Damn it, I hit enter before I was done. In re Lionel- I like him in the sense that I like to watch and see what he will do, and I like writing him, because he's totally fucked up, but as a person, I think he's horrible. He's a horrible, abusive father, but they've but enough random humanness (not kindness or anything, just humanness) to him that he's not a cardboard villain, which I find fun to work with.