The show started in 2005, the second season aired in September of 2006, and he came out in November of 2006. So, yeah, It was the or so of my “Season 3 or so”.
The artist cannot claim their audience. Just because idiots buy your shit doesn’t mean that it was originally intended for them. Do you think the Wachowskis intended for the red pill movement to go the way it did?
You mean, did the showrunners see that an aspect of the show was testing well with a large chunk of their audience and decide to amp up the traits that were enjoyed while simultaneously making merchandise to milk their customers with? They created a womanizing caricature of a single guy that most of us know, or at least know of. They dedicated massive chunks of time to the arc of that character, including multiple redemption arcs and growth moments. He went from The Playbook to getting married, divorced and being a dad over the course of the show. He was always the devil on Ted’s shoulder, and Marshall was the angel. Barney showed the perils of perpetual single-life with poor judgement, and Marshall spent the show highlighting the difference in lifestyle when you marry young. So, yeah, they sold The Bro Code because it was one of the few marketable things from the show. They couldn’t very well sell “Ted Mosby’s Guide to 19th Century Gothic Architecture” or “Marshall and Lilly’s Guide to Buying Your First Apartment.” They marketed what would sell, and what sold was a joke about being a Bro.
They sold copies of “the bro code” which people bought unironically.
I thought casting one of the most famous openly gay actors for the role made it pretty clear
He hadn’t come out when he was cast. I don’t think he came out until season 3 or so.
No he came out many years before that in 2006 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/neil-patrick-harris-i-realised-i-was-gay-after-kiss-from-burt-reynolds-9796831.html
You might be thinking of when he got married, in 2014.
The show started in 2005, the second season aired in September of 2006, and he came out in November of 2006. So, yeah, It was the or so of my “Season 3 or so”.
I could’ve sworn the show started in 2010 but I guess that’s just when I started watching it. I stand corrected.
That’s not in the text. I shouldn’t have to know about the actor’s personal life to get such a supposedly integral part of the character.
The artist cannot claim their audience. Just because idiots buy your shit doesn’t mean that it was originally intended for them. Do you think the Wachowskis intended for the red pill movement to go the way it did?
They officially sold the bro code. You think that didn’t influence the writing and encouraged flandersisation?
You mean, did the showrunners see that an aspect of the show was testing well with a large chunk of their audience and decide to amp up the traits that were enjoyed while simultaneously making merchandise to milk their customers with? They created a womanizing caricature of a single guy that most of us know, or at least know of. They dedicated massive chunks of time to the arc of that character, including multiple redemption arcs and growth moments. He went from The Playbook to getting married, divorced and being a dad over the course of the show. He was always the devil on Ted’s shoulder, and Marshall was the angel. Barney showed the perils of perpetual single-life with poor judgement, and Marshall spent the show highlighting the difference in lifestyle when you marry young. So, yeah, they sold The Bro Code because it was one of the few marketable things from the show. They couldn’t very well sell “Ted Mosby’s Guide to 19th Century Gothic Architecture” or “Marshall and Lilly’s Guide to Buying Your First Apartment.” They marketed what would sell, and what sold was a joke about being a Bro.
I guess it would be less cringe today if the current cultural context had less of the manosphere.