Pauline said:
I hated Kim the most during Kim Kelly Is My Friend in the cafeteria scene, where she was like "whos going out with who? Jeez, the people in this school are so gossipy, y'know?" and then stuck her finger inside lindsey's dessert. It was just that lindsey was insecure enough hanging with the freaks at that time, it was fucked up of her to do that.
Her best moment was when she was telling Sam what she would do to Karen. "I'm gonna break both of her arms. Then I'm gonna set her hair on fire", and he's like "Jeez don't hurt her too bad". And the "No problem, geek" ending to that episode is fucking classic.
It was a stunningly well written episode in that it really made you hate her to begin with, and by the end she was redeemed but didn't lose the spark in her character. When humanising villains on screen it's easy to mess up and not be quite convincing enough (eg Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man), or the problem that the redeemed villain isn't as fun as they were when they were evil (eg Spike). "No problem, geek" was just the perfect ending to that episode.
Yeah, she's redeemed in spite of her MANY MANY flaws.
Such a bizarre character. For the first few episodes she's as much Lindsey's bully as her friend. But that's strangely realistic... there were always assholes in the freak crowd at my high school that prevented me from getting to know those kids better (my straight edge reputation didn't help.) It's like a psychological hazing ritual of some sort. I've never seen it portrayed better, with all its weird complexities, than on this show.
Also, Bill Haverchuck is the single greatest character in television history. And, yeah, that's hyperbole, but so what.
They even made a movie spinoff of Bill Haverchuck, it was really popular and became a sleeper hit.
Although for legal reasons they had to rename it Napoleon Dynamite.
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penates
Madison, WI
December 2003
OCT 03, 2005 04:11 PM
Pauline said:
They even made a movie spinoff of Bill Haverchuck, it was really popular and became a sleeper hit.
Although for legal reasons they had to rename it Napoleon Dynamite.
Bwahahaha. Damn right.
I hate that movie, only because it's become impossible for one of my friends to walk around this damn town without some turbo dude yelling "NAPOLEON DYNAMITE" at him. That fucker ruined whiteboy afros for at least the next five years.
penates
Madison, WI
December 2003
OCT 03, 2005 03:37 PM