# Loved the show, hated the character, so I stopped watching... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426 "2010-07-12T18:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/21 "2010-07-13T01:04:24Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > SNL SNL, what else could it be? And it’s still on - whether it ever improved, I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/22 "2010-07-13T01:42:18Z")
_Fringe_. I don’t like _any_ of the characters. Which is a shame, because it seems to otherwise be a great genre show that people love. I have given it multiple tries, but gave up halfway through season 1. Inversely I love the characters in _White Collar_, but think the episodes are poorly structured and directed and I lose interest. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/23 "2010-07-13T06:35:02Z")
After Lem died on **The Shield** , I stopped watching. I loathed Shane so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much that I just couldn’t stomach another second of that show. I keep telling myself I’ll watch the last 2 (? I think) seasons one day and I’ve never read spoilers for how the series ended. But I honestly don’t think I ever will. I could barely stand to watch **Justified** because just seeing Walton Goggins brought back all that deep, deep loathing. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/24 "2010-07-13T06:48:56Z")
Deadwood. I love all the characters except the main protagonist. He’s flat and uninteresting to me. I can’t understand his popularity. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/25 "2010-07-13T07:33:55Z")
Data from TNG. I’m sorry - I know the fans like him, and Brent Spiner is a fine actor, but as written, that whole superhuman-yet-naive, what-is-this-thing-you-humans-call-love persona of his drove me up the wall. Everytime he’d say something “funny” about not understanding emotions, I’d imagine a trombone going \*wa-wa-waaaaaaaa \*in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/26 "2010-07-13T07:51:15Z")
I liked _Coupling_, but I really didn’t like Jane (not enough to abandon the show, however). I think the character was supposed to be a little bit annoying, and a lot funny; to me, the proportions were reversed. Until she showed up with Jake the Truth Snake. Gina Bellman is absolutely freakin’ hysterical in that scene. For a moment like that, all was forgiven. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/27 "2010-07-13T08:01:54Z")
Peggy made King of the Hill unwatchable for me. I’ve caught a few episodes that I thought were pretty good (that featured little or no Peggy), but I soon found that it wasn’t worth tuning in. Come to think of it, most of the female characters are unpleasant in some way. The King of Queens would have been a watchably run-of-the-mill sitcom, except most of the B-plots are “Arthur ruins everything by being horribly unpleasant”. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/28 "2010-07-13T10:47:12Z")
Any American programme that features someone who is supposed to be a West Indian, whether its Buffy or Futurama. I don’t stop watching but it really,really grates. Americans just can’t seem to do the accent. Have yet to see one programme where they’ve done it evenly remotely convincingly. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/29 "2010-07-13T11:00:12Z")
> [@Lust4Life](#): > > Any American programme that features someone who is supposed to be a West Indian, whether its Buffy or Futurama. > > I don’t stop watching but it really,really grates. > > Americans just can’t seem to do the accent. > Have yet to see one programme where they’ve done it evenly remotely convincingly. How about [these young ladies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFvqAxW-5s)? ---
**Author:** ![Hrududu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Hrududu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrududu)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/30 "2010-07-13T11:28:50Z")
I couldn’t make it past episode 1 of Treme because of Steve Zahn’s character. I’ll probably go back to it one day but he put me off the show completely. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/31 "2010-07-13T11:40:33Z")
Ross from Friends is unbearable sometimes, as I’ve gotten older I’ve drifted away from the show anyway but Ross is a bit part of why I realised it wasn’t as funny as I thought it was. I still like the rest of the cast. ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/32 "2010-07-13T12:43:55Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I can’t stand Jenny Schecter, and her character got worse and worse as time went on. Even when she died in the final season, that whole frickin’ season was about her and what a big raging nutbag she was and how everybody around her hated her. Even her best friends couldn’t stand Jenny and yet there she was every week interacting with all of them. She was so annoying that I almost gave up watching the L Word. > > However, the program features women’s breasts on it an awful lot and I’m a big fan of seeing those things, so I hung in there through it all. I don’t have a cite but I remember reading that the show’s creator Ilene Chaiken based the character of Jenny Schecter on her navel-gazing self. Can’t stand Jenny, though I do think Mia Kirshner’s a pretty fine actress. Also: I don’t _love_ love CSI: Miami though it’s generally fun for what it is - a pretty Music Video O’ Science. But hells bells I cannot stand David Caruso. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/33 "2010-07-13T13:05:52Z")
Thought of another one: Grey’s Anatomy. Now, it wasn’t a great show that I “loved”, but it was entertaining. The plots were a bit overblown, but I get sucked into medical drama. Then all of a sudden I realized - none of these characters have any redeeming qualities whatsoever. It’s a show about the most selfish people on television. I couldn’t watch another episode. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/34 "2010-07-13T13:12:39Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Happened with me and _Six Feet Under_. I heard all sorts of great things about this HBO series and decided to check it out by getting S1 from Netflix. Really enjoyed it too, up to the point where Nathan got involved with Crazy Lady (don’t remember her name). It was actually Brenda (Crazy Lady, played by the otherwise wonderful Rachel Griffiths) who turned me off SFU. When she started her nympho-cheater phase I couldn’t stand her. I think that was around when I stopped watching, although I do remember personally seeing the confrontation when Nathan twigged to her crap. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/35 "2010-07-13T13:57:32Z")
Royal Pains: I watched this when it first came on, and found myself enjoying it. Except… ``` The idiot brother of the main character. I found myself muttering 'shut up, shut up, shut up" whenever the character was on the screen. So I decided to stop watching. ``` ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/36 "2010-07-13T13:59:36Z")
> [@Hrududu](#): > > Steve Zahn’s character. That’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/37 "2010-07-13T14:02:42Z")
2 1/2 Men would be so much better without Charlie. Family Guy: I can only stand Stewie and Brian. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/38 "2010-07-13T14:08:13Z")
Ha. No one’s mentioned mine - I pretty much find the Simpsons painful because I really hate Homer. I used to find him semi-funny but every year as I grow older I find the “dumb guy” character more and more painful to watch and I just don’t do it anymore. I don’t care if he is the butt monkey. He’s still annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/39 "2010-07-13T14:15:53Z")
My wife detest the character of Tony DiNozzo on NCIS so much that even though it is one of our favorite shows, she constantly gripes about how much she hates the guy. What is really interesting is that the actor, Michael Weatherly, played one of her favorite characters, Logan Cale, on Dark Angel. Weatherly is obviously quite good at this acting thing. He probably should do it for a living. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426/40 "2010-07-13T14:29:05Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Data from TNG. > > I’m sorry - I know the fans like him, and Brent Spiner is a fine actor, but as written, that whole superhuman-yet-naive, what-is-this-thing-you-humans-call-love persona of his drove me up the wall. Everytime he’d say something “funny” about not understanding emotions, I’d imagine a trombone going \*wa-wa-waaaaaaaa \*in the background. I liked Data just fine. But I can’t stand to watch Brent Spiner play any other character, and I particularly disliked it when he took Data out of character, due to possession or a glitchy emotion chip or whatever. I nearly stopped watching _Six Feet Under_ because I was creeped out by Arthur, the mortuary intern who was snuggling with Ruth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loved-the-show-hated-the-character-so-i-stopped-watching/546426.md?page=3)