30 Days of TV - Day 23

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Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite miniseries
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale

Day 23 - Most annoying character

Oh, God. Is "everyone from Heroes" a valid answer? Seriously, I haven't watched the show in years, and it's still rage-inducing just thinking about it. If I had to narrow it down, I'd say Hiro and Mohinder were the worst offenders, by virtue of being both criminally stupid and painfully boring. Sometimes I felt like they were having a stupid-off, to see who can do the dumbest possible thing each episode. You know it's bad when I'm rooting for Adam and Sylar to kill them. Horribly.

I don't know why everybody loves Hiro so much. He drove me fucking crazy. I hated how in every arc, he had some bizarro plot line that had nothing to do with anything else (usually involving extensive time travel to make a tedious and unnecessarily drawn-out point), only to swoop in at the end, waving his goddamn sword around, all, "I wanna be a hero!!" Fuck you. You don't deserve to be a hero because you're A FUCKING IDIOT who is completely irrelevant to the actual plot.

I used to write about Heroes on my RL blog, where Mohinder at one point earned the title of "stupidest stupidhead in Stupidville," but I think it's too close to call, really. But Mohinder was dead to me when he shot HRG. You don't shoot my HRG. I don't care if they brought him back to life, I'm still pissed. Also, I hated his voice overs.

Oh, and you know who else I hated? Maya. I hated both the Wonder Twins, but then Sylar killed Annoying Boy Twin (whose name I don't even remember), so he didn't annoy me anymore. (Sometimes it's nice to have a crazy fucker around to thin out the riff-raff.) I got all excited when he killed Maya, too, but then Mohinder brought her back to life (See? Too. Stupid. To. Live.), for which I will never, EVER forgive him. OMG, I was so pissed. You have no idea how thrilled I was to see her dead, and then they TOOK IT BACK, the bastards.

Honorable Mentions: Mandy and Amy from The West Wing (what can I say, Josh has terrible taste in women). Summer Glau in everything ever.

We're in the home stretch now...

Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

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I should be In Charge of Television, too. But I'll volunteer to be your Superfan instead!

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Seriously, whenever TV disappoints me, I mentally start picking out the writers that will write on my TV show--from my flist. Because I am dead serious: if I put together a group of writers from my flist and we made a show together, that show would be amazing, because we know how this stuff works and we care and we pay attention and we're generally awesome.

So you can be on my list.

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Word. And also woo!