Hee. Well what I was going for was gut reactions. Which character do you enjoy watching more? Which do you prefer?
People clearly interpret this differently and in ways that never occurred to me when I created the poll. Rosegriffiths asked if I meant to hang out with, be BFF with...and I thought, huh? They are fictional characters. You can't hang out with them, silly people. But hey, the marry, fuck, and throw off the cliff meme is going around...so I tried to clarify. And stated don't overthink this, just pick the character you enjoyed watching on tv more.
That's how I intended people to take it. And how I answered it. I picked which character I liked or preferred to watch. Then I analyzed why. Reasons vary. Some people prefer to watch characters that resonate with them personally, that make them laugh, that they'd be friends with in real life, others prefer to watch characters that validate some deep philosophical view, while others like a complex character arc or unpredictable one, and still other's want a satisfying arc.
Which makes polls difficult. Because the reasons we prefer one character to another are so...varied. It also makes character wars un-winnable. I mean, how can you argue with someone who is loving the character because they make them laugh, while you hate them because their arc sucked? Your looking at the character through two completely different angles.
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Date: 2012-07-02 10:32 pm (UTC)People clearly interpret this differently and in ways that never occurred to me when I created the poll. Rosegriffiths asked if I meant to hang out with, be BFF with...and I thought, huh? They are fictional characters.
You can't hang out with them, silly people. But hey, the marry, fuck, and throw off the cliff meme is going around...so I tried to clarify. And stated don't overthink this, just pick the character you enjoyed watching on tv more.
That's how I intended people to take it. And how I answered it. I picked which character I liked or preferred to watch. Then I analyzed why. Reasons vary. Some people prefer to watch characters that resonate with them personally, that make them laugh, that they'd be friends with in real life, others prefer to watch characters that validate some deep philosophical view, while others like a complex character arc or unpredictable one, and still other's want a satisfying arc.
Which makes polls difficult. Because the reasons we prefer one character to another are so...varied. It also makes character wars un-winnable. I mean, how can you argue with someone who is loving the character because they make them laugh, while you hate them because their arc sucked? Your looking at the character through two completely different angles.