Garbage Kills Megan said:
I really haven't liked this "everyone hates malcolm" thing they did these season. Reese never had any friends, and that was fine, but now BOTH of them don't have any friends (as shown in the episode about the "haunted" house) I don't like it. They've made Reese and Malcolm too similar, and Malcolm always had friends.
And I don't think they use Malcolm's intelligence as much as they used to. The show isn't focused on that anymore. It's more about the whole family. Every now and then they add some little tiny thing, like "oh, by the way, Malcolm's smart" but they don't work it into episodes like they used to. It probably gets hard after 6 seasons.
I agree with you. They just mention Malcolm´s intelligence, but they don´t show it (like in Hal sleepwalks: "The smart one scares me. You´re normal, like me." (Hal about Malcolm).
I also don´t like the fact that they made malcolm a social reject and a very random character. He never was popular with "normal" kids, but he was kind of the leader of the Krelboynes. So in his way, he was popular.
I liked it better when the show focused on Malcolm instead of Dewey or Hal. Dewey can´t take over Malcolm´s role in my opinion. For me, he has become too perfect. There´s nothing interesting about him. He´s popular with the Buseys, he´s very smart and a genius when it comes to music. But personally, I don´t think that´s interesting to watch. Malcolm always had to deal with his problems. He was funny and believable. I actually don´t find it very believable that Dewey all of the sudden became a genius, too.
I think one of the reasons why Malcolm isn´t that popular is that he uses his brain too much (ok, that sounds weird
). But he overthinks everything. He´s one of the people who never can be happy because they always think "everything seems perfect, but there HAS to be a catch." It´s mean, but most people don´t like unhappy people who are complaining most of the time. Maybe writers thought the idea of Malcolm being a genius got old, so they didn´t focus the show on ít anymore. That´s ok, but I don´t think it was a good idea to make Dewey a genius, instead.
malcolm wrote:
malcolm said:
He is not victim of a terrible destiny; he is choosing to be socially rejected. He is choosing to be weird. And he isnt doing anything to improve his potential
If he becomes a loser, it will be his entire fault
I think you´re right. On the other hand it´s pretty difficult to change yourself. And whenever he tried not to be a social reject and to make people like him (like in Humilithon) his attempt backfired on him. We also got to know that people don´t always appreciate his sarcastic comments, though maybe it was just his way to entertain them. I think he tries to fit in, but there´s something about him that turns other people off.
Though I´m sure Reese isn´t very happy about the fact that he doesn´t have any friends (remember the Mini bike episode where Malcolm told him that he doesn´t have any friends and Reese went "Mom told you you´re not allowed to talk about this"), I think he never tried as hard as Malcolm to fit in. He also didn´t care too much. Sure he was sad when he realized that people don´t like him, but either he didn´t show it or he created his own way to feel popular (like following people around who don´t even know him).
From the beginning they made Malcolm and his brothers (excluding Francis) kind of outcasts. That was good in a way, because this show was never about a perfect family who doesn´t have any problems. It´s not that I love to watch depressed people who have a lot of problems (don´t get me wrong
), but that was what people could relate to. That´s also why I think Dewey became a boring character.
But still I think they overdo their "everyone hates Malcolm" concept now.