Stranger than Fiction

It seems there was a big meta comment-a-thon going on last weekend. I guess now is as good a time as any to post this essay of Six Feet Under meta that has been chewing at my brain for the last month or so. This meta is focused on a single scene in 'Ecotone' (5x9) and if you've watched the show then you already know what that scene is. Please please do not read this meta if you are intending to watch SFU and wish to remain unspoiled.


( "We are so fucking lost..." Nathaniel Sr (5.9) )

* Don't ask me why Livejournal has decided some parts of my text should be big while other parts should be small. It's been randomly doing this on all my entries lately and since the new updated LJ doesn't let you choose your text size there's not much I can do to fix it.  

I've been noticing a pattern in my fandoms. I often have a favourite guilty pleasure character. You know, the sort of character that you shouldn't like, but absolutely do. For me it's usually a character who is established as the most annoying, amoral or despicable character on the show, yet I find them irresistable and brilliant. This is the part of me that loves Gaius Baltar (BSG), Pete Campbell (Mad Men) and Sue Sylvester (Glee). Maybe it's because these characters are so self-possessed in their awfulness that they impress me? Maybe it's because you can only enjoy these characters in fiction because they wouldn't be tollerable in real life? As most of you know I've a new pleasure, Nathan Young (Misfits). Since this show & character has eaten my brain, I may as well celebrate it with a big picture & meta Nathan-spam in tribute to his appalling wonderfulness.     

For non-Misfits fans on my flist...do you have a favourite guilty pleasure character?


( My Top 10 Favourite Nathan Moments (with Meta) )