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I may be slightly flattened by how much I've come to care for the characters in My Life as a Dog. I say this because, um, I am not really much in the habit of watching telly specifically for kids these days (...if we ignore the Magic School Bus episodes I have somewhere) and so I expect to be charmed, not invested. The Sarah Jane Adventures, for instance, charm me like mad, and I may have a bit of a crush on Sarah Jane, but again I am charmed rather than invested. With My Life as a Dog I am actually spending entire episodes clutching at my face going "Johnny Johnny Johnny" in ... remarkably the same way I do with Billy and Ray, actually, so it's not that shocking. But I also care more than I expected about Zoe, and would probably be clutching my face going "Zoe!" too, except that she is sane (mostly) and wants practical things like good windows and not a caboose in the back yard, and Johnny is the one out playing hockey into the wee hours, so Johnny is the one I yell at through the screen.
My actual point, though, is [a] I love Johnny but mostly [b] little Eric has a moral compass pointing due north, and he tries very hard to solve everyone else's problems, and he has a weird encyclopedic knowledge of useful things and a twelfth-grade reading level despite very little formal training, and he always believes the best of people, and he's dealing with a dead mother and endless daddy issues, so basically Eric is Benton Fraser at the age of twelve. Except instead of being raised by traveling librarians he's being raised by Johnny Johansson. Considering how damn funny I find this, I should probably get some new hobbies.
Instead I am off to my summer retail job, but it's possible new hobbies might happen eventually.
My actual point, though, is [a] I love Johnny but mostly [b] little Eric has a moral compass pointing due north, and he tries very hard to solve everyone else's problems, and he has a weird encyclopedic knowledge of useful things and a twelfth-grade reading level despite very little formal training, and he always believes the best of people, and he's dealing with a dead mother and endless daddy issues, so basically Eric is Benton Fraser at the age of twelve. Except instead of being raised by traveling librarians he's being raised by Johnny Johansson. Considering how damn funny I find this, I should probably get some new hobbies.
Instead I am off to my summer retail job, but it's possible new hobbies might happen eventually.
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And then Johnny would squint at him and grin, and say, "Well, for that matter, you're an awful lot like my nephew. It's kinda spooky. Come on, you should meet him." And that would be that.
I mean, you can't get nekkid with someone who reminds you overwhelmingly of your nephew, right? ;-)
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Actually now what I think I want are the adorable gen adventures of Fraser and Eric. How cute would that be? They could go birdwatching and Do The Right Thing together.
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On the trail of a sub-standard hockey-gear smuggler?
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Honestly I'm just tempted to say that Uncle Tiberius' side of the family lives in Gimli. XD
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There's always "For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture..."
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But I have not used "For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture" as an opening yet, so I might go that route just to get it out of the way. :D
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*bounces anticipatorially*
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I am however FULL OF YAY to hear that it is amnesty next. I think this means I'm going to shuffle through all the old challenges this weekend and make a list. /o\
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