LogFAQs > #885234176

scar the 1 posted...

I still think you're giving JD too much credit. All his efforts to make it right again are undone the next time he's an ass. And his romantic relationships are just him being a shit person and then eventually he and Elliott settle for each other because they're incapable of having adult relationships.
On Ross, I tend to agree.

I still think this makes JD a good character, or at least a true-to-life one. I've known at least a few asses in my day who were always repentant of their jackassery, but it was too imbedded in their nature for them to truly change, even though they did try and did ultimately make minute self-improvements. Point in fact I wouldn't like JD half as much as a character if he wasn't the way he was. A good ensemble cast has the ability to juggle your sympathies between characters when one or two of them is an ass and the rest have to put up with him / her / them.

My only true complaint with JD's character arc was in Season 3, when they arbitrarily gave Sean a handful of out-of-character dickish moments just for the sake of painting JD as the underdog hero in the love triangle.
---

Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read.