For the first time there is a character in Eastenders I find so repulsive I have to turn over.
The former husband of yolanda (sp?) on Eastenders. That guy’s weasliness is so over the top I can’t stand it when he’s on screen. He’s incredibly creepy and low. GREAT actor!
Have you ever found someone’s personality on a soap/film/whatever so unbearable that you switch over?
Robert Picardo’s “Doctor” character on Star Trek: Voyager was an irritating git. In one episode his “holomatrix” (or other bullshit techno-babble nonsense of the week) was somehow “downloaded” into Seven of Nine, making her behave like him, so instead of Picardo acting smug and irritating, Jeri Ryan was doing it in an impression of Picardo and I switched the episode off immediately, never to return.
let me just mention “Jar Jar Binks” while I think of something better
Ralphie in th Sopranoes. Ever since he beat that girl to death in series 3, I’ve had little daydreams about all the terrible things I’d do to him if I ever met him ( a very strong response to have to a fictional character, I sure you’ll agree). I haven’t seen series 4 yet, but have got wind of what is to happen to him, but only in very general terms- don’t want to spoil it for myself- I can’t wait to see it!
There’s only one character in EastEnders who makes you turn the TV off? Blimey. Pretty much all of them have that effect on me. I think it’s because I’m allergic to cardboard.
On Ralphie in Season 4, I won’t give away anything specific, but something does happen relating to Ralph, and this something will be surprising to you in many ways.
For all the scumminess of Ralph, I always found Janice more loathesome, though I also had fantasies about giving Ralphie a painful death, which is a testament to the talent of Joey Pants and the writers on The Sopranos. I mean, who didn’t smile when Tony started beating the shit out of Ralph after he Tracy incident, even if it was brief?
Actually, back to The Sopranos, in Season 4, Episode 7 I think (“Watching Too Much Television”) I found all the characters, particularly Councilman “Boon”, very loathesome. They just screw everyone around them with the HUD scam to make themselves richer with no regard for the consequences. Very good episode, one of the best from Season 4 I think.
Nadine from The Stand. I’d give Randall Flagg a big old hug before I’d be in the same room with that bitch.
I admit, in mid-season 4 of the Sopranos, I’ve started to feel sorry for Janice - I mean, I don’t like her, but does she really deserve Richie Aprile and Ralphie?
That said, there have been some extraordinarily revolting sex scenes with her in them for which I will never forgive her.
I watch the show with baited breath, just dying to see something awful happen to Ralphie. I appreciate that everybody in the show seems to be doing the same thing.
Spike on Buffy after season 2. There are very few times he’s on screen that I’m not wishing for someone to drop a house on him.
Oh god, Zsofia nailed it with Richie Aprile and Ralphie. WTF is wrong with Janice? She is, of course, totally awful, but in such a hilarious way that I would be so sad if she were written out of the show. Remember the prosthetic leg?
And how can we discuss the Sopranos without mentioning the most horrible of them all - Livia. OH. MY. GOD. How soon we forget!
Livia was certainly never Mother of the Year, but she is still probably my favorite character from the show. She was a horrible person, but man she was just so fun to watch and listen to. I still crack up at her lines when I watch old episodes, like hearing her tell AJ you die alone and saying to him, “What makes you think your so special?” Horrible, nasty thing for a grandmother to say to her grandson, but you still have to love how its so Livia-esque.
Speaking of Janice though, Kyla, possible spoilers so to be careful, have you seen the late season 4 stuff (episode 11 I think?) between Janice and…
…her manipulation of Bobby’s kids? If you have, how fucking disgusting is her behavior there?
Also with Janice, I laughed my ass off in the “Christopher” episode when Janice’s psychiatrist talks about how Janice should use her “compassion which she is so famous for.” Bwahahahaha!!!
Earl, if your going to bring up The Stand, I found Harold much more repulsive. However, he does have sympathetic moments near his end.
OK…Has anyone seen “Ghost World”? Scarlett Johansenn and Thora Birch’s characters are sooooo horrible it ruined the whole movie.
The character (the character has different names, but it’s always the same character) that Jerry Lewis plays. Ditto for Woody Allen. And let’s hear it again for John Wayne, again someone who basically played the same character no matter what. I had to turn off Forrest Gump about half an hour into the movie. Basically, I don’t think idiocy is funny. Nor do I think that sheer klutziness, either physically or personality wise, is funny.
While John Wayne did normally play the rough around the edges hero in most of his films. He did play Genghis Khan in that one movie.
Golum freaked me out so much in The Hobbit that I couldn’t face reading any of the LOTR trilogy. And even though it was a good 15 years later when I got dragged to see the film, I still found him seriously disturbing. When anyone starts doing “my precioussssss” impressions I have to put my hands over my ears and sing to myself 'cos it makes my skin crawl.
Bard Pitt’s character in Kalifornia is the very definition of repulsive.
Hmm, if anyone found the main characters of Ghost World repulsive, you probably aren’t part of their intended audience. Either you get it or you don’t (I don’t mean that in a rude way, but either you can relate or you can’t).
Tim Roth in Rob Roy. From the moment he first steps on camera, I wanted to smack that smirk right off of his face.
Harry Potter/Richard Rahl. The two are the same annoying character used in two slightly different versions. I can’t bear to even look at the covers of their respective books anymore.