Clyde's not daft. Like I said, he's ballsy, which means he plays class-clown, acts loud, makes others laugh. But that's a function of his personality, and, I think, a very calculated understanding of his social sphere.
Yes, because that's what people who have spent much of their life experiencing unthinking rejection do in self-defence. Their behaviour says they want to be loved and included but their words pretend to coolness and indifference.
Perhaps in the third episode when he convinces Luke to leave the house? But even then, one could argue that finding the responsible adult/person who knows most about the situation and aliens was the best plan. And even if it's dangerous, I think that'd come under ballsy, not stupid.
I suspect Clyde was being coded as, at best, "pushy" in that scene. He wants in and he wants in so much that he's doing things which can be coded as "rebellious". There was a discussion in the comments of my post about where we thought the writers might take the character and we decided there was some convincing foreshadowing for:
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Clyde's not daft. Like I said, he's ballsy, which means he plays class-clown, acts loud, makes others laugh. But that's a function of his personality, and, I think, a very calculated understanding of his social sphere.
Yes, because that's what people who have spent much of their life experiencing unthinking rejection do in self-defence. Their behaviour says they want to be loved and included but their words pretend to coolness and indifference.
Perhaps in the third episode when he convinces Luke to leave the house? But even then, one could argue that finding the responsible adult/person who knows most about the situation and aliens was the best plan. And even if it's dangerous, I think that'd come under ballsy, not stupid.
I suspect Clyde was being coded as, at best, "pushy" in that scene. He wants in and he wants in so much that he's doing things which can be coded as "rebellious". There was a discussion in the comments of my post about where we thought the writers might take the character and we decided there was some convincing foreshadowing for:
http://spiralsheep.livejournal.com/165939.html?thread=2187827#t2187827
The focus isn't on what he does it's on the way everyone else sees him.
Yes, exactly that!