Which character from Primetime Dramas would you...?

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Shakespeare was fun, so let’s give drama (aka “weekly soaps”) a whirl.

First let’s rule out what isn’t Primetime Drama - no SciFi shows, no War shows, no Comedies, no Reality shows, no Daily soaps, no Career-based shows (doctors, lawyers, cops oh my). at least not in this thread, anyway…

Examples, but not limited to:
some valid choices - Desperate Housewives, Everwood, 90210, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, and Melrose Place.
some invalid choices - Lost, All My Children, Buffy, ER, Arrested Development, CSI, Without A Trace, and the X-Files.

You can answer every question with characters from different shows, or use characters from the same show for every answer. Mix or match as you see fit.
Supposing they were real people, which character from your choice of Primetime Drama would you:

A. Marry?

B. Have a brief, but exciting fling with, perhaps resulting in a love child you try to pass off as your spouse’s kid or whose existence you hide from your spouse, before breaking up and never speaking to them again?

C. Want as a family member? (specify your relationship to them. Parent, sibling, your child etc)

D. Want as a college roommate?

E. Really have hated in high school?

F. Set up in a diabolical plan to frame for your crime?

G. Be the most disappointed to learn was your secret half-sibling?

H. Feel really bad for when they contract a fatal disease/are mortally injured in an accident?

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Well, i’m sure you had your reasons for offering such a stunted list of possible shows, but methinks it might restrict the number of responses you get. I came in ready to play, but i don’t watch a single one of your “valid choices.”

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Me too.

4

Hate to say it but, me three.

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four.

6

Me five.

Okay, I watch Desperate Housewives, but consider it less of a “prime time drama” than some of the supposedly “invalid” choices, like Gray’s Anatomy or Without A Trace.

Seriously, what the hell?

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Basically, the OP wants primetime soap watchers to respond.

Given that most women in primetime soaps strike me (from the ads) as venomous ball-breaking man-haters or self-sacrificial weak-kneed sob-sisters, there’s only one adequate answer to that question.

Heather Locklear.

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Melrose Place is off the air for 6 years and it’s still valid, while ER, for example, isn’t?

Me six, in that case.

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Me seven.

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Gilmore Girls is great – everyone should start watching it.

But I agree that it’s an improperly restricted list. Why limit “occupation” shows at all? That’s mostly the only drama that’s on these days.

–Cliffy

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I don’t watch any, either; I stopped watching Gilmore Girls when it stopped being funny, which is, you know, funny, on account of it’s a comedy…

I find your criteria confusing and vague; please unsubscribe me from your newsletter.

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I’m going to answer the questions but ignore the list of acceptable shows.
A. Marry?

Sayid, baby. (Lost)

B. Have a brief, but exciting fling with, perhaps resulting in a love child you try to pass off as your spouse’s kid or whose existence you hide from your spouse, before breaking up and never speaking to them again?

Anne Caffrey. (Threshold) (Okay, so it can’t end in a love child. Still.)

C. Want as a family member? (specify your relationship to them. Parent, sibling, your child etc)

Veronica Mars, child.

D. Want as a college roommate?

Hurley! (Lost)
E. Really have hated in high school?

Chloe (24)
F. Set up in a diabolical plan to frame for your crime?

Lynette (Desperate Housewives)
G. Be the most disappointed to learn was your secret half-sibling?

Sayid. (Lost)

H. Feel really bad for when they contract a fatal disease/are mortally injured in an accident?

Scotty. (Cold Case)

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Fine, I’ll stick to the OP’s choices, using “Gilmore Girls” as the one show on that list I watch.

Supposing they were real people, which character from your choice of Primetime Drama would you:

A. Marry?
Lorelei or Sookie

B. Have a brief, but exciting fling with,…?
Paris … or Michel (well, nix on the lovechild bit then)

C. Want as a family member? (specify your relationship to them. Parent, sibling, your child etc)
Luke , as Big Brother

D. Want as a college roommate?
Lane

E. Really have hated in high school?
Paris

F. Set up in a diabolical plan to frame for your crime?
Kirk

G. Be the most disappointed to learn was your secret half-sibling?
Kirk

H. Feel really bad for when they contract a fatal disease/are mortally injured in an accident?
Sookie

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I’m going to ignore the restrictions also:

A. Marry?

Nick - CSI: Vegas

B. Have a brief, but exciting fling with…

Sawyer - Lost

C. Want as a family member?

Danny - Without A Trace. I think he would make a wonderful nephew. He actually looks alot like my nephew, but Danny would visit and call more, and not be an asshole.

D. Want as a college roommate?

Susan - Desperate Housewives

E. Really have hated in high school?

Bree - Desperate Housewives

F. Set up in a diabolical plan to frame for your crime?

Bree - Desperate Housewives
G. Be the most disappointed to learn was your secret half-sibling?

Sawyer - Lost

H. Feel really bad for when they contract a fatal disease/are mortally injured in an accident?
Lynette - Desperate Housewives

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A. Marry?
Willow Rosenberg (at least from seasons 1-5) or Jenny Calendar from Buffy, Pam Beasley from The Office.

B. Have a brief, but exciting fling with, perhaps resulting in a love child you try to pass off as your spouse’s kid or whose existence you hide from your spouse, before breaking up and never speaking to them again?
Chloe O’Brien from 24, Eliot Reid from Scrubs.

C. Want as a family member? (specify your relationship to them. Parent, sibling, your child etc)
Rupert Giles from Buffy as a father or uncle.

D. Want as a college roommate?
J.D. and Turk from Scrubs, Oz from Buffy.

E. Really have hated in high school?
Cordelia Chase from Buffy. Actually, probably Buffy Summers herself, as well.

F. Set up in a diabolical plan to frame for your crime?
George Sr. and Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development.

G. Be the most disappointed to learn was your secret half-sibling?
GOB or Buster Bluth from Arrested Development.

H. Feel really bad for when they contract a fatal disease/are mortally injured in an accident?
Most of them.

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Did you notice that it said “Examples, but not limited to”? I didn’t think I needed to list more to give people the idea, but…

Other examples since people don’t seem to be coming up with them on their own:

One Tree Hill
Party of Five
Jack & Bobby
Dawson’s Creek
Felicity
Dallas
Dynasty
Popular
Seventh Heaven
Reunion
Soul Food
American Dreams
Providence
Summerland
Now and Again
Picket Fences
Kevin Hill
North Shore
The Days
The L Word
Pasadena
The Wonder Years
My So Called Life
Sisters
Life Goes On
thirtysomething
The Waltons
Ballykissangel
Life as We Know It
Freaks and Geeks
Queer as Folk
Any Day Now
etc etc etc

Feel free to start a thread about a different genre of TV show sooner rather than later, too. (but edit the questions to fit the genre if you reuse any)