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Title: Let's have a vote!
Post by: kuanyin on May 25, 2002, 05:13:18 AM: Ok, who is your MOST irritating DS character? [hdscrt]

For me, I have say that Burke Devlin #2, Amanda Harris, Dr. Lang and EVEN Jeb Hawkes get ruled out even though they are mighty contenders.

My #1 most irritating character? You guessed it, ADAM! [madan]
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Post by: Maria_Merriweather on May 25, 2002, 05:28:06 AM: Dr. Lang--just too overwrought--especially in his dream sequence. ::)
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Post by: hooked on May 25, 2002, 05:28:43 AM: LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN...FALLING DOWN...FALLING DOWN.

Sarah is irritating to the bone.
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Post by: mordecaigrimes on May 25, 2002, 05:55:06 AM: Vicky gets my vote, especially when she couldn't keep quiet during the 1795 episodes.
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Post by: Bette on May 25, 2002, 06:17:19 AM: Most irritating character?

My vote goes to the one and only Hallie Stokes :P

Bette [grinb]
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Post by: Minja on May 25, 2002, 06:20:07 AM: OK, character, NOT replacement actress playing established character.

Easy.....[/color]

HALLIE (Harrie/Carrie) STOKES!!!!!!

[shadow=purple,left,300]Always, Minja [vryevl][/shadow]
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Post by: TERRY308 on May 25, 2002, 06:33:42 AM: Without a doubt, it has to be Burke Devlin. He would just go to everyone house and acted like he owned the place. I was so happy when he told Vicki "I don't understand" Winters that he would be going away for a few days to South America.
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Post by: Josette on May 25, 2002, 07:32:57 AM: The ones mentioned above don't bother me (while none are close to being favorites, I don't have any particular problems with any of them). I think I'll go for PT Sabrina. She didn't bother me too much in regular time, but her voice would get on my nerves with her PT character.
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Post by: lurkerintheshadows on May 25, 2002, 07:34:07 AM: HALLEY STOKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!Couldn't stand the WWWWHHHHIIIINNNNIIIINNNNGGGG!!!!!!!! >:(
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Post by: elizabeth on May 25, 2002, 08:10:20 AM: Burke Devlin #1 without a doubt. Always yelling and screaming ::) I like Burke Devlin #2. My husband thinks #2 is wishy washy, I think he is a gentlemen. :D
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Post by: Karen_#2 on May 25, 2002, 08:22:30 AM: Those damned Leviathan BRATS! >:(
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Post by: Cassandra on May 25, 2002, 09:01:13 AM: ARISTEDE!!
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Post by: MikeS on May 25, 2002, 02:50:26 PM: It's a tough choice between those two Leviathan kids, but pressed to choose one, I'd have to say the younger one, Alexander.
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Post by: Gerard on May 25, 2002, 03:01:36 PM: My top ten are:

1. Hallie Stokes
2. Hallie Stokes
3. Hallie Stokes
4. Hallie Stokes
5. Hallie Stokes
6. Hallie Stokes
7. Hallie Stokes
8. Hallie Stokes
9. Hallie Stokes
10. Carrie Stokes

Gerard
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Post by: CastleBee on May 25, 2002, 03:34:02 PM: The first Willie! What a cheese ball! ::) If Karlen hadn't taken over that part so quickly and mercifully I'd have given that character the bums rush right over widows hill as soon as he set foot on the property.
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Post by: Raineypark on May 25, 2002, 05:13:34 PM: You people are scaring me.....are there really characters up ahead who are more irritating than Eric Lang?

(Shudder!!)

Raineypark
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: Mark Rainey on May 25, 2002, 06:18:51 PM: Only one character on DS has come close to driving me to stop drinking, and that's the Stokes girl. However, play even one note of "London Bridge," and I might involuntarily begin a diatribe about why duct tape and children make for such a perfect combination.

[shadow=red,left,300]--Mark[/shadow]
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 25, 2002, 09:07:43 PM: Quote
You people are scaring me.....are there really characters up ahead who are more irritating than Eric Lang?

(Shudder!!)

