Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5397280-20131112164552/@comment-5397280-20140131014149

Trash Boat wrote: Fine with me, lets express opinions. Margaret is a terrible character with no depth, a flat one dimensional personality, and a weak backstory. For four seasons, there is virtually no development of her character. As main character, she and Hi-Five Ghost have the dubious distinction of being the least developed main characters in show. Everyone who claims she is a valuable character only do so because of some insipid, nonsensical logic about her and Mordecai being some sort of canonical relationship within the show, which is rediculous. She is a weak character and it's good that she is gone for the time being to allow Mordecai and Eileen more room to develop and mature as characters. Besides, three seasons of Mordecai being obsessed with Margaret and not doing jack about it was quite enough. If someone can give some good reasons as to why she is a good character, without referencing the romantic angle between her and Mordo, by all means, do so, but it'll never happen because she is a weak character. If all those reasons don't clearly indicate that Margaret does in fact suck more than a Black and Decker Wet and Dry vacuum, I don't know what will. I like how you explained your reasons on why you hate Margaret with a lot of detail. I think of Margaret as like the Mary Sue of the series. She is portrayed as little Ms. Perfect, yet we don't know how her and Mordecai met, we never got a chance to fully get to know her at all, her father was always mentioned in Season 2 and Season 3, yet we never even got to actually see him until Season 4. Another thing that irritates me about Margaret is the fact that in Season 1, she was just some girl who had a boyfriend pretty much every episode since her debut in Caffeinated Concert Tickets. In that season, we also figured out that she works at the coffee shop. In Season 2, her and Mordecai started talking more, but we were still not able to figure out her personality. All we still knew was that she was some girl that Mordecai had a crush on. We only figured out a very small chunk of her childhood, but it wasn't enough. By the time Season 3 started airing, her's and Mordecai's friendship started becoming stronger, yet the character development was still absent. All we figured out in Season 3 was that she wanted to go to her dream school and that she was currently attending community college. No talk about a life story. The same went for Season 4. Her's and Mordecai's relationship became much stronger and turned into a romantic relationship, and just as we at least see some minor development, she rejects Mordecai's request to make it official because she got accepted into her dream school, which turned my opinion of Margaret from a strong dislike to pure hatred. I thought that Margaret leading Mordecai on throughout the series and then just decides to break his heart at the end of Season 4 was just cruel. So far in Season 5, Margaret hasn't had any major appearances, and I don't see her making any major appearances at anytime soon. Obviously, Margaret was only there to portray as the girl that played hard to get, except Mordecai never got her. I think the story arc between Mordecai and Margaret was a complete waste of time, and Margaret should have never made an appearance in this show. She's a failure of a character, and I hope we never see her again or that she only makes cameo appearances for the rest of the series.