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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Well my indifference towards him stems from the whole "someone else has to repeat the same thing I just said in Groot-ese so the audience can understand", I just think that's a really cliched and clunky scriptwriting thing, and tbh I doubt the new Groot will be much different than the original Groot when he grows up, so it didn't really do anything for me haha

Huh. Well, different strokes, and all that!
It never occurred to me that a huge tree speaking only his name would be viewed as a cliche by the movie-going audience, but that's an interesting take. Gunn was really just trying to emulate the character from Abnett and Lanning's run at the comics, and I suspect he thought that it would be profound if he could bring emotional depth to an inarticulate being. I think he succeeded and the widespread fascination behind the character seems to at least somewhat support this. It's very rare for me to hear from people who don't like Groot, so I like to hear differing perspectives on it.

And Groot recently had a kind of "factory reset" performed on him in the books by his creator, so now he speaks again! So there's that.