Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the TV show (and comic; including the canon season 8) is unique in that the main character(s) are not as popular as the meant-to-be-one-off character's that Wheadon kept on as regulars due to mass appeal. Buffy is one of the most annoying, infuriating, weak-willed (when it comes to the men in her life), selfish characters on the show. If one were to rank the characters in order of those least-annoying to the audience, you really see how the main characters (if you include the Angel spin-off) tend to be more annoying than the supporting cast:
Characters (in order of being least annoying/least wanting to stab with a pointy object):
1. Tie between Spike, Anya, Faith, Gun, Lorne, Fred and Doyle
The first two have been around eons longer than the rest of them, and despite their
handicaps -one having no soul for much of the show and one having been a vengeance demon
and seeing the worst of humanity for the past thousand plus years- yet despite this, and
despite the fact that they continuously put themselves in harm/torture/death's way to
protect our "protagonists" are treated like unworthy dirt.
Faith is the rightful slayer. The line went from Buffy (after her death), to Kendra, to
Faith. Faith, unlike Buffy, has come from a horrible home life, has watched her watcher be
brutally murdered, and has tried to come to Sunnydale to be friends with and find a place
with Buffy (who proceeds to treat her horribly and exclude her from everything for most
of the season, as does Giles, who is meant to be her watcher too yet doesn't
train/guide/help her or seem to care that she is living alone in a dingy motel). Faith is
looking for a parental figure in her life (something Buffy has in both her mother and in
Giles). If Giles would have been said figure then she may not have ended up the way she
did. As it stands, the only people who took an interest in her were her faux-watcher and
the Mayor (both evil). She submitted to them both because she was a teenage girl with no
one to love her. She had to fight through Buffy (on Angel) to seek out redemption. And
even after she helped Buffy avert the apocalypse in Buffy season 7 and helped Angel be
free of Angelus in Angel season 5; Buffy still treated her like she was evil and out to
get her (when she wasn't) in Buffy season 8.
The last four are just innocent beyond belief. There is no being annoyed by them. Gunn
does what he believes is right, despite being human. Fred is the kindest soul on the show
and Lorne comes in at a close second. And Doyle is a loveable dolt who only wants to do
good and sacrifices himself in the process.
2. Giles
He is just not as annoying as some of the other characters. He doesn't have particular
redeeming qualities... just no bad ones really.
3. Cordi on Angel
On Buffy (and on Angel when possesed, but that's hardly her fault), she is horrible, but
despite going from riches to rags, she grows as a person and puts the needs of others
above her own.
4. Oz
He is just a good guy who became a werewolf. He is only so low on the list because of his
"cheating heart"
5. Tara
Again, she is a good girl, not annoying per say, just not particularly interesting.
6. Willow (in season 1,2 and 6 - otherwise she is still annoying) & Xander (in season 6 and 7 -
otherwise he is still annoying)
7. Darla and Dru
Now... finally, some of the main characters...
8. Angel
9. Buffy (except for in seasons 1, part of 2 and 6: in those you see some of her humanity, in all the other's she is an insufferable, selfish bitch).
10. Wesley, Connor and Dawn: the only character's more annoying than the main character's for self-explanatory reasons.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
"Countess" Luanne
This woman is the most ridiculous character of all the characters on the "Reality" show series Real Housewives of New York/New Jersey/Orange County/Beverly Hills/Atlanta and the like.
First of all, she is not royalty. Royalty is born royalty. They are born into a family which teaches them values, manners and gives them a good upbringing. She was born a nobody and happened to marry a Count. He has since left her, but she continues her 'holier than thou' attitude.
This is not her worst trait however. It is one thing to want to cling to status and symbol. Everyone has this urge deep inside them. It is not even the fact that she makes taxi drivers call her "Countess" rather than merely "Ms." or "Luanne". This is just the typical bullshit that comes from people not born into money or aristocracy, who would do anything to hold onto it.
It is the fact that she throws the word "class" around with such ridiculousness. When she gossips like a high school girl, when she causes a scene in front of people's children, when she meddles in other people's lives to create drama, when she talks badly about other people... that isn't bad class or bad taste.
It appears that it is only those who dare to call her on this behavior, those who dislike her or say something negative against her which lack "class".
This is hypocrisy at it's finest.
First of all, she is not royalty. Royalty is born royalty. They are born into a family which teaches them values, manners and gives them a good upbringing. She was born a nobody and happened to marry a Count. He has since left her, but she continues her 'holier than thou' attitude.
