Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

These first three are based off a Doctor Who Magazine Comic by Bill Willsher that mrv3000 posted to doctor_rose_fix today.  I couldn't resist iconing them.

     

This is from an original painting of Christopher Eccleston by d_eli_rium so be sure to credit them, too, if you use it.



( TVD, Castle, BtVS )

Day 09:  The most believable relationship--Castle and Alexis--Castle.

I know this is mostly a romantic type meme, but in the case of the most believable and loving relationship, I have to break the romance barrier and go with the most wonderful father/daughter relationship I've ever seen portrayed on TV.  And the one truest to my experience as a parent, and that is of course the relationship between Richard Castle and his daughter Alexis Castle.  I've never seen such a positive parent/child relationship on a show before.  These two play together, and laugh together, and sometimes fight but when they do they are genuinely upset about the fact that they are not getting along and do whatever they can to mend those fences as quickly as possible.  They tell silly jokes and make bad puns and have intelligent conversations.  They don't talk down to each other.  They respect each other.  Castle is portrayed as a competent father, one who always has his daughter's best interests at heart.  Alexis is an intelligent girl who stays out of trouble without being too good to be true.  Alexis can be wise beyond her years and at the same time be completely young and vulnerable (like a real teenager).  She needs her dad and he needs her and neither of them try to deny that.  They are clearly the most important thing in each other's worlds.