Fictional Crushes

[AerostarMonk]

Now, you may be thinking that one crush thread is enough. I believe this to be untrue. There are more than a few mediums that just don't fit neatly into the realm of cartoons if at all. Should we leave the worlds of literature, cinema and television out in the cold due to a technicality? This person thinks not.

So I've started another thread so people can list the crushes they have for character in just about any fictional medium not covered by the Cartoon Crushes thread. This includes, literature and comics, which I think fold neatly into one another, cinema and television, and yes, even music and media not listed.

To start things off I would like to submit Jaye Tyler as one of my fictional crushes. For those who may not have heard of her, she was the protagonist in the underrated and short-lived Fox show, Wonderfalls. Unlike many leads in network television shows, Jaye never tried to ingratiate herself with anyone. In fact to many she was downright unlikeable. She was the poster child for what was wrong with Generation Y. An overeducated, underpaid, underachiever who seemed to go out of her way to be rude and keep people at arm's length. But that was just on the surface. Thanks to circumstances set forth in the pilot episode, one could see that Jaye wasn't as bad a person as she made herself out to be. She did in fact have a conscience and not as cynical as she led people to believe.

I think the reason why I like Jaye so much is that she actually seems like a person who'd be in the situations the show puts her in. None of it rings false. From the way she looks to her own expectations. In a world where attractive yet intolerable shrews are being cast into the light as misunderstood plain jane underdogs, Jaye Tyler was a breath of fresh air.

Well, I've got the ball rolling. What say you fellow boarders?