Does anyone else here think Wayne mellowed as the series went on?

[Corkys-Place]

Ok, so I was enjoying a few glasses of wine the other night and feeling a little nostalgic. I decided to watch some old episodes of the show on Youtube. The first episode I decided to watch was the one where the Math Teacher Mr Collins died (big mistake!) I started tearing up and I wasn't even drunk yet!

Anyway the next episode I watched was Kevin and Wayne fighting over Karen's old bedroom whilst she was at college. Wayne was his usual bullying self in this episode but at the end when he finally moved into Karen's old room he did the secret knock on the wall to Kevin (I'm guessing this was something they did as little kids…as most of us did).

My question, does anyone here think Wayne softened in the later episodes? I know he was pretty compassionate to his friend "Wart" when he returned shell shocked from the Vietnam war. He entered a relationship with that Bonnie girl and seemed more likeable in the later episodes. Mind you Kevin himself became less likeable by that stage or the series.

[Confidenceman28]

Yeah but not on the show in real life males seem to be more calm and nice when they reach 20