This was exactly what I expected from Jody. He was always a jerk and they just made him nice briefly because he wanted something.
I completely disagree. Jody, has very unappealing attributes but even those attributes were becoming redeemable. He also possessed extremely good and kind attributes, all along. That is one reason they were able to make the story flow and make sense with a romance between he and Mindy. She saw many of his desirable attributes, and his biggest PAST character flaw came back to intercept the beginning of his romance with Mindy; his constant serial womanizing.
Last night's ending was completely bizarre. There was no flow, no continuity to the episode, and partial redos of past episodes (Mindy, waking up realizing she screwed up and running in the rain, in her skivvies or pjs to the residence of the guy she screwed up with, yell at his window, and declare her romantic faux pas.) The last half of the episode was a complete mess and made no sense. In fact, the whole episode was crap.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!
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camorrow
8 years ago
^^^^ That right there. For everyone saying "Jody was always this irredeemable womanizing jerk", seriously, did you watch the season 4 finale? Or the last half of that season at all? It was a nice, slow growth to the character and the relationship. Last night was like "oh, we changed our mind midway through writing the script. Just blow it up with the most ridiculous response you can come up with." Even the first half of the episode is like a split personality Jody from the last 5 minutes.
I get the disappointment of the Danny fans. As I've said, I was a fan of that relationship for a long time. But from the time that Danny and Mindy started getting together, he was kind of a dick. Insisting they keep the relationship secret, bailing on meeting her, all the way through being the stereotypical macho guy who wants the little woman to stay home and make babies and THEN slept with Mindy while engaged to someone else...without ever having told her about the relationship at all. THAT is irredeemable, folks. And last night was the last nail - expecting her to suddenly change and do all the things he wants her to, just because they slept together in an elevator. And THEN not planning on telling his oh so unlucky fiancé about his cheating and marry her anyway, when he was ready to end it of Mindy was willing to give in to his demands. How can you ship that?
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LHartz
8 years ago
TotallyGree. I had an issue with Jody's breastfeeding comment when we first met him, but he's come a loooong way.
I was so upset at the last scene where he basically demanded sex from her and threw food at her from the second story. I think he even called her a harlot. So upset they wrote him that way.
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MacsDuster
8 years ago
For everyone saying "Jody was always this irredeemable womanizing jerk", seriously, did you watch the season 4 finale? Or the last half of that season at all? It was a nice, slow growth to the character and the relationship.
That's a big reason why I never liked the Mindy/Jody relationship. I also don't think Jody was a strong character to begin with. Danny is a jerk and completely flawed, but his character has always felt honest and consistent. Jody is a womanizing, sexist, judgemental jerk in his mid to late forties that changes into a perfect gentlemen in a few months from a crush on his coworker? None of it ever felt genuine; it felt more like wish fulfillment for rom com fans.
I'm sad about Mindy and Danny not being together, but I feel satisfaction in where they are as characters because they have had tremendous growth without changing the core of who they are. Jody is kind of a fun character, but he doesn't feel like a real person. I haven't been able to become invested by him or his possible relationship with Mindy.
Some of us prefer illusion to despair.-Nelson Muntz
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