This is not her worst trait however. It is one thing to want to cling to status and symbol. Everyone has this urge deep inside them. It is not even the fact that she makes taxi drivers call her "Countess" rather than merely "Ms." or "Luanne". This is just the typical bullshit that comes from people not born into money or aristocracy, who would do anything to hold onto it.
It is the fact that she throws the word "class" around with such ridiculousness. When she gossips like a high school girl, when she causes a scene in front of people's children, when she meddles in other people's lives to create drama, when she talks badly about other people... that isn't bad class or bad taste.
It appears that it is only those who dare to call her on this behavior, those who dislike her or say something negative against her which lack "class".
This is hypocrisy at it's finest.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tom Scavo - Desperate Housewives
This man is often spoken of in the show as the ‘perfect husband’. He is the one who is portrayed as a saint for putting up with his shrill, ambition-driven wife. The poor man has to deal with a woman who is not completely satisfied raising the children she never wanted and who do not appreciate her. When the two of them married, Lynette made it very clear that her profession came first. He married her knowing this, though not before sleeping with her best friend when the two were engaged. I suppose he thought that as all women obviously want to be baby factories, his needs (the only ones he consistently cares about throughout the show) were more important than hers. He figured he would get his way. And he was right. Through begging, whining and guilt, he got his wife to bare not one, but four of his bratty children. He even got her to stay home while he worked (despite the fact that she was better at her job and on track to make more than him). During the few times he ‘let her’ work, it was only because he wanted something else (a break to stay home with their now-grown-easy-to-care-for kids or go back to college to get drunk and act like a frat boy, both of which he eventually gave up and then guilted his wife back into being a stay-at-home mom because he couldn’t handle a woman who did his job better than he did).
When those five kids were not enough for him, and he got his wife pregnant again, rather than see that she did not want more children and support her in an abortion (which is the manly thing to do at any age, but especially when a woman is older and having a baby could actually risk her health) he guilted and whined until she agreed to have the baby (not really being there for her when she miscarried one of what they found out to be twins).
Of course it is hard for Tom Scavo to be there for anyone, because he is too busy being there for himself. He also demands that everyone else in his family be there for him, his impetuous mood swings and his every foolish whim and desire. And his wife is. She supported him when he wanted to put their life savings into a pizza restaurant (not the safest investment). She quit her job to help him manage the place. He responded by berating her in front of his employees and “putting her in her place” as someone who “worked for him”. She even supported him, for the most part, when he went back to school. Rather than take his studies seriously, he used this time to meet underage boys and party throughout the night. She even had to endure his mid-life crisis (yes, spending their life-savings on a pizza joint and partying with frat boys were not the midlife crisis points in question) when he joined a band and bought an expensive convertible.
Tom Scavo is a spoiled, selfish, insecure, sexist child. He is there for his wife from time to time, and has his moments of being chivalrous. But he is a far cry from the perfect husband. He is not even a good husband, and Lynette is a saint for never telling him that he has ruined her life.
Note: I am by no means saying that a life is ruined by having children, I am saying that as he is the one who placed family above (her) work, and as she was better at her job and loved it more, he should have been a man, stepped up, and taken care of the kids himself, rather than given her another one to care for.
When those five kids were not enough for him, and he got his wife pregnant again, rather than see that she did not want more children and support her in an abortion (which is the manly thing to do at any age, but especially when a woman is older and having a baby could actually risk her health) he guilted and whined until she agreed to have the baby (not really being there for her when she miscarried one of what they found out to be twins).
Of course it is hard for Tom Scavo to be there for anyone, because he is too busy being there for himself. He also demands that everyone else in his family be there for him, his impetuous mood swings and his every foolish whim and desire. And his wife is. She supported him when he wanted to put their life savings into a pizza restaurant (not the safest investment). She quit her job to help him manage the place. He responded by berating her in front of his employees and “putting her in her place” as someone who “worked for him”. She even supported him, for the most part, when he went back to school. Rather than take his studies seriously, he used this time to meet underage boys and party throughout the night. She even had to endure his mid-life crisis (yes, spending their life-savings on a pizza joint and partying with frat boys were not the midlife crisis points in question) when he joined a band and bought an expensive convertible.
Tom Scavo is a spoiled, selfish, insecure, sexist child. He is there for his wife from time to time, and has his moments of being chivalrous. But he is a far cry from the perfect husband. He is not even a good husband, and Lynette is a saint for never telling him that he has ruined her life.
Note: I am by no means saying that a life is ruined by having children, I am saying that as he is the one who placed family above (her) work, and as she was better at her job and loved it more, he should have been a man, stepped up, and taken care of the kids himself, rather than given her another one to care for.
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