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Oooohhhh, Oompa Loompas :bigyikes: They’re almost as scary as Wonka himself.
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Amen! She was just too perfect for me…
Anakin (in all three new SW movies), Ms. Marple from the Agatha Christie books… probably more but I can’t remember.
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Lexie is THE WORST doctor ever.I don’t think Beth was a real character, as such. She was a plot point. She didn’t need to be developed like the others because her only purpose was to die and deepen the characterization of her sisters.
I suppose. However, all of the other girls had some big personality flaws. Meg was overly concerned about what other thought. Jo was a kind of perpetual pain and Amy was very selfish. Beth was oooohhhh soooooo perfect. She bugged. Everyone loves Beth, but I always identified with Amy.
That sounds…interesting. Thanks for the previewI hope the killer is an unexpected choice though, and not Stefano/Tony/Larry.
It’s unexpected. It’s also really terrible retconning. It also requires whole new levels of disbelief, even for this show which had Marlena possesed by the devil, trapped in a bird cage 30 miles below Paris. I reccommed drinking heavily the day the reveal airs. I mean I watch General Hospital too, and it’s bad. But no where near the bad that DOOL was at this time. However, they get a new head writer and things get a little better.
Right now we just had Larry Welch go to jail for gaslighting Hope, Colin Murphy’s dead, Victor is torturing Nicole, and Marlena is running around wearing the most hideous nightgown known to man. And every episode contains a Very Special Message about the dangers of drinking and drugs - poor brainless Cassie is being taken in by the lame-o bad boys on campus. And Sean has inexplicably disappeared.They recast Sean eventually. While I was no fan of Jason Cook, I really hate Brandom Beemer who is the replacement.
I think my most hated character on Days is Lexie. I vaguely remember liking her, when her mother was around, but now with the whole Brandon/Sammy thing, she’s just insufferable.
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Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights was the most depressing book I ever had the misfortune to read.
For sheer boredom you can’t beat Vanity Fair. I had to write a paper for a college course on a character from the book but fell asleep each time I picked it up. Almost failed the class.
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Wuthering Heights was the most depressing book I ever had the misfortune to read.
For sheer boredom you can’t beat Vanity Fair. I had to write a paper for a college course on a character from the book but fell asleep each time I picked it up. Almost failed the class.
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LilyM
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Some of the characters are boring but Becky Sharp and her husband (Rawdon?) are really interesting. I love Vanity Fair.
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Elric
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What is the criteria for your least favorite fictional character?
Is it because you personally dont like them?
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Because of the concept/make up of the character?
Is it because you personally dont like them?
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Because of the concept/make up of the character?
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I think it’s the ones you dislike personally for whatever reason.
Some of my favorite fictional characters, in real life I would run from screaming “HALP HALP I NEED AN ADULT”, but in fiction they’re just… great. One of them in particular I’ve tried to get inside the head of for fanfic and find it a wasteland, but enjoy watching him from the outside, because he can pull off crazy and normal so well you don’t know what’s real. It’s terrifying, but wonderful.
Some of my favorite fictional characters, in real life I would run from screaming “HALP HALP I NEED AN ADULT”, but in fiction they’re just… great. One of them in particular I’ve tried to get inside the head of for fanfic and find it a wasteland, but enjoy watching him from the outside, because he can pull off crazy and normal so well you don’t know what’s real. It’s terrifying, but wonderful.
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musicgal4jesus
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I can’t believe you don’t like Poirot!!! Okay, he’s hardly realistic, but he can be so funny!
Ah well, to each his own.
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Elric
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I think that any character that Tom Cruise plays would be among my least favorite.
King Leonidas wife and that senator guy from the movie 300 just annoyed me, they just were not necessary to the story.
Abigal? from The Crucible. She was just evil and I loved the way Winona Rider played her in the film, she made me want to hate the character.
Scorpio from Dirty Harry, what a nasty piece of work he was!!!
King Leonidas wife and that senator guy from the movie 300 just annoyed me, they just were not necessary to the story.
Abigal? from The Crucible. She was just evil and I loved the way Winona Rider played her in the film, she made me want to hate the character.
Scorpio from Dirty Harry, what a nasty piece of work he was!!!
