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2015 Character Cup - Nominating Polls, Part B

7 Jul 2015

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I'm posting the next set of nominating polls early today so you still have time to vote in the first round if you haven't already. There will be one more set of nominating/ranking polls tomorrow and then brackets will be revealed. For those unclear about what nominating polls are, please read the description below. As a little teaser, the following shows will also have a character in the contest: The 100, Agent Carter, The Americans, Bates Motel, The Big Bang Theory, The Blacklist, Bones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chasing Life, Criminal Minds, Daredevil, Doctor Who, and many, many more. Feel free to speculate on which character it will be. I'll reveal 10 more shows that are in and didn't need nominating polls tomorrow.


Nominating Polls - The remainder of the polls today are nominating polls.  Remember this will determine which character represents a show in the contest.  Not all shows will have nominating polls but since we have many more than I expected, it will take 3 days to do them all.  Characters in the nominating polls had to meet the following criteria:

1. They had to have at least 5 nominations.
2. They had to be within 5 nominations of the most nominated character on that show unless they got over 20 nominations.
3. If 2 or more characters got over 20 votes, they went in the nominating poll regardless of the difference between them.


Nuts and Bolts - All polls are 1 vote only. Polls will close roughly 24 hours after they start. There is no option to change your vote so please choose carefully. As with all SpoilerTV polls, it is 1 vote per IP address so trying to vote multiple times will not count.


































About the Author - Dahne
One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she recaps, reviews, and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, The 100, Grimm, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, The Last Ship, Younger, Rizzoli & Isles, Major Crimes, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, live tweets a multitude of shows each week, and co-hosts The 100 "Red-Shirted", Sleepy Hollow "Headless" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Currently she writes a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."
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131 comments:

  1. Ohh that's a hard one Leslie vs. Ron, I went with Leslie though.

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  2. Claire Fraser (My original nomination)
    Conor Walsh
    Hannibal
    Hook
    Walter Bishop

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  3. Since you've given a bit of a Spoiler.... is POI there too???

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  4. Welcome to the second set of nominating polls. You can still vote in the first set using the link above until 7:30 pm CST today. The polls will close at 5:45 pm CST tomorrow. If you have any quesitons, let me know. Happy voting!

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  5. Walter, Annalise, and Sharon for me this time.

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  6. Only 10 spoilers a day, sorry. Check back tomorrow. :-)

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  7. hope you mention POI tomorrow....

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  8. Walter,Will,Annalise,Killian,Helena & Jamie for me.

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  9. Now these were hard!
    Walter Bishop, Annalise Keating, Helena, & Ron Swanson... Love all the other characters too :(

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  10. Will
    Annalise
    Emma
    Leslie

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  11. Since you mentioned Criminal Minds... now I'm speculating. Maybe either Garcia or Reid? Those are my two favorites so I'm hoping I'm right! :)

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  12. Sorry, check at what time? Not everyone is on the same timezone.

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  13. Walter Bishop
    Annalise Keating
    Helena

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  14. My votes:

    1. N/A
    2 N/A
    3. N/A
    4. N/A
    5. Killian "Hook" Jones (Emma is my 2nd favorite Once Upon a Time character)
    6. N/A
    7. Claire Fraser (She is one of my four nominations, but Jamie is my 2nd favorite Outlander character; so, I win either way.) : )
    8. N/A

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  15. I am not sure when the next set of polls will be up. There is a chance that these ones will need to finish before I can get the next one up because tomorrow we will have a few ranking polls. If that is the case, it will probably be around 6 pm CST. Either way the poll will be up for 24 hours so you'll have plenty of time to vote.

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  16. Connor Walsh vs Annalise Keating is a hard one, but I go with Connor Walsh, because I nominated him. I will support my favorite show in this cup anyway, no matter who wins this poll. But tbh I didn't expect Annalise to gain the lead. Connor has so much buzz with Coliver and everything.

    And I voted for Leslie Knope, the other character I nominated. She is just awesome.

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  17. Hopefully this will be the hardest it gets for most people. Having to choose from favorite characters on the same show can be very difficult.

