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that70sshowgoldencouple · 9 months ago

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The expressions on both Red and Kitty's faces in that last image 🤣🤣

Season 6, Episode 25: The Seeker

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mysharona1987 · 4 months ago

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#House #tv sitcom #republicans #politics #us #Woc #poc #derek chauvin

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binabadaboom · 4 months ago

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I am currently, at this very moment, fulfilling a lifelong dream of watching my comfort show while sitting in an empty bar

Being a regular(ie alcoholic) does have its privileges sometimes

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mimi-0007 · 7 months ago

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#john amos #james evans #black literature #black tumblr #black excellence #black community #black actors #civil rights #blackexcellence365 #movie actor #black pride #black people #good times #tv sitcom #black tv shows #family time #1970s tv

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sidekickjoey · 1 month ago

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Not to care way too much for a TV sitcom character, but the more we hear from writers on the show about Eric Matthews and the turn the writing took him down in S6-7 and beyond (especially with his love life), I can't help but feel a little mournful for what he could've (and should've) been given by the narrative.

(Actually caring-too-much analysis below the cut)

(credit to @livelovecaliforniadreams for the gif!!)

On the most recent pod, we hear that part of the reason Eric never received a love interest beyond S4 really was because the writers sort of took the route of him "peaking" socially in high school, with his social prowess/game/etc. not really working in the same way it did then in college. For any other character, I think that could've maybe worked. But every other character is not Eric Matthews.

Eric, at his heart, is a sweet person. He makes mistakes and might not be the most book-smart, but the one thing he knows and has proven to be very intelligent on is people -- helping them, caring for them, making them feel seen, smile, you name it. He doesn't have a mean or cruel bone in his body and actually sacrifices his own happiness many times to ensure others are better off, because he doesn't know how to be otherwise. Hates it.

He also has so many talents and a broad swath of knowledge. Is it for more niche stuff at times? Sure. He might not be leading the next Fortune 500 company, but he demonstrates passion and drive -- two very amiable qualities people seek out in others. Hell, even Mr. Feeny noticed it when he said Eric was one of his brightest students. If academics weren't on the table, he had initiative and was there to do the best he could (just look at what he tried to do with meteorology). And are academics important? Yes. But character is so much stronger a quality, one not intrinsically tied to academic success mind you, and Eric had character.

On the topic of academics, Eric did go to and canonically graduate college -- the SAME college that Topanga and Rachel both end up going to instead of Yale, a highly respected institution. It's not like he's some bum or idiot like people claim him to be. Even at his perceived 'stupidest,' he was putting in the work, getting a college education, and receiving his degree DESPITE all of his shortcomings. If anything, I know times/values have changed, but I feel like him overcoming the odds as opposed to just giving up would've still made him even more of an attractive prospect back then as it would've made him now.

Then there's the fact that, canonically, Eric is perceived as a very attractive and handsome guy by MULTIPLE people, all of different backgrounds, looks, interests, etc. Attraction beyond looks varies from person to person, but looks are a little less variable. You don't just suddenly turn ugly to a whole population when you go to a new place. S5 Eric was not a far cry from S4 Eric. Hell, even S7 Eric is not a far cry from his other looks. Everyone's convinced S6 was Eric's peak look™ too, and that was right in the middle of his college career. All other facts about Eric aside and any faults totally disregarded, you're telling me not a single person saw him and though, huh, I want to take this guy on a few dates? That he'd still fall off the market so starkly to go from dating a new girl every week to having almost zero new serious prospects for nearly four years?

This all said, it begs the following questions:

Why would S5-GMW Eric be any less deserving of a satisfying love life then than S1-4 Eric?

Why would S5-GMW Eric be any less destined to find post-high school success than S1-4 Eric?

This brings me to where I sit now, sort of sad for the character of Eric. Because I think his ability to find love was lazily or incorrectly (or both) tied to his struggles in high school, and then exaggerated heavily when the show was later in need of laughs and someone even wackier than Cory's wackier college persona to serve as a foil. He was set up to be punished for doing exactly everything asked of him, because a character like his was useful to have in one's back pocket, but his character itself was too much extra effort to flesh out fully and give redemption/happiness to without him straying too close to replacing Cory as /the/ main character. It's a lot funnier to have a character regress into being a bit of a loser and struggling socially than finding success and getting everything he worked so hard to achieve, after all (I say, with heavy sarcasm).

Eric was deserving of love. He was deserving of success. He was even incredibly smart. Maybe I'll be proven wrong at some point in the future and I'll see that he was just destined to be Dumb!Eric, alone, stumbling his way into a senatorship, continuing to be all laughs with a touch of heart. That day isn't today, though. As far as I'm concerned, the path the writers took him down might as well have been a more unrealistic and wildly undeserved path for him than had they made him incredibly successful.

#boy meets world #eric matthews #character analysis #pod meets world #I have many thoughts as you can see #tv sitcom #90s sitcom

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rodrigoincolors · 3 months ago

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