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[slemslempike]

A propos of several comments I've seen:

[Poll #719454]

Comments

[calapine.livejournal.com]

the geeky child with glasses

That's actually the phrase I think of when I think of him.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Can't do the poll as 'wears glasses' would have been my description. Much better than last week's, IMO.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

I think of him as NERD-BOY but, yeah. I only noticed he was apparenlty fat when one of my housemates was all, 'The fat kid gets to save the day!'

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It's boggling me - because when I first read a comment saying "the fat child" (oh, and they weren't being derogatory or anything, just as a description, which is fine), my first thought was "who? I missed that bit". I just don't remember him as being at all fat - and I find the difference in perception when looking at people very strange.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

He's a wee bit podgy, I suppose, but, no, I didn't notice when watching. The glasses, yeah.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mine too. I think it's mostly that I didn't see "fat" at all - and was rather confused as to who people were talking about at first, and now want to know if there's anyone else or if I have different perception or something.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yeah! And it's funny that he's the nerdy one, when his whole thing is that he's not eating the chips, so he's not as "clever as the others".

I still don't see him as fat. I'll have to watch it again to see if I can see why others think that though.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

Well, "TV-fat" is usually less fat than real life fat anyway, unless you're watching Lost. I think I was cued into in more by his out-of-breathness and his not-quite-breaking-into-a-run, which is TV drama shorthand for "kid who is last to get picked for the football team and has an inhaler". The way such characters turn out to be not so rubbish and are suddenly liked by the cool kids is a big cliche that this episode skirted worryingly close to a couple of times. Blame a childhood wasted reading Sweet Valley High ;-)

[cosmolinguist]

I complained to Andrew that he didn't seem fat, and he said, "He's TV-fat," which I think I agree with. Fat is (kinda) relative, and no one seems even normal-sized on TV.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I'd describe him as chubby, maybe, if pushed.