In Defence of Jeff Winger (Part 1) lunarblue21December 8 2014, 03:49:35 UTC
I struggle with that idea because in doing the series rewatch, I've discovered that while Jeff is very likeable, he does and displayed a lot of shitty behaviours and attitudes. Is he a good friend? A good man? A good person?
I will be the first person to admit that it took a while for Jeff to grow on me, especially in S1. I found him charming and handsome, but his selfishness, manipulative behaviour, arrogance and vanity was off-putting and annoying.
However, his selfishness especially grated on me and that ties into J/B because Jeff does everything with Britta in regards to her getting into his pants in S1 because it will validate him.
He doesn’t really truly care about her or her heart, and that’s another reason why I can’t ever ship J/B at all, on top of the fact that it’s fundamentally shallow and that Britta treats Jeff awfully (I tend to compare J/B to the reviled Seddie ship of Nick’s ICarly, and it doesn’t help that Britta kinda reminds me of Sam looks-and-personality-wise) with condescension and lack of empathy (Home Ec) that the ship is altogether “un-shippable” for me.
Okay, now that we’ve gotten that gripe about of the way, about Jeff. Like I’ve stated before, I found Jeff very unlikable at the start of the series, primarily in S1 where he really only cares about getting into Britta's pants and is often shown as callous and self-absorbed.
I only began to change my mind about him after I saw him grow and attempt to make a personal sacrifice for Annie in 106 when he tries to talk Troy out of football at the end. Doing so would cost him his reputation as the Dean would’ve sent out those posters, but he did it anyway- for Annie (and for himself, because it’s the right thing to do, he’d convinced himself, obviously.)
I will be the first person to admit that it took a while for Jeff to grow on me, especially in S1. I found him charming and handsome, but his selfishness, manipulative behaviour, arrogance and vanity was off-putting and annoying.
However, his selfishness especially grated on me and that ties into J/B because Jeff does everything with Britta in regards to her getting into his pants in S1 because it will validate him.
He doesn’t really truly care about her or her heart, and that’s another reason why I can’t ever ship J/B at all, on top of the fact that it’s fundamentally shallow and that Britta treats Jeff awfully (I tend to compare J/B to the reviled Seddie ship of Nick’s ICarly, and it doesn’t help that Britta kinda reminds me of Sam looks-and-personality-wise) with condescension and lack of empathy (Home Ec) that the ship is altogether “un-shippable” for me.
Okay, now that we’ve gotten that gripe about of the way, about Jeff. Like I’ve stated before, I found Jeff very unlikable at the start of the series, primarily in S1 where he really only cares about getting into Britta's pants and is often shown as callous and self-absorbed.
I only began to change my mind about him after I saw him grow and attempt to make a personal sacrifice for Annie in 106 when he tries to talk Troy out of football at the end. Doing so would cost him his reputation as the Dean would’ve sent out those posters, but he did it anyway- for Annie (and for himself, because it’s the right thing to do, he’d convinced himself, obviously.)
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