Hmmm, I know that guy from True Blood. Okay, I can buy him as gaston, but storywise, Gaston was still not who he was from the Disney film. We only know he was slightly shallow from Belle’s dialog even though everything we saw of him on screen was pretty noble.
So its either we are getting a retcon of his personality, the same old not so good interpretation of his character, or perhaps in the past he was pretty shallow guy like in the movies and then something (Belle) changed him into what we saw in S1.
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