Day #12 of the 30 Day Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day 12 of 30 Day Television Challenge

The prompt: Character that you initially found annoying but you grew to love

This is not as easy as it looks..

I'm going with...

Wes in Angel. (Note - it was in Angel that I initially found Wes annoying and grew to love the character. Actually I think Wes was possibly the best developed character on Angel.).

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[shadowkat]

I'll give them credit for doing a better job with him than in the movie. Television though provides that. By the end - I thought Frank Burns was a good depiction of what war does to people - and MASH kind of comments on it. That Frank in of himself and in his average life, wasn't necessarily a bad person so much as typical of his upbringing. And he'd have probably been fine. But the war kind of challenged him. He was in many ways stuck because of the choices he made. But they were no better or worse than most.

Also, we're seeing Frank through Hawkeye's perspective, and Hawkeye is kind of an anti-hero, if you think about it. And a bully. The brilliance of MASH was the characters were all deeply and tragically flawed, and the WAR and the nonsensical nature of WAR often brought out the best and the worst in all of them. Burns was often a foil to Hawkeye.