Yeah, I have the same issue with books too. A lot of the same plots and characters get used so it's harder and harder to find new interesting ideas.

Anyway, there are Eric and Methos getting along wonderfully. Prof X and Duncan both brooding about their lost friends and each of them thinking well maybe they would like each other but only having stilted conversations about good and virtue and feeling a bit annoyed that they don't actually click with the person that really they *should* be best friends with. We, the readers, of course know that they need to be aggravated and challenged rather than agreed with.

And Duncan really wants to *kill* Magneto.

Prof X: "Do you want to kill him because he's evil or because your friend is friends with him?"

Duncan, dryly, "the two generally go together."

Prof X, just as dryly, "That may be, but I get the sense your motivation is more one than the other."

Duncan flushes.