To begin: I am in the twenty-something age bracket myself, but I find nothing fulfilling, interesting, or even sympathetic in QL. This is likely related to the way that the content of the internet is often shaped by its users. We fill it with information, then choose what information to consume. I suppose there may have been a dearth of weepy, post-undergrad melodramas on the internet (if that's the sort of thing you like to "cuddle up to") before QL, and perhaps that is why Herskovitz found the internet cold. He has filled that void, rightfully or no.

The characters do strike me as sandwich bags of tears garnished with leafy cliches, but then I do not like them personally, nor would I like to be like them. (For the record, if we are keeping one, I also graduated from a liberal arts school, and I am also a pasty anglo; though I do have friends that are (*ironic gasp*) not white.) Twenty-somethings can have inner lives that are interesting to me, and writers have depicted them before with sometimes stunning brilliance. Just never on television. And I don't expect any improvement on web-television, either. When television can tell a story of fledgling adulthood with the emotional heft of Thomas Hardy, then perhaps it will zing the zither of my heart, until then I will just turn to media other than the internet and television for emotional resonance.