10 TV Shows That Completely Wasted Great Characters
7. True Blood - Franklin
It’s fair to say that True Blood struggled with its
characters, memorable as the mixed lot were, and on more than one occasion a figure
with a lot of potential cropped up only to be unceremoniously offed soon after.
Life was cheap and death was messy in HBO’s megahit, an R-rated answer to the
then-recent Twilight phenomenon starring Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin, and
Bill Moyer.
Amongst the show’s underutilized line-up was short-lived soft-spoken vampire mentor Godric and a little seen vampire queen played by Evan Rachel Wood, but the worst offender is this regard must be demented vampire detective/ eventual staking victim Franklin.
All we saw of the insane private eye was a few scenes establishing him as a threat to our (then-)hero, smooth-talking southern vampire Bill Compton, and his brief liaison with the fiery Tara, but this was more than enough to prove Franklin had plenty of potential and would soon prove a formidable foe for the season.
That is, until he got a stake unceremoniously stuck through his chest after only a few scenes onscreen, leaving viewers wondering why the show bothered with the character in the first place.