Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9964494-20140507055500/@comment-7117024-20140621000010

I do prefer CJ, but I have no ill will towards Margaret. I don't think she didn't have any personality, but I also think she had very little. I enjoyed Margaret more for how it helped Mordecai grow than how it helped her grow; we never really saw how getting to know Mordecai helped Margaret grew. However, I do really like her, and felt just as heartbroken as Margaret's most loyal fans when she departed for college.

Part of why I think she wasn't as strong of a character as she could've been came from the limitations as the love interest too early on. Later on, there was no excuse. Season 5 gave us single episodes for Hi Five Ghost and Eileen, characters who had never been main focuses before, and they were really good. Margaret could've easily been given an episode of her own that answered things about her during the previous seasons. What is Margaret especially good or bad at in life? Why was she so open to having boyfriend after boyfriend for the longest time? What does she do besides working at the coffee shop or growing closer to Mordecai? She, like many other female characters on this show (excluding Eileen), could really use an episode of her own. Alas, she wasn't lucky enough to get one. Perhaps CJ will be luckier if she stays around longer, but even she is at risk for the same struggle for a personality that the writers had with Margaret.

Margaret is still a fun character to watch. She has a bit of a dark sense of humor (2nd Halloween Special), she enjoys teasing Mordecai on occasion, and she had a lot of determination to make it through to her dream school. For me, CJ just has more elements that give her more character, but I understand why people like Margaret so much.

What'll happen for Margaret? I have no idea. I'm still skeptic that Margaret and CJ will fight eachother over Mordecai unless there's strong reasons backing the situation up, but there's no way the writers won't take advantage of the situation and bring Margaret back. It bothers me a bit that people simply say "Margaret will win!" or "CJ will win!" because the show has proven to not be that predictable all the time, especially with its more developed storylines. A recent interview with JG hints that there's some intense things on the way. So while it's okay to like one love interest and despise the other, let's be careful not to assume we know what's best. The writers on the show can be pretty devious...

But from what's happened up to this point, I have nothing against Margaret, and even though I want Mordecai and CJ together more, if done well, I could accept Margaret and Mordecai just like I have before, although I do agree with Mordecai 9492 that episodes that explore Margaret would be great. At the end of the day, Margaret still works for me, albiet in desperate need of some personality build-up.