Does anyone else have a TV, book or film character they hated when they encountered them as a teenager/child but now their an adult think are amazing?
Mine’s Martha Jones from Doctor Who. I really struggled to engage with her because at the ripe old age of 11 I was intensely invested in Rose10 and I was absolutely furious and grieving that Rose was no longer going to be a part of the show. The only issue I had with Martha was that she was not Rose but as a child that was a huge enough one for me to completely take against her.
I had a similar issue with Matt Smith’s Doctor a few years later except it wasn’t as extreme because I was a bit more mature.
As an adult I can see how fantastic Martha is, she’s kind, really smart, accomplished and in some ways more mature and healthier about her feelings (unrequited love) than t he Doctor is. If it wasn’t for the context of me grieving Rose’s departure I would have adored her.
I was just wondering if anyone else had had a similar experience. This one sticks out for me because I was so busy with school and extracurriculars the only TV I watched was Doctor Who and Merlin. That adds up to less than an hour a week when you consider that they rarely overlapped, so as a result I got super invested in both.