I love New Girl but it isn’t that popular here on the Dope so I go elsewhere for my New Girl discussion fix. Yesterday they answered the will they/won’t they question (of course they will) and was struck by the Nick love. I do not understand it.
Nick, the character, has a major drinking problem. It’s played for laughs but it’s so real and obvious it sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable. He is always angry, has no ambition, and shows all the signs of needing some very real help with depression. Yet all around the internets the fangirl love borders on the Beiberish. Only it’s grown women and not dumb pre-teens. Why?
I felt bad about laughing at the ‘virgin lube scene’ but I did anyway. That was a big bottle of lube.
I’ve wondered about Nick too. All he does is drink, do drugs and make extremely poor choices yet each week they clean him up a little and present him as Jess’ love interest. I don’t get it. Drunk and stupid is funny, I get that. Since the beggining of the show it has been obvious this was the path they would follow and it makes less and less sense each week.
I would have been very dissappointed if they hadn’t. Now the trick is to keep it funny and fun. Perhaps there will be black outs and anti-depressants, nyuck, nyuck.
I can see why Jessie likes Nick because she’s pretty screwed up too, so perfect fit. What I don’t get is regular grown women swooning over him. These are probably the same women who send love letters to prisons, I guess.
Because Nick, in his heart is a decent, good looking guy. Yeah, he’s an alcoholic, angry, aimless “adult,” (alliteration’s always awesome) but he’s only that way because he hasn’t met the right woman to make him straighten-up. Once he meets that special someone then he’ll get rid of all those issues.
Me, personally, I wouldn’t even be able to stand him as a friend.
Eh, he’s not that much of a wreck. He holds down a job, apparently helps take care of his even more dysfunctional family, spends a lot of time helping his friends and Jess in particular (granted often via misguided home-repair projects). His drinking doesn’t really seem to have reached the point where it’s interfering with his life (I don’t remember the show ever having him use other drugs, other then in flashbacks to his college days). And I don’t think he’s supposed to be particularly stupid, he got into law-school, and while he makes bad choices, I don’t think we’re supposed to take away that he’s doing so because he’s dumb.
Seriously, the show often has me laughing way out loud. When Schmidt wanted to celebrate Winston’s blackness. Schmidt getting jellyfished in the face. The bachlorette party. . . and those are all from this season.
Yea, I don’t like it either. The characters had a really good dynamic when they were down on their luck room-mates trying to help each other out. They really should’ve milked that for at least another season before scumbing to the inevitable Nick/Jess romance.
It’s not a replacement, the Nick/Jess thing was set in motion in the pilot. It’s been there all long. From time to time it’s taken a back seat to Schmidt/Cece, but it’s always been there.
Interestingly enough I have the exact opposite opinion on how the show has been. Thought it was great to begin win, then got worse and worse in Season 1 (mostly I think due to an over focus on Schmidt). I think it has gotten MUCH better in Season 2 - and the middle of the season I thought was the funniest stuff on TV. Though it had cooled down from that high.
Though I do like Nick, in the heart in the right place guy with some obvious issues (though like said, he holds down a job and tends to keep his roommates from flying off into the deep end).
If you think about it they really are perfect. Nick’s a total manchild, and Jess has some very juvenile qualities to her, though in different ways than Nick. But basically neither of them wants to grow up.
