09-25-2015, 01:52 PM
And looking at it laid out like this, it has basically been a dry run for the S/A clusterfuck. Same dynamics, same unpleasant, incoherent expectations and behaviours.
I think H&B had their storyline hijacked, and were used as a test run once the decision was made to foist AFF onto the show. She was a hideous one scene joke that inexplicably refused to die. H&B could and should have been the beta couple to the dreary canon of L/P, but again, the choice was made to use appalling stereotypes and lazy writing. Instead of the supportive kooky odd couple, they've become the shrewish shiksa and the henpecked man child. The writers seem incapable of writing sympathetic characters, but there is an addition layer of unpleasantness to the way they write women.
I think H&B had their storyline hijacked, and were used as a test run once the decision was made to foist AFF onto the show. She was a hideous one scene joke that inexplicably refused to die. H&B could and should have been the beta couple to the dreary canon of L/P, but again, the choice was made to use appalling stereotypes and lazy writing. Instead of the supportive kooky odd couple, they've become the shrewish shiksa and the henpecked man child. The writers seem incapable of writing sympathetic characters, but there is an addition layer of unpleasantness to the way they write women.