[Discussion] Flawed canon and "bad" characters

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Who are your favourite "guilty pleasure" female characters? The ones who aren't good examples of what can be done with female characters, but who you deeply love anyway?

Have you spent hours creating backstory for a female character whose sole purpose in canon is to provide eyecandy for fanboys? Do you feel wildly passionate about a woman from a badly written, sexist series? Is your OTC a woman who died in the first episode of a new series, before the opening credits even began to roll?

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I agree. I have to admit I like House/Cameron in fanfic myself, but I don't really want them to go back there in canon (unless they could do a much better job). But this way it's even worse because they want to hint around that she still likes House, not explain what's going on with Chase one way or the other, and pretty much ignore her otherwise. I never held out much hope that they'd develop much about her besides the non-relationship with House, but this is very frustrating.

Maybe she'll start dating 13. OK, probably not.