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Q&A for Transformers Fans, Day 4
Jun. 8th, 2015 11:13 pmHate: Who is your least favorite character from any series?
Most of the characters I dislike aren’t so much a matter of ‘I hiss and throw things at the screen when they show up’ as they are a matter of wasted potential. The biggest example of this that comes to mind is Scorponok. The Beast Wars writers were still finding their feet in a lot of ways in Season 1, but Scorpy was a great big ball of forgettable who didn’t even get a decent death scene - it was like he was just there to fill space until Inferno showed up, and then his days were numbered. At least Terrorsaur got to Starscream it up in a couple of episodes before he died. What do you even DO with him if you want to write some S1 Predacons? There’s nothing there to latch onto.
But at least in Scorponok’s case we’re not asked to root for or identify with him. Jack Darby and Sam Witwicky are obstensibly the POV characters in their respective continuities and are, respectively, boring as hell and utterly infuriating. Jack is Bella Swan levels of blank slate, completely bland, like some forty-year-old’s idea of what a teenager is like. But I’d sooner take ten of him over disloyal, misogynistic Sam. If Sam was ‘the only human Optimus Prime trusted,’ then it’s no wonder he became a giant ball of rage.
Also, Wheelie gives me a headache. Sorry.
(On an unrelated note, I've posted a short, pervy Cyclonus/Rodimus thing on AO3.)
Most of the characters I dislike aren’t so much a matter of ‘I hiss and throw things at the screen when they show up’ as they are a matter of wasted potential. The biggest example of this that comes to mind is Scorponok. The Beast Wars writers were still finding their feet in a lot of ways in Season 1, but Scorpy was a great big ball of forgettable who didn’t even get a decent death scene - it was like he was just there to fill space until Inferno showed up, and then his days were numbered. At least Terrorsaur got to Starscream it up in a couple of episodes before he died. What do you even DO with him if you want to write some S1 Predacons? There’s nothing there to latch onto.
But at least in Scorponok’s case we’re not asked to root for or identify with him. Jack Darby and Sam Witwicky are obstensibly the POV characters in their respective continuities and are, respectively, boring as hell and utterly infuriating. Jack is Bella Swan levels of blank slate, completely bland, like some forty-year-old’s idea of what a teenager is like. But I’d sooner take ten of him over disloyal, misogynistic Sam. If Sam was ‘the only human Optimus Prime trusted,’ then it’s no wonder he became a giant ball of rage.
Also, Wheelie gives me a headache. Sorry.
(On an unrelated note, I've posted a short, pervy Cyclonus/Rodimus thing on AO3.)
