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Post by Claw died on Aug 17, 2012 23:12:09 GMT -5
The Bologna. The Cheese was the best character on the show. He was better than The Salami and The Bologna combined.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 18, 2012 0:50:46 GMT -5
The Bologna. The Cheese was the best character on the show. He was better than The Salami and The Bologna combined. He still didn't teach me about the proper texture of a good meatloaf, though.
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Post by h on Aug 18, 2012 9:43:58 GMT -5
Without Troi, the ship would be stuck permanently in the rift from the "Night Terrors" episode.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Aug 18, 2012 18:30:38 GMT -5
One of Ginger's friends in "As Told by Ginger" named Dodie who I don't think even had much in common with Ginger. She was just there as a sister to Hoodsy and to serve Ginger a background conversation person. At least Ginger's other girlfriend had less vapid things to say and was more of the dorky type of friend.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Aug 18, 2012 19:00:03 GMT -5
Children in soap operas. They're just plot devices for things like relationship problems or as targets for the bad guys. You can't really make a decent storyline for any character between 5 and 15, which is why they're usually de-pushed or written off, and then when they're pushed again, they're suddenly an angsty, moderately sexually attractive high school student.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Aug 18, 2012 19:41:12 GMT -5
Maggie on The Newsroom is absolutely pointless and hasn't added anything to the show thus far. To this point her mere presence has made Jim and Don more interesting characters. Without her Jim would seem to be nothing more than the confident career journalist who excelled in his field to the point that he is third-in-charge (behind MacKenzie and Will) of a prime-time national show. Sure, he is a whiz-kid who shines in his element but take him out of his element like he is whenever Maggie is involved and he reverts to the awkward nerd who clearly skipped several life experiences in his pursuit of his dream. Without Maggie Don is slightly less complex. He clearly would still have something of a rivalry with the Newsnight group, but mainly with MacKenzie as she gets to run the kind of show that he would like to run. Without Maggie he would be a passionate person forced to run a fluff show but there would be no reason for him to act defensive about it and the douchebaggery that creeps out of him from time to time would not have a point. With Maggie, he clearly has a reason to have a rivalry with a slightly younger version of himself rather than with his replacement. With Maggie there is a sense of desperation that exudes from him from time to time. With Maggie around there is more reasons for him to feel conflicted. They currently make it seem as though if Maggie were not around Jim and Don would be good friends and they both seem to know it. Additionally, Maggie seems to serve as a moral compass for Will. Will clearly cannot help himself and keeps punishing Mac for her past indiscretions and Maggie saying something at least once made him choose to back off.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2012 19:50:16 GMT -5
The Krill in Happy Feet 2. Seriously, they seemed there just to show off the 3D
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Aug 18, 2012 20:22:49 GMT -5
Anakin in The Phantom Menace. He helps bring the main plot to a screeching halt for a good chunk of time and does absolutely nothing for the rest of the movie aside from being shoehorned into that stupid space battle.
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Post by Spider2024 on Aug 18, 2012 22:15:10 GMT -5
Anakin in The Phantom Menace. He helps bring the main plot to a screeching halt for a good chunk of time and does absolutely nothing for the rest of the movie aside from being shoehorned into that stupid space battle. Objection! The pod race was pretty cool.
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Post by Cela on Aug 18, 2012 22:32:42 GMT -5
Maggie on The Newsroom is absolutely pointless and hasn't added anything to the show thus far. To this point her mere presence has made Jim and Don more interesting characters. Without her Jim would seem to be nothing more than the confident career journalist who excelled in his field to the point that he is third-in-charge (behind MacKenzie and Will) of a prime-time national show. Sure, he is a whiz-kid who shines in his element but take him out of his element like he is whenever Maggie is involved and he reverts to the awkward nerd who clearly skipped several life experiences in his pursuit of his dream. Without Maggie Don is slightly less complex. He clearly would still have something of a rivalry with the Newsnight group, but mainly with MacKenzie as she gets to run the kind of show that he would like to run. Without Maggie he would be a passionate person forced to run a fluff show but there would be no reason for him to act defensive about it and the douchebaggery that creeps out of him from time to time would not have a point. With Maggie, he clearly has a reason to have a rivalry with a slightly younger version of himself rather than with his replacement. With Maggie there is a sense of desperation that exudes from him from time to time. With Maggie around there is more reasons for him to feel conflicted. They currently make it seem as though if Maggie were not around Jim and Don would be good friends and they both seem to know it. Additionally, Maggie seems to serve as a moral compass for Will. Will clearly cannot help himself and keeps punishing Mac for her past indiscretions and Maggie saying something at least once made him choose to back off. As much as it pains me to say, because I frikking hate Newsroom Kim Pine, but she definitely serves a purpose. If nothing else she's the voice of the liberal strawman to bounce off against the conservatism. Otherwise she's part of a love triangle to create tension and drama. If anyone is useless on the show it's... um... Dev Patel? His conspiracy theories don't add much to the plot, though he does have the new media connection. Nope, no wasted characters on the show.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 18, 2012 23:23:29 GMT -5