Well, Raineypark, I don't really mind most of the characters that have been mentioned here so far, not even Lang. I suppose it's a matter of what gets under your skin. ;) But, IMHO, once Adam completely falls under a certain other character's influence, he probably becomes the single most irratating character in the history of daytime tv! [lghy] And actually that's a shame because I do think this part of his storyline has a lot of interesting things going for it.
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Post by: Dawn on May 26, 2002, 12:24:05 AM: Some of my personal picks..
1. The second Dr. Woodard
2. Eric Lang
3. Roxanne
4. Hallie
5. Early David

The #2 Woodard was a bore, Lang was over the top, I just disliked the airheaded Roxanne and Hallie. (I think I resented Hallie when I was a teen too because she was set up to portray the perfect ideal of a teen beauty in that day.) :P Personally, I don't think she could act her way out of a box. The early David was a real BRAT. Wanted to smack him upside the head the way he acted toward adults and pouted. Yuck. Ok, my 2 cents worth. Dawn :-*
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Post by: Craig_Slocum on May 26, 2002, 12:39:24 AM: The replacement for Harry Johnson, glad he was only in one episode! :(
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Post by: Raineypark on May 26, 2002, 12:48:06 AM: MB....... if Eric Lang doesn't get under your skin, you must have the epidermis of an armadillo. ::)

Rainey
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Post by: Patti Feinberg on May 26, 2002, 01:03:19 AM: 5) Jason m ICK guire ;)
4) the Johnson son (sorry)
3) Harry/Carrie
2) the 2nd Leviathan (about age 7??)

and

lastly.....

CYRUS LONGWORTH yuck yuck yuck

Patti
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: Mark Rainey on May 26, 2002, 01:23:31 AM: Quote
CYRUS LONGWORTH yuck yuck yuck

You know, there was always something about Cyrus, annoying though he might be, that--to me--made him a sympathetic, if not exactly likeable character. I always appreciated the fact that Chris Pennock finally got to play a good guy (more or less), which made it all the more effective during his subsequent manifestations of diverse temperaments. (How's that for avoiding a spoiler for folks who haven't yet seen future episodes?)

[shadow=black,left,300]--Mark[/shadow]
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: Miles on May 26, 2002, 02:58:26 AM: Quote
The first Willie! What a cheese ball! ::) If Karlen hadn't taken over that part so quickly and mercifully I'd have given that character the bums rush right over widows hill as soon as he set foot on the property.

Ha! I'd forgotten about him! I think Karlen might have single handedly saved the show from certain doom- just by replacing Willie #1! In his handful of episodes he managed to spit out an unthinkable number of "shudder" lines.
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Post by: ProfStokes on May 26, 2002, 07:37:10 AM: Amanda Harris and PT Roxanne are two characters that I cannot stand.

Oddly enough, Kathy Cody never bothered me, but Denise Nickerson's characters sometimes got on my nerves.

ProfStokes
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Post by: sheenasma on May 26, 2002, 05:37:26 PM: My top 10 annoying characters, ranking from 1-10, would be:
1 thru 10, inclusive:
Amanda Harris

Hallie Stokes would be a close 11th, and Sabrina Stuart is chasing after her with a short stick.

Nancy
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Post by: Karen_#2 on May 26, 2002, 06:37:36 PM: Quote

Hallie Stokes would be a close 11th, and Sabrina Stuart is chasing after her with a short stick.

Nancy

Oh good grief, Sabrina Stuart and her pathetic "Moon Poppy," remember that? Seemed to me that she had been "sampling" some of that poppy before she finally gave it to Chris to see if it would "help" him. [roll3] Gotta go with you on that one.
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: Lindsey on May 26, 2002, 07:25:30 PM: SPOILER...

My most irritating character would definately be Amanda Harris. And the worst part was, once you thought she was gone, she came back as Olivia Corey! Also, I never liked any of the Roxannes; she was just so annoying. Another most irritating would be Vicky. I liked her at the beginning of the series, but now and in 1795, she just acted so dumb. Plus, her later storylines were boring (Ex. Jeff Clark). Just my two cents. :)

-Lindsey
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Post by: Cassandra on May 26, 2002, 10:26:52 PM: Quote
Amanda Harris and PT Roxanne are two characters that I cannot stand.

Denise Nickerson's characters sometimes got on my nerves.

ProfStokes

Sometimes isn't the word! I had forgotten all about that "Annoying Amy" Just her voice alone use to get on my nerves! ;)
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Post by: HobbiesDS on May 27, 2002, 08:38:01 PM: 8)
Geez, I love the show so much I forgot how many annoying characters there actually were.

I will try and go in storyline order.

1. 1st. Willie - he was just awful (creepy)
2. 2nd. Burke - Bad casting in my opinion.
3. Sabrina - She was just annoying and didn't Roger Davis play her annoying brother.
4. Aristede - Annoyed me, but I did think he added to the storylines.
5. The through the years little Hawkes and the early Jeb Hawkes played by Chris Pennock.
6. Roxanne - The 2nd. one really annoyed me.

