Thread:TRRFan6/@comment-26986696-20180901230614/@comment-5928665-20181028063653

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 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.