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Fannish5: Five characters you have or had a crush on/find attractive but who would be a bad boyfriend or girlfriend in real life.
1. Gene Hunt: Oh, let me count the ways. Gene would last approximately 3 seconds in my presence before I am forced to hit him with the nearest blunt object until brain matter was visible. This is because, while he is Gene Hunt and therefore all kinds of awesome, he is, nonetheless, a sexist, racist, homophobic neanderthal.
2. Wesley Wyndam-Price: He's wonderful and sweet and cute - for the first season. Then he's much too busy fighting demons, saving the world and obsessing over Fred to really manage a relationship. And while I find smart and obsessed strangely compelling, I'm likely to end up as monster food and not have him notice until Cordelia gets a vision.
3. Josh Lyman: See above re: cute and obsessed. I would see Josh about once every other week, and it would be great. It wouldn't count as a relationship in anyone's head other than mine and his, but that wouldn't matter. Until, of course, I realise that it's not actually a relationship, because the only real relationship Josh will ever have is with his job. And I can totally respect that.
4. Jack Bristow: Jack will walk out the moment I attempt to snuggle him.
5. Susan Ivanova: Susan is too busy fighting a war and then being even more busy to have anything approaching a normal life. And then there's the endless pining over the two persons who shall not be named, which I can totally respect when I'm watching her on tv but which would be completely unbearable if I were actually dating her.
Fannish5: Five characters you have or had a crush on/find attractive but who would be a bad boyfriend or girlfriend in real life.
1. Gene Hunt: Oh, let me count the ways. Gene would last approximately 3 seconds in my presence before I am forced to hit him with the nearest blunt object until brain matter was visible. This is because, while he is Gene Hunt and therefore all kinds of awesome, he is, nonetheless, a sexist, racist, homophobic neanderthal.
2. Wesley Wyndam-Price: He's wonderful and sweet and cute - for the first season. Then he's much too busy fighting demons, saving the world and obsessing over Fred to really manage a relationship. And while I find smart and obsessed strangely compelling, I'm likely to end up as monster food and not have him notice until Cordelia gets a vision.
3. Josh Lyman: See above re: cute and obsessed. I would see Josh about once every other week, and it would be great. It wouldn't count as a relationship in anyone's head other than mine and his, but that wouldn't matter. Until, of course, I realise that it's not actually a relationship, because the only real relationship Josh will ever have is with his job. And I can totally respect that.
4. Jack Bristow: Jack will walk out the moment I attempt to snuggle him.
5. Susan Ivanova: Susan is too busy fighting a war and then being even more busy to have anything approaching a normal life. And then there's the endless pining over the two persons who shall not be named, which I can totally respect when I'm watching her on tv but which would be completely unbearable if I were actually dating her.
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Date: 2008-02-24 03:27 pm (UTC)My mind, upon reading the meme stipulations, immediately went to comic book heroes. Oliver Queen, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent--all nice guys, all handsome, all very witty, and two of them are richer than God.
But have you ever seen Ollie Queen in a relationship? It's dreadful. He cheats and he lies, and he's a TERRIBLE father--like, he was actually willing to die rather than be a responsible dad to his son (this is in Kevin Smith's "Quiver").
Bruce carries all the same issues (except the fatherhood one, because his only canonical child was rebooted to not be his child anymore after "Crisis of Infinite Earths"), with a bonus side of being, y'know, Batman...his sidekicks get stuffed in the fridge, (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StuffedInTheFridge) imagine what would happen to his girlfriends.
Clark...well, actually, his romantic history is relatively unscathed, as Lois Lane eventually did marry him and has since been mostly left alone (I imagine 'cause it got boring to have Lois captured all the damn time--after forty years, a trope can really wear thin), but...well. Sex would be an issue after a while. (http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html)
Angel'd also be a terrible boyfriend, for sex reasons ('cause that's a no-win situation--if he did lose his soul, that'd suck, but if he didn't, what would that say about how he felt about you?), and because he'd be impossible to live with. (http://girlpire.livejournal.com/149826.html) *g*
And then, Peter Petrelli. It pains me to admit it, because I love Peter, but the man's romantic life is something of a mess. Two canonical girlfriends, both sucked up by the weirdness cyclone, and he never, ever seems to mind. He barely grieved for Simone, and while getting Caitlin back does seem to drive him in S2, he doesn't actually succeed at it, and in the wake of what happened with Nathan, I'll bet you $10 that he forgets all about her. (Admittedly, this could be because, to date, NEITHER of Peter's canonical girlfriends were good for ratings. People hated them, especially Simone. Caitlin has her small, vocal fanbase, but frankly...none of the fen will be truly happy until Peter makes out with either his brother or his niece, depending on whether you run with the slashcest or hetcest crowd.) Either way! Still not a good boyfriend.
...it occurs to me I could've posted this on my LJ, instead of spamming you with the comment.
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Date: 2008-03-02 02:06 pm (UTC)