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Fannish5: Five characters who are annoying, but that you love anyway.
1.) Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica). He's so many things, but annoying is certainly one of them. (Especially to several of the other characters.) Not all the time, but some of the time. And yet even before it became apparant he had arguably the best individual storyarc of the show, I moved from "like" to love.
2.) Annie (Being Human). She, too, can be annoying at times. Also brave and compassionate, or conversely overlooking the bleeding obvious because of what's going on with her; it contributes to making her very real. Annie is the type of person who'd drive me crazy on a regular basis if she was my friend, but whom I also would go to if I needed a shoulder to cry on, or if I had a moral dilemma to wrestle with.
3.) Rygel (Farscape). Definitely annoying. Also wily, greedy, a great survivor with an iron core of resilience (let's see how you'd do if Durka had a go at you for a few days, never mind years, as in Rygel's case), and surprisingly good with not self interested advice once in a while (ask Aeryn in The Choice, where he was the only character who talked to her for her sake, not because of an own agenda, or John in the season 4 opener, not that John listened, but still). Also the smartest person on the show other than Scorpius according to the producers, and I'm cool with that.
4.) Lwaxana Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation). I love her to bits, and think she's magnificent, larger than life, full of joie de vivre yet also very much aquainted with grief and loss. Yet I can't deny she can also be annoying. Does this matter to me? No one bit.
5.) Andrew Welles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). I completely get what fans mean when they call him annoying, starting with the voice and ending with the fact that some of his screentime is spent being a whiny murderer determined to see himself as the maligned hero. On the other hand, he: can coin phrases with the best Sunnydalians ("I'm a guestage"), endearingly never fanboys the obvious favourites (I mean, if you go for Timothy Dalton in your Bonds and Jonathan Archer in your Starfleet Captains, nobody can accuse you of catering to majority opinions!), and is such an unabashed shipper and storyteller. (Also? Spike letting Andrew hug him in front of the amused AtS gang without mocking him or pushing him off, and later answering his questions like what blood actually tastes like is what sold souled Spike to me.) I'm not sure I'd trust more-or-less-redeemed Andrew, but I'd definitely hang out with him. He could bake cookies.
2.) Annie (Being Human). She, too, can be annoying at times. Also brave and compassionate, or conversely overlooking the bleeding obvious because of what's going on with her; it contributes to making her very real. Annie is the type of person who'd drive me crazy on a regular basis if she was my friend, but whom I also would go to if I needed a shoulder to cry on, or if I had a moral dilemma to wrestle with.
3.) Rygel (Farscape). Definitely annoying. Also wily, greedy, a great survivor with an iron core of resilience (let's see how you'd do if Durka had a go at you for a few days, never mind years, as in Rygel's case), and surprisingly good with not self interested advice once in a while (ask Aeryn in The Choice, where he was the only character who talked to her for her sake, not because of an own agenda, or John in the season 4 opener, not that John listened, but still). Also the smartest person on the show other than Scorpius according to the producers, and I'm cool with that.
4.) Lwaxana Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation). I love her to bits, and think she's magnificent, larger than life, full of joie de vivre yet also very much aquainted with grief and loss. Yet I can't deny she can also be annoying. Does this matter to me? No one bit.
5.) Andrew Welles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). I completely get what fans mean when they call him annoying, starting with the voice and ending with the fact that some of his screentime is spent being a whiny murderer determined to see himself as the maligned hero. On the other hand, he: can coin phrases with the best Sunnydalians ("I'm a guestage"), endearingly never fanboys the obvious favourites (I mean, if you go for Timothy Dalton in your Bonds and Jonathan Archer in your Starfleet Captains, nobody can accuse you of catering to majority opinions!), and is such an unabashed shipper and storyteller. (Also? Spike letting Andrew hug him in front of the amused AtS gang without mocking him or pushing him off, and later answering his questions like what blood actually tastes like is what sold souled Spike to me.) I'm not sure I'd trust more-or-less-redeemed Andrew, but I'd definitely hang out with him. He could bake cookies.