Yeah I have to admit that John Oliver and Assif Mandvi are way more charismatic than the rest. I think they will break out and be awesome on their own soon, like Stephen Colbert did. But I do like the others too. Did you see their election coverage in 2008? some things had me in stitches. And yeah, I saw the Wham-o! toys thingie. It was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S. But did you see Colbert's thing about the Japanese robot that helps you pronounce? "How is that not a sex toy?" :D:D:D
And yes, you guessed it. The Mason storyline, otherwise known as *inserts gagging noise here*. I actually wrote a post where I said "it was either quit or hang myself with one of his scarves" The Brian storyline was actually on of the ones that I enjoyed. Before Reid came Brian had been the most interesting and deep character to ever appear on the show. I plan to write a post about it, cuz a lot of ppl are unfairly comparing Reid to him. But srsly I have no idea where ESS was hiding! He is the most amazing actor ever and has made Reid consistently sparkly despite very little help from the writers at times. And the snark?? He is like a mixture of Mike, Axel, Snape, and Dr House but doesn't come off like he is derivative at all. He is the only actor I have ever seen on this show with the potential to actually do Hollywood, and they only bring him 6 months before they have to shut down!
And yeah, why is there such a difference between American soaps and European ones? Are they under-funded so they have to hire crappy actors? Cuz in AWZ you can count the ppl who can't act on 1 hand (3, can u guess who they are? Hint: They are all blond and ditzy). And the sound! Why do they think it's ok to attack us with those hideous faux-dramatic monotones instead of using songs?
Anyway, this is a Reid/Luke forum on LJ http://community.livejournal.com/lure_atwt/ They have fanfiction +spoilers, discussions and icons. Some of the fics are good but others are un-betaed and out of character, and there is no way to tell which is which without reading them unfortunately