Ah. I see.
OK. Well, far be it from me to try to bring some deeper understanding to the characters' motivations. (Honestly, what was I thinking?! ::))
From now on I'll try to remember that we're judging them based solely on surface generalizations. ;)
Perhaps at this late date we're impatient with the behaviour of the characters for no other reason than that we are an impatient society.
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it's WE who change....and our ability to appreciate what we're looking at changes with us.
The show we all claim to love remains the same.
a case of Aqua Rock and a couple of dead animals on certain characters' heads will do that to me.
..... many fans seem to fall all over themselves to explain away the least little bit of cloddish or annoying behavior when it comes to characters like Barn or Ang or 1897/1969/1970 Quentin......
.......However, many of the other characters (think other major characters like Carolyn, or Liz, or Roger - or minor ones like 1970PTQuentin, or Morgan, or Catherine, or Bramwell) don't fair as well, and, well, that isn't exactly fair, now is it? [wink2]
I'll assume it's general knowledge that I despise the character of Barnabas. Doesn't matter to me if he's vampire or not, in a "good" phase or not, doing the right thing for a change or not....I hate the character and WILL not give him the benefit of the doubt, ever.
Is that fair to the character?....no. Is it even fair to the show?...no. Do I give a rats rump if it's fair?...no. That's how deeply I choose to despise the character.
But think about it.....that means the character must resonate deeply with me....no one would waste the energy it takes to hate like that on a boring, useless, uninteresting entity. He must be a fascinating creation to ellicit such a response. So in this case, even my negative feelings about the character are a positive response to the performance.
I'm disappointed that a whole portion of this post has disappered since I'd originally read it this morning because I had an appointment that didn't give me time to respond to it then but had come up with what I'd hoped might be a wonderful response and one that had great meaning to me personally.
Oh, well.
But something tells me that another opportunity will probably present itself on the forum in some other shape or form sooner or later.
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If you are referring to MY portion of the post.....it's exactly the way I wrote it....I didn't edit any part of it after it was posted.....and I'm sure nothing is missing.
Well, no, of course it's not FAIR.....but isn't it exactly what we do in real life? We fall all over ourselves making excuses for the people we love and care about.....but there's NO excuse for people we don't like, is there?
nor have I ever been in therapy
Or chalk it up to the fact that when I was young I had a situation in my life that required me to try to come up with a rational understanding of it or otherwise surrender my sanity (hence the fascination with psychology and the therapy)·
(And what was it that your results were? Oh, yeah - you didn't take the test, but you admitted that "The Judge" sounded an awful lot like you. :o [b003])
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Still I do love it that [spoiler]in the end Bramwell and Catherine got together. Even though Catherine was trying to convince herself she didn't love or need Bramwell anymore, you know it wasn't true. In the end love conquered all.[/spoiler]
Bramwell and Catherine were such an attractive couple, I could believe them to be in love [spoiler]unlike Barnabas' sudden declaration that Angelique, the one woman who caused him so much torment, was his only love.[/spoiler] That's probably the reason I like Bramwell and Catherine better because they were so different from Barnabas and Angelique.