Your opinion on The Geek. Like her or Hate her?
Well Saw a little discution on this matter on an unrelated thread and I decided to make this poll and opinion thread so you guys can opinion on your Hatred or Love of The Geek
My opinion:Yeah, I Hate her!!
My opinion:Yeah, I Hate her!!
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......*Still votes "I hate her"*
This may be a little off topic but I wish [adult swim] would do a new Sam & Max show, but then again they'd probably ruin it...
On the one hand, she was often shunted to the side or disappeared for episodes at a time so that she didn't interfere with Sam and Max's rapport (understandable). On the other hand, when she did show up, she was just ... kinda there. Trying to act as a "straight man" to Sam and Max, but not in a particularly appealing way. A third-wheeler, effectively.
Which I think is at the root of the problem, if not the entirety of it. Sam and Max work best together -- just together. I do think the Geek could have been much better incorporated, and maybe that would have come with a would-be second season of the show. But she would continue to have a life-long friendship and conflicting sensibilities to contend with. That's an uphill battle if I've ever seen one ... at least if you want to be a prominent character along with the Freelance Police.
Don't get me wrong, I love the show. But if they were to revive it sans Geek, I wouldn't miss her for a second.
most of the Cartier look at sam and max and only see a small part but wood be schedule of them
Unfortunately, I can't remember where that interview was.
In any case I actually liked her as a character.
I believe the interview you're looking for is this one right
http://samandmax.co.uk/2010/04/interview-with-steve-purcell/
It's a pretty good interview, too.
That's why Sybil from the games works so nicely - her normality has to be aggressive in terms of the world she's in, so instead of being a 'straight man' she's a funny character in a totally different direction. I liked the Geek a lot when she was doing that. Also, yeah, girl power whoo feminist role model etc., I'm sure some five year old girl out there appreciated it.
Is it totally sacrilegious for me to admit that, while I'm glad it didn't happen, I would have liked the immediately vetoed suggestion to turn Max into the token girl? As long as female!Max retained as close to the same personality as possible - don't upgrade the bromance into UST except for when it would be funnier otherwise, substitute 'you don't even like boys' for 'you don't even like girls', go no further - I don't think it would have changed anything too sacred. If little girls are going to insert themselves into a little girl role model character, why can't it be a little muderous disgusting sociopath girl?
Agreed of first two statements... unhealthily curious about the third. As much as I know canon!Max would forever be a guy in my eyes, girl!Max, retaining his/her psychopathic nature, would have been interesting to see, if not a little jarring.
Anyway, back on topic.
SO OFF WITH HER HEAD! OFF WITH HER HEAAAAAAAD!
Plus, I can't think of the name "Geek" without the Kevin Smith explanation the definition of the term. "A geek is the guy who works at the carnival freak show biting the heads off of live chickens."
EDIT: without reading the second page beforehand, I see that Fly said a lot of what I said much better than I did.
That's actually a pretty interesting point. Thinking about it, the addition of The Geek let Sam be more insane than he'd usually be in the comics and games; normally, Sam needs to at least be rational enough to tone down Max's stupid ideas, but in the cartoon, Sam could be just as bad as Max if The Geek was the one playing straight-man. I'm not sure this necessarily makes Sam's character better or more interesting or funnier, but I think it does make his character work better in the cartoon.
That's why I thought she was at her best in the Uglions episode, where she actually did some solo detective work, got captured, got herself out of trouble without relying on Sam and Max, and returned to find Max needing to be rescued instead. The whole time she was happily participating in the 'aliens taking over the world with fast food' plot without pausing to point out how stupid it was, and her taking everything so seriously amped up the comedy melodrama in a way Sam and Max wouldn't have been able to do. I wish she'd been like that more often in the series, but that would have involved giving her a larger role and potentially messing up the duo dynamic, I suppose.