[ SECRET POST #3168 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3168 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Criminal Minds]


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[Community]


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(Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh)


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[JerryC]


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[J.K. Rowling/Harry Potter]


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[Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance]


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[Hatfields & McCoys]


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[Proof]


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[Brooklyn Nine Nine]


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11.
[Scarlett Johansson]


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[No Escape]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I can't stand hating characters, and it can definitely make me hate the shows they're in (especially if they're fan favourites or constantly treated positively in canon). Sometimes I'll try to force myself to be extra sympathetic towards characters who do things that bother me, solely because I don't want them to ruin the entire series for me, haha.

I think what helped was that Community did a pretty great job with calling them out whenever they were being assholes? Piers especially! It's a lot easier to accept their flaws when the show acknowledges that they exist.

[(Anonymous)]

For me it's just the fact that I've just always felt weird about spending so much energy on hating fictional characters who aren't meant to be bad, cruel people to begin with. I always just chalk most characters' bad moments up to, "Yeah, they've all got their flaws, just like real life people do" and that makes it easier for me to deal with those moments.

Granted, I do think there's some characters that, if I knew them in real life, I'd probably get very annoyed by them very fast (for instance, I like Frasier and Niles Crane (especially Niles). But if I actually worked at the coffee shop they frequented and had to deal with their extreme nitpickiness with their orders, or that sort of thing from other people similar to them, I could easily see that behavior grating on me in no time). But since they're fictional, I can more easily put that distance aside and enjoy them as characters, faults and all.

I definitely agree that the show calling the characters out when they do stupid and obnoxious stuff helps a lot, too, and I also agree that "Community" was pretty good with that. Heck, so was "Frasier", to refer back to my example. Martin constantly called his sons out on their snobby/pompous/picky behavior, and to their credit, they often did realize when they messed up, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno. People watch shows for different reasons. I know that I've watched/enjoyed shows where there was a character I wasn't particularly fond of, but there were enough of the other things that I enjoyed where I was willing to tolerate the one character I didn't like.

I admit, though, on one occasion the character I didn't like eventually became the "writer's pet." When that happened, I just bailed on the show because life's too short to get irritated by television, y'know?

So I suppose I can see your point to an extent. A lot depends on how much a single character annoys you, and how big of a role they actually play. I also think that if you're involved in fandom, how much of a fanfavorite that character is can also skew your perception between "annoying, but I continue watching because there's a lot of other stuff I like" and "I'm gonna stop watching, free up some time, and take up knitting instead."