Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-27729149-20150602022947/@comment-25008763-20150725000825

in fairness the reason Patrick Star especially is attacked so much is because he DOES act like a sociopath.. now in a show like Family Guy or South Park or even Ren and Stimpy such behavior is expected and if Patrick was originally from one of these dark humor shows fans wouldn't get as uptight.

Spongebob was originally pretty light-hearted but for some reason it got extremely dark and Patrick especially changed from a loveable friend and somewhat nuisance to a geniunely hateful character.. writers caught on and started to soften him but the damage had been done.. Patrick is the victim of some writers who took a joke too far and severely damaged the character, attempts to bring him back from this will take a lot of time because as I mentioned before they tried to make Patrick a "black humor" character in a setting it previously had no right to be in (and even if they did want dark humor Mr. Krabs would of worked a lot better or (heaven forbid) Plankton, the actual villain of the show).