gesture that proved he has a baseline of pride and selflessness.

The way his character arc is going, it looks like there's just going to be one massive reveal about his past that causes a breaking point and then suddenly his character does some kind of 180* and he's a nice guy all of a sudden. I much prefer a slow build arc where his character gets a little better every episode until he's in a place where the breaking piont comes naturally and  he proves himself with a single grand gesture, but hey, that's just me.