5 Most Annoying Characters ever
Stolen from
lady_drace , who took it from fannish5 : Name the 5 most annoying characters ever.
1. Ezri Dax from 'Deep Space Nine'.
I was heartbroken when they killed Jadzia at the end of Season 6. She was basically the reason I watched that show and I hated that they replaced her right away with another Dax. But WHY WHY WHY did they have to pick the most annoying, whiny person in the universe? And then they try to shoe-horn her into a romance with Julian Bashir, a person she had no chemistry with and had shown no previous attraction for (despite that he had been throwing himself at her for several seasons). Not to mention that her being in DS9 at all broke the show's own canon on a Trill rejoining the friends and family that she had in her previous host. So, way to go writers. With this character you made me finally stop watching Star Trek.
2. Baltar from Battlestar Gallactica
I am only on the second season of BSG (I will kill any you that spoil this show for me!) and I already hate him. So much. He is annoying, petty, whiny and the show spends way to much time on his and his faux-romance with Head Six. I keep hoping that he will somehow redeem himself (for instance, in the episode where a Six infiltrator accused him of collaborating with the Cylons, he had a perfect opportunity to come clean about how he'd been duped into helping the enemy) but he just doesn't. Instead, his massive ego and sense of entitlement drive him to do the most horrendous things and his crazy is getting all over the damn ship, making me wonder why someone doesn't report it and lock his insane ass up. But oh no! We need to annoy our audience with his faggotry some more (my bf and I call his "Gayus Ballzar"). HATE HIM.
3. Any and all of the not-House characters on 'House'
House is frankly getting a little stale, although I really do like that he's finally dealt with his addiction this season and is a little sane. But I cannot stand how everyone he works with lets him walk all over them, treat them like crap, mess up their relationships and keep coming back for more. PPTH can't pay THAT well. They are all secret masochists, reveling in their doormat status and handing House even more power. "Yes, yes, please break up my marriage! Please, tell me again how I have daddy issues! Please, House, I need my fix!"
And they call House dysfunctional...
4. movieDraco from the 'Harry Potter' series.
I started liking Draco at the end of the 5th book, where he reveals just how lost and angry he is with his father in prison. And the 6th really takes up that theme, with the poor kid basically being used as a pawn by Voldemort, sent to do this impossible task with his family held hostage. And knowing what is coming, that soon this man-child is going to be standing on a tower with an un-armed Dumbledore at wand point...I wanted to see that character in the movie. I was really excited about it, actually. How would the writers deal with this change in a character that had previously only been used as a foil or as a laugh line (ferret).
Well, they didn't. They took the humanizing moments in HBP and cut them out, so that the end scene came out of nowhere and was as emotionless and anticlimactic as possible. Honestly, the Dumbles-death scene killed the movie for me, because there was not a trace of emotional power in it (this from the girl who cries every time Cedric Diggory's dad cries out, "Is that my son?" after Harry carries Cedric's body out of the maze). I wanted so much to see a nuanced Draco, a Malfoy tormented by the Dark Lord and what he had been ordered to do and his own knowledge that he had absolutely chosen the wrong course for his life but could not escape...I fell in love with his character in the book because of that. Because of the scene in the bathroom where he is crying and because of what Moaning Mrytle says about him, how sad he is, how hopeless. And how, even though he doesn't fully redeem himself in the end, he *grows*.
That is powerful. That is real. And it is what is completely lacking in the movies...that emotional sucker punch. I hated the 5th movie because it was like a quick synopsis of the book, like the writers just tried to jam-pack so much of the plot into the movie that they forgot the magic and the emotion of it. But the 6th was the biggest failure because they had these two wonderful characters playing off each other (three, if you count Snape) and they had the chance to make real drama. And they just...didn't.
5. Bella and Edward
I said in my previous post that, as a feminist and as a mother, I cannot support these books. Which is unfortunate because I introduced them to my daughter with the intention of mocking them and now she's as in love with Edward as any 11 year old girl. So, because of her, I decided to read all of the books before she did (to check for adult content and to know something about them beyond cleolinda 's awesomely funny reviews) and...OMG, WTF?
Not only are these books horribly written, they are anti-feminist in the extreme, buying into gendered stereotypes like there's no tomorrow. Bella is a romance novel cipher--a girl so pallid and blank that any reader can easily step into her and imagine themselves in her place. And her place is always under the wing of whichever male is nearest her. She falls 'in love' with Edward because he's oh-so-mysterious and because he acts like an asshole to her (which is girl kryptonite, don't you know). And then she proceeds to be completely useless, always in danger of getting killed by rival vampires, by werewolves or by her own clumsy self. In the second book, she adds 'tease' to her repitoire, leading Jacob Black on, despite knowing that she will never really be serious about being in a relationship with him. Not only is Bella a user, she's unable to stand up for herself in any real way and take responsibility for her own desires and decisions.
But worse then her, in my opinion, is the character of Edward. This vampire white-knight is whiny, selfish and secretive. In the first book he's instantly fixated on Bella and stalks her in the creepiest way possible, even going so far as to sabotage her car so that she can't hang around with Jacob. In the second book, he tries to act noble and leave her, but he can't just make a decision and stick with it--he has to whine and cry and be self-destructive because their luv is so twu that they can't live without each other.
And that is what's wrong with these books. They basically teach young girls that love is being consumed in someone else, to the point where you can't live without them. And that is not love. That is obsession. That is possession. That is dangerous. In a way, these books follow the exact same characterizations as countless romance novels, only sans sex. You have the helpless heroine and the brooding, hunky hero that sweeps her off to his dark castle. But in the real world, men and women don't relate to each other in those ways. And so these books ultimately teach girls to desire the impossible and to infantize themselves to the point where they have no volition or control over their own lives, where they are just targets. Just prey.
