Franks liver has failed and he's stopped breathing more times than I count, like enough already.
That's just storytelling to convey a real situation. None of those moments should you think Frank is actually dead. I mean you'd have to be crazy to think he'd go out quietly. Most of those scenes are ppl taking care of him freaking out that he'll die not his liver actually failing.
I've appreciated him as a main character, more so in the earlier seasons but at this point they seem like they are doing anything to stretch his storyline.
Yeah I'm not getting this. They give Frank the liver problems to continue developing his story. There is no stretching out of his storyline as if he's some character that was set up to only have a limited time on the show. He's not Karen and the writers somehow keep finding a way to bring her back in the story by connecting her to Lip and then bringing her back to bang Carl. The liver disease is apart of Frank's story given how they portrayed his history of drinking and how he's operated for 4 seasons.
It seems like it's more about keeping William. H Macy on board rather than Frank the character. He's had about 1 good moment this season, that speech at Carl's bullying meeting. Besides that he's been pretty much dead, begging for drugs. I don't see how he's necessary at all going forward, even when the family meets with him in the hospital when he's "dying" nobody really cares because it doesn't matter either way.
Yeah all this just seems like you don't like the storyline for Frank this season and you dislike it so much that given the topic of it you actually want him to die.
This show just isn't about good moments. They're telling a story here. I can appreciate that. They could've easily wrote in scenes he could've had with all of his kids but it seems to me you've ignored his latching on to Carl and then bonding with Sammy this entire season.
I mean this is a show with 5+ main characters. Writers are juggling a lot each season and by dialing Frank's focus down but still keeping him important they've managed to tell stories about Carl, Debbie (although I don't care for it), turn the tables on Fiona, and bring in a new Gallagher in Sammy. Most of that either doesn't happen the same way or is heavily changed with a healthy Frank around being Frank. For one I can guarantee he would've got to the coke before Liam.
You kinda gotta step back and see the bigger picture for what the writers plotted out man.
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I'm just tired of frank being a ****** dad storyline. If he ever gets healthy again just let him be somewhat of a good dad. No more drinking and sleeping on the streets
Now that he's come so close to death there's a chance of him changing a bit specifically cuz of how Sammy stuck with him no matter what. Like Frank said all his kids end up leaving him in the end (or at least that's how he sees it) so he may reflect on why that is and do something about it
or he can come out of this with a new lease on life thinking about how bad a person and father he's been and feel so guilty that he shouldn't be apart of there lives at all anymore and just dip.
or none of that can happen, he can just ignore all of the events, learn nothing from it, and keep being Frank, doing more crazy **** and be even more reckless