Those are my top picks, while there are a few others that weren't my favorites they didn't annoy me as much.

HobbiesDS
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Post by: Patti Feinberg on May 27, 2002, 10:30:32 PM: I've changed my mind (I'm catching up on the last 2 weeks of DS....ho hum....boring)
Anyway....ANYTHING and EVERYTHING
Marie Wallace

is in ANNOYS me >:(

I guess I love Amy because I've e-mail the wonderful Denise Nickerson and since she's such a lovely lady, I couldn't think of her as annoying.
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Post by: jennifer on May 28, 2002, 12:02:44 AM: It is a tie between Amanda Harris and Hallie/Carrie!
Never understood the fuss about Beautiful Amanda!

jennifer
Runner ups those bratty Leviathan kids Ick!
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Post by: Daphne on May 28, 2002, 02:10:13 AM: *cackles* I just know that someone is going to shoot me for this, but I'd have 2 say the char that gets on my nerves the most is.....................Julia. *cringes, knowing sometime, somewhere, someone is going 2 come chasing after her with with a light saber or fire blaster of somesort* But I found Dr. Long really really reeeeeeally boring and redundant! OMGGGGG I was glad when he ... um .... kicked the can ;)

also -- Kuanyin wrote:
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My #1 most irritating character? You guessed it, ADAM!

How could you not love Adam?!!?! OMG All week I've been bouncing up and down proclaiming my undying *cough* love for him!!!!! He's soooooooooo funny!!! And he's like hott too!!!!! LOL But he's such a little kid, playing with the water fountain water and AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW he's so cute!!!!!!! Even if he is kinda.....well.......ummm .... stupid. He's like a big jock!!

But Sarah and her stuuuuuupid song got on my nerves after a while!! AAAAHHHHHHHH #()@#()@! Bleh! But Julia still annoys me the most!
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Post by: The Ghost of Sarah Collins on May 28, 2002, 02:21:37 AM: Quote
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN...FALLING DOWN...FALLING DOWN.

Sarah is irritating to the bone.

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I don't believe that song was sung to the point of being irritating at all... of all the children living or un-living in Collinsport,only one never attempted murder, whined beyond the capacity of normal reason,lied,stole,was part of an evil cult uprising,or spent time in a mental hospital.

Sarah was the only one playing with a full deck.

As far as irritating is concerned, Amy Jennings was just that!!
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Post by: hooked on May 28, 2002, 05:16:30 AM: Between the flute and her rendition of the song hair falls out of my head whenever I hear it to this day. This girl could have been bottled for all the whining she does just speaking. Lets not even mention her roving eyes and mistakes.
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Post by: Dr. Eric Lang on May 28, 2002, 10:35:02 PM: Quote
Some of my personal picks..
1. The second Dr. Woodard

The #2 Woodard was a bore,

Actually, I bet you mean the 3rd Dr. Woodard don't you? (The last one, who Barnabas killed.) There were actually three Woodards, but nobody remembers the first one, who treated Willie Loomis at Collinwood.

As for my choice for Most Annoying:

Hallie Stokes
Hallie Stokes[/glow]

Without question, second to no one on the annoyance level, no doubt about it, not even close.
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Post by: Barnabas on May 28, 2002, 11:52:07 PM: Quote
Some of my personal picks..
1. The second Dr. Woodard
2. Eric Lang
3. Roxanne
4. Hallie
5. Early David

These would be my top five as well.
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Post by: Teresa on May 29, 2002, 02:58:34 AM: I'll go with the Leviathan kids also. Crazy Jenny drove me crazy sometimes too.
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Post by: Thom on May 29, 2002, 03:22:00 AM: Phillip Todd was such a sissy - you know Megan just ate him alive - well she 'almost' did actually.

My question - there was a 2nd Roxanne? I though Donna Wandery was the only person to play Roxanne in 1970PT, 1970 and 1840. Or did the poster mean the second version of Roxanne? Either way I'll bite that the lst Roxanne was annoying as hell.
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Post by: HobbiesDS on May 29, 2002, 03:33:48 AM: Hi Thom

I was referring to Donna Wadry, but I couldn't remember the time period where she was most annoying. It wasn't PT 1970, So it must have been 1840, where she was Samantha's sister I believe.

I didn't like her hair and her character in that time especially annoyed me. I liked her in PT 1970 because she was completely accepting of Barnabas. On her own it seemed.

HobbiesDS
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Post by: Angelique Bouchard on May 29, 2002, 05:22:42 AM: Quote
Between the flute and her rendition of the song hair falls out of my head whenever I hear it to this day. This girl could have been bottled for all the whining she does just speaking. Lets not even mention her roving eyes and mistakes.

