What does that have to do with being evil and matricidal, though? I never said he stopped being a genius.
Andy Sipowitz started out as a violent obnoxious drunk. In season two after David Caruso left he was now the focus of the show. He stopped drinking and became the cop with a heart of gold with some rough edges. He was more interesting the other way.
Many people say that they liked the early seasons before Alda turned Pierce into a liberal anti-war mouthpiece, but Pierce was anti-war and generally liberal from the get-go. The series’ writers were anti-war, or at least willing to capitalize on the prevailing hippy sentiments of the early 1970s.
It’s also said that Radar became an innocent boy later in the series, but within the first couple seasons, he had a teddy bear and drank grape kneehighs, although he also drank alcoholic beverages.
Colonel Potter changed over time, but mainly depending on the episode’s writer. Some writers would portray him as a sympathetic grandfather figure wearing an oversized cowboy hat and saying “listen, sonny” every other line while other writers characterized him as the standard-issue regular army guy.
Hunicutt went from being a fresh-faced, happy-go-lucky sidekick to Pierce to being a cynical guy who wore a mustache, suspenders and sneakers.
Klinger stopped wearing dresses by season 8 because by that point even the writers were tired of the gag, although presumably because he was taking over Radar’s job.
That 70s Show’s Kelso began with a typically long 70s haircut, but had unusually short hair in later seasons which were supposed to be 1978-79. Ashton Kutchner’s career was expanding beyond the TV role, so I guess they couldn’t expect him to have an outdated 70s shag. In later seasons, Red Forman started saying “I’m going to stick my foot up your ass” in almost every episode as the writers went into cruise control.
Married With Children’s Bud started as a somewhat cool guy who could get a date, but gradually became more of a loser as the show progressed.
I saw Rom becoming less oppressed by his brother, Quark, over the course of time.
And, honestly, it was pretty dang cool.
That was the BEST Trek series.
Jadzia Dax was the hottest woman in all SF.
And, it must said, that The Fonz was sleeping with Mrs. Cunningham by the end of season four.
That was a serious change.
Willow (BTVS) went from a shy cute bookish girl with wonderful outbursts of snark (Giles: Why would anyone want to kill Cordelia? Willow: Because they met her?) and oh yeah - heterosexual
to
Uber witch bitch magic druggie who was 100% lesbian.
I’m not saying I disliked either character, just that they were completely different, other than the name Willow.
It was lampshaded to death (literally) in the two-part episode “Stewie Kills Lois” and “Lois Kills Stewie” (they were the 100th and 101st episodes). The episode starts with Brian pointing out that Stewie never tries to kill Lois anymore and then goes on to a big story which basically takes the idea over the top and puts an end to it.
I did, and in general they succeeded in completely destroying the character. They could have at least said that she was bi, but no, it was all “gay now”, nevermind the genuine feelings she had had for Xander and Oz. Not enough eyeroll smilies in the universe to express my completely and utter disdain here.
I apologize. I was trying to make a connection to something else and failed.
On Xena: Warrior Princess I believe the original characterization of Joxer lasted only about two episodes. He was introduced as a rather cynical braggart who wanted to be a great warrior but had no real training or experience in combat. He initially attempted to ally himself with one of the show’s major villains, but later decided it was better to fight for good. He was of apparently average intelligence.
Joxer pretty quickly became a genial doofus. His intelligence and awareness of his own limitations fluctuated depending on the episode, but he was generally depicted as well-intentioned but clueless.
I read that this was a decision by Jamie Farr, because his kids were getting to be of an age where he didn’t want them getting teased at school because their dad wore dresses on TV.
Whaaaaat?!!!
:eek:
Do you know where you read this? I’d like to read that.
I’m sure somebody will say it was character development, but it never rang true to me: on NYPD Blue, Andy started out as a scumball, and by the end of the series, he was the most respected detective in the squad.
On Cheers Frasier was an intelligent but down to earth psychiatrist. He had his moments of pretension, but was never too good to drink a few beers with the boys at the bar. When he moved Seattle for Frasier he became an effite sherry drinking, latte sipping intellectual who routinely mocked places like Cheers.