What makes me groan the most about this kind of writing is how every single person sounds exactly like a TV/movie nerd who lives in New York. A locker room full of football players might have one person with something funny to say about romantic comedies, but literally everyone else should have been staring at Ted like he was speaking a different language.
That was the joke though, that this entire team of football players have opinions on romcoms.
And I think it's much better than just having one person. It portrays having interests outside of "manly" stuff as surprisingly common and normal, even among football players. Whereas if it were just one of them, it would basically just be "that one weirdo".
Or to put it another way: with one person it's jokes on him for being different, with everyone it's jokes on you for having narrow expectations.
Idk I think in a ton of cases these jokes are still just reinforcing those expectations by driving things into absurdity.
Like instead of a few guys having these interests and it being fine and normal, its the whole team being into stuff entirely opposite of the usual expectation and the joke is how absurd and unbelievable it is.
Exactly! This is a sports drama written by people who really don't care that much about sports. It's like if theater kids were put in charge of an athletics program.
What makes me groan the most about this kind of writing is how every single person sounds exactly like a TV/movie nerd who lives in New York. A locker room full of football players might have one person with something funny to say about romantic comedies, but literally everyone else should have been staring at Ted like he was speaking a different language.
That was the joke though, that this entire team of football players have opinions on romcoms.
And I think it's much better than just having one person. It portrays having interests outside of "manly" stuff as surprisingly common and normal, even among football players. Whereas if it were just one of them, it would basically just be "that one weirdo".
Or to put it another way: with one person it's jokes on him for being different, with everyone it's jokes on you for having narrow expectations.
Idk I think in a ton of cases these jokes are still just reinforcing those expectations by driving things into absurdity.
Like instead of a few guys having these interests and it being fine and normal, its the whole team being into stuff entirely opposite of the usual expectation and the joke is how absurd and unbelievable it is.
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Exactly! This is a sports drama written by people who really don't care that much about sports. It's like if theater kids were put in charge of an athletics program.