:-* you have it all wrong! that hallie brat was the whiniest person on the face of the earth!! even when she was happy she whined about it, no wonder Stokes pawned her off on the Collins' he couldn't take it either! :D

it's too bad your hair falls out when you hear little Sarah's sweet song I thought she was the cutest little girl on the show, I wish she could have been brought back as a Collins cousin from New York or Boston...I was very sad to see her leave. :'(

my name is Angelique
I will go back to lurk mode
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Post by: jennifer on May 29, 2002, 07:43:39 AM: Quote

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I don't believe that song was sung to the point of being irritating at all... of all the children living or un-living in Collinsport,only one never attempted murder, whined beyond the capacity of normal reason,lied,stole,was part of an evil cult uprising,or spent time in a mental hospital.

Sarah was the only one playing with a full deck.

As far as irritating is concerned, Amy Jennings was just that!!

Now that you mention it Ghost of Sarah
she was the most normal child on the show
She also was cute!

jennifer
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Post by: Daphne on May 29, 2002, 10:12:03 AM: Quote
my name is Angelique
I will go back to lurk mode

Awww, don't lurk!! Join!! ;D Unlike Barnabus, we won't bite...hehehe
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Post by: ROBINV on May 30, 2002, 02:48:16 AM: Spoilers!!!!!

Sky Rumson, aka Woodman

The pianist in 1970PT, whatever his name was (Bruno)?

Sarah Collins, sometimes, but other times she was adorable.

The first Willie Loomis (who pronounced his own name "Lomis")

The final Dr. Woodard, I was glad to see him die.

Jeb Hawkes, when he was being terribly obnoxious, especially when he was calling forth the bat to bite Barnabas. More. . .more. . .MORE!!!!!!!! Kill me now!

Sabrina, in any storyline, I could not stand her!

Joanna in 1840. She simply annoyed the hell out of me.

Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey - I was never so glad to see anyone take a fall as she did. I thought it demeaned Quentin to declare her the only woman for him after all Beth went through for him.

Beth (annoyed me sometimes for being wishy-washy).

1970PT Maggie - aka Doormat. I was glad to see her go, sorry to see her return. Bleccch!

Love, Robin
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Post by: Linda on May 30, 2002, 04:43:37 AM: Hmmm...the whiny voice of ANY Kathy Cody character grated on my nerves, but I couldn't stand those bratty Leviathan kids, either.

I didn't much like Adam -- in fact, during the last SciFi run, he finally irritated me to a point where I went back through my tapes and had a good laugh when I replayed the scene where Willie was teasing him with the chicken bone/drumstick thingy.

The last Dr. Woodard was repulsive...I nearly threw a party when he got offed.

I thought Anthony George made a sappy Burke and ruined the character, and I think Amanda Harris would have been a lot more interesting if they had left her as a cheesy con artist...she was REALLY boring as "Quentin's true love"...

With the exception of Melanie and Kendrick, I despised ALL of the 1841 Parallel Time characters...I particularly loathed Bramwell and Catherine.

Unlike a lot of fans, though, I got a major kick out of Eric Lang. :) What a ham.

Cheers,

Linda
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Post by: jennifer on May 30, 2002, 05:31:51 AM: Quote
Spoilers!!!!!

Sky Rumson, aka Woodman

The pianist in 1970PT, whatever his name was (Bruno)?

Sarah Collins, sometimes, but other times she was adorable.

The first Willie Loomis (who pronounced his own name "Lomis")

The final Dr. Woodard, I was glad to see him die.

Jeb Hawkes, when he was being terribly obnoxious, especially when he was calling forth the bat to bite Barnabas. More. . .more. . .MORE!!!!!!!! Kill me now!

Sabrina, in any storyline, I could not stand her!

Joanna in 1840. She simply annoyed the hell out of me.

Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey - I was never so glad to see anyone take a fall as she did. I thought it demeaned Quentin to declare her the only woman for him after all Beth went through for him.

Beth (annoyed me sometimes for being wishy-washy).

1970PT Maggie - aka Doormat. I was glad to see her go, sorry to see her return. Bleccch!

