A small fandom break

I don't watch TV unless I'm with Jeff.  That's it, really--he watches TV and I generally don't.  I will, however, watch whole seasons of TV shows on DVD, because I like continuity and I hate commercials.  So there are some TV shows that I've watched several seasons of and grown to love.

Tonight, I was cleaning one of the booths and I noticed the last guests had been watching Leverage, a show starring Timothy Hutton.  I've been meaning to get to this one, because I've heard it's really good.  One of the characters popped up on the screen in the intro.  They called him the "Hitter."  The show is about a guy (Hutton) who gets together a bunch of very talented criminals and has them help him take revenge on people who do bad things.  The Hitter, as far as I can tell, is the muscle guy.

He looked really familiar to me.  In fact, I kept thinking, oddly, "I know you.  I know you and I love you.  Who are you?"  It was a really strange feeling.  How do you know you love someone you don't recognize?  And yet, I looked at that screen and that character and felt that upwelling, that confusing affection, and wondered if I was confusing this actor with another actor somehow.  (I do that a lot.  Remind me to tell you some of my strange confusions sometime.)

So familiar.  So dear.

And then it hit me.  I pushed back from the table I was cleaning, sat up straight and yelped, "LINDSAY!  Omigod, LINDSAY!"

Lindsay, from Angel!  I do love him.  I do, very much.  I wanted to reach into the screen and scoop him up and say, "Darling!  Where have you been!  I'm so happy for you, in such a good show!  Oh, Lindsay!"  And pet him and hug him, smooth his long, unkempt hair. 

Christian Kane is his name.  I just looked him up on IMdb.  I'm just happy for him that he's found something good.  He played such a fascinating character on Angel, with so many lovely facets.... Yes, he's one of my intellectual crushes, in a way. 

This happens to me all the time.  Some of my LiveJournal friends no doubt remember the last time, when Darla showed up on one of the Law and Order shows, I think, and then Dexter.  (Julie Benz.)

I know I'm a bit strange.  When I love people, even imaginary people on TV, I really love them.  It makes me happy to see them again and working, doing well.  Maybe it's the theatre background.  I love actors that do good work, and I love wonderful characters and good writing.  Christian Kane is a delight, and so is Julie Benz, and Seth Green....*happy sigh*

After a not so fun week, this was a delightful surprise.