When are the male characters ever written up as being blinded by love? And fueling the angst on the show? I think if you had had a male character portrayed as wanting to deal with the romantic situation (and getting distressed about it), he'd be seen as a whiny character (a lot of people disliked the Doctor for pining over Rose for so long). On women it works a lot better than it does on men, even if it's a hit/miss for a lot of people.
For me I have a harder time liking female characters, because they will often be written as the lesser species that has this Teen Twilight mindset come out and play whenever the guy needs to come out on top. Even though I'm not equally as apt to scrutiny when it comes to men (because the world has grown up finding a lot of bad qualities/actions excusable when it comes to them. I've even tested this theory out on a lot of fandom folk to see if they would like me any less if I behaved as a rampant jerk-face—which admittedly, in itself, is a jerk thing to do—and I've had people like me better for those things whereas they would complain about the same attributes in their female friends), but I will be turned off by the negative character traits if they appear. Albeit nobody can be composed of just good traits, but to glorify a person's negative side seems to be an utterly backwards mindset. I don't want to find myself disappointed in fandom, but a lot of people need to stop being stuck in the 50's.
The one thing I dislike (in either gender) is when a character is written to be the amazingly Bad Ass of Bad Assery. It just reads/plays off as Mary Sue to me. Only a few people can portray this role, and that's always because they tend to fail at their attempts of being Bad Ass or that it backfires. (Which then isn't a character who is Bad Ass.)
Who I like and who I dislike is based on character (and a shallow level of me thinking the character is hot, but that in turn comes from character personality. Sue me, I'm gay. I'm allowed to be biased to the male persuasion!). A character grows with you, in good and bad. If I dislike a character I won't stop watching the series and I won't come at fen comms with a mallet to bash my hate away. If my best friend started dating a person I could not stand, I wouldn't stop being friends because of their dating choice. Seems rather petty. Hate for a person (fictional or real) can't overshadow the love for someone. Cue a cheesy 'Love conquers all' song.
For example, Rose was my favourite companion, but I couldn't stand any of the others, male or female. On Billie Piper's new series, I love Belle/Hannah and Bambi but I can't stand the male main/supporting characters (the clientele excluded) because they're just being a bunch of twats.
But at the end of the day, the "worst" character might become my favourite simply because of their bad behaviour. See my icon for reference (Nathan from Misfits).
I hope this comment made sense with all the abuse of the parenthetical side-notes. That and I just had to comment on this entry despite my brain still trying to boot up fully from sleep. ;)
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When are the male characters ever written up as being blinded by love? And fueling the angst on the show? I think if you had had a male character portrayed as wanting to deal with the romantic situation (and getting distressed about it), he'd be seen as a whiny character (a lot of people disliked the Doctor for pining over Rose for so long). On women it works a lot better than it does on men, even if it's a hit/miss for a lot of people.
For me I have a harder time liking female characters, because they will often be written as the lesser species that has this Teen Twilight mindset come out and play whenever the guy needs to come out on top. Even though I'm not equally as apt to scrutiny when it comes to men (because the world has grown up finding a lot of bad qualities/actions excusable when it comes to them. I've even tested this theory out on a lot of fandom folk to see if they would like me any less if I behaved as a rampant jerk-face—which admittedly, in itself, is a jerk thing to do—and I've had people like me better for those things whereas they would complain about the same attributes in their female friends), but I will be turned off by the negative character traits if they appear. Albeit nobody can be composed of just good traits, but to glorify a person's negative side seems to be an utterly backwards mindset. I don't want to find myself disappointed in fandom, but a lot of people need to stop being stuck in the 50's.
The one thing I dislike (in either gender) is when a character is written to be the amazingly Bad Ass of Bad Assery. It just reads/plays off as Mary Sue to me. Only a few people can portray this role, and that's always because they tend to fail at their attempts of being Bad Ass or that it backfires. (Which then isn't a character who is Bad Ass.)
Who I like and who I dislike is based on character (and a shallow level of me thinking the character is hot, but that in turn comes from character personality. Sue me, I'm gay. I'm allowed to be biased to the male persuasion!). A character grows with you, in good and bad. If I dislike a character I won't stop watching the series and I won't come at fen comms with a mallet to bash my hate away. If my best friend started dating a person I could not stand, I wouldn't stop being friends because of their dating choice. Seems rather petty. Hate for a person (fictional or real) can't overshadow the love for someone. Cue a cheesy 'Love conquers all' song.
For example, Rose was my favourite companion, but I couldn't stand any of the others, male or female. On Billie Piper's new series, I love Belle/Hannah and Bambi but I can't stand the male main/supporting characters (the clientele excluded) because they're just being a bunch of twats.
But at the end of the day, the "worst" character might become my favourite simply because of their bad behaviour. See my icon for reference (Nathan from Misfits).
I hope this comment made sense with all the abuse of the parenthetical side-notes. That and I just had to comment on this entry despite my brain still trying to boot up fully from sleep. ;)