No thanks.
lady_drace , who took it from fannish5 : Name the 5 most annoying characters ever.
1. Ezri Dax from 'Deep Space Nine'.
I was heartbroken when they killed Jadzia at the end of Season 6. She was basically the reason I watched that show and I hated that they replaced her right away with another Dax. But WHY WHY WHY did they have to pick the most annoying, whiny person in the universe? And then they try to shoe-horn her into a romance with Julian Bashir, a person she had no chemistry with and had shown no previous attraction for (despite that he had been throwing himself at her for several seasons). Not to mention that her being in DS9 at all broke the show's own canon on a Trill rejoining the friends and family that she had in her previous host. So, way to go writers. With this character you made me finally stop watching Star Trek.
2. Baltar from Battlestar Gallactica
I am only on the second season of BSG (I will kill any you that spoil this show for me!) and I already hate him. So much. He is annoying, petty, whiny and the show spends way to much time on his and his faux-romance with Head Six. I keep hoping that he will somehow redeem himself (for instance, in the episode where a Six infiltrator accused him of collaborating with the Cylons, he had a perfect opportunity to come clean about how he'd been duped into helping the enemy) but he just doesn't. Instead, his massive ego and sense of entitlement drive him to do the most horrendous things and his crazy is getting all over the damn ship, making me wonder why someone doesn't report it and lock his insane ass up. But oh no! We need to annoy our audience with his faggotry some more (my bf and I call his "Gayus Ballzar"). HATE HIM.
3. Any and all of the not-House characters on 'House'
House is frankly getting a little stale, although I really do like that he's finally dealt with his addiction this season and is a little sane. But I cannot stand how everyone he works with lets him walk all over them, treat them like crap, mess up their relationships and keep coming back for more. PPTH can't pay THAT well. They are all secret masochists, reveling in their doormat status and handing House even more power. "Yes, yes, please break up my marriage! Please, tell me again how I have daddy issues! Please, House, I need my fix!"
And they call House dysfunctional...
4. movieDraco from the 'Harry Potter' series.
I started liking Draco at the end of the 5th book, where he reveals just how lost and angry he is with his father in prison. And the 6th really takes up that theme, with the poor kid basically being used as a pawn by Voldemort, sent to do this impossible task with his family held hostage. And knowing what is coming, that soon this man-child is going to be standing on a tower with an un-armed Dumbledore at wand point...I wanted to see that character in the movie. I was really excited about it, actually. How would the writers deal with this change in a character that had previously only been used as a foil or as a laugh line (ferret).
Well, they didn't. They took the humanizing moments in HBP and cut them out, so that the end scene came out of nowhere and was as emotionless and anticlimactic as possible. Honestly, the Dumbles-death scene killed the movie for me, because there was not a trace of emotional power in it (this from the girl who cries every time Cedric Diggory's dad cries out, "Is that my son?" after Harry carries Cedric's body out of the maze). I wanted so much to see a nuanced Draco, a Malfoy tormented by the Dark Lord and what he had been ordered to do and his own knowledge that he had absolutely chosen the wrong course for his life but could not escape...I fell in love with his character in the book because of that. Because of the scene in the bathroom where he is crying and because of what Moaning Mrytle says about him, how sad he is, how hopeless. And how, even though he doesn't fully redeem himself in the end, he *grows*.
That is powerful. That is real. And it is what is completely lacking in the movies...that emotional sucker punch. I hated the 5th movie because it was like a quick synopsis of the book, like the writers just tried to jam-pack so much of the plot into the movie that they forgot the magic and the emotion of it. But the 6th was the biggest failure because they had these two wonderful characters playing off each other (three, if you count Snape) and they had the chance to make real drama. And they just...didn't.
5. Bella and Edward
I said in my previous post that, as a feminist and as a mother, I cannot support these books. Which is unfortunate because I introduced them to my daughter with the intention of mocking them and now she's as in love with Edward as any 11 year old girl. So, because of her, I decided to read all of the books before she did (to check for adult content and to know something about them beyond cleolinda 's awesomely funny reviews) and...OMG, WTF?
Not only are these books horribly written, they are anti-feminist in the extreme, buying into gendered stereotypes like there's no tomorrow. Bella is a romance novel cipher--a girl so pallid and blank that any reader can easily step into her and imagine themselves in her place. And her place is always under the wing of whichever male is nearest her. She falls 'in love' with Edward because he's oh-so-mysterious and because he acts like an asshole to her (which is girl kryptonite, don't you know). And then she proceeds to be completely useless, always in danger of getting killed by rival vampires, by werewolves or by her own clumsy self. In the second book, she adds 'tease' to her repitoire, leading Jacob Black on, despite knowing that she will never really be serious about being in a relationship with him. Not only is Bella a user, she's unable to stand up for herself in any real way and take responsibility for her own desires and decisions.
But worse then her, in my opinion, is the character of Edward. This vampire white-knight is whiny, selfish and secretive. In the first book he's instantly fixated on Bella and stalks her in the creepiest way possible, even going so far as to sabotage her car so that she can't hang around with Jacob. In the second book, he tries to act noble and leave her, but he can't just make a decision and stick with it--he has to whine and cry and be self-destructive because their luv is so twu that they can't live without each other.
And that is what's wrong with these books. They basically teach young girls that love is being consumed in someone else, to the point where you can't live without them. And that is not love. That is obsession. That is possession. That is dangerous. In a way, these books follow the exact same characterizations as countless romance novels, only sans sex. You have the helpless heroine and the brooding, hunky hero that sweeps her off to his dark castle. But in the real world, men and women don't relate to each other in those ways. And so these books ultimately teach girls to desire the impossible and to infantize themselves to the point where they have no volition or control over their own lives, where they are just targets. Just prey.
No thanks.