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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