Ever rewatched a series and realised you dislike a character?

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Maybe a character you liked originally or were indifferent to? I'm rewatching Dexter and, omfg, Debra is so damn annoying and pathetic, not to mention bad at her job!

Massive Buffy fan..but yeah, Xander seemed likeable and fun as a teen, but rewatching it’s cringe. Also Angel seemed mature and so romantic…now I think creepy, love bombing, going after a young woman who’s over a hundred years younger 🤢 If he looked his age, no-one would think it was romantic!
I think Spike is different. You’re meant to want them to get it on because of the chemistry but they were never meant to be together. He’s fundamentally flawed, even with his soul. I love that the end of Buffy is not about him ‘ending up’ with a guy, it’s just about her, contemplating her future. Riley - just ugh.

God I hate Julia. Dumbly tolerates her useless twat of a husband and allows him to avoid responsibility for everything, whilst vilifying and bullying her own mother for wanting a life, having boundaries and not meekly going along with her demands for free childcare! And yeah, her lack of promotion at work may be down to the fact she’s so random and chaotic she couldn’t find her own arse with both hands. Do love that show though!

Just realised you meant the Big Table in the cafe, not work 😂

I used to love Charmed and it's not a character I dislike rewatching with a modern/older eye you can see how what they wear changes dramatically between seasons from being fairly conservative to being barely there and becomes way more risque, I assume the show got taken over by a man.

I don't think Julia's supposed to be especially likeable. I see her as the woman who always did things 'right' (school, university, career, popular/handsome husband, big house etc) but only realised when she had children that instead of having it all, she ended up DOING it all. So she ends up failing at all her roles- mother, career, friendship, daughter.

Oh no, dear, I'm with you in this one too. I'd completely forgotten about him! Spoilt boring snob...

I agree. Her husband is obviously a bit of a charactature of a pisstaking husband who's conveniently never available. I don't dislike Julia, I identify with a lot of her angst as a FT working mum 😂. She is rude to her mum but I think we're laughing at her own obliviousness there, she genuinely feels hard done by that she has to manage her own children now.

I actually don’t mind Meredith. Yes, she can be a bit of a pain but she does care about her patients and being a good doctor. Also she has dealt with a lot before Grey’s even starts, what with never seeing her father, witnessing her mum’s suicide attempt at 5 and then dealing with Ellis being in a home for dementia when she was, what, 26?

Than allll the death. So much death.

Wow. Thought I was alone in my dislike of Lorelai Gilmore, but clearly am not. Only watched it fairly recently (persuaded by my teenage daughter). I hate that she can never have a normal conversation and that every single thing she says is a wisecrack or 'witty' repartee. Painful.

Really interesting window to the past though.

I’m watching it for the first time and have always thought that Meredith and Derek area terrible couple. Absolutely toxic together. Fortunately I’ve got to season 12 so don’t have to endure the relationship any longer but I don’t think there was one second where I believed they were in love. And I’d heard so much about it, and all the McDreamy stuff, and I’ve been watching it thinking - what am I missing? What am I not seeing that people have been RAVING about online in terms of this big romance?!

Yes, came on here to say Julia from Motherland - poor kids!
also agree
Ross
Carrie SATC- actually unbearable
also used to love Davina but she really irritates me now 😂

Sheldon does show personal growth though, he's almost a functioning human by the end of the series, largely thanks to Penny and Amy. Rajesh on the other hand, is a needy, toxic manbaby, who thinks that he's owed a relationship.

Both Lorelai and Rory need a good kick up the arse. Rory was a spoiled little shit who tried to screw over her mum more than once and then became a pathetic adult, incapable of operating in the real world. Shameful.

She basically only existed as a device to keep Josh and Donna apart.

Annoying but not as annoying as Mandy who was so annoying they literally erased her from existence

We should have a thread on the opposite. There are tons of characters I hated on the first watch who I've warmed to as I've gotten older.

It was perhaps fitting that Rory was so rudderless and entitled as an adult. It was probably the only realistic thing about the update. She'd been raised to expect everything to be handed to her because she was so special and then, it wasn't !

Celia in 'Last tango in Halifax'
Selfish mare.

It always annoyed me how literally the whole town would fawn over her, throwing her special parties and stuff, just because she was her! Imagine how all the other kids in bloody Stars Hollow must have felt!

She very much got what she deserved in the end.

Omg YES! I forgot about this.

LOL I remember once writing a comment on Twitter about how I wasn't keen on her and I got attacked by the show's deranged fanbase. Very odd, I hadn't realised it had such a cult following.

I know this is meant to be about tv and not books but I'm reminded of Alicia Johns from Enid Blyton 's Mallory Towers. As an adult looking back Alicia was actually a bully, but being popular and clever and good at games made her out to be some kind of schoolgirl royalty. In my opinion I find it harder to sympathise with her than with Gwendolyn Lacey.

One of my favourite lines is when she yells at her mum 'I'm left to look after YOUR grandchildren' or something to that effect.

There are only two characters that I remember where Dh and I discussed and debated them and often turned full circle on them. That surely is a sign of excellent script writing.

Don Draper and Lady Mary.

@BonzoDogDooDahBand I agree with you. She was allowed to get away with bullying behaviour because she was funny and sporty; the characters that were looked down upon in this books largely seemed to be based on people that needed help and support.

I didn’t go to boarding school, but I see similar behaviours looking back at my own time at a comprehensive. Maybe Blyton just recognised that many children are self-centred and thoughtless. Wisdom and kindness come with age.

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Oh yes! Debra! Often wanted to smack her!!