Pretty similar characters…woe is me teenage girls. Both annoyed me to no end. Dana might as well be dead, Sansa may still redeem herself.
Dana is worse by far!
I don’t want to criticize the actress that played her, she seemed to portray the character as written. And really, a teenage girl in that situation may very well behave the way she was written to behave. But that doesn’t mean it’s entertaining or fun to watch. Towards the end I hated all of the scenes with Dana Brody, but I do sympathize with her.
Sansa is a young girl who lacked the strength to get out of the position she was in - she’s been the pawn of others. But I think she’s finding strength. She’s entertaining to watch even though she’s had some horrid things happen to her.
I have not found Sansa annoying. She’s not someone I feel much about either way, just someone who was caught up in events beyond her control. She doesn’t seem to fully comprehend the situation and certainly isn’t doing much to either fix it or learn about it, but these are things I’d kind of expect for someone who is young and never had much responsibility. They’re also things I’d expect for someone surrounded by such powerful figures on every side - being active would be a serious danger for her, no matter what she does. If she has been whining about it, it’s not enough for me to have particularly noticed.
I haven’t watched Homeland, so I can’t comment there, but given the way I feel about Sansa, Dana Brody would have to be worse.
I didn’t mind most of the Dana stuff, until the last episode or two. “How would you react if you were a teenager and your dad was (seen as) Osama bin Laden” is an interesting question, and I don’t think the writing of it was bad and the actress was pretty good.
The main problem was the same one that plagues a lot of similar shows. The main plotline moved on, but instead of jettesoning the secondary characters, the show tried to keep following them in storylines increasingly disconnected from the main characters or plotlines that presumably the audience was tuning in to watch. So while the Dana (and other Brody family stuff) was interesting in small doses, there ended up being way too much of it in a show that was really about the terrorist fighting adventures of the CIA gang.
Obviously the writers thought so to, so at least they eventually jettosned the Brody family. Which is better than the writers of shows with similar problems (Dexter, True Blood, etc) can say.