And oddity in hating characters
I find it fascinating that people hate characters for what they do as if they are real people. I was thinking specifically of Gwen from Torchwood. I mentioned that I hated her as a character because she was written one way (cop) and she was written as a Mary Sue who can't seem to stop remorseless killers from running on her knife or press the advantage when she has a gun pointed at a cannibal serial killer (dropping the gun meant that she would be killed and eaten but she does it as if there was no question that she wasn't going to shoot) and most of this I chalk up to the excesses of Russel T Davies.
Not even Captain Jack is that great of a character in Torchwood.
However, I mentioned it and a lot of the fans were hating her because she space roofied her boyfriend after telling her that she had an affair. I hadn't gotten to that episode but it was weird because it was like they had actually known her and they were morally opposed to her. It's like they forgot that they weren't dating her, they didn't know the boyfriend and (most importantly) they are both fictional characters.
Of course, when I saw that scene with her screaming FORGIVE ME! I could sort of see the hate from a story perspective but it was still a weird conversation.
So where does "I hate this character because every time she is on the show it just gets dragged into boring plot lines" diverge from "I hate this character because they are stupid/evil/immoral"?
Oh and I hate Gwen for many reasons, but mostly because she was written to be a total Mary Sue where EVERYONE was just falling in love with her. I never watched Torchwood after the first season. I hear that Children of Earth is good (partially because Bland Asian and Space Roofie Rapist were dead) but I just can't.
Not even Captain Jack is that great of a character in Torchwood.
However, I mentioned it and a lot of the fans were hating her because she space roofied her boyfriend after telling her that she had an affair. I hadn't gotten to that episode but it was weird because it was like they had actually known her and they were morally opposed to her. It's like they forgot that they weren't dating her, they didn't know the boyfriend and (most importantly) they are both fictional characters.
Of course, when I saw that scene with her screaming FORGIVE ME! I could sort of see the hate from a story perspective but it was still a weird conversation.
So where does "I hate this character because every time she is on the show it just gets dragged into boring plot lines" diverge from "I hate this character because they are stupid/evil/immoral"?
Oh and I hate Gwen for many reasons, but mostly because she was written to be a total Mary Sue where EVERYONE was just falling in love with her. I never watched Torchwood after the first season. I hear that Children of Earth is good (partially because Bland Asian and Space Roofie Rapist were dead) but I just can't.