Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24415542-20140113162753/@comment-24163511-20140205032621

I'm going to try to explain why people don't like Margaret but first we need to ask ourselves:

What DO we know about Margaret? She's a Daddy's girl who worked full time at a coffee house waiting for her college application to be accepted by her dream school, we know she really wants to go to her dream college, so you could call her ambitious but she's also playful when she bet the guys on something and...well, that's about it, her page says she's kind-hearted and caring but what proof is there of that? All in all she's pretty innocuous and flat.

But then again, there are characters with even less depth than her (like Pops and many others) so why hate on her specifically? Well, look at how many appearances she has as a major role, like 20 and that's just major. Yet in almost ALL of those, she just serves as a kind of goal, like you could replace her with just about anyone off the street and nothing would've felt amiss. The only times she felt real was when she talked about college, when she was being playful and that one time in "Do or Diaper" where she totally screwed over Mordecai and showed that she wasn't just some cookie-cutter "Gets the girl" type and showed he would actually have to work for it. However, that freak break from banality wouldn't last and we'd be back to the typical normal/bland girl. Bland people are boring as shit because it gets hard to tell between her and an extra in the background.

What it boils down to is that her role as a character is to make Mordecai jump through hoops and nothing else. She has no other REAL discernible trait other than the above and having as many appearances as she does, that's really not a good thing.

It's sad really, people are "annoyed" at Margaret for having no depth but its the writer's job to give her depth and they just couldn't fit in giving her depth as well as making her the goal of Mordecai's love interest. I suppose that's because it would be giving too much attention to a side character, but sheesh, she just needed one damn ep. to fix her char. dev. but it was never really given. It's the tragic role of that very position as the love interest of the Protagonist that dooms her and female chars. like her.