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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9315690" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think you're being overly-literal here. "Scott is a dick/Cyclops is a dick", which has been around as a sort of quasi-meme since the 1990s or maybe even the 1980s, has never been about him actually being a dick, in like an "unnecessarily crappy behaviour" way, it's just about him suddenly behaving in ways that people <em>viscerally don't like</em>. It kind of doesn't matter if there are reasons for them (though I would say the cartoon makes the reasons a bit more obvious and closer in time than the comics did, as I remember them).</p><p></p><p>One of the few things I think they screwed up was the reporter - if this is set in 1990s, which seems to be the case, she would have been MUCH nastier, and his outburst would have made more sense. They had her sort of holding back and almost seeming respectful. voice-wise, and that's absolutely not how reporters asking those kind of "gotcha-y" personal questions were in the '90s, they were very aggro and showman-y and "gotcha!", even if they started out nice. It was even clearly a '90s-style gotcha because she had all the supporting data to hand. Instead of seeming shocked/appalled that Scott seemed to be lying to her, she'd have had a whole lot of attitude/snark in the "Why are you lying to me?". And we often saw reporters and interviewers sort of snap from "nice" to "shark" real quickly in that era. Feels like there was a disconnect between the writers, who wrote it as that kind of scene, and the episode director, who played it in a more modern way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9315690, member: 18"] I think you're being overly-literal here. "Scott is a dick/Cyclops is a dick", which has been around as a sort of quasi-meme since the 1990s or maybe even the 1980s, has never been about him actually being a dick, in like an "unnecessarily crappy behaviour" way, it's just about him suddenly behaving in ways that people [I]viscerally don't like[/I]. It kind of doesn't matter if there are reasons for them (though I would say the cartoon makes the reasons a bit more obvious and closer in time than the comics did, as I remember them). One of the few things I think they screwed up was the reporter - if this is set in 1990s, which seems to be the case, she would have been MUCH nastier, and his outburst would have made more sense. They had her sort of holding back and almost seeming respectful. voice-wise, and that's absolutely not how reporters asking those kind of "gotcha-y" personal questions were in the '90s, they were very aggro and showman-y and "gotcha!", even if they started out nice. It was even clearly a '90s-style gotcha because she had all the supporting data to hand. Instead of seeming shocked/appalled that Scott seemed to be lying to her, she'd have had a whole lot of attitude/snark in the "Why are you lying to me?". And we often saw reporters and interviewers sort of snap from "nice" to "shark" real quickly in that era. Feels like there was a disconnect between the writers, who wrote it as that kind of scene, and the episode director, who played it in a more modern way. [/QUOTE]
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