my top 10 TV characters of 2010
"When you were little, couldn't have been more than five, you just started asking questions. How come we didn't have a mom. Why did we always have to move around. Where's Dad. I remember I begged you, 'Quit asking, Sammy. You don't want to know.' I just wanted you to be a kid. Just for a little while longer. Always tried to protect you. Keep you safe. Dad didn't even have to tell me. It's just always my responsibility, you know? It's like I had one job. I had one job, and I screwed it up. I blew it, and for that, I'm sorry. I guess that’s what I do. I let down the people I love. Y’know, I let Dad down, and now I guess I’m just supposed to let you down, too. How can I? How am I supposed to live with that? What am I supposed to do, Sammy? What am I supposed to do?"
number 06; Liz Lemon, 30 Rock
"No, it’s okay. I don’t want to hurt you. But I’ll tell you what I do want. I want someone who will be monogamous and nice to his mother. And I want someone who likes musicals, but knows to just shut his mouth when I’m watching LOST. And I want someone who thinks being really into cars is lame, and strip clubs are gross. I want someone who will actually empty the dishwasher instead of just taking out forks as needed, like I do. I want someone with clean hands and feet and beefy forearms, like a damn Disney prince. And I want him to genuinely like me, even when I’m old. And that’s what I want."
number 05; Olivia Dunham & Alt!Livia, Fringe
"Despite what you think, my universe is not at war with yours. This all began because a man came over here to save a boy and twenty-five years later, I came back to save that same boy. But if you let me die, then we will strike back and we will fight. But if you let me go, both universes can survive. There must be another way. I promise you I will find it."
number 04; Kate Austen, LOST
"I took him off the island. You were gone and we couldn’t find you, so I raised him. And he is the most beautiful, amazing little boy. But I came back here to rescue you so you could be with him, so that you guys could be together again."
number 03; Sam Winchester, Supernatural
"You saved my life over and over. Man, you sacrifice everything for me, don't you think I'd do the same for you? You're my big brother, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you. And I don't care, I'm going to get you out of this. I'm going to save your ass for a change."
number 02; Nathan Young, Misfits
"We're young! We're supposed to drink too much, we're supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other's brains out. We are designed to party! This is it! Yeah, so a few of us will overdose or go mental. But Charles Darwin said, 'You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.' And that's what it's all about, breaking eggs! And by eggs, I mean getting twatted on a cocktail of class A's. If you could just see yourselves - it breaks my heart, you're wearing cardigans! We had it all. We fucked up, bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful! We're screw-ups. I'm a screw-up, and I plan to be a screw-up until my late twenties, maybe even my early thirties. And I will shag my own mother before I let her or anyone else take that away from me!"
number 01; Jack Shephard, LOST
"I just came from a lighthouse where my name was etched in wood on a dial. I turned a mirror that somehow reflected the image of the house I grew up in. Jacob’s lighthouse. He got Hurley to bring me out there because he wanted me to see what was reflected in that mirror. For some reason, he wanted me to know that he had been watching me ever since I was a kid. I have no idea why. But I’m willing to bet you that if Jacob went to that trouble, that he brought me to this island for a reason, and it’s not to blow up sitting here with you right now."