♥ Hathaway is adorable and would absolutely hate to be called adorable. I also think he's a very good example of a cop character who hates being a cop, and is often the smartest and/or most educated person in the room but generally only uses it to punch upward, i.e. against people in positions of power who deserve it. It's not something we see often, because TV is full of clever cop characters who romanticize their jobs and treat almost everybody with contempt. It delights me to no end every time some snobby Oxford academic underestimates him because he's a police officer.

Plus there's all the tragic backstory. I suspect fanfic gives the impression the show provides a lot more detail than it actually does. :) If you're only on 2x05, you have ALL the tragic backstory to come. I think? I don't understand how this show's episodes are numbered.

You can also look forward to the episode in which Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane is a writer of derivative epic fantasy novels, which isn't special in any other way, but it does make me laugh.