msstock87

I feel the same exact way, I just can't picture them in a romantic sense.

MistyMountainHop

msstock87

MistyMountainHop

I would've liked to have a flashback of Hyde and Donna's early friendship, to see what that was like.

msstock87

That would have been fun to see.

MistyMountainHop

I wonder if Hyde would give Donna some surreptitious longing gazes. He'd had feelings for her a long time, and if the show hadn't decided to make Hyde a villainous foil to Eric during season 1, it could've been a sad, character-building storyline for him -- Donna choosing Eric -- instead of a character-destroying one.

hanselnext

That would be sad for Hyde. Donna was the first girl that broke his heart so maybe it took him some time to get over it.

msstock87

That would have been sad for Hyde, but I was personally glad to see they didn't draw that storyline out over seasons.

MistyMountainHop

Me, too.

I wish the show hadn't made Hyde so vile in the Hyde/Donna/Eric storyline. His romantic feelings for Donna were so clearly one-sided (in more than one way). The show never suggested she had any romantic feelings for him, so it wasn't a true triangle.

msstock87

It wasn't a true triangle, you're right, the feelings were one sided on Hyde's part.

MistyMountainHop

Yeah, which means the point of that storyline was to show how good a guy Eric is in part by showing how bad/selfish Hyde is. It wasn't a smart writing move.

msstock87

It wasn't, I did not enjoy it at all.

MistyMountainHop

What the writers needed to do was either have Donna not be 100% sure what her feelings were for Hyde and Eric -- or not have Hyde be such an idiot and jackass about Donna's obvious lack of romantic interest in him. *le sigh*

msstock87

They should have just let Hyde and Donna be friends from the get go with no romantic intentions. I liked their friendship.

MistyMountainHop

Yeah, if they couldn't write the complexity right, they shouldn't have had Hyde have romantic feelings for Donna to begin with. But I do think if the story had been written right, we could've gotten some good character development for Hyde instead of the villainous crap we got.

T7S's creators have admitted in interviews (on camera and written) that they didn't actually know who Hyde's character was beyond being a conspiracy nut. DM gave Hyde his sarcasm and burning nature, apparently. Then Philip Stark wrote "Prom Night," which created a core of compassion in Hyde. He also wrote "Cat Fight Club," which further developed Hyde's compassion and his character altogether.

He wrote "Whole Lotta Love," too, () and "Christmas" (), and the atrocious "Squeeze Box" and "Down the Road Apiece," both episodes where Hyde is horribly OOC. I don't know why writers can't keep their own characters consistent. Aaaand he wrote the Jackie/Fez ep "My Fairy King" in S8.