They All Look the Same To Me...

So, it finally happened. A few months after getting to China, Essen and I finally started watching the first season of Veronica Mars on DVD (thanks PG!). It's a great show and I'd recommend anyone that likes good TV to watch it. If you don't like good TV, then you probably wouldn't like it.
After the first three or four episodes, I realized something that gave me pause and was quite troubling. I turned to Essen and said, "I can't tell the different among all the white guys. Do they all look the same to you?" She paused for a second, and then admitted that she couldn't tell who all the male characters were either.
What was worse, we couldn't even agree on _how many_ white male characters were on the show, much less tell them apart. I think I was only able to recognize Logan, the bad boy. It wasn't that I knew his face, he just always had a very distinctive necklace that he wore.
Of course, we did finally figure out who all the white guys were and we were even able to recognize them using their faces in the later episodes! Maybe this is a sign that we'd been in China too long. I think it's more an indication that the pretty boys they use on these types of TV shows are pretty much inter-changeable. If you've seen one pretty boy, you've seen them all.