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minervacat asked which five fictional characters you want to punch in the face. Oh, boy. Here's mine.
1. Dan, One Tree Hill -- Jesus, I don't even follow One Tree Hill, I don't. I just keep flipping onto that show and every time I flip past it, I keep catching him on my screen. And he's repugnant. He's repugnant for an evil character, for crying out loud. There's savoring the deeds that an asshole does because they're entertaining, and then there's being so disgusted that you literally can't watch any shows on the channels bookending that show.
2. Piper, Charmed -- Piper, SHUT UP. It was okay to whine about wanting a normal life for maybe the first two seasons. We are now in season eight, and you're whining about wanting it for your two boys, one of whom is the most powerful magical being in existence. Guess what? Expecting Wyatt and Chris to have normal lives at this point is sad and stupid. STOP THAT.
3. Kate, Lost -- Yes, I want to punch her in the face, and I want to do it with the Hulk's fist. "Katred" doesn't even begin to describe it. I have absolutely no sympathy for her, I can't empathize with her because we have nothing in common, and she's annoyingly Mary Sue ninety-nine percent of the time.
4. Susan, Desperate Housewives -- Okay, maybe not a punch. Punching Susan seems wrong somehow. A sharp slap across the face is perfectly acceptable, though. And I'd have to add a lot of, "How friggin' selfish can you be, for crying out loud?" Why am I supposed to like this woman? Either she's a victim, or she's an instigator, and either way she's bad at it.
5. Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- This is a prime example of my attitude towards most of my favorite shows, in which I invariably hate the main character most. And honestly, did I ever hate Buffy most of the time. The sad thing is that I could write her voice easily even though I didn't like her, and I loved Cordelia but didn't have half of the grasp I did on my Buffy voice. She was just so, "Oh, WOE is me," which admittedly she could back up most of the time, but still. Plus, every once in a while, she'd do something that just made me want to throttle her. (Don't even get me started about the time she backed the Watchers into a corner and got them to reinstate Giles with back pay, but never bothered to get them to pay HER a salary. Princess, you were the only Slayer they had available at the time (if I'm remembering correctly, Faith was in jail then -- either way, there were only two of them in existence, for Pete's sake), and they can afford it if they're so gung-ho for you to focus on your Slaying, can't they? Sheesh.)
EDIT: OOO! OOO! I thought of one more ...
6. Anita Blake, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter -- She didn't lose me when the books became one big, awful Fu-Q-Fest. She lost me when she was dithering between Richard and Jean Claude constantly, and then once a book, like clockwork, she would say that she's probably going to die by the time she turns thirty anyway. Well, Jesus, woman, then why are you whining about this? Fuck them both! If that's your attitude, who gives a damn?
minervacat asked which five fictional characters you want to punch in the face. Oh, boy. Here's mine.1. Dan, One Tree Hill -- Jesus, I don't even follow One Tree Hill, I don't. I just keep flipping onto that show and every time I flip past it, I keep catching him on my screen. And he's repugnant. He's repugnant for an evil character, for crying out loud. There's savoring the deeds that an asshole does because they're entertaining, and then there's being so disgusted that you literally can't watch any shows on the channels bookending that show.
2. Piper, Charmed -- Piper, SHUT UP. It was okay to whine about wanting a normal life for maybe the first two seasons. We are now in season eight, and you're whining about wanting it for your two boys, one of whom is the most powerful magical being in existence. Guess what? Expecting Wyatt and Chris to have normal lives at this point is sad and stupid. STOP THAT.
3. Kate, Lost -- Yes, I want to punch her in the face, and I want to do it with the Hulk's fist. "Katred" doesn't even begin to describe it. I have absolutely no sympathy for her, I can't empathize with her because we have nothing in common, and she's annoyingly Mary Sue ninety-nine percent of the time.
4. Susan, Desperate Housewives -- Okay, maybe not a punch. Punching Susan seems wrong somehow. A sharp slap across the face is perfectly acceptable, though. And I'd have to add a lot of, "How friggin' selfish can you be, for crying out loud?" Why am I supposed to like this woman? Either she's a victim, or she's an instigator, and either way she's bad at it.
5. Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- This is a prime example of my attitude towards most of my favorite shows, in which I invariably hate the main character most. And honestly, did I ever hate Buffy most of the time. The sad thing is that I could write her voice easily even though I didn't like her, and I loved Cordelia but didn't have half of the grasp I did on my Buffy voice. She was just so, "Oh, WOE is me," which admittedly she could back up most of the time, but still. Plus, every once in a while, she'd do something that just made me want to throttle her. (Don't even get me started about the time she backed the Watchers into a corner and got them to reinstate Giles with back pay, but never bothered to get them to pay HER a salary. Princess, you were the only Slayer they had available at the time (if I'm remembering correctly, Faith was in jail then -- either way, there were only two of them in existence, for Pete's sake), and they can afford it if they're so gung-ho for you to focus on your Slaying, can't they? Sheesh.)
EDIT: OOO! OOO! I thought of one more ...
6. Anita Blake, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter -- She didn't lose me when the books became one big, awful Fu-Q-Fest. She lost me when she was dithering between Richard and Jean Claude constantly, and then once a book, like clockwork, she would say that she's probably going to die by the time she turns thirty anyway. Well, Jesus, woman, then why are you whining about this? Fuck them both! If that's your attitude, who gives a damn?
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Date: 2005-11-03 11:08 pm (UTC)2. Jackie, Veronica Mars. Oh, how do I hate Jackie? Let me count the ways. Her breathy little voice, her bitchy attitude with no other personality traits to redeem it, her decision to punk Veronica by using the memory of her dead best friend, the way she played Veronica off Wallace, and being part of the reason the last episode ended the way it did. Grr.
3. Bilfil, Tom Jones. Admittedly, this guy is supposed to be a total asshole with no depth whatsoever. But he's really a special kind of prick- exactly the kind of brown-nosing, backstabbing little twat that brings up some thoroughly unpleasant memories for me.
4. Al Zanni, How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater. Read the book and you'll understand.
5. Jack, Sideways. (The Thomas Haden Church character) Cheating, amoral, overgrown child. I was cheering when Sandrah Oh beat the crap out of him.
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Date: 2005-11-03 11:54 pm (UTC)