Without Troi, the ship would be stuck permanently in the rift from the "Night Terrors" episode. The cast and production staff hate that episode. They regard it as one of the worst they ever did. Troi's role on the show (being empathic and the counsellor) should have been merged with the character of Beverely Crusher. It would have given Crusher more to do, and eliminated a largely useless character
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Aug 18, 2012 23:28:27 GMT -5
Without Troi, the ship would be stuck permanently in the rift from the "Night Terrors" episode. The cast and production staff hate that episode. They regard it as one of the worst they ever did. Troi's role on the show (being empathic and the counsellor) should have been merged with the character of Beverely Crusher. It would have given Crusher more to do, and eliminated a largely useless character Yeah, but the purpose of having those two characters were to have two female officers on the ship that have tumultuous relationships with the two senior officers. One relationship was an imploded romance while the other was a friendship that was damaged by shared loss.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 18, 2012 23:33:52 GMT -5
The cast and production staff hate that episode. They regard it as one of the worst they ever did. Troi's role on the show (being empathic and the counsellor) should have been merged with the character of Beverely Crusher. It would have given Crusher more to do, and eliminated a largely useless character Yeah, but the purpose of having those two characters were to have two female officers on the ship that have tumultuous relationships with the two senior officers. One relationship was an imploded romance while the other was a friendship that was damaged by shared loss. If they needed another female character, they should have gone with the original plan and made Wesley into a girl, and instead of being a super genius, she could have been a typical Starfleet cadet on field training which they could have used to show the audience how Starfleet officers earn their stripes. That would have been better than the Crusher/Picard relationship which went nowhere, and the Troi/Riker relationship which was a rehashed Illia/Decker bore.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 18, 2012 23:47:59 GMT -5
Well if we want to get into useless Star Trek characters, then we should look no further then Enterprise's Ensign Travis Mayweather. Quite possibly the blandest man alive, he was also a mess of contradictions and inconsistencies, most notable the fact that he spent most of his life in space living on spacecrafts yet was treated as the youngest and most naive and inexperienced crew member when dealing with space travel and alien species. He did absolutely nothing to stand out among the rest of the cast and I don't think he ever had a major plotline during his entire time on the show and never had a single part in any episode that couldn't have been given to someone else with the only change needed being his name in the script. Unnamed background employees in Quark's bar had more to do then him.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 19, 2012 6:03:34 GMT -5
Most of the lieutenants in Bleach. Speaking of Bleach.......Chad. All he's got going for him is he is one of Ichigo's human friends with powers, but once the enemies stopped being villain of the week Hollows, Chad lost his usefulness. His only purpose now is to be the "shit just got real" victim of each arc, where despite gaining a level up to his powers he still gets one shotted by the strong villains. At least Orihime has the power to literally reject reality and Ishida is somewhere around a captain in power level, a seated officer at the very least. Hell a few chapters ago, Chad was one again one shotted by a villain, and this one wasn't even one of the strong ones.
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Post by 543Y2J on Aug 19, 2012 7:42:41 GMT -5
Kevin in American Wedding. They gave him storylines in 1, 2 and Reunion but they didn't even both giving him one for Wedding. He didn't even say that much or do anything in the movie
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Post by Ash Kingston on Aug 19, 2012 8:08:49 GMT -5
What purpose does Waluigi have, exactly, beyond being NegaLuigi? I mean, at least Wario has some character traits (likes money, lazy, has his own series of games dedicated to mini-games)...
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Post by Citizen Snips on Aug 19, 2012 8:20:00 GMT -5
Was watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes last night. Bryan Cox' character and the woman that I guess dates James Franco could easily be removed.
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Post by Bo Rida on Aug 19, 2012 9:16:35 GMT -5
Inara from Firefly. The show would have been just as good without her since she served little purpose at all and contributed nothing to the crew or plot on the whole. While I agree that the show probably would have been just as good without her she did provide the opportunity to show the higher classes of the firefly universe which not only expanded the shows world but made it more believable. She also helped flesh out some characters through their attitudes towards her, Mal in particular.
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Post by The OP on Aug 19, 2012 9:23:14 GMT -5
I think Counselor Troi got mentioned only because somebody didn't like the character. She was popular with a lot of fans and they used her in stories all the time! You might as well say Riker or Data didn't serve a purpose. An actual good example would be a character like Nurse Chapel from the original series. Who? Exactly. But she was McCoy's assistant, I believe for the entire run, and even briefly appears in one of the films.
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