I read an article the other day about protagonists who were really weren’t very nice people. I thought about this a lot and realised how many flaws some people had and trust me it can really change your perspective on a book, film or TV series. So I am sorry if I am ruining anything for you, but I thought this would be such an interesting post to write. I can see how you may think this post is nasty, but remember they are fictional characters we are talking about…
Serena Van Der Woodson
(The character that inspired me to write this post) I have watched gossip girl a few times now. Each time I feel like you gain a different perspective on the show but from the second time round, I realised how much I hate Serena. She is such a victim all the time. She always tries to make it look like she’s such a good person, when in fact she really isn’t. The way that she always has to out do Blair. I know that Blair is a bit of a bitch too but something about her I love and something about Serena I hate. I feel like Serena just always too it too far. Sleeping with Blair’s boyfriend, Nate. Sleeping with Blair’s boyfriend (even though it was her ex) Dan and filming it. Going to Yale to ruin Blair’s chances Trying to ruin Blair and Louis relationship (And pretending she was doing it with Blair’s best interest. Playing victim with gossip girl for the whole series then when she gets the power and is temporarily gossip girl, using the platform to take other people down. Hypocrite much?
I rest my case…
Ted Mosby I have just finished re watching How I met your Mother, might I add I forgot how brilliant it is. But through out watching I couldn’t stop getting annoyed by Ted. I found that a lot of the time, he made a huge drama out of nothing and was quite selfish.
For example, when Marshall and Lily broke up, he started a new relationship with Robin and basically dangled it in front of his best friends face. Plus, I forgot to mention, when he first got together with Robin, he actually had another girlfriend and cheated on her (I can’t tell you how much I feel for someone being cheated on, even if they are fictional characters), Ted makes himself seem so nice and gentlemanly but he did that. At least Barney admitted he was a complete dog and pretended not to be something he wasn’t. Plus, he went on this huge venture for the perfect woman and didn’t really give the women a chance. His mission took over his whole life and his friend’s lives too, again that’s pretty selfish.
Carrie Bradshaw
She’s annoying to me and the noise that comes out of her mouth when she screams… her reaction to everything is always an overreaction. But the main reason behind this is, what she did to Aiden. YOU FOOL HE WAS PERFECT AND YOU BROKE HIS BEAUTIFUL HEART AND WENT BACK TO SOMEONE WHO IS A COMPLETE DICK. I rest my case…. I would also just like to add how her problems are way worse than anyone else, she is very self centred. I was going to stop there but as I watch more and more sex and the city, I get even more annoyed with her. But, whenever she gets the chance she brings the conversation back on to her, ALWAYS. I’m sorry, but now that I have pointed this out, I will have probably ruined Sex and the City for you.
Stacey Shipman Now, I am not slating Gavin and Stacey, I mean how could I? It’s brilliant. But, there is something about Stacey that I find really annoying. She seems very whiny all the time and it’s really annoying. I feel like she’s quite spoilt and with Gavin she is always over reacting and always making an issue.
Jenny Humphrey
Back onto Gossip Girl, I wasn’t going to put this in because I didn’t want to one show in too much but I really took a dislike to her at one point in the show. Firstly, the way she treat sweet and old Rufus broke my heart, I felt so sorry for him. And I would like to add, she was friends with Vanessa for years and stole her boyfriend (Nate) and then continued to go after him when he was with Serena by following him around and playing victim with him. Where’s your morals Little J?
And Finally,
Rachel Berry She is extremely irritating from the beginning, I know that most of the characters in Glee didn’t treat her well but she really did play the victim (which in life for me is one of my biggest pet peeves). Also the ego she had was insane, she actually thought she was better than anyone else and all of her problems were much worse than any other character’s in the series (although a lot of them went through quite a lot of serious issues) She was way too series and sensitive, and always had a problem. I haven’t watched Glee in years so my memory of it is a little foggy so I don’t want to say too much, but I couldn’t possibly forget how annoying she was/is.
The majority of this post contains female characters, which I guess is really not promoting girl power or female empowerment. But, it’s not about Gender really, more about personality. I know this may seem that this is just a whole post about bitching but hey! they are all fictional characters so surely that’s ok?
I just thought this was a really interesting thing to talk about, I find myself a lot of the time getting annoyed by characters especially if you’re binge watching a series.
I’d love to know if you hate any characters too, it would be interesting to know why.
Thank you for reading.
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