It's one of the few universal truths of television: every show has at least one absolutely detestable weasel; that one character who seems to exist in the narrative for the sole purpose of making everybody else look wonderful by comparison. Sometimes it's a character that was legitimately set up to be a villain. Other times, It's a persona we were supposed to identify with, but that nonetheless displays a less-than-likeable arc over time. Or maybe it's even a precocious kid the producers decided to add to infuse a shot of fresh blood into an atrophied cast dynamic. Regardless, there are certain characters viewers just gleefully loathe, and usually for good reason. The irony is, these characters are usually so hated because the actors portraying them are uncommonly good at being bad — so there's a double-edged sword of cognitive dissonance to a lot of how we feel about them. On this edition of FYF, Saint and Jim step up to the pump, and fill up an entire tank's worth of vitriol for these on-screen targets of deserved fandom ire...even as we celebrate (most of) the actors themselves.
It's one of the few universal truths of television: every show has at least one absolutely detestable weasel; that one character who seems to exist in the narrative for the sole purpose of making everybody else look wonderful by comparison. Sometimes it's a character that was legitimately set up to be a villain. Other times, It's a persona we were supposed to identify with, but that nonetheless displays a less-than-likeable arc over time. Or maybe it's even a precocious kid the producers decided to add to infuse a shot of fresh blood into an atrophied cast dynamic. Regardless, there are certain characters viewers just gleefully loathe, and usually for good reason. The irony is, these characters are usually so hated because the actors portraying them are uncommonly good at being bad — so there's a double-edged sword of cognitive dissonance to a lot of how we feel about them. On this edition of FYF, Saint and Jim step up to the pump, and fill up an entire tank's worth of vitriol for these on-screen targets of deserved fandom ire...even as we celebrate (most of) the actors themselves.