I like Gale, I get along with the guy, I identify with him to some extent.
I, too, can't help but catch a whiff of resemblance between myself and Gale. A wizarding prodigy who found the greatest love of all in the form of a goddess. He's young and handsome, but possessed with the soul of a politician that causes him to blow it at the most crucial of times.
It's like I'm looking in the mirror.