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How?! Just how?!
This is easily one of those episodes that makes you bang your head against the desk in anger. This episode has three main problems: Kick's characterization, the annoyance from both him and Ronaldo (my least liked character; what a waste of Simon Helberg), and its ending.
Throughout the episode, Kick attempts, at all costs, to protect Ronaldo from harm due to being the latter's understudy for drama class; ergo, if something happens to the nerd, Kick takes his place in their play of Romeo & Juliet. Here's the first issue: Kick is absolutely terrified of kissing Kendall in the play, someone who he's implied to have a secret crush on and vice versa (and the sole reason he agreed to the understudy offer). On top of this, Kick is portrayed as weaker than ever, taking each beating and humiliation with surprising sensitivity despite being through worse before and coming out okay. I just don't buy this.
Ronaldo is no better: he eventually discovers that Kick is protecting him and takes FULL advantage of it, making him a slave to pain. Not to mention how he drones ON AND ON with practicing his role everywhere he goes.
The ending is perhaps the most insulting. When Ronaldo is knocked out anyways by Kendall (the only good scene, and the only one worth rooting for here), Kick deliberately does the same to himself to avoid the kiss, making the whole affair utterly pointless!
Overall, this episode is a mess. Kick is severely out of character, Ronaldo's role left a bad taste in my mouth, and its ending stinks.
Throughout the episode, Kick attempts, at all costs, to protect Ronaldo from harm due to being the latter's understudy for drama class; ergo, if something happens to the nerd, Kick takes his place in their play of Romeo & Juliet. Here's the first issue: Kick is absolutely terrified of kissing Kendall in the play, someone who he's implied to have a secret crush on and vice versa (and the sole reason he agreed to the understudy offer). On top of this, Kick is portrayed as weaker than ever, taking each beating and humiliation with surprising sensitivity despite being through worse before and coming out okay. I just don't buy this.
Ronaldo is no better: he eventually discovers that Kick is protecting him and takes FULL advantage of it, making him a slave to pain. Not to mention how he drones ON AND ON with practicing his role everywhere he goes.
The ending is perhaps the most insulting. When Ronaldo is knocked out anyways by Kendall (the only good scene, and the only one worth rooting for here), Kick deliberately does the same to himself to avoid the kiss, making the whole affair utterly pointless!
Overall, this episode is a mess. Kick is severely out of character, Ronaldo's role left a bad taste in my mouth, and its ending stinks.
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- henryhoben
- Jan 15, 2020
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