Also I'll be honest, I feel guilty making the patriarchal character a big Steeler fan because I don't like Roethlisberger and feel myself and ABC to be enabling him somehow
You worry about the strangest things
he's been accused of rape on more than one occasion
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Relax.
Making a fictional character like a football team that happened to have a rapist on it does not, in any way, constitute condoning rape.
I'm not sure whether or not said fictional character is a "totally awesome dude", he's in his late 30s-early 40s and has a pinball machine in his basement...where there's also a home bar
You don't build interesting characters out of weird backstories. Whether he's interesting or not will depend on his personality, and the actor playing him.
I know backstory isn't all a character is (ffs it's a wonder that none of the puppies from One Hundred and One Dalmatians show signs of PTSD), but it can inform their personalities!
What i mean is that average backstory ≠ boring and weird backstory ≠ interesting. The backstory in a sitcom, especially, is mostly irrelevant, since such shows rarely have ongoing plots. What matters is how the characters are now.
^ i said 'rarely' rather than 'never' because most sitcoms in my experience have some amount of continuity
but it tends to be pretty loose and there's usually no expectation that you will watch every episode, or that you'll watch the episodes in sequence, so the plots are self-contained
Regarding Cincinnati: My mom likes to talk about how all the people down in the middle of nowhere, West Virginia (where she lived back in the 1970s) loved "the Raids" and wouldn't shut up about them. It kind of put her off them.
Regarding Cincinnati: My mom likes to talk about how all the people down in the middle of nowhere, West Virginia (where she lived back in the 1970s) loved "the Raids" and wouldn't shut up about them. It kind of put her off them.
Mother shouting against the Raiders when I was little made me wonder if Oakland was like Mordor
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Making a fictional character like a football team that happened to have a rapist on it does not, in any way, constitute condoning rape.
he's a guy who likes a football team, lots of people support the Steelers
What i mean is that average backstory ≠ boring and weird backstory ≠ interesting. The backstory in a sitcom, especially, is mostly irrelevant, since such shows rarely have ongoing plots. What matters is how the characters are now.
but it tends to be pretty loose and there's usually no expectation that you will watch every episode, or that you'll watch the episodes in sequence, so the plots are self-contained