2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.
1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.
Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.
You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.
2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will
congrats OP this is literally the only grinch post i’ll ever reblog
What I’m hearing is, “If you don’t love me at my sociopathic, unrelenting attempt to capture you for the sake of my own personal honor to my father and nation, leading you and your friends to your impending deaths,” then you don’t deserve me at my “Sulky Fire boi charm who is kinda oppressed, but also has no other friends because, like, have you met my sister?”
Imagine missing the entire point of a character arc in a show aimed at children this badly
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