A very popular trend for many television and screen writers to follow when creating scripts is to write the main protagonist as an anti-hero. An antihero is someone who doesn't hold heroic characteristics or attributes, but still does something for the greater good. Many characters that exemplifies this trait would be Arthur Dent from the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sherlock Holmes from the popular British show Sherlock, and Jack Harkness from the show Torchwood. While this fashionable writing trope brings in many views for famous TV shows and movies, it also sparks a lot of controversy within several people. One such, who is Against Antiheroes, would be the author Laura Bennett in her essay that expresses her view blatantly in the title. In her argument, she explains that she's against the idea of antiheroes by stating how the term is overused and should be changed. In her essay, Laura Bennett explains her opinion on the idea of antiheroes being overused in many TV shows. Bennett believes that it's a typical archetype that barely has any significance to it's original meaning. She lists off characters like Walter White from Breaking Bad, and Tony Soprano from The Sopranos, who are supposedly characterized as “antiheroes.” However, in her opinion she sees them as over…show more content… It sometimes showcases how unoriginal some creators can be. However, I strongly disagree with the statements claimed in her essay. I believe that the idea of an antihero can be interpreted in many ways and how it is expressed in a show or movie is completely up to the creator. While Bennett states this as an over abundantly used way to develop a character as a method of story writing, I see it as way for creators to let the viewers decide up to interpretation whether the character is good, bad, or even
