That character meme

[weewarrior]

It comes back, again and again, like a bad penny. (Does that bad penny idiom exist in English languages? Is it still in use? Random aside, sorry.) So, as I have new shows:

Comment with one of my fandoms, and I'll reply with:

01. The first character I first fell in love with
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't
04. The character I love that everyone else hates
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer
06. The character I would shag anytime
07. The character I'd want to be like
08. The character I'd slap
09. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

Please, hit me.

Comments

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! These memes are always a good way to ponder on shows.

I actually did have to think "Which one of them's Matt?" so certainly in this cross sample of one, your observations holds up.

Oops. *g*

7's a tough one, isn't it?

I think 7 is impossible for almost any show. TV characters usually don't work like RL people, that's one general obstacle; in case of this show, most of the characters are either explicitly messed up or jerks, so you wouldn't want to be them for different reasons.

I think Damon's a hard character to forgive for me too precisely because of the way he treated Caroline. I find him funny and he's a good source of chaos in shaking things up for the other characters but I'll never be emotionally on his side.

I know what you mean. We have talked about the moral element before; I find it difficult to apply that to non-human characters like I would with human ones, but that doesn't mean I look at them without morality. I do view them as somewhat shifted to the side of human characters, if that makes any sense. In addition, the show itself has somewhat shifty morals that can't easily be divided into "vampires=evil, humans=good" - Pearl is a really good example, since I would see her as someone who is basically good, but at the same time rather autocratic and not at all above using force and violence when it suits her. I think Damon is somewhat difficult to grasp here, because they've changed the character concept, for one (from killing people out of boredom or spite in the beginning to mostly killing them when he feels threatened later on - still ruthless and bad, but no longer as psycho) and also because he strikes me as rather emotionally disturbed. In that respect I like certain developments in the end of the season for him (don't know how far you watched, thus, vagueness), because it means they are developing him - as opposed to Sylar for instance.

As for forgiving him, no, and they'll have to work hard on that. But I don't find myself shaking my head at Stefan or Elena or Alaric because they get along with him, both because of who they are and because of said development.