Who would you say is a character that you feel is either under or overrated? but here's the thing you have to actually state your reasoning for why you think this.
Recently in the fandom on reddit we had that whole trend of people making those charts of what boxes they thought certain characters fit into for them
and in the underrated and overrated sections in a lot of cases we had people putting very overall popular characters in the underrated sections
and in some cases putting characters who are not generally regarded very Highly in the overrated sections and this got me thinking that despite during my time in the fandom seeing a lotta claims for under or overrated characters
I never actually see people give reasons for why they feel this way about certain characters even tho personally I never make such claims without stating why I think this so if there are any characters you think this way about
then please comment who but also try to actually think about and state your reasons for why you think they are under or overrated by the fandom?
Now the reason I feel this way isn't that I think its wrong for Em to be so popular or anything like that but I think a lot of people tend to sorta give her writing and overall character
more credit than it really deserves when it comes to how deep of a character she actually is especially when it comes to the certain crowds of people
that ever since season two have been bashing Charlie and claiming that Em would have been a better main character instead and I'm just like really?
so your saying if our lead character was a overly positive kind person whose beliefs never falter and who has no real significant character flaws or growth
and who has pretty surface level dynamics with everyone in her vicinity since she seems to just be simple friendly co workers with everyone in Heaven minus Lute who she seems to feel nothing but mild annoyance for
and when it comes to Sera their dynamic is just simple uncomplicated love that isn't even made more complicated by finding out her sister is a mass murderer since Em gets over it with no real development in season two and no real complicated feelings are implied to linger making it a pretty uncomplicated relationship,
So if she was the main character but she was literally written exactly the same as she is at present then I feel as tho the majority of people would actually complain about her lack of depth and growth and frankly I'd feel they'd be right to,
So in short emily is a very simple character she's just a conventionally easily likable cute cinnamon roll with a heart of Gold which is perfectly fine for a side character especially one that's literally an angel in Heaven 😂😂 so her being this way makes perfect sense
but I feel like people tend to overrate characters likability and confuse that for Depth and complexity in writing when if we've being Harshly Honest Em is technically a less complicated character than say Chaz in helluva lol,
Hear me out briefly Chaz has way less screen time than her but in his one canon episode he's portrayed as a self centered jerk who only cares about himself and is willing to do things like leave his boyfriend behind on a job to get arrested
yet is also shown as openly conflicted before doing so anyway implying that deep down there is a touch of either actual care for Moxxie or just basic empathy in there it just isn't enough to stop him from choosing himself over others and making the bad choice,
And he has the character flaw of being obnoxious and often making sexualised inappropriate comments yet after knocking Blitzo out when he's entirely alone Chaz shows a tiny bit of self awareness in calling out his own crappy joke showing he isn't 100 percent oblivious to how he is as a person,
The point isn't that Chaz is some super deep character lol the point is he literally has the bare bones of character Depth yet is Generally given less credit for writing than Emily
and the reason is solely down to one being made to be conventionally likable and the other being made to be conventionally unlikable but in actuality Emily's character is no more complex in writing
and if anything actually has less Depth so far so this isn't to shit on Emily as a character or her fans
I actually don't Hate her or anything I just feel a lot of people confuse her likability with her being a complex character when she's actually in a writing sense pretty One D
( again that's not an insult I love plenty of characters who are technically not very complex ),
But anyway so like I said whenever I state why I feel a character is over or underrated I do normally try to give an actual explanation so people can Hopefully understand why I feel this way so if you are going to comment please try to do the same and I'd be interested to read it.