>>106995385How well you like Doug depends a lot on whether you can identify. I was a neurotic as fuck kid, I knew exactly how he felt. It was nice seeing someone getting through those problems, god knows my problems never got solved, whether by others or myself. they just kept happening.
You have a point though, after the 9th or 10th time everything turned out okay, you'd think he'd learn... everything's gonna turn out okay.
But you could say that about just about any fiction. Protagonists go through tons of shit and always come out alright, so they should logically all be like the cast of Milo Murphy's Law, just totally blasé towards peril, knowing it will always cut close but never actually harm them much. buuut.. that threatened to make that show really boring, until Cavendish and Dakota showed up to save it.
also yeah I remember the commercials claiming Doug was in 7th grade, but finding out later he was 11 I'm like.. is this what my dad wants me to be doing? going out on my own and getting fast food and stuff? because I just fucking stay inside where it's safe and comfortable, and enjoy art and tv and videogames because fuck that noise.