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  18. Fringe - N/A (tried the show but didn't like it)
    Hannibal - Will Graham
    HTGAWM - A difficult one but I went with Connor Walsh
    Major Crimes - N/A (Never watched it)
    OUAT - Neither since those two are my least favourite characters on the show
    Orphan Black - N/A (tried the show but didn't like it)
    Outlander - Claire Fraser (Dropped the show but I loved Claire)
    Parks & Rec - N/A (Never watched it)

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  19. I'm guessing that it will be a Reid vs.Morgan showdown.

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  20. Well at least if the ones you voted for don't make it in, you will still have ones you like. Glad you like the spoilers. I thought it might be fun conversation for people to predict until we get the TV Talk Topics started.

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  21. Eh, my two least favourite characters from OUaT xD In season two I'd have chosen Hook in a heartbeat, but now the less I see him the better so I chose Emma.

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  22. While I won't confirm or deny, I will tell you that 8 people from Criminal Minds were nominated.

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  23. Nope. There is no nominating poll for Criminal Minds because only 1 character had enough nominations to get into the contest. That happens a lot when there is such a large cast and everyone gets fairly equal screen time.

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  24. Wow! I do like most of the characters on the show so I'm sure I'll be okay with whatever the result is.

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  25. Walter Bishop
    Claire Fraser
    N/A on the rest.

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  26. There's always next year. Last year Regina represented OUaT so who knows who it will be next year.

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  27. I stand corrected. ; )

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  28. Viola Davis is also getting buzz as Annalise though because Emmy nominations are going to be announced next week and she's a forerunner in it.

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  29. Walter Bishop all the way, Keating and Helena. Parker didn't get in, isn't it ?

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  30. I don't really mind which character from The 100 made it since I love them all :) I'm gonna guess Clarke though. I'm interested to see which TBBT character made it in. I wanna say Sheldon but for all the fans he has, a lot of people hate him too. Howard and Raj are my least favourite so I hope it isn't them. I'd like as many characters to vote for as possible but if these nominating polls are any indication it isn't looking good!

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  31. Sorry only 10-12 spoilers a day and I already gave those out at the top. Brackets should be up by Thursdat at the latest. I hope you are going to join our prediction contest.

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  32. That is true. I really like all the other characters chosen so I won't be disappointed who wins these! Are all the shows you mentioned definitely in with one character.. or they'll have nominating polls such as these?

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  33. I don't think you have to worry about Person Of Interest at all, Root is insanely popular.

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  34. I was thinking about TBBT, too. My guess is Leonard. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking since he's my favorite.

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  35. Las Vegas gives Root the best odds to win the competition,so don't worry.

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  36. Any show mentioned in the teaser above has one character that got in without needing a nominating poll. That means that either they were the only character from the show with enough nominations to get in or there was no other character that got within 5 nominations of them.

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  37. I was actually surprised that The 100 did not go into a nominating poll. We were 1 nomination away from it. I totally hear you about wanting to have the most characters to vote for in. It makes my chances of having a character I like still in by the last rounds more probable.

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  38. Why not ?

    The 100, Bellamy is one of the most popular (for whatever reasons... Ah yes, his abs maybe ?) but I think Clarke has outdone him.
    Agent Carter : I would have said Peggy, but Jarvis is pretty well like and really awesome. But my money is on Peggy.
    The Big Bang Theory : Sheldon I think.
    Bones :The only thing I know for sure is that Brennan gets on my nerves.
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer : I'd say Buffy.
    Doctor Who : The doctor (ten). Unless you haven't separated his incarnations.

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  39. Tell me about it.I mean,choosing between Annalise and Connor or Between Claire and Jamie or Felix & Helena were extremely painful.

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  40. Annalise "BAMF" Keating.

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  41. I'm surprised too I thought it would be Bellamy vs Clarke. But based on the comments I saw in the nominating page I saw a lot more Clarke than Bellamy. That's why I guessed Clarke.

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  42. Walter, Annalise, Felix

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  43. We have to keep a little mystery. :-P


    Bellamy had a fantastic character arc in season 1 but I would agree that this season was all about Clarke. As for Doctor Who, we decided last year that although the character is played by a lot of different actors of varying quality, it is still 1 character so he isn't separated by actor.

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  44. I like Bellamy and Octavia's relationship alot, this relationship was a good part of season 1 Bellamy. He struggled a lot. He came a long way
    But in season two, I only remember what he did from the moment he infiltred the bunker.

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  45. Octavia is actually my favorite character from The 100, so I hope she gets more of the focus in season 3.

