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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-05-07 07:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #2682 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2682 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-05-07 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
If there's any character meant to represent the author's views it's him. I don't think I've ever seen him be the butt of a joke like other characters.

(Anonymous) 2014-05-07 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
He's still a dumb kid who is way too cynical and negative. Both in the comic strip w/ the interactions with Caesar, who's often presented as being the actual voice of reason who understands what's really going on the same way that Huey does but who is able to put it into perspective, and in the TV show, where Huey is just a dumb kid a lot of the time.

He is the closest thing to an authorial voice, yes, but not at all perfect. He is the butt of a joke on the TV series, but more "sympathetic but kinda dumb" on the comic

(Anonymous) 2014-05-07 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Huey is sort of like Lisa Simpson, you get the idea that he's supposed to be the voice of reason a lot, especially when he's narrating, but the show also sometimes steps back and shows that he tends to overthink things, and he is still just a kid, so he can be wrong.

The balance with characters like this is a delicate thing, as you make them the voice of reason too often, and viewers will treat them like an author mouthpiece, so when the character is wrong, the audience will misattribute the character's mistakes with the creator's actual beliefs.
On the flipside, if you do a poor job making them the reasonable character, then they just tend to come off as a stuck up jackass talks down to all the other characters.