Love, Robin

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Oh Robin you are so funny but have to say the MORE,MORE MORE scene is on of the most irritating scenes in the show!

jennifer

and I fogot SKY (one of the worst actors i've ever seen!)
and PhilipTodd
And Eveand Adam
And that Donna friend of Carolyn's who get attacked by the wolf!

oh this is fun and after thinking of the above named I'm starting to like Harry!
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Post by: Luciaphile on June 01, 2002, 07:21:46 AM: Lang
Anyone played by Donna McKechnie (sp?).
The Leviathan kid (not the one with the lisp and the soup bowl haircut--the other one)
Morgan
PT Catherine and Bramwell

Luciaphil
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: Julianka7 on June 06, 2002, 07:11:19 AM: Let's see the worst has to be:
1.Hallie
2.Peter Bradfor/Jeff Clark
3.The Levithan kids
4.Harry Johnson
5.Amanda Harris
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: scout75 on June 06, 2002, 07:32:18 AM: Quote
Vicky gets my vote, especially when she couldn't keep quiet during the 1795 episodes.

When Vicky came back, constantly talking about 1795, I just wanted one of the characters (Julia? Roger?) to turn to her and say, "God, are you still talking about that?!"
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Post by: IluvBarnabas on October 21, 2006, 05:20:58 PM: Quote from: elizabeth on May 25, 2002, 08:10:20 AM
Burke Devlin #1 without a doubt. Always yelling and screaming ::) I like Burke Devlin #2. My husband thinks #2 is wishy washy, I think he is a gentlemen. :D

Depends on your definition of a gentleman....

I think the second Burke was too demanding and bossy.....he expected Vicki to obey his every command, forget everybody else and think about what HE wanted, he told her want he wanted her to do and not do. The first Burke was never that way with Vicki.

Sort of have a love/hate relationship with Adam, I did feel for him at times, other times I wanted to throttle him when [spoiler]he kidnapped Vicki twice, then tried to kill her twice. I remember him trying to strangle Vicki, he had an evil grin on his face...at that moment I wanted to blast his dang head off!

I know it was Nicholas' idea that Adam demand a mate, and I try to remember that when I watch Adam in his murderous modes, but it sure ain't easy.[/spoiler]
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Post by: Lydia on October 22, 2006, 01:30:41 AM: Quote from: IluvBarnabas on October 21, 2006, 05:20:58 PM
[spoiler]I know it was Nicholas' idea that Adam demand a mate, and I try to remember that when I watch Adam in his murderous modes, but it sure ain't easy.[/spoiler]

I'm going to play Trask here and ask: If the Devil (or the Devil's minion) tells you to do something and you then proceed to do it, does that absolve you from all responsibility?
Title: Re: Let's have a vote!
Post by: IluvBarnabas on October 22, 2006, 03:28:50 AM: Quote from: Lydia on October 22, 2006, 01:30:41 AM
I'm going to play Trask here and ask: If the Devil (or the Devil's minion) tells you to do something and you then proceed to do it, does that absolve you from all responsibility?

Good point. My answer is no, it doesn't absolve you. Not unless you had no other choice. Adam did have a choice but unfortunately the choice he made was the wrong one.

Good job playing Trask BTW! [hall2_wink]
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Post by: Alondra on February 12, 2007, 11:14:19 PM: What a fun topic, though I get in on it way after everyone else. Ok here are my top contenders for the most irritating (not to be confused with those characters who I simply despise because they are evil fiends, these are those who got on my nerves) No particular order til you get to the last one.

Burke #2 because he was so parental toward Vicki. Not lover like, parental!
Sabrina (Lisa Richards) because I didn't like her voice. I am very sensitive to voices.
The Leviathan brats, Alexander and Michael.
Aristede/Bruno who are really the same character, just different name!
The first Willie James Hall gakkkkk! The best decision TPTB ever took was to replace him with John Karlen!
Harry Johnson whine whine whine!
Any Roger Davis character, especially Ned Stuart and Jeff Clark.
And the number one most irritating award has to go to...

AMANDA HARRIS whose motto has to be "enter whining." Because the first words out of her mouth were [spoiler]"Why did you keep me waiting five minutes before I could come up here?" Gak this is the woman Quentin falls for instead of Beth!? GIMME A BREAK! And she was Charles Tate's perfect woman? Will someone explain why the "perfect woman" needs so much makeup? Her false eyelashes were at least an inch long. Well what can you expect from a Roger Davis character??[/spoiler]

Alondra
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Post by: JVjr on February 18, 2007, 04:44:20 AM: With the exception of Peter Bradford, any Roger Davis character is the worst!! JVjr
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Post by: Sunny_Collins on March 05, 2007, 09:13:10 PM: My least favorites are:

Amanda Harris/Olivia Cory
Daphne Harrige in any time period
Roxann in any time period
Jeff Clark
The doctor who comes to the Old House to examine barnabas after Angelique cursed him. (Apologies for not remembering his name).
All the Leviathan kids.