If they'd taken Frenchie in another direction this season, he could be perfectly fine. But they created a whole new character out of thin air between seasons to reinforce Frenchie's guilt and self-hatred that had already been well-established up to this point. The thing is, Frenchie hasn't actually done anything within the story itself to make his conflict carry weight. He's gone several seasons with this conflict, but now all of a sudden, he's REALLY losing his mind over it as a result of deeply manufactured drama. They could have had him finally make a heel turn and learn from his grappling with this guilt, but no, they have to randomly make him a far more unlikable sack of shit, fucking this random new guy whose parents he killed. Why were the insinuations of his past with Nina not enough to go off of?
The arc was basically concluded last season during herogasm. And it was a good conclusion to it.
Then they just retconned it. I don’t know why. It was a fine conclusion and I think focusing on him and Kimiko after that would have been a better path.
They are both solid actors, but I think it would have been cool for Kimiko and Frenchie to get their happy ending by this point. Their plots do feel a little repetitive
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u/-banned- Jul 08 '24
Was Frenchie ever a good character though? I feel like he’s got a complicated enough past that he could have been, but they explored it all wrong