Friday, April 19, 2013

Sidekick Saturday [13] Hot and Cold!!!


Sidekick Saturday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jaclyn at JC's Book Haven. There are many secondary characters that are as great as the primaries. In some cases, the sidekicks actually steal the show and you like them better than the heroine or hero. Maybe they didn't have enough page time for how great they were. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Choose a sidekick *or someone other than the hero or heroine* that you would like to put in the spotlight that fits in this week's type
• Share a picture and information about the character
• Give the title and author of a book the character can be found in
• Please don't include too many spoilers when describing why the character is such a great sidekick
• Put your link in the Linky thing and comment

Katee Sackhoff
(By MR O [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)

Deputy Victoria Moretti (Vic) is hot and cold at the same time. You first meet her in Craig Johnson's The Cold Dish. Sheriff Walt Longmire is one of my favorite male characters of all time. His self-effacing humor, keen awareness of women, and liberal cowboy personality make him irresistible. His deputy on the other hand is beautiful, rude, arrogant, flirtatious, half in love with Walt, half ready to bolt. I love that she's too good for the tiny Sheriff's department. She should be working a detective post in some big city. I love that she tells people this. I love that Walt treats her the same way he treats everyone even though he notices her looks and her flirting. She's portrayed differently in the book than the A&E TV series, but I love Katee Sakhoff.

I asked my mom and sister over lunch their picks. My sister has been on a Rachel Caine Morganville kick and she chose Amelie, the queen bee. If you ever watched the show Medium, the oldest daughter would play the regal vampire who goes from viewing humans as chattel to part of the community back to chattel. My mom chose a Millay, a character introduced in A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams. I just started the mystery series, and I already sense a push and pull from her.

8 comments:

  1. She sounds great! When you said that you love that she's too good for the tiny Sheriff's Department, you made me think of Jules from Psych. I am grrring with you on that show right now. But back to this one - I haven't read this or watched the show, but she sounds like a lot of fun. Skittish and flirtatious at the same time would be an interesting read. Great choice! Jaclyn @ JC's Book Haven.

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    1. Yes, we share grrs! They'll make it right. Jules is a lot more refined than Vic and handles problems in a less violent way. But I love girl power. The show returns Memorial Day. They'll probably have a marathon of season one. So busy lady between work, blogging, reading, being a super mom, squeeze an entire season in. hehe. Happy Weekend!

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    2. I have not read or seen the show either but I like the sound of it, This was a great topic, I love these types of relationships. I will have to look it up.

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    3. Me too! You never know if they're going to get together or not. If you ever watched In Plain Sight it was the best example of a man/woman cop team that never got together but kept a certain level of tension alive. I'm not sure if they'll have Walt and Vic get together on the show. Hmm.

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  2. I haven't read or seen either. I think it's great that he still treats her like all the others, usually they always treat women different, especially when they're supposed to be beautiful.

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    1. In the books Walt is older than in the show, but in both he treats women no different, but in his head he always notices their beauty in a way that is both sweet and private at the same time. His best friend is a total player and flirts like crazy. I love them both! It drives Vic a little crazy that Walt keeps his cool.

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    2. Because as I was reading that on the post, I thought about Legally Blonde and how it looks like Callahan treated women the same, but then you see him really treat Elle and Vivian very different, I didn't like that at all!

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    3. Ugh Callahan! I did not see that coming. I thought he was just a favorites playing jerk. But he was worse!

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