True Detective
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Loser Araysar
Chief Russia Reporter. Stock Pals CEO. Head of AI.
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could have been worse.
they could have shown you a burned out heroin addict humping a decomposed corpse of a girl in a flashback scene
Aldarion
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All this talk about "I don't like any of the characters" makes me wonder if everyones forgotten Breaking Bad. Not to say this shitshow can be compared to BB in quality. Just saying you can have a show where every single character is a hateable piece of shit, and still have a great show.
Not that this is a great show!
They got real close to Scooby Doo bullshit in the penultimate episode. Then the trailer for next week suggests they're not gonna end that way.
They've got one episode left? This is either going the way of Lost (some bullshit ending that doesnt answer any questions and makes it all meaningless) or "we'll let the audience decide what to believe, WOW we are so clever".
No fucking way they wrap this up.
Not that this is a great show!
They got real close to Scooby Doo bullshit in the penultimate episode. Then the trailer for next week suggests they're not gonna end that way.
They've got one episode left? This is either going the way of Lost (some bullshit ending that doesnt answer any questions and makes it all meaningless) or "we'll let the audience decide what to believe, WOW we are so clever".
No fucking way they wrap this up.
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BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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I'm pretty sure the ghosts are all in Navarro's head just like they were in her sister's. Probably should have seen Sol Star turning out to be a bad guy coming but it would have been nice to ask him a couple more questions before blowing his brains out.
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Arden
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I liked most of the characters in BB. I think a lot of people did. I liked Walt, Jessie, Mike, Gus, Saul, etc. Hell, I even liked a lot of the minor characters. Likable characters can do bad things. But bad characters are hard to like regardless of what they do.
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Drinsic
privileged excrementlord
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Villains can be likeable, I don't think anyone's going to ask these characters to babysit their kids, but we enjoy watching them in their scenes. Even if for some reason you hate Walt as much as Skyler - Mike, Gus, Saul, etc. were all likeable to a lot of people. If no one liked watching Saul, do you really think they'd have created an entire spinoff for his character?
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Arden
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Maybe I have a screw loose
. Would I personally hang out with Gus Fring on a Saturday night? No. Do I like watching him as a character on a TV show? Absolutely.
Liking a fictional character for what they bring to a movie or show is totally different from finding someone personally admirable.
I thought Heath Ledger's Joker was a fantastic character, for example, but he was fucking nuts.
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Aldarion
Egg Nazi
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Yeah y'all are going with some totally different (and bizarre) definition of the word likeable.
Joffrey was a great bad guy. No one called him likeable.
The Alien in the original Alien was a great monster. No one called it likeable.
That annoying bitch who played the head of Vought in S1 of the boys was born to play that role. But in no way was she "likeable".
Nobody in BB was likeable. That was the key to getting the show. I hated it at first til that finally clicked then I loved that show. When someones really good at playing a terrible person, and the writers are really good at writing a terrible person, that doesnt make the terrible person "likeable".
Its bizarre. Its like arguing someones actually pretty because they played ugly really well.
Joffrey was a great bad guy. No one called him likeable.
The Alien in the original Alien was a great monster. No one called it likeable.
That annoying bitch who played the head of Vought in S1 of the boys was born to play that role. But in no way was she "likeable".
Nobody in BB was likeable. That was the key to getting the show. I hated it at first til that finally clicked then I loved that show. When someones really good at playing a terrible person, and the writers are really good at writing a terrible person, that doesnt make the terrible person "likeable".
Its bizarre. Its like arguing someones actually pretty because they played ugly really well.
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Mahes
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Drinsic
privileged excrementlord
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What the fuck are you talking about?
Likable Villain - TV Tropes
This is the Super-Trope for the cases where villains have qualities that make them more likable. This kind of thing easily leads into Anti-Villain when more than a smidgen of these tropes is added. See also the Sliding Scale of Antagonist …
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