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  • I like your moxie, sassafras.

    As per a friend’s excellent recommendation, the current marathon is Pushing Daisies.

    Oh.
    My.
    Goodness.

    Well done, friend. I’m hooked. The characters are brilliant, the plots are entertaining, the dialog is witty as all get out, and occasionally, they sing! It’s all so quirky and wonderful and cartoonish. 😀

    And, as per usual, I’ve fallen for the main character, Ned the pie maker. He’s so adorkable. Him and Chuck the alive-again-dead-girl are so cute together.

    Ironically, he reminds me of another Chuck, of the more typical male variety, Chuck Bartowski. Something about the tall, caring, funny, slightly awkward, average sort of guy with a special talent he’s not quite sure what to do with, and a smile that turns me into a pile of goo on the floor.

  • An Interesting Contrast

    I fall for fictional characters like it’s my job.

    It seems every show I watch and love, I fall for the leading man. (Or sometimes not the leading man, but at least one of the guys in the main cast.) Maybe it’s just that I like shows more when they have some fine specimen of manliness for me to crush on. Probably both. We all know I’m a sucker. 😛

    Right now I’m watching through Torchwood and drooling over Captain Jack Harkness. Before this I was catch-up-marathon-ing Bones, and slightly in love with Agent Seely Booth. Clearly there’s something about dashing hero types with government backing but a cowboy attitude, but beyond that, those two are rather different.

    Booth is completely transparent and loyal to his country and his friends. Jack, on the other hand, is a bit of an enigma, and we’re never quite sure exactly where his loyalties lie (so far… maybe it becomes clearer later). Booth seems to mostly have and follow a similar sense of right and wrong as I do, while Jack is apparently a reformed con-man who follows a different moral code and I don’t quite understand what his values are. Booth is an old-fashioned one girl [at a time] kind of guy and ultimately in love with Brennan, Jack is… shall we say, indiscriminant, as far as I can tell. Booth is pretty close to perfect, Jack is gorgeous and funny and often infuriating, and they’re both irresistible… and fictional. (Details, details.)