I know everyone would probably say Fenner, espcially after Yvonne... but does anyone else just hate Di with a passion? Something about her make me hate her more then Fenner, i think its a combination of her horribleness, her desperateness and her stupidy. Thoughts?
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It's those kind of dynamics that made the show good, imo. Because life isn't black and white, there is no such thing as a good person or a bad person.
A good person is capable of evil, just as a nasty person can perform acts of good. It's more realistic to show the characters doing both, rather than just one.
Like Denni in series 1. That episode involving her mum really makes you feel for her. Then, in the next episode she's helping Shell to beat up Zandra, despite Zandra helping her to read her mum's letters.
Buxton was my least favourite, she was a pretty good character but I couldn't stand her
I would've loved to have seen her vs Yvonne
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer more reliable than a garden strimmer
I hated Shaz with a passion and the two Irish women I found so dull. Roisin and something I think.
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Buki I hated her
Al I hated her too
Kris and Selena (Just another Helen and Nikki wannabes)
Natalie Buxton she was a good character in series 6 and series 7 but that would have been her downfall when they found out she was indeeed a nonce they would've killed her she would've been trasferred for her own protection and then in series 8 they're afraid of her again it just didn't make sense.
BUT MY MOST HATED has to be Janine Nebeski awful character she was vile to Arun and she was such a suck up hated her irratating character.
The worst character was Crystal Gordon. She used to be the biggest religious patriot but then became the biggest blasphemer. Thats what I hated. Also, I hated that character "Satan's daughter" in the Season 7 Christmas special The stupid satanist. And like everyone else agrees, Buxton is the biggest biggest bitch.
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Who was that girl played by Nicola Stapleton? I couldn't stand her
What's it going to be then, eh?
I have to disagree with ovid321. Crystal's problems with her religion were spot on. Many people go through a crisis of faith after something happens and they can't understand why God allowed it.
I hated Buki, she was a pointless character. I also thought Zandra was really whiny all the time, I just couldn't take to her.
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He was such a loser.. Had no back bone what so ever. I mean there are losers then there is Colin Hedges....
How could anyone be so easily manipulated... Fenner was able to blackmail him on the weakest of things. Even though Fenner had more to lose than him...
Hahaha, just so happens that at this very time, I'm watching the scene where he almost kills himself in the cellars just after Yvonne was found... Damn jew, why did you have to find him and save him....
Di barker is one of those characters where you either love her or hate her. But I loved her. When the show was getting stupid she made it entertaining. Sure she was over the top desperate and stupid, but it all fit and was semi-believable. But all in all entertaining.
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Bodybag was a hilarious character but annoyed me to the point of madness. Her whiny voice was the main thing, it was awful to listen to. And some of the things she did just irritated me, especially when it came to Bobby. She was so hot-and-cold with him, mostly when she found out about the debts. She went from "You STUPID man" to "It's OK, we'll sort it" to "You're WEAK and a poor excuse for a man!!". Ugh.
I agree with the people who said Di. I started watching the show at season 4 when I was younger, so I didn't see how crazy she was with Dominic and whatnot, but I still found her to be so irritatingly desperate. It's just the way she continually bitched at Neil when he didn't want to spend time with her or give her a baby. She knew he was gay, but became such a cow whenever he tried to hammer that fact into her head.
Shaz also pissed me off to no end. Like I said, I started the show in season 4, so I didn't get the full brunt of how irritating she was until recently. Now, I'm actually glad she dies in the fire. The episode where she meets the woman whose husband she killed really got on my tits. "Oh, my manager picked on me, so I poisoned a few people". What.The.Hell?? She needed to grow the fvck up.
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I really disliked Denny.
She was always portrayed as a character we were meant to like yet she was a nasty bully. It always annoyed me the way she treated Zandra yet was able to get back into her good books.
Also when her and Shell broke into Hollemby's home, after returning to prison it seemed like the writing suggested we were meant to like Denny and find her disgusting behaviour comedic.
Another one is Al. Painted as a vile person throughout the series so it was difficult to feel sympathy when she revealed the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.
Most of the 'villians' were enjoyable so I didn't dislike them. Perhaps with the others the personality changes seem too rushed since I've been watching repeats on CBS drama rather than a weekly basis on ITV.
Agreed. I'm only on S03E14 and I've had more than enough of Di.
shareFenner, thats a given. I think the next worse person was Shell.
Bitch get out of my way!
Roisin Connor was by far the worst!! When she started using drugs she became so annoying! I'm so glad she and Cassie left after one season!! Cassie was alright though :)
shareI've been watching the whole series on DVD (I managed to get the complete set and just finished S7), since I missed it when it was first shown in Australia. In general, I really enjoyed the unsympathetic or irritating characters when they were reasonably well developed: Natalie Buxton, Darlene, Di Barking, Buki and Shaz etc, although the latter two were really annoying.
