Yeah, I didn't go into the music because everyone knows it, lol. I may or may not have been hearing it in my head while reading.
He kept using slang for the sake of using slang, and it came across like when older people try to be 'hip' and fit in with the kids these days. Aka, awkward.
Ooh, it didn't even occur to me that it was meant to show Hooper as racist in addition to all his other ~stellar~ qualities, but that's definitely a possibility! He's just so... ugh.
I think I would have been less bothered by the Ellen subplot if it had 1. affected the main plot more forcefully (I mean, it created tension between Brody and Hooper, but that could have been achieved in another way) and 2. BEEN RESOLVED. It just seemed to fizzle out, and if he wasn't ever going to go anywhere with it, why did he bother including it?
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He kept using slang for the sake of using slang, and it came across like when older people try to be 'hip' and fit in with the kids these days. Aka, awkward.
Ooh, it didn't even occur to me that it was meant to show Hooper as racist in addition to all his other ~stellar~ qualities, but that's definitely a possibility! He's just so... ugh.
I think I would have been less bothered by the Ellen subplot if it had 1. affected the main plot more forcefully (I mean, it created tension between Brody and Hooper, but that could have been achieved in another way) and 2. BEEN RESOLVED. It just seemed to fizzle out, and if he wasn't ever going to go anywhere with it, why did he bother including it?