Love Makes You Dumb: Difference between revisions

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|'''Emerson Cod''', ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''}}

[[Love Hurts|Being in love is dangerous for a character.]] Occasionally, a 'main' character who more or less pulled his weight at the start of the series starts to feel affection for another, and the writers like the idea. Suddenly, his own personal plot starts to become [[Satellite Character|almost]] ''~~[[Satellite Character|~~exclusively]]'' ~~[[Satellite Character|~~about that]], and we have nothing to balance out the inherent goofiness and clumsiness that occurs dealing with his emotions. This has an extra layer of trouble if the [[Demographics|demographic]] of the viewers isn't too heavily interested in the romance, or romance in general. On the other hand, other demographics [[Truth in Television|can relate]].

[[Love Hurts|Being in love is dangerous for a character.]] Occasionally, a 'main' character who more or less pulled his weight at the start of the series starts to feel affection for another, and the writers like the idea. Suddenly, his own personal plot starts to become [[Satellite Character|almost ''exclusively'' about that]], and we have nothing to balance out the inherent goofiness and clumsiness that occurs dealing with his emotions. This has an extra layer of trouble if the [[Demographics|demographic]] of the viewers isn't too heavily interested in the romance, or romance in general. On the other hand, other demographics [[Truth in Television|can relate]].

This can send someone on the edge of [[Can't Catch Up]] straight into a ditch and relegate him to the side lines of a story, especially if it's fairly clear that the writers haven't used the character for a while because they don't know what to do with him.