dreamer_easy | At the end of the drive / the lawmen arrive

Now this Gene Hunt thing is not, thank heavens, one of those soul-devouring manic obsessions to which I am prone, the ones where I think I'm in love with God. It's merely lust. Much less exhausting.

I first encountered Mr Glenister in Hornblower, wherein I did note his extraordinary eyes, although I was a little distracted at the time by Mr McGann. As for DCI Hunt, I fell in love with the character the moment I saw that hysterical driving-down-the-alley-backwards scene, but didn't realise this had evolved into a flange until I realised I'd become strangely obsessed with Gene's gloves.

Mr Glenister is certainly handsome enough (and does have those eyes), but he's far from my normal type. What is it about the character that appeals? Presumably it's Gene's combination of hilarously unreconstructed masculinity, contrasting with his intelligence and sharp sense of humour. Definitely the sense of humour. He makes me fall off the sofa laughing.

Hilariously, our rent-DVDs-by-mail thing just coughed up the first episodes of The Sweeney. ETA: Even better, the Commissioner misses the good old days of the 1950s, when policemen were rugged individualists unconstrained by soft new-fangled ideas.