Character Musings: Will Zimmerman

Let me begin by saying that I have been trying to write this meta for more than a month now. I start it, I leave it open on my desktop for a few days, Safari crashes, and I lose it. So I'm trying again.

It's not that I don't like Will. He's fine. He's good at his job and he's nice to people and he's genuine. It's just that for whatever reason, I don't care about him (when he's on his own).

But there is one thing about Will that I do find very interesting, and that's why Helen hired him in the first place. I would love to know the professions of Helen's other seconds over the years, because I imagine they've been varied. Helen is exactly practical enough to hire not only the person she feels is the most competent, but also the person she deems most useful to her personally. And the fact that she hired Will is kind of intriguing.

( Why We Got Will Zimmerman )

What it comes down to is that Will fills a place on the show, and he fills it absolutely perfectly. He fills it so perfectly, in fact, that it might actually be to the detriment of his own development. Which is kind of a good sacrifice to make. Do I think he's actually capable of running a Sanctuary? Hell no. But it's only been three years. Declan, our other model, has had at least a decade of practice (with James, no less, who must have been a real pain to work for sometimes). I just think Will needs more time to grow up.

And I think that's it. Because if I keep going, I'll make jokes about how even the Bad Guys don't take Will seriously, and get angry about that "brilliant" piece of archaeological "reasoning" again, and I should just quit while I'm ahead.

Character Musings: Will Zimmerman

Let me begin by saying that I have been trying to write this meta for more than a month now. I start it, I leave it open on my desktop for a few days, Safari crashes, and I lose it. So I'm trying again.

It's not that I don't like Will. He's fine. He's good at his job and he's nice to people and he's genuine. It's just that for whatever reason, I don't care about him (when he's on his own).

But there is one thing about Will that I do find very interesting, and that's why Helen hired him in the first place. I would love to know the professions of Helen's other seconds over the years, because I imagine they've been varied. Helen is exactly practical enough to hire not only the person she feels is the most competent, but also the person she deems most useful to her personally. And the fact that she hired Will is kind of intriguing.

( Why We Got Will Zimmerman )

What it comes down to is that Will fills a place on the show, and he fills it absolutely perfectly. He fills it so perfectly, in fact, that it might actually be to the detriment of his own development. Which is kind of a good sacrifice to make. Do I think he's actually capable of running a Sanctuary? Hell no. But it's only been three years. Declan, our other model, has had at least a decade of practice (with James, no less, who must have been a real pain to work for sometimes). I just think Will needs more time to grow up.

And I think that's it. Because if I keep going, I'll make jokes about how even the Bad Guys don't take Will seriously, and get angry about that "brilliant" piece of archaeological "reasoning" again, and I should just quit while I'm ahead.