Most Loathed

Posted by Maggie November 15th, 2006 at 12:27pm In Gilmore Girls Grey's Anatomy Heroes Please Stop It Studio 60 Ugly Betty

A while back, the Onion AV Club came up with a list of loathed TV characters. I think it's time for an update, because I am full of rage right now at several people.

Walter, Betty's Boyfriend (Ugly Betty)

I know I said I was going to stop watching this show, but you know what? I lied. I still watch it. Every week. It's fun. But you know what's not fun, at all? WALTER. Walter is the opposite of fun. He's whiny, controlling, needy, pushy, a cheater, and not too bright. I HATE Walter. I have not hated a character this much since they introduced Ana Lucia. If they don't break up in the next four episodes, I may have to stop watching this show. And I'm serious this time. 

Logan Huntzberger, Rory's Boyfriend (Gilmore Girls)

Most of the rage on the internet is directed at Christopher, Rory's formerly absent but now all-too-present dad, but I think this is just distracting from the more important issue: Logan's complete and utter awfulness, and how he's slowly transferring his awfulness to Rory. Sure, he's out of the country, but his privileged, smug, jocular, manipulating, fundamentally unsympathetic influence can be felt all across the state of Connecticutt.

Danny Tripp/Matt Albie (Studio 60)

Sometimes it's Danny. Sometimes it's Matt. Sometimes it's neither, and I'm happy. But fairly frequently, I want to say: Stop arguing my side of the debate because you're getting it all wrong. Or, you're making good points, but you're leaving logic holes the size of Nevada (that quaint and sort-of-hick-ish state) all over the place. Or, why aren't you spending more time making your show funny instead of sermonizing? Or, JUST STOP. STOP TALKING.

Preston Burke (Grey's Anatomy)

This was a tough one. How to choose? They're all so uniquely horrible, all despicable and blind in their own special ways — what makes poor Preston worse than the rest? I think, in the end, it's that he's risking all these people's lives, just for the sake of his ego. Sure, he doesn't talk about it as much, and he's not as whiny and predictable and sentimental as the rest, but that's pretty bad.

Mohinder Suresh (Heroes)

It's not so much that I hate Mohinder, though I do, it's that I hate his whole storyline. It could not possibly be any more boring than it is. And the voice-overs? I zone out and look at the pretty pictures. It's not his character's fault, but I blame him anyway.