#lee-asks

Oh boy, I have a lot to say about this one. I think Mac has seen the most changes to his character and I’ve been pretty vocal about kinda being conflicted on his recent characterization. One of my main issues with it is that he hasn’t been as immoral as he was in earlier seasons(which is something I kinda see in all the characters but I’ll get into that later). Mac I think has fallen victim to being characterized by his feelings for Dennis at times which sucks because now a lot of his plots don’t revolve around him as a person but rather his feelings for another character/his attraction to men in general like now that he has came out they don’t know what to do with him. I mostly just wish they would remember that just because a character is gay or has a heartfelt moment doesn’t mean he has to stop being a seedy, terrible, person!! I know parts of it are intentional and supposed to satire Macs belief he has to be characterized by one thing because he is trying to find out his purpose now that he knows he’s gay , but I also think they have kinda just focused too much on his whole finding his identity or “thing” arc? Like I think him discovering his identity is important but also I think important other parts of his identity have been completely overlooked recently. I also feel like Mac putting anyone before him would have been out of character in earlier seasons even if he was in love with them!! It was kinda the whole point of the gang that the were selfish and always put themselves over everyone including other members of the gang. When they are taken hostage by the Mcpoyles they alI go against each other because, despite the fact that they are all very close, they value their own lives more than anyone else’s to a comical degree. With Dennis my feelings are a bit more complex, while I think making him outwardly constantly angry at Mac often bordering on cruel is out of character, it’s usually in response to Macs equally out of character treatment of Dennis if that makes sense? I think if they plan on making Dennis have repressed feelings for Mac then his characterization from the past couple seasons works, but if not then I don’t think it would make sense for the same Dennis who couldn’t go a day without texting or talking to Mac would act the way he has recently without it being under the guise of some sort of underlying emotions. With the gang in general the show has kinda as of recent seasons done this thing where the characters are simultaneously getting better and worse. We haven’t seen them ruin someone’s life or do a scheme that revolves around one of them or someone else getting seriously injured or just their general lack of care for anyone but themselves nearly as often as we did in earlier seasons . It’s like they want to reflect the characters lack of morality but aren’t working it into the story the same way they used to imo. Overall I still love the characters, I think there has been very minimal change in characterization of Dee, Charlie, and Frank (when there is differences in Frank or Charlie I think they are nonsensical characters enough that it often just plays as them being their “weird” selves and still works) and honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the things I listed were somehow intentional because I do really think rcg and the always sunny writers usually know what they are doing (or at least I hope they do lmao) and I just hope that season 16 gives us some evil Mac and Mac and Dennis genuinely enjoying each others company again!

I’ve answered for Mac before but I’ll give my Dennis response!! I think again, that they both started having the beginning of feelings for each other in high school but wouldn’t have clocked it/realized because they are both excruciating repressed, (religiously, emotionally, the whole works) but I honestly could see it going either way with Dennis between knowing earlier than Mac, and still not knowing yet tbh. I’ve seen a lot of compelling evidence that he realized earlier on and ended up pushing his feelings down for various reasons which I think is entirely plausible! I could see him figuring out he had feelings for Mac around season five or even earlier but either not wanting to admit it to himself or not fully being able to place the feelings because it’s one of the first times he’s felt romantic attraction (or imo, probably both). I also think it’s possible he still just fully doesn’t know he’s in love with him yet! (As a side note, I feel like people don’t talk about the fact that Dennis is very repressive towards himself too, just not because of religion). I think Dennis probably fell first, but if he figured out first I’m not sure on!

Yeah and what about it

I’ve answered my favorite episode but it’s a Very Sunny Christmas! As for headcannons I have way too many favs because I am insane but some of my favorites are all of the gang being somewhere on the neurodivergent spectrum (and any hcs that come with that i.e. Macs karate moves being stims or Dennis having noise sensitivity issues), like any headcannon about Mac and Charlie growing up together (like Mac teaching Charlie to read or defending eachother from bullies), and that Dee and the waitress have hooked up before.

I think Dennis serenading Mac in The Gang Dines Out is one of my favs but them dressing as Hugh and Vic is also a top contender! And obviously just the whole episode of Mac and Dennis Break Up

Mac rotates around in my head during all hours of the day

God there’s so many mfhp, Dennis getting the rpg, like any scene that talks about/alludes to Macs childhood, Dennis leaving, and the end of the gang broke Dee all are pretty emotional to me in their own ways

Yeah! It’s pretty simply it’s a theory I saw a while ago (honestly don’t even remember where but I’ve seen it floating around multiple times so) that basically if I remember right is the reason the characters are so exaggerated and often times cartoonish, is because it’s Charlie’s warped perspective of things and that the show is through his perspective (which is why some episodes are more nonsensical leaning with no explanation) rather than how they go down! I don’t believe it to be honest I think the reason for their cartoonish-ness is because it’s a show and that’s what’s entertaining to watch/kinda the backbone of the premise of Its Always Sunny, but I do think it’s kinda silly and in comparison to say, the gas leak theory at least slightly more believable.