I really am curious about the first two questions

[aria]

Today it is Unimportant Question Time! Okay, these questions are important to me, because I am curious, but they are not even for very scientific statistical purposes. (Look, I have to do something with my day off.)

Poll #759

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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Joe Dick

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manipulative jerk
18 (94.7%)

woobie
10 (52.6%)

Billy Tallent

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manipulative jerk
14 (77.8%)

woobie
12 (66.7%)

CHOOSE

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Ray Kowalski
18 (81.8%)

Billy Tallent
1 (4.5%)

some other CKR character whose virtues I will extol in comments
3 (13.6%)

CHOOSE

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Hugh Dillon
5 (22.7%)

Paul Gross
9 (40.9%)

...you're mean
8 (36.4%)

CHOOSE

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Benton Fraser
11 (50.0%)

Geoffrey Tennant
6 (27.3%)

you're still mean
5 (22.7%)

Comments

[aria]

Heh. I probably should've had a "...there are actual English words to describe what Billy Tallent is?" option. XD

[china_shop]

Hee! Yes. Also, "manipulative jerk" is a truth about Joe, but not necessarily a condemnation. Or something. He's more than that -- charisma and heart and caring waaaaay too much and need. And a bunch of other stuff.

Billy is a different kind of passion, and also somehow reasonable, and I think it's the reasonableness that breaks everything that Joe has set up. Billy doesn't want a life as defined by Joe; he wants the other kind that real people have.

[meresy]

IAWTC

[sionnain]

This!