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rthstewart I'm sorry this is short but I'm doing a multiple things and I didn't want to end December (and the year!) without finishing the December Meme!
I had a long think about this and I think one of the things for me to like a show: there should be an interesting female protagonist and while dark things do happen its not a grimdark show.
As Joss Whedon used to say: emotional resonance and rocket launchers, and of course the juxtaposition.
Sure a show should make me cry but it should also make me laugh. I can't take shows that take themselves too seriously. Its why I couldn't get into Smallville pre-Lois Lane because they were all so serious about their lives.
I'm also drawn to honestly good people with an edge, a sense of a dark side inside themselves. Buffy, Veronica, Snow White (OUAT), Steve Rogers, Scott McCall. I also love watching people who soldier on and somehow find grace: Dani Reese, Charlie Crews. Or simply people who know they fall down a lot but in the end they just keep trying, they keep striving for better things.
I love complicated female characters, I love villain protagonists who become heroes, not to be mistaken with woobified villains who become heroes by default.
(Most of all, I hate woobified villains.)
If I must have a villain protagonist give me someone who knows who they are, who came out of a bad childhood, or maybe even a good one, who knows they are on this path because they chose to be on that path, that they don't blame anyone or their circumstance.
But ultimately I like a story with a happy ending, maybe a little bitter sweet but hopeful near the end. I'm just not a fan of depressing ends. Let me cry, rage, and laugh but for god's sake let me look forward to the ending.
And with that we endeth the Meme! Happy New Year!
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