I only watch one of the four shows you mention, so I can't really compare them, but I most definitely agree with you on Joss's skill at creating characters, especially female ones. Of all his incredibly complex characters, in a way it's *Anya* who impresses me most, because she seems so shallow at first glance -- and second. Once you look at her, though, there really is a person with flaws and virtues underneath all that bluntly open love of sex and money (even w/o taking the last two eps into account), and those loves fit into her personality rather than driving it. It's also why finding well-written Anya in fanfics is really very rare.
I agree with you so much on Anya. On both parts. She's a complex person, but she's mostly loud about the less complex parts of herself, so the complexity gets lost while people are busy either taking offense or laughing.
This doesn't work, because we take characters in the fandom as real, and there are *no* real people without depth, whether or not they choose to show it to everyone. We have less information to work from for some characters, but that doesn't mean there aren't layers and "real" personalities to explore.
Right. Any character is only boring as long as you don't connect the dots. Lana. To take HP, the reason that Ginny adores me is that she doesn't make sense. If I cared enough about her to write about her, I would have to make sense of the change between the fourth book and the fifth, and she would have a character arc and depth. But, alas, I really don't. Because she both bores me and kinda annoys me.
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I agree with you so much on Anya. On both parts. She's a complex person, but she's mostly loud about the less complex parts of herself, so the complexity gets lost while people are busy either taking offense or laughing.
This doesn't work, because we take characters in the fandom as real, and there are *no* real people without depth, whether or not they choose to show it to everyone. We have less information to work from for some characters, but that doesn't mean there aren't layers and "real" personalities to explore.
Right. Any character is only boring as long as you don't connect the dots. Lana. To take HP, the reason that Ginny adores me is that she doesn't make sense. If I cared enough about her to write about her, I would have to make sense of the change between the fourth book and the fifth, and she would have a character arc and depth. But, alas, I really don't. Because she both bores me and kinda annoys me.