{"id":8875,"date":"2014-07-21T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:07","slug":"character-love-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/07\/character-love-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Characters You Love to Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s try another poll.\u00a0 Whether it is Phil Leotardo on <em>The Sopranos,<\/em> or Joffrey Baratheon on <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, or Nellie Oleson on <em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em>, or Thomas (not to mention Mary) on <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>, or Smoking Man on <em>The X-Files, <\/em>television producers have always known that a surefire way to keep viewers interested and involved in a series is to offer them a character to hate.\u00a0 But it is not enough to simply make the viewer hate a character, as that can be easily satisfied by killing him off.\u00a0 No, to maintain interest, the series must create a\u00a0<em>longing<\/em> in the viewer to see a villain get his or her comeuppance.<\/p>\n<p>Once the villain is introduced and the desire for comeuppance is elicited, what remains in the hands of the producer is deciding how long to make the viewer wait for it.\u00a0 That brings us to our poll.\u00a0 Feel free to comment on your answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">RESULTS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How long must a viewer wait for the villain to get his\/her comeuppance?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-3-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\">\n<ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n<li>The villain should be defeated in one or two episodes (a la original Star Trek). <small>(17%, 1 Votes)<\/small>\n<div class=\"pollbar\" title=\"The villain should be defeated in one or two episodes (a la original Star Trek). (17% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>The villain should be disposed of in the same season (a la Dexter). <small>(67%, 4 Votes)<\/small>\n<div class=\"pollbar\" title=\"The villain should be disposed of in the same season (a la Dexter). (67% | 4 Votes)\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>The villain should be given two or three seasons to cause trouble (a la Game of Thrones). <small>(0%, 0 Votes)<\/small>\n<div class=\"pollbar\" title=\"The villain should be given two or three seasons to cause trouble (a la Game of Thrones). (0% | 0 Votes)\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>The villain should meet his end in the finale (a la Smoking Man on X-Files). <small>(17%, 1 Votes)<\/small>\n<div class=\"pollbar\" title=\"The villain should meet his end in the finale (a la Smoking Man on X-Files). (17% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>The villain should die but return to cause havoc another day (a la Godzilla). <small>(0%, 0 Votes)<\/small>\n<div class=\"pollbar\" title=\"The villain should die but return to cause havoc another day (a la Godzilla). (0% | 0 Votes)\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>There should be no comeuppance ever (a la Mr Burns on The Simpsons). <small>(0%, 0 Votes)<\/small>\n<div class=\"pollbar\" title=\"There should be no comeuppance ever (a la Mr Burns on The Simpsons). (0% | 0 Votes)\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s try another poll.\u00a0 Whether it is Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos, or Joffrey Baratheon on Game of Thrones, or Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie, or Thomas (not to mention Mary) on Downton Abbey, or Smoking Man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/07\/character-love-hate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11583,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/11583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}