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  46. I'll be happy with either Annalise or Connor winning the poll.
    Others: Will and Emma

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  47. So, I voted for:


    1. N/A (I haven't watched Fringe yet, but it's on my watchlist)


    2. N/A (Never watched Hannibal)

    3. Connor

    4. N/A (Never watched Major Crimes)

    5. Hook

    6. Felix

    7. Jamie

    8. N/A (Never watched Parks & Recreation)

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  48. I hope you do try Fringe. It was a very good show. The father-son relationship between Walter and Peter was my favorite part of it.

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  49. Emma swan gets my vote.

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  50. Tough polls today!

    1. Love Walter like everyone else, but Olivia

    2. Will, Will, Will - please let him win, I find him so much more interesting than Hannibal himself

    3. I love both and I am surprised Connor managed to get enough votes to close in on Annalise but I think it is better for the show's chances if Annalise represents it

    4. I've only seen two episodes of Major Crimes in my life, the first two. I tried getting into it because of my extreme love for mary mcdonnell, but the show wasn't for me; still, for the same reason I am voting for her character to move through here


    5. I like Hook, but easily Emma. I am shocked it wasn't Regina, I was sure she was going to be the one representing the fandom. Should have nominated her


    6. I am very disappointed these were the two Orphan Black characters that made it. I really dislike Helena and Felix is far from being a favorite character. Allison ,Sara, Paul, Mrs. S, Cosima, Rachel would all be characters I would prefer over these two. I am not voting.


    7. I like both Outlander characters; voted for Jamie just because, but Claire is a fine choice as well


    8. Nothing

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  51. I was surprised by Regina as well, considering she is who represented OUaT last year. She was 3 nominations shy of being in this nominating poll. For awhile it looked like Connor was going to take the whole thing for H2G. I knew he was popular but I didn't realize he was that popular. Sarah missed the nominating poll by 1 nomination, Delphine by 2, and Cosmina by 3.

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  52. Ah it was quite close on Orphan Black and Once Upon a Time then, that makes more sense to me now. As for Murder, I underestimated his popularity then. I am happy with it though, I really like the character.

    Thanks Dahne!

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  53. I'm also on tumblr and there are so many Connor appreciation posts and stuff. I really think he is a fan favorite, so I thought he was going to win. So I was a bit surprised.

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  54. Olivia, Will, Connor, Emma and Helena for me today. Some pretty tough ones there!

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  55. What's wrong with you? He's Ron Fu*king Swanson

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  56. Leslie, parks and Recreation, Annalise going up against Connor tuff, went with Keating however, Walter and Olivia another nightmare went with Olivia, Easy Emma against Hook, the others I don't watch!!!!

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  57. And not to jinx it, but it looks like my second nomination won't make it too. At least I hope the girls will make it through :D

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  58. I always try the shows on my watchlist, but I think I'll wait next summer for Fringe. :)

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  59. Just Hook, Helena and Jamie for me today. Pretty easy apart from the Orphan Black poll as Felix is an awesome character, but the Helena clone has just been superb this last season, I can't in all honesty vote against her.

    http://33.media.tumblr.com/b0cbaaafdacc68dfb70419c809b86165/tumblr_npxyluYIj91r1d5quo1_500.gif

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  60. I wish Delphine was a choice for the Orphan Black section. She was fantastic this season!

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  61. Nice avatar ;) I'm kind of surprised that he didn't make it into the Banshee face-off with Siobhan and Job.

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  62. Yikes, lots more shows I don't watch!

    Only voting for Jamie Fraser for Outlander.

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  63. As my mother always said if you don't know between two people you love equally who to vote for, always pick the lady ;) (it was more for politics but it works in here too :p) so all the ladies and Hannibal ;)

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  64. Connar walsh and emma swan

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  65. Nice philosophy. I'll admit that I was a bit nervous about these polls because we would end up with a make heavy contest. We might still but these ladies today are showing my fears were groundless. I love it.

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  66. Delphine was 2 nominations away from also being in the nominating poll.

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  67. Sounds good. If you do, let us know in the Pitch Your Show articles what you thought of it.

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  68. What was your second nomination?

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  69. If that guy is Lucas Hood, he was 2 nominations away from being in the nominating polls. If not, he wasn't nominated.

