Thread:Loudfan21000/@comment-24200891-20171028122527/@comment-24200891-20171212054838

I also had problem with your review, but then I discussed with you about it to understand your point of view. Many still see this as a wasted chance for Lincoln to discover his life path. I don't like how amoral he was simply because he felt inferior to his sisters. This episode for over a year made me think that Lincoln has inferiority complex and no talent till in later episodes it was shown that he's a good teacher and comic artist. I still want an episode, where Lincoln gets a real trophy with no moral issues. Still this episode inspired me to write "Melancholinc", what accidentally turned out to be similar to No Laughin Matter, but difference is Lincoln went much further with his depression and it's Ronnie who helped him, not his sisters. Maybe because of fanarts I expected Luan to become a full time mime or even emo in NLM.

Like many other fans I am afraid of flanderization, in season 2 some characters felt victims of it.
 * Parents became neglectful fools except for Future Tense, when they tried to be good. Lynn Sr. became an overreacting manchild.
 * Lynn has an insufferable ego, she doesn't know how to win or lose with dignity, her superstitions were the worst, maybe even worse is her needless violence
 * Lori develops but quickly returns to underdeveloped state. She was flanderized into an overreacting farting girl thinking only about herself.
 * Leni was a ditz in season 1, when in season 2 she became an idiot, who can't distinguish her brother from stone and was insensitive as she laughed from his tragedy with pictures.
 * Lisa turned into amoral unempathic mad scientist jerk with no sense of private space. Only Friend or Faux saved her.
 * Luan became an expy of the Joker in Fool's Paradise.
 * When it's mob mentality, the sisters are unlikable jerks up to 11.
 * Clyde's most defining characteristic became his sick obsession on Lori. Second are his overreactions.
 * Lincoln forgets his lessons about not being selfish.

Good there were more character developments.
 * Lola developed into more caring girl, but her overreactions make her unlikable. She's arguably most developed sister.
 * Lana was a filth lover in s1, when in s2 she turned out to be a passionate mechanic and animal lover.
 * Lisa developed in Friend or Faux.
 * Luna is one of the least developed, her sexuality became her most defining characteristic for fandom, all because the writers didn't know how to develop her in other way. S2 only showed she's not a good student.