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Ryan's stupidity(in Quilt of Hathor)

posted 10 years ago by kcrocket131
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I love Ryan, don't get me wrong. I know he means well but oh boy did he piss me off during the two part episode with the quilt. He made so many mistakes(despite many warnings) that I felt he had everything coming to him haha he made such a big deal about loving that girl & then the next episode he's in love with someone else...he also cries way too much haha alright I'm done ranting

[–] digitalfake 10 years ago

Indeed, and things like that bother me about tv series in general. They treat the viewer sometimes like idiots with no memory. Altho, in the shows defense.. continuity is always a friend to a tv series. They could simply say many months had passed and he simply 'moved on' as did Mickey and her fiance' LLoyd in the first seasons few episodes who ends up dropping her faster than yesterdays eggs. She wasn't too upset by that for to long either..

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[–] libra113 10 years ago

Ryan went through that all the time. There are a ton of episodes where he has some new girlfriend or meets some woman during the episode and starts dating them and by the end they're dead and he's devastated. Then comes next week and he's just fine like nothing happened.

They tried it once or twice with Jack (once in "Brain Drain" when he hooked up with an old flame and another were it was not a lover but a young woman who was a daughter of a friend and like a niece to him). Even Miki got in on the act a few times.

No matter how bad the loss it was all forgotten by the next episodes like it never happened.

[–] daughterofolaf 10 years ago

He was being silly in that episode but I don't think its that weird for them to move on quickly after love interests die or leave or whatever. It's a tv show, it's not like there is a need or even time to deal with broken hearts and if they did that then it would be a soap opera. We're not here for that on this show, hehe. Personally, I wouldn't have wanted to see Ryan whining over the Amish girl for the next five episodes--who cares? In the world of the show and for us it's over!

Additionally I don't necessarily think it's all that unrealistic. People are often totally infatuated with something or someone and then when they come to their senses or it ends they are over it quickly. I have had this happen to me and I have seen it happen to many people. Plus, like another poster said, usually with TV shows it's not truly "one week later" when the next episode airs. I don't know, in this universe it didn't bother me at all.

It wasn't me who was murdered, was it?

[–] MisterFranks 8 years ago

Ryan broke up the girl's engagement and was a complete ass in spite of being a guest there to help find a cursed object.

I was hoping that the guy would put the hay sticker through Ryan's fat head, and later that they would actually burn him at the stake, and get a new loser friend.

Thanks to Ryan being a moron, at least 3 extra people got killed.

[–] putrescent_stench 8 years ago

I was hoping that the guy would put the hay sticker through Ryan's fat head, and later that they would actually burn him at the stake, and get a new loser friend.

What's your vendetta against John D. LeMay/Ryan Dallion? I, for one, appreciated a male lead who was fallible, imperfect, and tragic. Yeah, he made mistakes because he was just a regular guy thrown into the fray of hunting down cursed objects. I would have found it less believable (and likable) if everything he did was perfect and heroic.

"every time godzilla loses to mothra I die a little bit more"--Godzillaswrath

[–] putrescent_stench 8 years ago

[he made such a big deal about loving that girl & then the next episode he's in love with someone else

You mean like in Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo is sick over his unrequited love for Rosaline, and then suddenly falls for Juliet upon first sight? Of course they were teenagers, but still, this shuffling of love interests isn't unique to Friday the 13th or TV shows. Don't be too hard on ol' Ryan. There were plenty of 80s male protagonists trying (and failing) to get with a female companion. He was doomed to tragedy ever week, but of course it would have interfered with the tragedy of that week if they were to bring up previous tragedies. (Yeah, it's lazy writing, but even in higher-quality series like The X-Files or Lost there's plenty of plot holes.)

I do agree that I would have liked to see greater continuity though. I feel like we don't get a strong enough sense of Ryan, Micki, and Jack as cohesive characters - more like an impressionistic picture made of fragments and various emotionally charged encounters.

"every time godzilla loses to mothra I die a little bit more"--Godzillaswrath