Family Guy - "Three Kings" - Talkback [5/10]

If anything, I would of expected a Carrie segment with Meg as the titular character.

Actually, that'd be pretty sweet, to see Meg get vengeance on the kids at school, if the writers don't just make her die before she can.
 
I'd like to see an entire episode devoted to a Meg-based Carrie parody. (But then again, I'm a Meg sympathizer, so my idea of how it would play out is probably different from how it'd actually happen.)
 
But as has been said in previous threads, it's pretty clear that the writers just don't want to give Meg any sense of worth. And, a good amount of the fans wouldn't have it any other way.

Still, it's subjective for everyone. To me, the FG writers have been running the Meg-bashing jokes to the ground for a pretty long time.
 
I agree the Carrie parody with Meg would've been a great idea, but her position obviously still isn't very favorable among the writers of this show. I'll tell you what, her role in the Family Guy movie isn't looking very promising right now.
 
Chris and Meg's purposes are to fill the typical son & daughter roles. I don't know if it's impossible to make them interesting, but even I, who often accuse the writers of being lazy, don't blame them for not trying. I don't see any potential there.

A talking baby and talking dog, on the other hand, are inherently interesting. Although I would say they're taking a little too much focus away from Peter these days.
 
Well, I guess I'm of the opposite school of thought, since I see potential in all the Griffin family members. I suppose it could just be that I have a lot of experience writing for teenage characters, but I'd really like to see more Meg and Chris stories. This is a prime example of the writers not wanting to step outside their comfort zone - Meg and Chris are languishing because nobody on staff knows how to write for teenagers, so instead of getting some people who can, they're content to just let the characters rot instead.
 
:^:This is basically may stance on Chris and Meg, especially Meg, since Chris has had some opportunities in the spotlight and he at least has the distinction of being a big hearted dope. I'm not a "Meg sympathizer", per se, (since it's hard to sympathize with a character who continually kisses up to characters like Connie DiMicco and now even her own father who routinely treat her like the scum you scrape off of tomato soup), it's just that I feel that FG's writers could have developed Meg in a different direction and could have made her into something other than the miserably pathetic doormat character that she has become. But before anything like that can happen, someone at the FG staff has to want it to happen, and clearly this is not the case. The shows' writers (and it's fans also, apparently) want to keep the show all about Peter, Stewie, Brian and the guys, and so that is how the series will stay.
 
Okay. I haven't really posted here yet, because I couldn't think of much to say. Though I think that ep was an improvement. It seems like their main reason for making their cutaways last so long was because they don't have enough ideas for material to fill up a half-hour show. When they do a trilogy series like this one, they don't really have that problem since each of the shorts are only about six or seven minutes long. That way they don't have to worry about filling the extra space. Just my opinion on this.
 
In hindsight, it would've worked a) because it would've given that segment an actual freakin' ending as b) Annie Wilkes was killed.

FG writers passing up an opportunity to kill Meg horribly? That's sloppy. (Her 'cameo' in the "Stand by Me" segment was after the fact. 'Taint the same thing.)

And the Joe getting paralyzed gag paled - heavily - in comparison to Willie's axe in the back. ("Aye, I'm bad at this.")
 
hI hadn't seen this episode until today in my religon class (we had watched Shawshank Redemption.) This first segments were pretty good, but I especially loved the Shawhshank one.
Overall, I liked it.
 
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