Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 59/@comment-6533831-20160110200713/@comment-5482968-20160113055608

This may sound a bit jumbled over the course of 20 minutes because that's what I did off an on just now.

You combined "what they are" and "how they are presented" when I just said (or I'm pretty sure I meant to say) they weren't the same thing. With the examples you cited, those characters had a set personality. In the case of a president who didn't have much of a "colorful" personality (like they did with Washington), they made him more of a loudmouth in order to breathe life into him. That's also what they did with Lewis & Clark. But the thing with Hillary & Norgay is that they're also a question mark in personality to the general public, or at least seen as fairly (for lack of a better word) "bland". What that could mean is that in order to give them a personality to act out, they could be duplicating Lewis & Clark, which is the potential problem

I don't want to pretend to know how ERB thinks, works, or decides. This is just how I can see it playing out. As I've said before, if they find a way to make them work, then by all means they should use them. I only mean to suggest that this could be a hurdle they'd need to jump, and it may be too big of one to make it worthwhile.