25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?
answered here, but if I'm being entirely accurate I was technically introduced to roger with the 2012 JLM version. I don't know that I had any particular strong impressions of him, though. for one thing he's such a minor antagonist as to be basically nonexistent and he just sort of sucks in a mild average white guy way. maybe I appreciated his sex scene for being less ... That ... than the barnabas/angelique sequence. the most distinctive Roger moment to me now from that film is the half second we see him supervising the work on the murals, and I'm pretty sure at the time I was way too hypnotized by being introduced to the Carpenters to even notice him or his lapels the size of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
so as far as what changes between that impression and now, and I'm sure I've said this before sometime, is that I think other canon adaptions of Roger don't make him Suck in an interesting way? I'd say pretty much the defining character trait of '66 Rog (both as-written and through Louis' performance) is that he's desperately afraid and paranoid and eaten alive by guilt, and the way he behaves outwardly is his effort to cover that up: the aggression, and the charm, and the pretentiousness, and the bitchiness. applies as equally to fear about what Burke may do in revenge to being worried about Liz in her various Joan-vacay-induced comas and being barbed to Carolyn or Vicki about it, to being afraid of séances and spirits and wanting to brush them off with a scoff. and the 91 series and 2012 and the books and comics and things all have that set dressing as the authentic character, sans paranoia and self-loathing. which doesn't seem like that big of a difference if the behaviors are more or less the same, but it really changes the character imo? the lecherous lazy younger brother is fine I suppose (and fitting for the gothic genre) but it always feels more shallow compared against the first version — who acts badly because he feels cornered and desperate (often of his own doing) and not because he feels entitled and blasé.
26. What's something the character has done you can't get over? Be it something funny, bad, good, serious, whatever?
answered here but there are many. frankly it's nothing short of iconic that Roger misses his dick appointment with Burke because of the attempted patricide car crash (thanks to their son) and then shows up at 2am at Burke's hotel room with a sprained arm and a slashed forehead, 100% sure Burke has just tried to murder him, and maybe a little bit upset about that but not half as much as he is horny about it and eager to cash in his raincheck. and to top it off he also drags his governess along with him who's been working there for like. 2?days at that point to play chaperone and take his side in the ongoing Devlin-Collins divorce. who can say what his plan was (if he had one at all) if Burke would have been more amenable to dropping the pretense of the "business deal" and wanting to buy the cannery and just put Roger's one working arm to good use. would he have just left Vicki sitting in the lobby and forgot about her until he had to sneak back home? probably, yes.