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  70. I voted in every poll, but the one I really want to win is Olivia Dunham, I love that character! She's a badass, she's smart, passionate but cool under pressure and she managed to figure out how to move between alternate realities and countless other stuff.
    I'm off to re-watch Fringe now.

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  71. Oh, thanks. :) And OMG, I have like 6-way-tie for favourite character in the show and a 6 way-tie for a second favourite character, so I Ieft others to do my job with the nominations :D The nominating poll was pretty tough, but at least there were only 2 characters.

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  72. Ooh, now I'm curious who that person is. Same with your mention of 8 people from there being nominated. That fact makes me rather happy.

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  73. I am a little surprised that Connor isn't grabbing more votes, yeah, 'cause he's just the sort of character I totally see fans fawning over.
    Annalise is pretty formidable, though, so... I like both characters, so whichever one winds up getting in I'll vote for 'em.

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  74. You are making me want to rewatch Fringe too. :-)

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  75. I've only watched 3 of the shows in today's poll, but like yesterday (I had watched about half), I voted in each poll:
    - Olivia Dunham
    - Hannibal
    - Annalise (I originally voted for Conner when it was nominations, but seeing some of the field, I think Annalise will be the stronger contender).
    - Sharon Raydor (as much as I wanted to vote for Andy, I feel Sharon has the better fighting chance).

    - Hook
    - Helena (If she doesn't go far, I'm going to go all Helena on people! Ha).

    - Claire Fraser
    - Ron Swanson

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  76. I'm not sure what going "all Helena on people" means but I'm suddenly scared for our wellbeing. :-)

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  77. Criminal Minds was on the top end of number of characters nominated. Teen Wolf had the most with 13 but Criminal Minds was in the top 10 I believe.

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  78. I'm glad Annalise is winning because I think she has a better chance of winning, simply because even people who don't watch the show are likely to have heard of the character just based on the acting raves she's been getting.

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  79. Wow, really? Neat :D! Not bad, CM, not bad.

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  80. Agreed. Viola's built up some pretty decent buzz with that show and the other things she's been in. If she does wind up winning this particular poll here, I'd love to see how much farther she can go in the competition.

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  81. If he doesn't make it this year, depending on what they do with his character next season on the show, who knows, maybe he'll have a much stronger shot next year :).

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  82. Everyone I voted for is losing except Emma.

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  83. It will depend largely against who she is up against. She's a very hard one to predict and will likely be what breaks my bracket first.

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  84. Walter Bishop and Emma Swan.

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  85. My favourite is Fusco.
    I would love to see Bear as the representative of POI. How hilarious would that be ?

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  86. Walter Bishop Hannibal and Helena.

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  87. Ha yes, there's some top characters in the show for sure!

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  88. Ahh, cool, that's good to hear.

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  89. Emma Swan and Helena, despite OUAT season 4 still not airing down here and Alison Hendrix having better experience at winning elections ,)

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  90. Pupok deserves a Best In Show ribbon ,)

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  91. lostrocks4ever8 July 2015 at 17:00

    So many great characters today. Was hard to pick.
    If alternate Olivia had been therein would have picked her but for this I had to go Walter.
    I meant to pick Connor from htgawm but I accidentally pressed the wrong button but not too fussed, I like them both.
    Helena for orphan black although I do like Felix (I really need to watch season 3)
    Hook for once upon a time. I've never liked Emma. Not since season 1. And i love hook.
    Hardest was Leslie it Ron and devastated Andy and Ben weren't options. Leslie is amazing but Ron is just awesome so went with Ron.

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  92. I'm sorry, please don't hate me lol

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  93. Weren't the polls suppose to be open for 24 hrs? Its only 1:14 pm and already the polls are closed..

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  94. Hint(not everybody lives in USA)

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  95. No,really! ... If I'm not mistaken Dahne (who is running this competition) does live in the US.

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  96. well you could simple look at the oldest comment,and see it's one day ago,but nevermind

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  97. Fringe: Olivia
    Hannibal: Hannibal Lecter
    HTGAWM: Annalise
    OUAT: Emma hands down, fav character of all the time
    Orphan Black: Helena, loved her progress
    Parks and Rec: probably the hardest question, but Leslie

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  98. You are absolutely right. We're using this new poll system and I have to convert everything to British Summer Time instead of using my own time like I did with Polldaddy. It's driving me insane. Also, I can't seem to reopen the poll to fix it. Sorry about that. I'll have to talk to Andy about whether I can open my own Opinion Stage account and remedy the issues I'm having with it or go back to Polldaddy, because if I can't fix it in the contest, it will be a problem.

