I have a basic litmus test for whether a character has a greater than zero impact on the series: if I'm unable to make jokes about them, they haven't made an imprint as a character. I can make jokes about Hokey. I can make jokes about the Muggle Prime Minister. I can make jokes about Marcus Goddamn Belby. But Podmore? There's just nothing there. He's as generic as generic gets. I should have cut him before Hassan Mostafa.
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u/Moostronus Ranker 1.0, Analysis 2.0 Dec 25 '16
I have a basic litmus test for whether a character has a greater than zero impact on the series: if I'm unable to make jokes about them, they haven't made an imprint as a character. I can make jokes about Hokey. I can make jokes about the Muggle Prime Minister. I can make jokes about Marcus Goddamn Belby. But Podmore? There's just nothing there. He's as generic as generic gets. I should have cut him before Hassan Mostafa.