Thread:TRRFan6/@comment-26986696-20180901230614/@comment-4400695-20181028073134

FloridaMan wrote: Unfortunately, this episode pretty much cemented what I've been fearing for a while about Cody's role in this show: his only purpose in this series is so he can be the butt of jokes about how he has no purpose. They completely removed his personality from the main series and turned him into a flat character who's either in the background most of the time or being casually insulted by the other characters about how unmemorable he is.

Why did they do this to him? Is it to appease all his haters on Tumblr? Whatever the reason, it sucks and I dislike it immensely. And, considering Cody was my favorite character on the main series, I'll even go so far as to say that this realization somewhat lessens my liking for this show as a whole. It's hard to get enthusiastic about this series when you know that nothing positive is going to be planned for your favorite character in any future episode.

Look, I'm not going to be petty and give up on the show because of this, but my excitement for it definitely goes south when I strongly suspect that my favorite character is going to continue to be mistreated in every single one of his sporadic appearances.

He should have been retired after TDWT and left to keep his dignity intact. I don't think any of his fans would have complained about that. This just feels like a huge middle finger.

It's pretty sad that my biggest hope at this point is that now that he's been subjected to that extremely harsh Jude line and then literally died on screen, there isn't that much worse they can do to him. That's about as insulting and undignifying as I think it's possible to get.

I sent McGillis and McGurrin a screenshot of this message on Twitter, asking if that's really what they want to give us the idea of, and if they really wanted to steer us away from enjoying the show. Not that I think it's gonna do anything, but I figured it couldn't hurt to at least try. #JusticeForCody