Posted by Random Scribbles
on 9/15/2008, 6:17 am, in reply to "Re: 25th Anniversary - Episode Rewatch - "Night Of No Tomorrow""
I also fell in love with Eric straight away on seeing NoNT (since I barely remembered the toon from my childhood when I watched the DVDs I'd consider that episode to be my introduction) Right from the start, I saw him as the voice of reason. But as you point out, Neil, that might be because I was watching it as a slightly sarcastic noughties adult instead of a starry-eyed 80s child. He is a prat here, but I loved him *because* he was a prat.
It's excellent that he goes through a growing process throughout the show (and from my vague memory of the cartoon's contemporaries, quite unusual for a character to have an ongoing development like that), but that's an added bonus for me - I'd have carried on loving him as a character even if he'd stayed the whiny, self centred git that he is in these early episodes.
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: heh, no more than usual, I thought - I was more annoyed by Bobby's
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: most of the story - he is the voice of the cynical adult, I feel
: - is that a more prevalent attitude nowadays than it was back
: then? Or is that just my middle age creeping up on me?...
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: My first thought was - "Eric is such a div in this!"
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