Me and Dame Agatha both! Toward the end, SHE couldn’t stand him either!I can’t believe you don’t like Poirot!!! Okay, he’s hardly realistic, but he can be so funny!
Ah well, to each his own.
Funny? I find him more annoying than funny! You want funny, give me Mrs. Oliver! But if it makes you feel any better, I used to like him more than Miss Marple. She and Mrs. Oliver are the most realistic of Christie’s detectives (let’s not even get into Tommy and Tuppence… I still haven’t been able to get through “Postern of Fate” without getting hopelessly lost in the middle of it!)
I think “The Pale Horse” was one of her best… Mrs. Oliver was in it, but mostly peripherally. And I think Poirot was mentioned. But that’s it.
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I could never stand Ms. Marple… she was always too prissy and… just aggravating!
Me and Dame Agatha both! Toward the end, SHE couldn’t stand him either!
Funny? I find him more annoying than funny! You want funny, give me Mrs. Oliver! But if it makes you feel any better, I used to like him more than Miss Marple. She and Mrs. Oliver are the most realistic of Christie’s detectives (let’s not even get into Tommy and Tuppence… I still haven’t been able to get through “Postern of Fate” without getting hopelessly lost in the middle of it!)
I think “The Pale Horse” was one of her best… Mrs. Oliver was in it, but mostly peripherally. And I think Poirot was mentioned. But that’s it.
I think I’ve read a grand total of one Tommy and Tuppence story… they’re not much better than Ms. Marple in my opinion.My personal favorite of Christie’s is definitely “And Then There Were None.” No detectives, just one heck of a thriller.
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That describes how I feel about Tom Ripley - he’s a completely degenerate sociopath, reprehensible in every possible way, the kind of person you’d never want to even know about, much less come into contact with, but Patricia Highsmith writes him so well you find yourself wanting him to get away with his crimes, and thoroughly enjoying the books.
There’ve been “good”, moral, perfectly pleasant and likable characters I’ve detested in fiction, and messed up losers I’ve adored and sympathized with. Yay for fiction
I agree with hating Abigail from The Crucible - it’s my favorite play, Elizabeth Proctor is one of my favorite fictional characters, and Abigail one of my least favorite. She’s the worst kind of evil, and contains no redeeming or sympathetic qualities.
And “And then there were none” is my favorite Christie too, though I don’t like very many of her books. She cheats constantly, and there’s no satisfaction in those kinds of mysteries. I prefer gothic suspense/mystery, like Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, and Shirley Jackson.
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Elric
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Thats certainly true. In Lord of the Rings Boromer was my favorite simply because he wasnt perfect like the rest of them (I cried when he died, while reading the book and watching the film), Gandalf or Sam would have been among my least favorite characters because they were such goodie goodies and Frodo was a little whiner.There’ve been “good”, moral, perfectly pleasant and likable characters I’ve detested in fiction, and messed up losers I’ve adored and sympathized with. Yay for fiction
I couldnt remember if that was her name, its been a while since I read the play or saw the film. I liked the old guy who they stacked rocks on to get him to reveal the names on his petition (cant remember his name).
Keanu Reeves played a very good bad guy in the film he and Cate Blanchette but for the life of me, I cant remember the name of the film (my memory is going really good today). That was another character that made me want to hate them.
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I agree completely
I did like Sam at times, but never Frodo. Boromir and Gandalf were my favorites.Giles Corey
I should reread it this winter, it’s been a couple years.The Gift - that was a very creepy movie, and he was quite good in it. I love all Cate Blanchett movies though. Reeves did do a laughably terrible job as the bad guy in The Watcher, with James Spader - the whole time I was wondering what the casting director was thinking. It could have worked well if their roles had been reversed.
Another character I hate: Spader’s Graham Dalton in Sex Lies and Videotape. It’s a brilliant preformance (I think he’s one of our best living actors, and totally wasted on Boston Legal) but I just hate him by the end.
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How does she “cheat”? I’ve never done Christie, I’m not a mystery connoisseur.
For du Maurier: if you can find it, try and find “Don’t Look Now”. I don’t know where you would get it (in a short story collection, yeah, but other than that…), but it’s wonderful.
