Miscvoyeur, I think I am in the middle on Christy. I agree with all of what you say about her. She has left a graveyard of bodies behind her. She has been a killjoy at Voro or Tver for a long time. And if she doesn't get her way she takes her ball and goes home. Yet with all that said she still fascinates us. I am trying to put my finger on it. I think maybe it is because she wears her emotions on her sleeve, is a raw emotional person. Maybe we all want to be a little like that but we are constrained by, oh I don't know, social constraints! We wish we could express ourselves more openly, really feel life affect us, instead of being restricted in our lives in what we can show or enjoy in life. So when she cries,we feel for her, we cry inside a little. When she is excited and happy, we are feeling really good! This is how I think of her. After all, this is all a fantasy and a big drama, and she is the drama queen. If you watch a play and you meet and feel like the drama queen or king I guess, when she is disconsolate we feel disconsolate! One other thing I think and this is important. A lot of us are older males, and at least for myself, I am very protective towards young females (like my daughter) and when they are obviously suffering I want to go hug them, tell them it will be alright. She may be a prima donna, but she is our prima donna!