Takeshi

Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 20 07:26:25 CDT 2006


The GR Bodine is basically a decent,
>kind guy - one of the few heroes in GR, in fact - whereas the Bodine of V. 
>is an unsympathetic slob. Whatever happened to Bodine between WWII and 
>1956? Why has he grown MORE immature? Where is his kindness? Still, noone 
>would argue that they're not in fact the same character.

Well put. That was the question I was asking myself. In GR Bodine seem to 
have matured together with his creator, whereas chronologically his 
'degradation' is a bit preternatural.

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