User blog comment:MrQuest17/Character Appreciation- Week 6: Beth/@comment-4742462-20170206052939/@comment-4742462-20170206173115

Well, the reason why I keep saying it is that people like TDPIScarlett talk down characters like Beth for reasons like how are we to root for her while also liking character like Shawn & the Police Cadets (though this mostly applies to MacArthur) when they're just as guilty of being impossible to root for despite being the main protagonist(s) (especially MacArthur whose "Development" was started by her nearly killing her partner by intentionally dropping her halfway down a seven foot hole due to her recklessness).