I hate meeting characters. I hate the intial meeting of characters. Just that cold turkey, "Oh hello. I'm blah." And it so boring, because I've done it to death, and its always akward, as you the player may not have a repour with the other player and your character and theirs dont have a repour with each other either. With mu*ing, being improv, you need to know how to give and take between each other.
The better part, is in the middle, where you know the character and player. Where rp'ing actually fun. And thats what I think folks are trying to skip to. The comfortable middle.