Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4182232-20141104222926/@comment-1409915-20141106141837

GreenDiablo wrote: @BrimStoned Fair point. I'm just really blowing off steam since the episode ticked me off. And Jonsey was just... there really. If the Tennyson kids have a friend- which come to think of it isn't normally seen- a normal, human friend mind you, that they trust with their secrets, why hasn't he shown up earlier? Because the writers never thought of him. They thought "Hey, we're making an episode set entirely in a flashback, probably gonna retcon stuff, so let's throw in this random kid friend that hasn't even been hinted at before." To draw up a comparison, you ever see that episode of "The Simpsons" that introduced the character Poochie the dog? The entire episode there's this, basically, human version of Poochie that's apparently been living with the Simpsons the whole time. We don't know who he is, but the characters do. That's basically Jonsey. He's outta nowhere and apparently knows the main characters closely. Only difference is, the Simpsons don't fight aliens or have secret identities. You don't just pull a friend like that out of nowhere. Stuff like that normally requires a deep, long friend ship. The fact that a character who apparently has that comes out of left field is generally doesn't ork for your story. I'm rambling at this point, so sorry for the long monologue Remember he did say, "if we live through this" something about not having anything to do with them. Both times I watched the episode I always attributed that to his absence later. Think about it. Will you always, always keep in contact with every single friend you've ever made in your life, especially from the age of 11?