User blog:Dragonzako/Opinion on Lincoln

'''Now, do I expect this blog to end well? No. Considering the fact that last time I did this, it turned into a fight over what a hero was. It’s more than that though, considering sometimes when I tell my opinions of Lincoln, it never ends well as some users and those are the ones I respect come off a bit rude to me in their comments to me about it. Granted I don’t think that was their intention, but it came off rude sometimes to me. I never told them since I didn’t want them to get mad at me and since I’m somewhat shy. But I thought at this point it’s better to make an update blog on Lincoln since I don’t think the original gave off everything I was trying to give off. '''

My biggest gripe with Lincoln isn’t exactly his selfishness, well it is, but there’s a lot more to it. I’ll explain and break it down. In Season 1 there was a pattern specifically to him being selfish, 1st step he would do something selfish that affects someone, 2nd step those people (sometimes the sisters, or others) would get either sad or mad which leads into the 3rd step where Lincoln would get guilt into doing the 4th step which is making up for his actions. And Linc making up for his actions is good, but what I don’t like is instead of learning to better himself or to learn from his mistakes to prevent it from happening again, he just repeats it again, not once or twice at least several more times. Also the fact that he has to realize what he did was wrong is from looking at sad or mad people to guilt trip him into doing the right thing, it just seems that if he didn’t see those mad or sad faces then he would go on not knowing what he did was wrong. And sure, sometimes you can blinded by your selfishness to not know what your actions did, but if you are going to not reflect on your actions at least sometimes it just seems you don’t really care what happens after your action was made. Overall it really diminishes his moments when he makes up for his actions, but they are still good moments. And yeah nobody should be perfect, but if he’s just going to keep doing the same things over and over after claiming he clearly learned it, it destroys his credibility and his likeability as a character to me. Think about it, if a person you know kept doing the same mistake over and over and made up for those mistakes over and over, eventually you wouldn’t want to forgive that person again since they keep doing the same thing without ever learning anything. Then there’s another pattern in Season 1 which is similar to my first formula I gave out, but shorter, his selfish actions just backfire on him like in Sounds of Silence, In Tents Debate, Funny Business, etc. There were many episodes in Season 1 in which I just didn’t like him, but some people somewhat find him a victim or like him in it, episodes like Sounds of Silence, In Tents Debate, Get the Message (read http://theloudhouse.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Dragonzako/Top_10_Worst_Episodes_of_Loud_House), Picture Perfect, Sweet Spot). Problem to me with Lincoln in Season 1 that mostly the negative traits that I discussed was overused to the point his positive traits didn’t show as much. Don’t get me wrong he had good moments in Season 1, but they weren’t a lot to really counter the bad parts. If you’re going to give a character a negative trait, you can use it, but don’t over-do it to the point it overshadows the good parts you’re trying to give off. But I’ll give the writers some slack, if they were trying to make me like Linc or make me feel bad for him, then they failed to me.

Then Season 2 came, and they luckily decreased his selfishness to tolerable levels, but in encountered the second flaw. Not a big one, but one that didn’t make Lincoln move up my list. That was how boring he was becoming, since the show never really developed Linc or gave him any hobbies that separate him from Clyde it just has become somewhat boring. The reason I’m not a big fan of Clinclon McLoud as it’s boring to the point of other characters making it more interesting and it doesn’t give Linc or Clyde any development since it just does the same adventure storyline with these two that we’ve many times before in Season 1. In some episodes he came somewhat interesting to where I liked him like in ARRGH You For Real, 11 Louds A Leapin, Frog Wild, etc.

Even though what I said above, I don’t really despise Linc. I used to dislike him a lot and I’m still going on strong on what I said above. But deep down he isn’t a bad person and there is a good character there. There were times he came off likeable when he taught Lola to read and took the blame for her, made a plan to keep his parents healthy, stood up for Lucy, let two of his sisters sleep in his room, helped Leni with her driving test, helped his sisters to get money from their parents, etc. That’s the Linc I like, but unfortunately that one is overshadowed a lot by his boring/selfish version that keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over. But to me at this point, I don’t really dislike Linc anymore. I’m neutral with him. He has been somewhat improving and I at least find myself caring more about him than I’ll ever do with Luna. Maybe down the line, I can like Linc, which is a possibility he’s not the worst character as the distinction totally goes to the parents and Clyde. Hopefully that could happen.