I've recently realized that brooding characters like Bill and Angel are repugnant to me because they trigger my depressive tendencies - what is brooding if not depressive behavior? - and so I find their other negative characteristics exponentially worse because of my already settled dislike of them.
Interesting. Hmmm. That may well be part of my problem with them as well. I used to like these sorts of characters, but somewhere around 2003 or thereabouts, I suddenly despised them. No clue why. I had admittedly fallen into a depression at that point, and came out again around 2005, so it's possible that was the reason.
Bill/Ned Stark(Game of Thrones) /Angel/ Mitchell (Being Human) and Stefan Salvatore - all well-intentioned, incredibly self-righteous, ex-soliders (well except for Stefan), noble, and ...brooding - seem to be beloved by many people in those fandoms, but I find that after a few episodes or a few seasons of their continuous whining, that I can't stand them. They are whiny, often the cause of most if not all the violence and upheaval but blame other people for it or their addiction or their parents, do these noble things that ironically make things much worse, judge other characters who are actually no worse than they are, and take it upon themselves to do what is best for "heroine" or "the world" when in reality it is merely a projection of their own pride and vanity, and ironically causes the exact opposite of what they so..heroically intended.
Let's face it - I'm not a fan of the classical and tragic greek hero. It's a trope that currently annoys me. ;-)
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Date: 2011-06-28 04:34 pm (UTC)I've recently realized that brooding characters like Bill and Angel are repugnant to me because they trigger my depressive tendencies - what is brooding if not depressive behavior? - and so I find their other negative characteristics exponentially worse because of my already settled dislike of them.
Interesting. Hmmm. That may well be part of my problem with them as well. I used to like these sorts of characters, but somewhere around 2003 or thereabouts, I suddenly despised them. No clue why. I had admittedly fallen into a depression at that point, and came out again around 2005, so it's possible that was the reason.
Bill/Ned Stark(Game of Thrones) /Angel/ Mitchell (Being Human) and Stefan Salvatore - all well-intentioned, incredibly self-righteous, ex-soliders (well except for Stefan), noble, and ...brooding - seem to
be beloved by many people in those fandoms, but I find that after a few episodes or a few seasons of their continuous whining, that I can't stand them. They are whiny, often the cause of most if not all the violence and upheaval but blame other people for it or their addiction or their parents, do these noble things that ironically make things much worse, judge other characters who are actually no worse than they are, and take it upon themselves to do what is best for "heroine" or "the world"
when in reality it is merely a projection of their own pride and vanity, and ironically causes the exact opposite of what they so..heroically intended.
Let's face it - I'm not a fan of the classical and tragic greek hero. It's a trope that currently annoys me. ;-)