Anwar was the only character I didn't like from Generation 1, though now that I think about it he wasn't so bad compared to some later characters. He was such an awful friend, I couldn't understand why Maxxie bothered with him. I liked him even less when he started sleeping with Sketch..."she stalked my best friend and tried to kill another one of my friends. Oh, she's willing to sleep with me? All is forgiven!" I do have to admit he had some funny moments and the actor was good.
I didn't hate Effy, but thought she was terribly written in Gen 2, which was surprising since she'd been a part of the show from the beginning. If these writers could make Cassie understandable and lovable, they knew better than to turn Effy into a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
Katie was horrible, and it was never explained why she felt a need to control her sister the way she did. I always felt like her infertility was a random attempt to make her sympathetic, but it fell flat and didn't even seem to be that bad, considering she had never indicated she wanted to have children. I did like her with Thomas, though. I hated that the season 4 finale implied that he and Pandora would get back together at Harvard (not to mention how ridiculous it is that someone who had been expelled would even be accepted by Harvard, but that's a different conversation).
I loved Pandora in the beginning, but having her cheat on her boyfriend just seemed really out of character; come on, nobody changes that fast.
I actually forgot about Matty until I started looking through this thread, I wish I could forget him again.
Side note: After reading all of these posts, I'm starting to think I'm one of the very few who didn't hate Franky. Yes, she was rotten in season 6, and as someone pointed out on another thread it was annoying that she claimed to be "just into people" and the writers only gave her male love interests, but I felt bad for her. She was punishing herself because of the guilt she felt for indirectly causing Grace's death. Sometimes people become self-destructive when they think they deserve to be destroyed. She was far from my favorite character, but I never thought she was that bad.
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