I liked Cassie, but Roisin annoyed me. I'm not sure if that was the way she was written or how she was played, but everytime she came on screen I was like, "Oh for heaven's sake, harden the **** up!" (Although, on a re-watch of S4, she started to grow on me a bit.)
Al could have been an interesting character, but they really didn't do enough with her, except towards the end of S5: she was just an annoying, incomprehensible cliched thug most of the time (although without her we wouldn't have had the brilliant "Denny femme-ing it up to crack onto her and get a confession" episode, so I have a soft spot for her for that reason).
Kris and Selena - yaaaawn, I tuned out every time they came on screen. It seemed the writers couldn't give a toss about them either, given that their storyline was never resolved. Boring, implausible, no chemistry between them whatsoever. I definitely agree it was a poor (wo)man's Nikki/Helen storyline, with that lame protest cliff hanger (which was never resolved) at the end of it. If it hadn't been included, it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference.
Many of the new characters from S6 onwards didn't have the same charisma or charm as the earlier ones, and just seemed pointless: Joy Masterton, Janine Nebeski, Kevin Spiers and so forth. I agree about the stupid "Satan's daughter" - I couldn't watch much of the S7 Christmas special, it was lame beyond belief anyway, but the Satanist was just pathetic.
Oh, how could I forget - Snowball Merriman. What a waste of space.
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Di Barker
Jim Fenner
Natalie Buxton
Dr 'No-no'
That abusive guy Di dated and was supposed to marry
Darlene Cake
Renee Williams
Snowball Merryman
Virginia O'Kane, didn't really like her either
Caroline or whatever, that blonde Nikki was seeing before the Maxi Purvis told Nikki she was a nonce.
Maxi Purvis.
I don't *loathe* all of them, but I hated most of them most of the time. Of course, most of them have also had their good moments.
"Stop looking at the shell, and see the pearl."
~ Emmett Honeycutt.
For me, every character had a part to play (no pun intended) and all of their good streaks and bad streaks served a purpose to make the show enjoyable, even Natalie Buxton, who was plain evil.
BUT
Roisin irritated the crap out of me, I'm sorry. She's the only character that did absolutely nothing for me, not even as a plot device. I couldn't take the constant ungrateful whining and self pity, as soon as she left with her girlfriend I just felt like things were going to be a bit better from now on. x
Every Jack has his Jill.
Di love or hate her was a pretty good character. She had some great story lines and i was very annoyed how her character ended up at the end of series 7 and then suddenly not heard of again after the Christmas Special.
Worst characters for me are Barbara, Buki, Shaz, Al.
You didn't like Barbara?!
And can I just say how happy I am that neither Helen Stewart nor Nikki Wade have ended up on anyone's list.
I enjoy Jim Fenner as a villain but despised his character to no end, it seemed like just when I got over the last sh*tty thing he did he was off doing another sh*tty thing.
So far I'm liking all the characters, but I'm only half through series 3.
Calzones are pointless, they're just pizza that's harder to eat. No one likes them.
Turdcrapley,
No i didn't like Barbara at all just very dull and boring for me. Series 3 well maybe by the time you get to series 5 you may hate Fenner more but yes he is a good villain. You've got some great characters yet to meet and great story lines. For me series 4 and 8 are the weakest series's.
Depends what you mean by worst...
If you mean worst as in most evil...has to be Fenner and Natalie Buxton.
If you mean worst as in most annoying...
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Like I said in another thread, I'm not sure if she was a terrible actress or her writing was terrible but she was so over the top and stupidly unbelievable that I couldn't wait to get rid of her.
Di was really annoying after a while. But not because she was badly written/played, just because of the character. On the contrary, I think the actress was fantastic to evoke so much frustration. Because the most annoying thing was that the other people around her was letting her get away with repeating her behaviour and kept falling for it! What's wrong with you people!
Same with Fenner...I see the point, because you needed the villain of the piece, but after a while, it really was time for him to get what he deserved, and what was most annoying were the spineless or plain stupid people around him that kept letting him get away with it...cos let's face it, he was no where near as subtle and as clever as he thought he was, it was just other people that let him keep doing it because they didn't have the balls to stand up to him.
Buki was plain irritating, as was Roiseen (although, I don't think the actress was very good and that didn't help) where as I liked Cassie a lot, it's a shame she didn't stick around.
Shaz was supremely annoying because she was just so childish, but I have the feeling she was meant to be, mostly because you often saw Atkins thinking/saying the same thing.
Buxton was really annoying, because as I've said in another thread, the fact she even managed to become top dog was just plain silly and unrealistic.
~ I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. ~
There's so many to add to that list
Di
Shaz
Barbara - her damn notebook (H & N)
the Costa cons
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