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Originally Posted by levite
First off, what he said ^^^^^.
Second of all, way too many pop movie and TV characters, not enough indie and cult characters, and WAY too few characters from books.
Third of all, ELMO?!! I hate that fuzzy little bastard! He is not a fucking great character! OMG, he needs to die so much!!! (My neice loves him).
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There's no real reason as to why I'm quoting you, specifically, levite, but the first thing I gathered from this list when I saw it half a year ago, is okay, I get it: a biased list of characters from tv series and movies. It's by the people who work in some faction at Entertainment Weekly, so not too surprising... is it so obscured to this many of you that, of course and if anything, their niche area isn't going to include celebrities, disc jockeys, or figments of some obscure author's imagination (some movies on the list did begin as novels though) sneaking in onto the listing.
Originally, I ranted about it as well, just to be included. I didn't care then, and I still realiy don't. There is a notice, however, that no listing is going to appease everybody, and in that, it comes to appease nobdy but the small group who started it. This is televised pop culture we're disssecting. If this many of you (us?) don't like the way this poll was conducted with whatever hidden rules & restrictions these TV guide-wannabe editors, writers & "experts" used to cull, critique and whittle down to the criterion of showcasing only the brightest characters from such-and-such screened universe, (television, cinema, web) then maybe the only viable last option we have is to create our poll and make sure we get a fair consensus to what defines a "greatest character" of whatever.