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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-03-02 03:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #2251 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2251 ⌋

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Re: Characters you like *because* of their flaws

(Anonymous) 2013-03-02 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The Doctor. All incarnations of the Doctor. How utterly insipid I would have found the character and the show and how bland, smug, and empty its premise would have been if he was a selfless clean-faced well-balanced good guy who had a nice level head and a solid sense of right and wrong, rather than a wild, unpredictable, thoroughly screwed-up and alien meddling semi-anarchist with demons and problematic attitudes up the wazoo who always tries to help everyone in any way he can. It made the show feel real, like a folk tale, and stopped it from being a puffed-up kid's adventure show.

Not that I don't like goody-goody characters, because I actually totally adore them, even ones that people whine about being "too perfect" (whatever that means). But in this particular show, with this particular character? Leave the goody-goody-ness to the one-shots, supporting characters, and companions please.

Of course, experimentation and change and going against the grain is always good in this show. Hence why I loved how Five stayed nice and goodhearted despite how utterly depressing and nasty his era was. It's just that I wouldn't want to see that characterization more than once every fifteen years, y'know?