User blog comment:Angren Túrë/Pyrrha and Nora voice actresses, totally didn't see that coming./@comment-5999656-20130811015424/@comment-9090085-20130811224927

I know exactly what you mean... which is probably why my brain runs on autopilot when I watch a show. I instead have broad expectations for the series (or no expectations at all), and let the writers and their characters fill in the blanks.

Speaking of characters... There are pretty much 3 things that baffle me when people talk about characters:

1) Voice Actors(any actor, really). Since I tend not to keep track who played who, I generally don't get any revelations from this; if the actor can be "the character" that's all I need.

2) Character Polls. I can never really say I have a favorite/hated character; what few times I do is usually because the rest of the cast is straight-up uninteresting to me (good example for me: Gundam 00; my favorite characters were Graham Aker, Sergei Smirnov, and Ali Al-Saachez; but in the second season Graham is someone completely different, Ali's shtick got dull, and Sergei is all but a non-entity, leaving me to slog through a host characters who felt like they were just running through a checklist to me.).

3) Disliking a character because they're jerks. Don't get me wrong, if the story bends over backwards to accommodate the jerky-ness, then then you are perfectly justified in disliking the character (Anakin in the Star Wars prequels, ect.), but just because they're "mean"? Without taking into how they fit into the story? That's silly, in my mind. A good example is... Weiss. A fair number of people disliked her seemingly only because she was mean to Ruby, ignoring that if you paid attention to her infections and inability to argue with Blake, you'd realize that she's likely using that "mean front" to hide her social insecurities. (ironically enough, when I think about it, her "evil plotting" in episode four ties into this: by "teaming up" with other "rich kids" she can have a "social group" without having to, well, socialize.)

And once again, I cannot keep my thoughts in order, and so just spout whatever happens to be on my mind.