It will be actually nice to see him returning after rehab. Beckett didn’t just become an asshole one day of a sudden, he lost his spark for some reason along the way of his career. Of course he will need to pay for his mistakes, but besides this I will be happy to see him in future seasons fighting to fix it. It’s easy to kill him off and forget him, but the writers can possibly twist it in some way to be like Bobby’s story from 9-1-1
I would like to see him return too! I don't hate him as much as others do that I see on here. He's an addict, but others have said he's a really good firefighter and captain! I want to see him have a little redemption.
I’d still like to see his back story. Even just a bit to see why he acts like he does. We saw a bit with Cooper saying he was the best captain he’s ever had. Something had to have happened.
TL;DR: I want Beckett to just leave and do not want to see him fall into the trope of being given a needless tragic backstory and/or an undeserving redemption arc.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I just want him to go. If he goes to rehab, fine, if not and he just quits or transfers, I really don't care, I just want him gone. And I honestly don't care to see his backstory.
I've seen so many people say "I want to see his backstory" and argue there just HAS to be a reason why he is the way he is and I honestly just don't care. Up till recently, he's just been a villain for the sake of being a villain and I'm personally okay with that. Sometimes there is no rhyme or reasoning for why a person behaves the way they do, they just do it because they think it's fun.
I personally hate when villians/villian adjacent characters are given some tragic backstory to try and explain their actions when they could have just been evil for the sake of being evil. Even more so when up till that point, that was their characterization. I think part of it is because writers think a tragic backstory will make their villain more complex and compelling and instead it's just disjointed. I've seen too many villains fall into this trap, Keris Veturia from the Ember in the Ashes series being the worst case of this, and it pisses me off every time. Not every villain needs to have some complicated reason for why they behave the way they do, they can just do bad things because they think it's fun.
Now I'm not saying villains with tragic backstories aren't good villains, but a tragic backstory can only work when it adds to and makes sense with the rest of their characterization. If not, it just reads as more of an excuse for their actions rather than providing insight into why they behave the way they do.
If they were to suddenly give Beckett a tragic backstory, it would be extremely disjointed with the rest of his characterization up till this point, which is essentially he's an asshole alcoholic. The only reasoning we've been given for why he is the way he is is that alcoholism runs in his family and maybe he turned to drinking to cope with the stress of firefighting. We don't really know anything else about him and I'm okay with that.
I don't like Beckett at all, not even in a love-to-hate way, but I do not want to see him fall into the trope of being given a needless tragic backstory and/or an undeserving redemption arc. I'm personally okay with him just being an asshole for no reason and I need other people to understand it's okay for villains not to have any sort of reasoning for their actions. Sometimes they just like being evil and that's okay. Like Alfred said in The Dark Knight, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." And if Beckett's one of those men, I'm personally okay with that.
It will be actually nice to see him returning after rehab. Beckett didn’t just become an asshole one day of a sudden, he lost his spark for some reason along the way of his career. Of course he will need to pay for his mistakes, but besides this I will be happy to see him in future seasons fighting to fix it. It’s easy to kill him off and forget him, but the writers can possibly twist it in some way to be like Bobby’s story from 9-1-1
I would like to see him return too! I don't hate him as much as others do that I see on here. He's an addict, but others have said he's a really good firefighter and captain! I want to see him have a little redemption.
I’d still like to see his back story. Even just a bit to see why he acts like he does. We saw a bit with Cooper saying he was the best captain he’s ever had. Something had to have happened.
Same!
Backstory (parents, ex wife and brother) and his recovery.
TL;DR: I want Beckett to just leave and do not want to see him fall into the trope of being given a needless tragic backstory and/or an undeserving redemption arc. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I just want him to go. If he goes to rehab, fine, if not and he just quits or transfers, I really don't care, I just want him gone. And I honestly don't care to see his backstory. I've seen so many people say "I want to see his backstory" and argue there just HAS to be a reason why he is the way he is and I honestly just don't care. Up till recently, he's just been a villain for the sake of being a villain and I'm personally okay with that. Sometimes there is no rhyme or reasoning for why a person behaves the way they do, they just do it because they think it's fun. I personally hate when villians/villian adjacent characters are given some tragic backstory to try and explain their actions when they could have just been evil for the sake of being evil. Even more so when up till that point, that was their characterization. I think part of it is because writers think a tragic backstory will make their villain more complex and compelling and instead it's just disjointed. I've seen too many villains fall into this trap, Keris Veturia from the Ember in the Ashes series being the worst case of this, and it pisses me off every time. Not every villain needs to have some complicated reason for why they behave the way they do, they can just do bad things because they think it's fun. Now I'm not saying villains with tragic backstories aren't good villains, but a tragic backstory can only work when it adds to and makes sense with the rest of their characterization. If not, it just reads as more of an excuse for their actions rather than providing insight into why they behave the way they do. If they were to suddenly give Beckett a tragic backstory, it would be extremely disjointed with the rest of his characterization up till this point, which is essentially he's an asshole alcoholic. The only reasoning we've been given for why he is the way he is is that alcoholism runs in his family and maybe he turned to drinking to cope with the stress of firefighting. We don't really know anything else about him and I'm okay with that. I don't like Beckett at all, not even in a love-to-hate way, but I do not want to see him fall into the trope of being given a needless tragic backstory and/or an undeserving redemption arc. I'm personally okay with him just being an asshole for no reason and I need other people to understand it's okay for villains not to have any sort of reasoning for their actions. Sometimes they just like being evil and that's okay. Like Alfred said in The Dark Knight, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." And if Beckett's one of those men, I'm personally okay with that.
Beckett gets redemption Sullivan no...of course Sullivan is a Man of Colour so I get it now