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I'm Elfo

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This guy's basically the Jar Jar Binks of this show, right?

Well now you's a ded foo

Not really. The show seemed to have trouble deciding exactly what he was, and he quickly went from being the naive comedy sidekick to being desperately in love with the MC and having that become his sole defining trait. It was like they wanted to turn him into Fry but forgot what made Fry work.

Incidentally, Lucy seems like they wanted to make a new Bender but also forgot what made Bender work.

Hes a 'what if we made fry but with out the charm and not as cute' character

Interesting. What made Bender and Fry work while Luci and Elfo do not?

Get fucked, nerd.

Hi, Bart

With Fry, it was a slow buildup to his infatuation with Leela. His initial character is being a 20th century loser adjusting to 30th century life and the show kept that as his focus for a while, and it was only once that part had run its course and he'd basically adjusted that they started focusing on his boner for Leela. Since he'd had enough time to develop his own character, he still managed to stand on his own without "likes Leela" becoming his sole defining trait. With Elfo, they rushed through that part so he never got the foundation Fry did, so his character doesn't really have anything to stand on.

With Bender, his initial characterization was that of a surly worker robot. He was a selfish jerk with little or no empathy but he's not outright evil. Despite his protests otherwise he does have a heart and does care for his friends. There are some episodes where he does just go full asshole, and it seems that's what they wanted to emulate with Lucy. The problem with that is that Lucy thus has no other characterization beyond "evil friend" and there's no real reason why anyone would put up with him.

The writers kind of botched their three main characters but somehow succeeded with Zog, whose character is pretty straightforward but as a result he doesn't stumble into the same problems the main characters do, where there's no clear grounding for them to work from.

>The writers kind of botched their three main characters but somehow succeeded with Zog

The question then becoesm "will they learn from the mistakes and successes of season 1, and either push Zog into a more central role, fix the main 3 characters, or both?"