You're Welcome! I always thought Futagawa was cool, but I never really understood why he was around until I thought about it from a production standpoint. His presence made no sense until I did, and while I liked it, it is an unfortunate sign of writing issues.
Couldnt stand him in the series, he was such an over confident knowitall. He had this over inflated self importance. In a way he simplifies the plot for the more passive watcher. The intellegence reveal seems like BONES writing thelselves out of a corner from how Columbo had almost omnipresent access to the highest gov’t to the protag
I liked him, but I understand the dislike of the character, as he has no logical in universe reason to hang around or know all the stuff he does and he can come off as a know it all. His lack of a logical in universe motivation/purpose is so blatant though I think my brain went full circle and appreciated just how weird it is. I always knew he shouldn't know what he does, but I was ok with it because I think I liked how blatant and out of place he felt, it was so weird and questionable it became interesting to me. It felt like a very obvious and almost open admission of "We went a little too far in a few places". I will admit though that's a personal taste thing, and I think Futagawa is a manifestation of objective issues in the writing room, or at least some time crunch issues.
Thank you for this. I liked this guy but he never seemed to fit in the story so thankyou for explaining that.
You're Welcome! I always thought Futagawa was cool, but I never really understood why he was around until I thought about it from a production standpoint. His presence made no sense until I did, and while I liked it, it is an unfortunate sign of writing issues.
Couldnt stand him in the series, he was such an over confident knowitall. He had this over inflated self importance. In a way he simplifies the plot for the more passive watcher. The intellegence reveal seems like BONES writing thelselves out of a corner from how Columbo had almost omnipresent access to the highest gov’t to the protag
I liked him, but I understand the dislike of the character, as he has no logical in universe reason to hang around or know all the stuff he does and he can come off as a know it all. His lack of a logical in universe motivation/purpose is so blatant though I think my brain went full circle and appreciated just how weird it is. I always knew he shouldn't know what he does, but I was ok with it because I think I liked how blatant and out of place he felt, it was so weird and questionable it became interesting to me. It felt like a very obvious and almost open admission of "We went a little too far in a few places". I will admit though that's a personal taste thing, and I think Futagawa is a manifestation of objective issues in the writing room, or at least some time crunch issues.