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deird_lj ([personal profile] deird_lj) wrote2009-10-24 05:39 pm
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Sympathy? Empathy? Apathy?

Commenters on this post seemed very split on whether they sympathised with Kate or Justine (no-one really seemed to sympathise with both).

So I started wondering…


Here's a poll - about the background characters on AtS (or the female ones, anyway) and what people's reactions to them are.


[Poll #1475576]



Questions? Comments?


[identity profile] neutralalienist.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Kate is one of my favourites in the entire show. I do think they floundered with her character in season two, and I understood Angel being weary and irritated with it all, but I always sympathised with her. (I also shipped her with Angel hardcore, but considering how they handled Cordy/Angel...it's probably best they didn't go there.) I wish she'd at least been mentioned after leaving, so we knew she wasn't dead in a ditch somewhere or something.

Justine was just kinda there. I don't know why, I was just never engaged with her, despite the fact that I usually like that character type, or at least care about them.

Gwen was fun, Lilah kicked progressively more ass as time went on, and Darla is probably my second favourite Fanged Four family member. (First being Angel himself.) Though I'm STILL not sure how "I have a baby and his soul is affecting me" works.
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[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-25 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
I also shipped her with Angel hardcore, but considering how they handled Cordy/Angel...it's probably best they didn't go there.

Definitely.

[identity profile] neutralalienist.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, season three and your tedious love triangles.

[identity profile] ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Kate is one of my favourites in the entire show. I do think they floundered with her character in season two, and I understood Angel being weary and irritated with it all, but I always sympathised with her. (I also shipped her with Angel hardcore, but considering how they handled Cordy/Angel...it's probably best they didn't go there.) I wish she'd at least been mentioned after leaving, so we knew she wasn't dead in a ditch somewhere or something.

I agree with all of this! Kate is totally my favorite noir-heroine-that-shoulda-been. It's awesome to find a fellow Kate fan! :)

[identity profile] neutralalienist.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
*grin* Definitely!

In my head she became a rogue demon hunter. And possibly, after Chosen, a Slayer.
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[personal profile] deird1 2009-10-25 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
In my head she joins the police force in Cleveland - which, being on a Hellmouth, probably has some interesting stuff to deal with.

[identity profile] ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I like this idea a lot, too!

[identity profile] ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
In my head she became a rogue demon hunter. And possibly, after Chosen, a Slayer.

Yes to all of this! :D

[identity profile] clevermonikerr.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Great idea! And now you're giving me Kate-meeting-Buffy properly plot bunnies!

[identity profile] ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I would totally read that!

[identity profile] neutralalienist.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
:D I approve of these plot bunnies!

And with the right journal this time!