Where do your sympathies lie?
It's Friday. I feel like doing a poll.
I see often in fandom where a fan mentions that they lost sympathy for or turned off a character after Event X. So I thought it might be interesting to poll on this.
Just to explain the set-up, because I know some people might get confused, this isn't about a favorite character falling out of your graces. This is just about general positive or even neutral feelings towards a character and when they might have dried up. The first option is always "never gained my sympathy" for those characters you just never warmed up to. Then there'll be a list of seasons. Some people lose sympathy for a character based on the character's actions or possibly because of the writing. For whatever case, choose the season this occurs, if applicable. If Xander summoning Sweet in OMWF made you turn off Xander, choose "lost my sympathy in S6". Also, to give an example of how a fan could turn meh on a character even though the character didn't necessarily do anything, some fans were turned off of Cordelia's character in mid-AtS due to the writing. The final option is "never lost my sympathy". This should be obvious. :)
Also, let me cover a couple complications that may come up. If you were slow to warm up to a character but then you liked them till the end, you'd choose "never lost my sympathy". So if you were meh on, say, Tara but became a fan of hers in S6, then you would choose that option. If you lost sympathy for a character, but then got won back, you'd still mark the season you initially lost that sympathy. So if Xander's behavior at the beginning of S3 made you dislike him for a while, but you start to care about him again in S7, you'd still mark "lost sympathy in S3".
Also also, not counting the comics as I haven't read them and don't care. :)
Got it? Okay, let's poll!
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I see often in fandom where a fan mentions that they lost sympathy for or turned off a character after Event X. So I thought it might be interesting to poll on this.
Just to explain the set-up, because I know some people might get confused, this isn't about a favorite character falling out of your graces. This is just about general positive or even neutral feelings towards a character and when they might have dried up. The first option is always "never gained my sympathy" for those characters you just never warmed up to. Then there'll be a list of seasons. Some people lose sympathy for a character based on the character's actions or possibly because of the writing. For whatever case, choose the season this occurs, if applicable. If Xander summoning Sweet in OMWF made you turn off Xander, choose "lost my sympathy in S6". Also, to give an example of how a fan could turn meh on a character even though the character didn't necessarily do anything, some fans were turned off of Cordelia's character in mid-AtS due to the writing. The final option is "never lost my sympathy". This should be obvious. :)
Also, let me cover a couple complications that may come up. If you were slow to warm up to a character but then you liked them till the end, you'd choose "never lost my sympathy". So if you were meh on, say, Tara but became a fan of hers in S6, then you would choose that option. If you lost sympathy for a character, but then got won back, you'd still mark the season you initially lost that sympathy. So if Xander's behavior at the beginning of S3 made you dislike him for a while, but you start to care about him again in S7, you'd still mark "lost sympathy in S3".
Also also, not counting the comics as I haven't read them and don't care. :)
Got it? Okay, let's poll!
Poll