Dinhternet

So I’m not sure where it falls into the Gen­eral Creepi­ness Rule if you are attracted to a fic­tional char­ac­ter who falls (just barely) out­side of the non-creepy range (and has since moved into the range) while the actress that plays her is within the range (and is actu­ally older than me).

I ask because some online rec­om­men­da­tions led me to check out Veron­ica Mars, who is quite cool. The show starts with her at 17 in 2004, which puts her half a year out of my range at the time, but she has since moved into it. Kris­ten Bell (from Maxim), who plays her, is actu­ally two years older than me. I never really liked her char­ac­ter in Heroes, but the show was gen­er­ally crappy by the point they intro­duced her.

Oh, and speak­ing of Veron­ica Mars, what’s up with this trend of shows using the whole “social-economic sta­tus divide as polar­ized through high school” angle? I know this is one of the older ones, but it’s def­i­nitely on an up trend. The show has the twist of a crim­i­nal pro­ce­dural to keep the story inter­est­ing, but it still plays into the “lower-class pro­tag­o­nist bust­ing into the upper class world” stereo­type. Why aren’t there any sto­ries about an upper-class pro­tag­o­nist? My guess — Sid­dhartha lacks suf­fi­cient drama for TV. Per­haps too much inner mono­logue which turns into cheesy voice-over self-narration?