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Day 23 - Most annoying character

Lots of landmined ground to tread through here.  Traditional fanfoils like Wesley Crusher and Charles Emerson Winchester III. Minor ones already mentioned like “Shut Up Meadow” Soprano. Obscure ones like Gushie from Quantum Leap (if only on account of the bad breath).  Even obvious ones from shows I never watched: Jerry from Seinfeld leaps to mind, except he wasn’t really acting.

So can I wimp out and pick an entire alien race?

The Doctor needs the Daleks, and the feeling (or lack of it, on their part) is mutual. They provide some needed continuity and some sense of old-school to a franchise on its eleventh lead. Still, couldn’t you guys freshen up the act a LITTLE?  Other than getting decked out in the current series as a bunch of armour-plated Skittles, the look is the same, the language is the same, the whole schtick’s the same.

You can’t blame it on their machine-like status. HAL sang. Data evolved. The Borg assimilated enough life to become something different by the end. Hell, Ziggy did a complete gender-bender on Leap.

I don’t expect them to go all Oprah on me, or start dancing the tarantella (although that would be rather amusing), but I wouldn’t mind seeing either some evolution of their villainy or, possibly, their eventual replacement with someone/something more up to the task, with more of a repertoire than just running a continual commercial for Raid.

Comments

[nonspecific.livejournal.com]

I vote any Gilbert Godfreid voiced character...

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Daleks have evolved (sorta) as characters-- you need to see some of the Daleks ep from the Tennant era, not to mention everything from the Hartnell era on up. They have changed, they've had in-fightign amongst differnt groups, you've had Davros and Emperors and Dalek Caan and so on and so forth.

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Wesley Crusher served an important narrative function, and did it well. He was us, the people watching in wonder at marvels unfolding before their very eyes. It wasn't until bad writers kept trotting out deux-ex-Wesley to create and solve all problems. I liked Wesley. I also liked Meadow - she and Carmella were pitch-perfect together.

Most annoying? Hard to say, as I have a low pain threshold and will just stop watching. Take your pick (and shovel): Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica) and his mumbled maundering. That's a show I should have turned off at the end of the first season. Shawn Spencer (Psych). The juvenile smartassery gets less cute the older and doughier you get. Got sick of him and stopped watching. Jinx and Brandi Shannon (In Plain Sight. If they're back next season, I won't be. The entire cast of that bogus reality show called, what is it? Oh, yeah - Fox News. They can't cancel that one quickly enough for me.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

It's all because Davros was such a fraking drama queen.