it’s been a while since i graced my tumblr with any kind of art (read: forced my followers to look at random stuff i do) so here’s frank hardy, mostly inspired by his design in mid!
yall: omg nancy and frank hardy are a better couple than nancy and ned
me, an intellectual: remembers the two nancy drew/hardy boys books where ned thinks nancy is cheating on him with frank and nancy freaks out trying to get him to realize she’ll only ever be with him
I’ve said this before, but maybe if I change how I say it more people might like it. Games!Ned does have a personality.
But he does suffer from something that affects a lot of characters throughout the games, especially in the later ones. Lazy writing.
Really Frank and Joe actually suffer from this too. I don’t remember enough about Bess and George in the later games to say this totally applies to them as well.
Anyway, I was talking about this with some other people in the fandom a while back but I just remembered to make a post about it. Something that all three of the boys suffer from is having their personalities be reliant on another character.
Joe’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on him being Frank’s kinda goofy younger brother
Ned’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on being Nancy’s boyfriend
And Frank’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on being a tired older brother to Joe and being awkward cause he has a crush on Nancy
All of us noted that in the earlier games this really isn’t the case. All three of them have fuller, independent personalities that disappeared or got weaker over time.
All of those things their personalities became reliant on are often things that fans made clear they associated with each character.
But I also don’t think that it’s like entirely a blinded by fanon issue. I think that HeR just got like a little lazier or whatever better/more descriptive word could apply and just focused each character on another character they’re meant to be associated with.
Like it’s extremely easy to focus the Hardy Boys’ personalities with each other and how the other reacts to it. Frank is a tired older brother of a guy who’s kinda goofy, sure. But that’s not it. It’s also really easy to write the main thing about the protagonists boyfriend being that he’s her boyfriend and nothing more. When that’s not all Ned is.
Honest opinions on hardy boys season 2, you probably won’t agree or like them but anyways.
Laura coming back was a good move, the show didn’t know if it was gonna get renewed for another season so it needed to end on a cliffhanger, if you don’t like that then you’re not thinking logically enough.
They focused on the wrong relationships this season, Phil and Biff were sweet on screen but did nothing for me, Joe and Lucy was so bland and contrived. Joe didn’t need a love interest and if he did, him and Biff would’ve worked better. I know it’s stereotypical but it’s at least funny and they know eachother and trust eachother, besides having a crush on your childhood best friend is hilarious. When they hugged awkwardly? When he mentioned not having a wife and then tried to rectify it? Hilarious. Lucy as a character was watered down in order to keep her vague and that bored me to death. Belinda was great for Chet’s development as we did not see enough of him season 1, I would’ve liked to see him and Callie become friends again.
Joe and Frank had some sweet moments and I really loved the little family they built with aunt Trudy and Fenton, but again there was not enough room to focus on their relationship more, I hope they fix this in season 3.
Wilt was iconic as always, I wish they would advertise the show more, its way better then Riverdale and even though it’s got some pretty weird plotlines, they make it work.
