I just love them all...
Jun. 12th, 2009 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljYou know what I’ve realised?
I just don’t understand how someone can like a show, and not like all the characters.
I mean, I’m aware that it’s possible. I know a lot of people who can’t stand various characters, and are still definitely fans of the show – so clearly this is just me being odd, but still… I have no idea how that works.
It’s certainly not the way I work.
Sure, there are characters who I like seeing on screen mainly because I hate them and want to yell at them – like Holtz, or Graza, or Maybourne (okay… maybe not Maybourne *cuddles him*) – but even then, I do like them being there, because they’re interesting, and make the show more interesting.
For instance, let’s think about the Buffyverse.
12 seasons, 254 episodes, and…
Characters I actively dislike and wish were on screen less: Sam Finn.
One person. One person who was in one episode.
(And no-one likes her.)
If we expand that out to include all my favourite tv shows, ever (like Farscape, How I Met Your Mother, SG-1, House, Frasier, Red Dwarf, Tru Calling, Xena, Dawson’s Creek, Firefly, Lois & Clark, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, NCIS, and, why not, Harry Potter)…
Characters I actively dislike and wish were on screen less: Sam Finn, Maldis, the weird spider-lady alien, and very occasionally Zhaan, Stark, and Foreman.
…there just aren’t that many of them.
That’s one of the reasons why I always end up staring incomprehensibly at people who suggest ways to improve the show by changing bits.
They’ll say, “Oh, the show would have been better without the Potentials”, and I can't understand it, because then we wouldn’t get to see Vi, and Kennedy, and Rona, and other great people like that.
Or they’ll suggest that season 4 would have worked better without Adam, and I can’t understand it, because then we wouldn’t get Adam, and that would suck.
Or they say that House should have stuck with the original team, and I just end up flailing around going “But… Kutner! Team competitions! Not-really-a-doctor Guy!”
Or they’ll suggest that the show should focus more on Echo and Alpha, and I’ll just think “But what about Topher?”
And really, I can’t imagine most of my shows being better without any one of the characters – because I really do love them all.
I just don’t understand how someone can like a show, and not like all the characters.
I mean, I’m aware that it’s possible. I know a lot of people who can’t stand various characters, and are still definitely fans of the show – so clearly this is just me being odd, but still… I have no idea how that works.
It’s certainly not the way I work.
Sure, there are characters who I like seeing on screen mainly because I hate them and want to yell at them – like Holtz, or Graza, or Maybourne (okay… maybe not Maybourne *cuddles him*) – but even then, I do like them being there, because they’re interesting, and make the show more interesting.
For instance, let’s think about the Buffyverse.
12 seasons, 254 episodes, and…
Characters I actively dislike and wish were on screen less: Sam Finn.
One person. One person who was in one episode.
(And no-one likes her.)
If we expand that out to include all my favourite tv shows, ever (like Farscape, How I Met Your Mother, SG-1, House, Frasier, Red Dwarf, Tru Calling, Xena, Dawson’s Creek, Firefly, Lois & Clark, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, NCIS, and, why not, Harry Potter)…
Characters I actively dislike and wish were on screen less: Sam Finn, Maldis, the weird spider-lady alien, and very occasionally Zhaan, Stark, and Foreman.
…there just aren’t that many of them.
That’s one of the reasons why I always end up staring incomprehensibly at people who suggest ways to improve the show by changing bits.
They’ll say, “Oh, the show would have been better without the Potentials”, and I can't understand it, because then we wouldn’t get to see Vi, and Kennedy, and Rona, and other great people like that.
Or they’ll suggest that season 4 would have worked better without Adam, and I can’t understand it, because then we wouldn’t get Adam, and that would suck.
Or they say that House should have stuck with the original team, and I just end up flailing around going “But… Kutner! Team competitions! Not-really-a-doctor Guy!”
Or they’ll suggest that the show should focus more on Echo and Alpha, and I’ll just think “But what about Topher?”
And really, I can’t imagine most of my shows being better without any one of the characters – because I really do love them all.
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:25 am (UTC)Sometimes I want to slap characters upside the head, but that just means they're human (or, um, sapient, anyway). I usually find them sympathetic and interesting, in various degrees.
I understand thinking a character just wasn't well-written and dragged down the show, but taking that personally, downright loathing a fictional being...tends to baffle me.
I hated Owen on Torchwood, but that was more about the way his actions were handled and what that represented.