I was pretty sure I was guessing in the wrong 'verse in MRN, but constructing Fred Rogers as charater is... not problematic so much as just difficult? I mean, I lovedlovedloved Mister Rogers, quite a lot, but thought-think of him as real. Which... performance, life is performance, life as text, et al, but he's not quite a *character* the way even the other people inhabiting his life -- like Mr. McFeely -- are.

re: Mac. World of yes. I always construct her as a geek in my head and then watch the actual show and am all, "Oh, wait, she's not." And I don't think it's a failure on the part of the writers -- at least, not a failure to execute their intented character concept -- it's just that... they aren't geeks, they don't like geeks, and they don't symapthize with geeks. (Or, at the very least, the hero they've written doesn't.) Which. Sigh. Jossssss!