![]() ![]() So after Lilo fawns over him for a bit we find out this chonk of wood’s purpose in the episode: to set up the plot. As I said I hated him then, I hate him now and his involvement is the worst aspect of this episode. Scanner sombre tropes series#He was unecessary and it comes across with a massive chunk of unforutnate implications: that they didn’t think a series with a mostly hawaiann cast would work, that they wanted at least one other “nice” white character to offset myrtle instead of having the only major white character be a bully and antagonist, and that they thought tehir mostly white audience coudln’t enjoy a series without a white character, which as someone who was in the target demo at the time, I call bullshit on. I’m suprised they didn’t demand they have characters ask “Where’s Keonie?” any time he wasn’t in an episode. But I won’t go too hard on them: they probably didn’t have as much room to manuver and the fact Keoni was sitll being shoved into episodes in season 2 tells me they likely had a set number of episodes he had to show up. Hutchenson, a bright cheery doctor, the series best sidecharacter. He used those words, meant to create a superfical girl power cardboard cutout. And part of this does fall on the crew: you CAN twist a stupid mandate like this to work well: Joe Murray was asked to add “A female character with a hook”, as in some sort of dumb gimmick to Rocko. The two aren’t TERRIBLE characters but they aren’t great and feel as tacked on as they were. ![]() And Disney would NOT learn from this as Star Vs got saddled with Alphonso and Ferguson soley because of network mandate. They DID NOT want him here and likely only used him as mcuh as they did because Disney forced it on them. Disney forced the character on them as they wanted an audience surrogate, and this abomination is what popped out. I did uncover one fun fact that made things a bit easier though: The crew ALSO hated Keoni. but making her jake’s nemisis in their other lives, and thus making things increidbly difficult on both once the truth comes out, with Jake grappling with if he can trust her or not and Rose grappling with the slow relization eveyrthing she was taught her whole life was wrong. There were exceptions, American Dragon Jake Long actually used it well by not only making Rose a fleshed out character. I cannot tell you how many shows used this trope. IT’s annoying, it was in a good chunk of my childhood, I wish it’d stop. Intorducing a character whose only traits are being cool for the lead to fawn over with usually no intent of either getting the two togehter or just ending it. Keoni is part of a recurring problem in cartoons across the ages, one that’s slowly going away: the bland love intrest. He has no real personality other than “generic cool kid” and “likes skating”, and just sucks the air out of the room anytime he’s in an episode. Keoni is Lilo’s crush and local “stupid white audience stand in”. Just pure liquid hatred for this little perosnalitiless little punk. ![]() The second I remembered this kid all the hate just came flooding back, coursing through my veigns. ![]()
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