Also, Mrs. Danvers freaks the hell out of me. I’ve been wanting to see “Rebecca” over here (Michael Kunze, who’s the German Andrew Lloyd Webber, made a musical of it, and the ads for it show Max… and their Max is HOT), but Mrs. Danvers and the lack of understanding sung German has been holding me back.
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my least favorite fictional characters? lots! here is a short list:For the negative side of the discussion
My #1 has to be Dr. Yuri Zhivago. I haven’t seen the movie, but the book, while well written, made me want to burn it, and then go about kicking random men in the shins.
Ka D’Argo on Farscape is #2, but he’s a love to hate type, the self-righteous, wife-beating, engagement-assuming, physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive bully. I can see his good points sometimes, and he adds to the cast dynamic, but I’d never want to know him. But then the “noble savage” sci-fi stereotype has never interested me.
3 Deanna Troi. If there was a vomit smiley, I’d be using it.
4 Apollo, from mythology. Self-absorbed, misogynist donkey who really isn’t all that great.
5 Jake from Lonesome Dove. It still makes me want to cry when I think about “Lori who?” and it’s been about 10 years since I last read the book.
archie bunker from all in the family
deanna troi, agreed.
harry potter don’t care for any of that stuff
peter from family guy. hate that show.
everyone in south park. can’t stomach that garbage
marge from the simpsons
joanie and chachi from happy days
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Elric
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Wasnt that pretty much true of all the “male” Greek/Roman Gods
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She’ll often (granted, I’ve not read all her books, my husband says I just have bad luck, though I choose randomly) have the murderer either be someone who:
- Is extremely minor and seems inconsequential to the story.
- Has not actually been in the book until the revelation, but was talked about.
- Be someone who hasn’t been in the book, and was never talked about. I can’t remember which title it was, but in one it was “revealed” that the murderer was some random guy who happened to be walking along a cliff one night.
“And Then There Were None” and “Murder on the Orient Express” are the only 2 Christies that don’t strike me as cheaty insipidness, and Orient has its own problems.
It’s sitting on my bookshelf now, one of my favorites
I own almost all of her books. “The Birds” is my favorite short (I normally love Hitchcock films, but he gutted a truly marvelous and terrifying story) and “My Cousin Rachel” is my favorite novel, although Rebecca is VERY close.It sounds good! If you know the story, the German might not make as much of a difference? You could reread/rewatch before going to refresh your memory
Mrs. Danvers was sooo wicked and creepy, but I was more chilled by several scenes with Max…I’m thinking (in the book) of the one in the car after the inquest, and of course, in the beach house. Great stuff! du Maurier has an unmatched talent for terror…I find her writing scarier than anything by Stephen King. No gore, just pure, heart pounding suspense.DH loooves South Park, and I find it funny in an “oh my gosh, I can’t believe I’m laughing at this” way about half the time. The other half I cannot stand it, so juvenile and gross. I do love Butters though, and think Cartman is one of the most evil characters ever created. We like to discuss possible death-matches…Cartman vs Kahn, Cartman vs Darth Vader, Cartman vs Scorpius, etc, and Cartman always wins handily.
Actually, I probably enjoy it far less than half the time. “Cat Orgy” and “Casa Bonita” had me in hysterics from beginning to end, but the rest have a few genuine laughs buried under heaps of garbage, and some episodes don’t even have that. Usually I’m laughing at how horrible Cartman is (I particularly love his scenes with his mother). I do like that they’re equal opportunity offenders, and don’t take sides. I was especially pleased/surprised at how negative they were regarding fetal stem cell research in the Christopher Reeves episode.
Why do you dislike Marge, may I ask? I’ve always found her extremely sad, but very loveable.
True, but he offends me the most. Zeus at least usually had willing sexual partners, or disguised himself as someone/something they’d willingly be with, while Apollo was all sleazy date-rape guy. Maybe it was his attitude and personality in general, since what he did to Daphne was probably less offensive than what Hades did to Persephone, but Hades is interesting to me. Not likable, but interesting.Wasnt that pretty much true of all the “male” Greek/Roman Gods
And I always thought Apollo’s punishment of Cassandra was especially cruel, even though she should have been smarter than to play with a god’s affections.
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lolwut?
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