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[frelling_tralk]

Nooooooo! Ben Edlund (and Robbie Thompson) is my favourite SPN writer, why couldn't it have been Adam Glass instead :/ The writers of Mannequin 3: The Reckoning is NOT a fair trade



And The 8 Worst Characters On Television

What makes a character the “worst” isn’t necessarily their amoral actions or behavior (some of our favorite characters walk a very thin line between good and evil). They could be the most self-righteous and moral character ever, but still annoy the ever-living shit out of us. Worst characters are those whose screentime we want depleted immediately because they’re just so unlikable, despite the writers best attempts at getting us to root for them.

The only character I'm familiar with from that list is Chuck Bass, and he should be #1 in my eyes. Who else would you nominate for your worst character? At the ONTD discussion post Xander Harris got quite a few nominations lol



ETA Gah has anyone got a recommendation for a good spyware removal program? My comp suddenly seems to be riddled with pop-ups and weird links,and everything is running so slowly

Comments

[falafel-musings.livejournal.com]

Xander is a good suggestion. I don't hate Xander for any special reason, he's just such a BLAH character and a waste of a Buffy regular. Plus, I enjoyed the Andrew character so much in S6 and S7 I found myself wishing that Andrew could have been the main boy member of the Scoobies from the start instead of Xander.

As for other Worst Character suggestions...I don't know. Often characters I dislike are really popular with other fans - like Sawyer from Lost and Blaine from Glee would be on my own personal Worst Character list even though those characters are loved by other fans. It can be frustrating when I'll find a character to be really badly written and then find the character is popular with the rest of fandom. Like recently, I've been hating the character of Hannah in Dexter, because her storyline is so painfully implausible, yet to my annoyance many other fans (any critics!) think Hannah is a great addition to the show.

I guess this happens to me because I don't tend to like or dislike characters based on morality or even how annoying they are. A character can be nasty and irritating but if I feel like they are very well-written, I will love them. If I feel like a character is written in a contrived way or a dull way or in a Mary/Gary Sue-ish way that's when I'll hate them.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

After the high school years Xander just felt pointless a lot of the time, and IMO realistically Buffy and Willow probably would have drifted away from him and he would have started doing his own thing more.

And I know what you mean, there are plenty of bad characters I like, Walter White for one or Spike from Buffy, but other fans often seem to assume that means that you're an apologist who excuses everything that the character has done. But it usually just means I find the character interesting and well-written :shrugs:

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

I love Spike because he's bad. Bad in the whole badass way and not bad as in just plain bad. He's very interesting and he became a favorite character on the show. I liked Xander in High School a lot more than after, too. I still like him but it's not the same.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I didn't even like him in high school that much tbh lol. I hated his constant digs at Angel and the way he felt entitled to Buffy's romantic attention because he was her friend. He is the definition of nice guy to me, he presented himself as Buffy's friend, and then never got over it when she took him at face value and dared to treat him as just that while she 'made time' with bad boys, as Xander saw it

At least it felt like he had a purpose in seasons 1-3 though, he was such an afterthought most of the time after that and you could tell the writers were really struggling to integrate him into the story a lot of the time.

[stolenglimpse.livejournal.com]

You know, that's very true!