Re: Most Annoying Character

From: chance <chance_at_unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:51:25 -0700

>Folks, I cannot recall if the most annoying character thread came up, but
>who is the
>most annoying character?
>
>Mine are:
>
>1) Feral
>2) Steele

Feral's abrasive and none-too-friendly, but he has his good points. I like Steele,
and kinda have the feeling his character path throughout the series could contain
a few surprises WRT what he's capable of when not preoccupied with promotion
above his capabilities.

Annoying? Hmm. "Creeplings" get on my nerves (though they were a scream in
"Night of the Dark Kat" playing with Razor's Glovatrix!), but the most annoying
award has to go to "Skaredy Kat" - whose antics remind me all-too-much of
some of the sorrier WPT-type things.

Yeah. Come to think of it, Kats hasn't got the "irritating sidekick" syndrome that
gave the world characters like " 7-Zark-7", "Orco", "Uni the Unicorn", "Batmite",
"Scrappy-Doo" and a sorry host of others - and I'm eternally grateful. The closest
they got to a cutesy-fied sidekick was perhaps Hackle's robotic camp-follower
in "Deadly Pyramid", who reminded me an awful lot of "K-9" from "Doctor Who";
a kind of a combination companion/Swiss Army Knife that's always there to lend the
appropriate mechanical paw in a tough situation.

However, the "most annoying dialogue" statuette goes to "Bride of the Pastmaster"
for any line spoken by Razor containing the word "Queen". (Poor Razor - he just
has that kind of voice that doesn't lend itself well to overblown gothic period-dialogue).

"Most annoying costume design"? Hmm. "Cry Turmoil" wins, hands down, for the
B5-style "third world doorman" uniform that T-Bone was given to wear as flight-commander.
They should've gone with something that screamed "fascist" rather than "can I hail a cab
for you, madam?", and come up with designs approaching the nazi-style stuff, or those
great uniforms worn by the "Eastern Alliance" in the old "Battlestar Galactica" series.
Threatening, yet tasteful, and infinitely superior to the fashion-challenged Serbian
General look that they wound up with. Turmoil? Rrrowr. As is. It looked as
though, along with the airship, they were trying for kind of an "Iron Vulture"/"Don Karnage"
type of thing after a fashion - just sans the heavier elements of humour.

(Don't you hate people that mix French and English in a sentence? Mon Dieu...)



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