more and more it seems to be used as 'primary protagonist that I don't like'. 'Writer's pet' also seems to occasionally fall into that category.
This. I had a disagreement with someone on a Nuke board last summer who claimed that Reid was a Mary (or Marty) Sue because the writers loved him and wrote for him more than more established characters (i.e. Noah). Um, that's not the definition of a Mary Sue. At least it's not the one I've always heard. He was a very flawed character and hardly anyone liked him (except the audience, of course, because he was so snarky) for the first several months he was on the show. And he didn't have unusually colored eyes. ;-) They are a very pretty blue, though.
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Date: 2011-07-01 10:43 pm (UTC)This. I had a disagreement with someone on a Nuke board last summer who claimed that Reid was a Mary (or Marty) Sue because the writers loved him and wrote for him more than more established characters (i.e. Noah). Um, that's not the definition of a Mary Sue. At least it's not the one I've always heard. He was a very flawed character and hardly anyone liked him (except the audience, of course, because he was so snarky) for the first several months he was on the show. And he didn't have unusually colored eyes. ;-) They are a very pretty blue, though.