Same, I'm just amused and bemused over here. Like, isn't Brian Seth's mouthpiece character? Is he trying to be edgy again, or did he just decide the show's over, or what? Can anyone who still follows the show possibly shed some light on this? They got a nigga curious but I'm not about to go watchin' it again just to find out what's what.
I just watched the episode. Basically, Stewie gave some Native Americans in Jamestown guns and it all turned to **** so he and Brian go to take the guns back, then Stewie decides to destroy his time machine to prevent stuff like that from happening again. Some bad writing involving street hockey happens and Brian gets hit by a car. Brian dies in a hospital. Lots of crying. Stewie decides to rebuild his time machine, but the only guy who could make a crucial part for it got arrested. Everyone in Quahog attends the funeral because apparently Brian was that important to everyone. Adam West complains that nobody went to his funeral. Stewie is clearly taking it the hardest. The Griffins get another dog, Stewie tries to kill him by inducing cardiac arrest, then bad writing happens and now they're friends. Overall, I give this episode a 2/10. The shift to focus on Stewie and Brian in the last few seasons was what turned the show from utter crap to something that I could actually enjoy and now they've ruined it by killing off one of the two good characters on the show. It's probably just the anger talking, but I wish McFarlane hadn't been so hungover that he missed his plane all those years ago.
Since I can't find a suitable thread to post this in..I'll just leave this here and yeah Brian died, I made an emotional post on my tumblr about the moment.
Except for the part where two episodes later in the season have Brian's name in it It's a cheap ratings ploy and you should all feel bad for thinking otherwise
I was about to say the same thing about the mouthpiece. And I don't follow the show but I can say that they safely wrote out every way they could revive the character and replaced him with another mouthpiece named Vinnie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_(season_12) upcoming episodes Brian the Closer Brian's a Bad Father
I'd say it's very probable, though the fact that the new dog's voice actor was listed as a guest star makes me think that, at the very least, Vinnie's not going to stay. There's also this. Maybe we'll be seeing a spin-off or something.
I actually saw a synopsys for the episode a few months ago, but all it said was that 'they were going to kill off a member of the Griffon family permanently and replace them with another character'. I honestly thought they were going to kill off Meg.
Oh god please no. I would never watch a show centering around a character as political and preachy as Brian. Though maybe if he did get his own show Seth could stop strong-arming his politics all over Family Guy.
Ugh, Brian was my fave character on da show. I honestly haven't watched the new episodes since probably about Season 8 or so, but eh, we'll have to see if the new replacement is better or on par or worse. Also, it might be just me, but I don't see how a show like Family Guy killing off a main character in the first place.
See, I didn't see him as that. In the cases where he acts all political and preachy, I see him as a parody of that particular kind of character. In the show he's preachy, political, and sometimes kind of a jackass about it, but it's taken so far that it becomes laughable.
No, that is so clearly Seth's pov character. I'm thinking specifically of the episode where Meg becomes super religious and he gives his speech at the end, and any instance where anyone becomes either religious or conservative in the slightest, like the Rush Limbaugh episode. there are so many jabs at Republicans and conservatives in that episode. My problem is not with the side they take but the fact that they take a side at all and shove it in your face every episode. There's nothing interesting at all about Brian. He's only there to be overtly political and Stewie's sidekick. Stan from American Dad is a parody. Brain is not.