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  99. Apparently Disqus ate my comment. You are absolutely right. We are using a new system instead of Polldaddy and I have to convert everything to British Summer Time. I used a time change converter but obviously I did something wrong and put the wrong time on it. I have tried to go back and reopen the polls, but it will not let me. I'm not sure why that is but I'll ask Andy to see if we can re-open them some other way. Sorry about this. I really miss Polldaddy at this time.

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  100. Laura is right. The polls should be opened for another 3 hours. It was a problem on my end. I always put the approximate time the contest should end and it shouldn't be so soon.

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  101. Okay, Andy showed me how to fix it. It should remain open for another 3 hours. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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  102. Sorry for the polls being down early. They are back up again so you have another 3 hours to vote. Sorry for any inconvenience it caused.

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  103. :( Ooop,now :) ah! I just read your other comment. I was a little confused when i came to vote for i thought i knew you lived in the U.S. so that confused me even more! Glad you were able to straighten it out. So,let me ask. Are we going to be on U.S. time?

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  104. Thanks Dahne!

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  105. The confusing answer is both. When I put the closing time on the first post, it will be in Central Standard USA time. However the poll software uses British Standard Time. If I do everything right in the future, then the only time you'll see is American CST. The polls should start and end roughly at the same time each day, within 15 minutes, so if it ever seems to be closed too early or not closed soon enough, please let me know. I try to keep on top of the contest but today I was at lunch with my family so I didn't see it. Again, sorry about that.

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  106. Walter - Fringe. Just once i would love if John Nobel would win something. He was phenomenal as Walter Bishop! But yeah,i love Olive too,so how upset could i possibly be!

    Hannibal - Hannibal Lecter
    Annaliese- HTGAWM
    Hook - OUaT. I hit Hook by mistake,oh well.
    Helena - Orphan Black
    n/a
    n/a

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  107. Oh sure! I never experience a problem when you run this competition,you've always been on time.

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  108. I'm rewatching myself. I'm up to 3.02!

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  109. Sandi,didn't you watch Fringe?

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  110. I would love if John Noble were in it too, but it doesn't seem to be his year sadly. Maybe next year.

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  111. I quit watching every episode during the middle of S2, I didn't really get into it much, though had friends who watched it so caught an episode here and there. I did quite like one episode, White Tulip, I'm a sucker for time travel stories, and my friends would beg me to try other episodes a few times afterwards saying it was like that one. But I never did like them I'm afraid, my intense dislike of the two leads really didn't help matters, lol :( sorry.

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  112. I'm the same way.If i don't like the leads i won't follow no matter how good the story is.. Sorry you had to miss John Nobel. He was fabulous as Walter..

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  113. Did some polls get added later in the day? I don't remember seeing some of these earlier today.

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  114. Are you kidding me that people nominated Emma and Hook? No Rumple or Regina?

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  115. Pictures for Annalise, Emma, Helena and Jamie! =D

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  116. I was very torn with the OUAT and Outlander polls because I love all four characters. In the end I chose Emma Swan and Claire Fraser.

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  117. Regina had the third most votes and Rumple had a few but this was really Emma's contest the whole way. She was 1 vote away from not needing a nominating poll at all.

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  118. Awesome pictures for characters I hadn't gotten any from. Thanks soooo much! I really appreciate it.

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  119. Don't mention it, I'm really excited about this competition (even if Wolfie didn't make it through). Soooo, I've decided to find pictures for all contestants, I feel like I'm being annoying but I want to help a little bit. Let me know if you want me to find more pictures! =D

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  120. Holy moley, you rock! Thanks so much for single handedly making this a whole lot easier for me. I totally appreciate it.

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  121. Wow! I know people love Emma, but I really had no idea Hook is one of the favorites. I love those competitions because you see who is loved by the fans and why ;)

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  122. I don't know why they are saying my vote was already intercepted.. Anyway I couldn't have chosen, these polls are impossible especially Walter/Olivia, Emma/Killian and Jamie/Claire.

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  123. hi can someone tell me why I keep getting messages from the website saying about a vote from my ip address even though I haven't been here before?

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