Have you ever watched a show where you hated the main character or characters but loved the secondary characters?
Capslocked YES! I get that pretty much all the time, and especially with procedural shows, where they like to give their main characters all the angst of protagonist-driven drama shows, but less of the air time to actually, y'know, explore any of it. Lilly Rush on Cold Case is my go-to example -- she got a new breed of angst or potential development every week, but the show's focus was about 87% on the guest cast / crime of the week so she never got more than two scenes to actually deal with any of it.
Also, on a more petulant and shallow level, if I'm more interested in the background characters to begin with, especially ones with very little screen-time in the first place (looking at you, Fringe) I tend to get annoyed with the main character much more easily because I'm seeing so much more of them than the characters I'm actually invested in.
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Capslocked YES! I get that pretty much all the time, and especially with procedural shows, where they like to give their main characters all the angst of protagonist-driven drama shows, but less of the air time to actually, y'know, explore any of it. Lilly Rush on Cold Case is my go-to example -- she got a new breed of angst or potential development every week, but the show's focus was about 87% on the guest cast / crime of the week so she never got more than two scenes to actually deal with any of it.
Also, on a more petulant and shallow level, if I'm more interested in the background characters to begin with, especially ones with very little screen-time in the first place (looking at you, Fringe) I tend to get annoyed with the main character much more easily because I'm seeing so much more of them than the characters I'm actually invested in.