I am crazily, scarily attached to Megan. Intellectually, I know she's kind of annoying, and the show is poorly-written, but dammit, I LOVE HER. I rewatched the pilot the other day (because it's...on Netflix?), and I was very pissed off at Todd for making her cry. DON'T MAKE MEGAN CRY, YOU BASTARD.
Um. I think I like her for the narcissistic reason that I totally identify with her. Like, every episode, she does something new that's totally something I do too. Not knowing a co-worker was even married, totally over-preparing/control-freaking for Lacey's day at work, getting so invested in a plan of action that she tells her bosses what to do...yeah. Anyway, I think she's pretty amazing. I was impressed by her revelation in the most recent episode about settling out of court and then closing up her practice immediately after she killed her patient.
Ships: Hahahahaha, yeah. I ship her Megan/Peter more with every episode. It was like they MADE A CHECKLIST of things I like in a ship and put them all together: banter, snarky insults, one character who's way more in tune with emotions than the other, him teaching her social skills, neither of them taking any crap from each other... Okay, Peter's still sort of a cipher at the moment, I have faith they'll do an episode on him soon.
I can also see her with Kate. Not nearly as much as with Peter, but I'm not going to turn down well-written Megan/Kate fic or awesome subtext in the canon.
Gen: Well, of course she and Peter are BFFs, and her and Kate definitely could be friends at some point. I also think Ethan's attachment to/terror of her is cute. And she and Sam seem to work well together, plus there's something interesting going on with Bud. The only person I don't like her with is Curtis, which...well, you know my issues there.
Unpopular opinion: I think maybe liking her at all might be unpopular in certain circles, but here's another: Dear god, I wish the show would let her and Kate give the spiky heels a rest. That can't be comfortable for the actresses, and it's totally unbelievable for a character who spends all day on her feet. (I guess she's in clogs for the actual autopsies, but still.) And she always looks like she's about to fall over when she's on anything resembling unstable ground. Watching her teeter toward the dumpster in "Talking Heads" was just painful.
Canon that needs to happen: In my headcanon, Megan's grandfather taught her how to recognize all the native flora and fauna when she was a kid, thus kickstarting her interest in science. At some point, she and Peter should wind up at a park, maybe on a date she doesn't realize is a date (and he's content to let her think that for a while), and she can spend the whole time pointing out trees and bugs and whatnot, much to his astonishment, because he'd sort of figured from her always-perfect wardrobe that she never went outside at all. I also want to see her get really competitive at something silly, like an ME vs. police softball game or tossing rings on milk bottles at the state fair. (Um. Not sure why she'd be at the state fair. Maybe she lost a bet.)
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Date: 2011-04-23 05:13 am (UTC)I am crazily, scarily attached to Megan. Intellectually, I know she's kind of annoying, and the show is poorly-written, but dammit, I LOVE HER. I rewatched the pilot the other day (because it's...on Netflix?), and I was very pissed off at Todd for making her cry. DON'T MAKE MEGAN CRY, YOU BASTARD.
Um. I think I like her for the narcissistic reason that I totally identify with her. Like, every episode, she does something new that's totally something I do too. Not knowing a co-worker was even married, totally over-preparing/control-freaking for Lacey's day at work, getting so invested in a plan of action that she tells her bosses what to do...yeah. Anyway, I think she's pretty amazing. I was impressed by her revelation in the most recent episode about settling out of court and then closing up her practice immediately after she killed her patient.
Ships: Hahahahaha, yeah. I ship her Megan/Peter more with every episode. It was like they MADE A CHECKLIST of things I like in a ship and put them all together: banter, snarky insults, one character who's way more in tune with emotions than the other, him teaching her social skills, neither of them taking any crap from each other... Okay, Peter's still sort of a cipher at the moment, I have faith they'll do an episode on him soon.
I can also see her with Kate. Not nearly as much as with Peter, but I'm not going to turn down well-written Megan/Kate fic or awesome subtext in the canon.
Gen: Well, of course she and Peter are BFFs, and her and Kate definitely could be friends at some point. I also think Ethan's attachment to/terror of her is cute. And she and Sam seem to work well together, plus there's something interesting going on with Bud. The only person I don't like her with is Curtis, which...well, you know my issues there.
Unpopular opinion: I think maybe liking her at all might be unpopular in certain circles, but here's another: Dear god, I wish the show would let her and Kate give the spiky heels a rest. That can't be comfortable for the actresses, and it's totally unbelievable for a character who spends all day on her feet. (I guess she's in clogs for the actual autopsies, but still.) And she always looks like she's about to fall over when she's on anything resembling unstable ground. Watching her teeter toward the dumpster in "Talking Heads" was just painful.
Canon that needs to happen: In my headcanon, Megan's grandfather taught her how to recognize all the native flora and fauna when she was a kid, thus kickstarting her interest in science. At some point, she and Peter should wind up at a park, maybe on a date she doesn't realize is a date (and he's content to let her think that for a while), and she can spend the whole time pointing out trees and bugs and whatnot, much to his astonishment, because he'd sort of figured from her always-perfect wardrobe that she never went outside at all. I also want to see her get really competitive at something silly, like an ME vs. police softball game or tossing rings on milk bottles at the state fair. (Um. Not sure why she'd be at the state fair. Maybe she lost a bet.)