Why a Negative Character?? - Page 3

Everything in the world is not as easily defined as "good" and "bad" although we might wish for it to be. Things are often very grey and most people will fall within that range but strive to be better versions of themselves. In reality, very few people are purely evil – usually just psychopaths. Instead of showing purely negative characters, it would be more believable to show characters with more meat, with a strong background story of their present nature. Like Saras, for ex: he's been through hell and back after witnessing his mother's suicide and for that reason, he takes longer to open up to people, he's a bit more reserved but also respects his values more than an average person would. If they can justify an evil character, I'm all for it but otherwise, I usually flip the channel when some "vamp" comes on plotting nonsense for no good reason other than just for being evil. Truthfully, there is a little bit of evil in all of us at sometime whether its greed, lies, betrayal or something else.

Originally posted by: gapgirl

I don't know, I agree with the poster. The negative characters in our TV shows are so contrived sometimes that it makes it very unbelievable.

I agree that people are not all good, so it's important to show that there are bad/grey ppl out there, but maybe the focus should now shift to how circumstances can make people act a certain way. Or, as in SC - showing someone like Kumud who is not a bad person, but in the circumstances isn't exactly likeable because of how she is treating Saras...

I hate it when desi serials have negative characters with no backstory...like, why is Guman really this bad? Or her sister for that matter? Or badi bhabhi?

Some ppl are just instigators, I guess, and they don't like others to be happy if they themselves are not.

Sorry for the incoherent post, ppl!

Originally posted by: myviewprem

If there is no negative character how will we know who is a positive character

Life includes some ups and some downs, some people are good by nature and some not so good

If all human were good earth would have become heaven to live

Originally posted by: Tishana

all ppl r nt bad bcz of circumstance...dere r many ppl who r born bad, always jealous n unhappy...dey r BORN, circumstances dnt make dem lyk dat, bt i cnt diagree wid u as wel

Originally posted by: .Anamika.

Everything in the world is not as easily defined as "good" and "bad" although we might wish for it to be. Things are often very grey and most people will fall within that range but strive to be better versions of themselves. In reality, very few people are purely evil ' usually just psychopaths. Instead of showing purely negative characters, it would be more believable to show characters with more meat, with a strong background story of their present nature. Like Saras, for ex: he's been through hell and back after witnessing his mother's suicide and for that reason, he takes longer to open up to people, he's a bit more reserved but also respects his values more than an average person would. If they can justify an evil character, I'm all for it but otherwise, I usually flip the channel when some "vamp" comes on plotting nonsense for no good reason other than just for being evil. Truthfully, there is a little bit of evil in all of us at sometime whether its greed, lies, betrayal or something else.

Originally posted by: mandygill

i wud like to see gray characters, rather than completely negative or positive!

Originally posted by: Xaffi

evil is everywhere or else we would have been in paradise:)