We make a lot of lists around here. Well … I make a lot of lists around here, anyway. Usually the lists involve dudes (or dudettes) we have a hankering for, be they real people or cartoon characters (ahem). Today I’m going to share with you the top 5 characters whose lives I wouldn’t mind trading in my own for. At least for the duration of a chapter or episode or the length of a movie from your garden variety insta-play service.
Er. Did that sound like I was talking about porn?
5. Helen, Sliding Doors. In case you haven’t seen this movie (WHY HAVEN’T YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?) Gwyneth Paltrow (whatever, I LOVE her) plays a woman who misses the train home one morning. The rest of the movie follows her life split in two directions: making the train vs. missing the train. Getting a chance to see what would have happened if I’d taken the other fork in the road satisfies that part of me that just NEEDS to know things, even when I wouldn’t change a pixel of my current situation.
4. Echo, Dollhouse. Not CAROLINE, though. She was sort of useless. Echo has a bazillion personalities up in her head allowing her to kick virtually anyone’s ass. This totally has nothing to do with Ballard. I mean, yeah, I guess her life was pretty HARD or whatever, and she had to sleep with a ton of gross dudes while her body was used by a gigantic corporation for good or evil or whatever it ended up being. And the world nearly ended in a zombie-like apocalypse. Fine. This one is stupid. (But Ballard.)
3. Aquaman, Whatever Aquaman is in. I don’t actually read comics. Mostly I have a fear of drowning. I figure if I were Aquaman, I probably wouldn’t have to worry about that so much. And I’d sort of like to know what sea cucumbers think about.
2. Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She goes on adventures. In WONDERLAND. Sure, the Red Queen wants to kill her and there’s that whole Jabberwocky thing and mostly the whole situation sort of sucks, but I wouldn’t mind me a little time in Wonderland.
1. Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls. Do I even need to explain this one? While I think we can all agree that ending up pregnant as a teenager isn’t really the IDEAL start to one’s adult life, there is no arguing that Lorelai made some sweet, sweet lemonade from her situation. She lives in the most ADORABLE town ever portrayed on a TV show, eats seemingly whatever she wants while still looking gorgeous, and has a parade of sexy suitors. She ultimately ends up with Luke. LUKE. I wouldn’t mind me a Luke is all I’m saying. Bitterness! Sarcasm! That’s hot, ladies. On top of all that, she’s raised herself a fantastic daughter who is also her very best friend. (This is where I admit I watched this entire series on DVD in the early weeks home from the hospital with my first baby girl. I MIGHT BE A TAD EMOTIONALLY INVESTED. I’m not a ROBOT.)
So what character’s life would you most like to lead?
I completely relate to Lorelai, but I would need to be a bit more emotionally stable than her…she gets whacked out too easily – and I’m already that way.
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I love that you picked Lorelai. Her and Rory were so cute together.
And I have never seen Dollhouse but just the fact that Eliza Dushku plays her makes her all bad ass.
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE Lorelai Gilmore. The show came out when I was pregnant with my first who is now 10 and basically quotes it daily. Or she’ll do a, Remember the time when Lorelai & Emily?, like we’re old friend.
She named our 2nd daughter, ahem, Rory.
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I have to admit to having never seen Sliding Doors….eek!! Is it worth watching???
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I liked Sliding Doors – it was an interesting movie. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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