Fannish Meme
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selenakFrom astrogirl. Ideally this should be a fandom I was or am really into, not one where I barely watched two episodes/read two chapters/walked out mid-film. ;)
Give me a fandom and I'll tell you
Favorite Male Character
Favorite Female Character
Least Favorite Character
Favorite Ship (if any)
Favorite Friendship
Favorite Quote
Worst Character Death (if any)
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment
Saddest Moment
Favorite Location
astrogirl. Ideally this should be a fandom I was or am really into, not one where I barely watched two episodes/read two chapters/walked out mid-film. ;) Give me a fandom and I'll tell you
Favorite Male Character
Favorite Female Character
Least Favorite Character
Favorite Ship (if any)
Favorite Friendship
Favorite Quote
Worst Character Death (if any)
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment
Saddest Moment
Favorite Location
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Date: 2019-05-04 05:17 pm (UTC)Favorite Male Character: Rygel. Definitely in the later seasons, but probably in s1 already.
Favorite Female Character: Chiana.
Least Favorite Character: joining the club: Grayza. If you've known Servalan first, she really comes across as a cheap knock-off. (Not that Staleek was much better.) Though in the miniseries she was alright.
Favorite Ship (if any): I was okay with the canon romances, though s4 really made me dislike John/Aeryn for a while (but then the Peacekeeper Wars thankfully made the relationship likeable for me again); John/Scorpius and Aeryn/Crais are this weird thing for me, relationships where I didn't want sex in canon but in fanfiction, yes. With or without sex, though, they fascinate me.
Favorite Friendship: It's John & Chiana versus John & Rygel, with the later having the slightest edge.
Favorite Quote: Zhaan: "I am unimpressed by your masculine memories" in "Raphsody in Blue" versus Rygel summing up Crichton in the s4 opener ("Earth, Wormhole, Aeryn, Scorpius, Aeryn, Earth, Aeryn", if I recall correctly)
Worst Character Death (if any): Zhaan's death by itself worked for me, but her telling Aeryn before that that Aeryn needed to survive because Crichton loved her...
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: on a silly note, canon mpreg with Rygel carrying the John/Aeryn baby. On a more serious note, the "we were so close" line during the John and Scorpius loooong look in the s3 finale (complete with operating background while the starship is flooded), with its delicious ambiguity of meaning.
Saddest Moment: They realise when returning to the present that the nurses etc. are still dead in the time travel episode (because the FS model of time travel doesn't allow for multiverses), they just avoided the worst case scenario with their attempts to fix their original blunder. On a "sad but also touching" note, Rygel trying to comfort Aeryn post Talyn!Crichton's death; it's one of Rygel's few genuinely selfless moments, and appreciated by Aeryn but she's in too much distress for it to help.
Favorite Location: Moya was one beautiful
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Date: 2019-05-04 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 12:02 am (UTC)Man, I am feeling such Farscape nostalgia at the moment. I keep thinking maybe it's ripe for a re-watch, but when do I have the time?
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Date: 2019-05-04 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 08:28 am (UTC)Favorite Male Character: Tony Stark.
Favorite Female Character: Used to be Natasha until Infinity War, then became Nebula because IW made me finally watch the second Guardians movie, and then came Endgame, and that settled that. (Again, the actuall answer is Peggy, but, see above.)
Least Favorite Character: You know, I've come around to a surprising amount of people which used to fit this category, and I don't want to name one of the bunch of lazy MCU villains (like poor Ecclestone's Dark Elf in the second Thor Movie). "Least favourite" implies a certain amount of dislike, and so I can't even name Bucky, because I don't dislike him, I'm just indifferent.
Favorite Ship (if any): I did a 180% turnaround on Tony/Pepper. Was relieved they didn't become a romantic couple at the end of Iron Man 1 (I had liked their relationship, but doubted Tony would be able to not wreck it up if it turned sexual), disliked that they became one at the end of Iron Man 2, then to my surprise was utterly sold on them as a couple by their scenes in The Avengers, remained rooting for them ever since.
Favorite Friendship: Tony & Bruce in the first two Avenger movies, Natasha & Steve in "Winter Soldier", Natasha & Clint in both the first and the last Avenger movie. Mentor/Protegé isn't quite the same as friendship per se, it's a different type of relationship, but Tony & Peter Parker definitely joined the club.
Favorite Quote: Peter Parker, summing up super hero ethics: "When you can do the things that I can, but you don't, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you." (Said to Tony in Civil War.)
Worst Character Death (if any): Going with "the Warriors Three and Sif getting killed off screen without Thor showing as much as a flicker of interest and reaction in Ragnarök" over other candidates here.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: I knew I was going to love Natasha after her "you can't pull me out, I'm working" (re)introduction scene in Avengers, but what made me certain of it and definitely happy like, etc., was the pay off later when she revealed she'd played Loki in exactly the same way.
Saddest Moment: Insert mid-Endgame spoiler here. Excluding anything to do with the last two Avengers movies, T'Challa and cousin Eric while the later is dying in Black Panther is a runner-up (T'Challa is two for two when it comes to touching finalscenes with main villains whose motivation he understands, Zemo in "Civil War" being the first), but even more, for everyone concerned, it's Howard Stark post car crash asking the newly arrived stranger to help Maria, then recognizing him as Bucky Barnes whose life he once helped saving, then being killed by him in Civil War.
Favorite Location: I totally see why Thor: The Dark World is everyone's least favourite Thor movie, but I highly approve of Greenwich as the spot for the final showdown. And Thor taking the tube to get there, even if he took the wrong line.
Runner up: San Francisco in the Ant Man movies.
(Wakanda wins in terms of landscape beauty, but never felt quite real to me as a place.)
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Date: 2019-05-04 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 07:47 am (UTC)Favorite Female Character: Laura in her messed up glory. Admittedly influenced by Fire walk with me, but even the classic series itself gives you a very good sense of what she was like, both dark and light sides. I also got a kick out of Catherine Martell in her later appearances, and all variations of Diane in s3 were great, but really, Laura.
Least Favorite Character: Windom Earle for being a lazily drawn villain. If they wanted to milk the potential "former partner/mentor" angst, they shouldn't have gone for Evil McEvil.
Favorite Ship (if any): Ed/Norma was just about the sole one I could root for. I mean, one of the reasons why I liked Cooper was because he wouldn't take advantage of Audrey's crush on him, Donna/James was boring, ditto Harry Truman/Josie, Shelley/Bobby was irksome. Andy/Lucy was sweet in the classic show, but highly irritating in the third season. If we move away from on screen to fanfic territory, most writers were able to sell me on Albert Rosenfield/Dale Cooper.
Favorite Friendship: now we're talking. Cooper & Albert, Donna & Laura, Cooper & Harry Truman. If we include s3, Hawkeye & Margaret the Log Lady (those scenes when they talked on the phone were just so tender and warm, even without knowing the actress actually was dying).
Favorite Quote: "Diane, there is something I've always been wondering, not just as a member of the bureau but also as a human being. What went really on between Marilyn Monroey and the Kennedys and who pulled the trigger on JFK?"
Worst Character Death (if any): Not in the sense of "how could they?" but the death of Maddie is justifiably hailed as one of the most outstanding and simultanously disturbing sequences of the tv history. Even upon repetition, it doesn't lose its power.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: Albert returns to Twin Peak. I had assumed he'd be a one-time character in his initial appearance.
Saddest Moment: all the moments that came to mind are more on the disturbing side for me (like Leland Palmer, not angry or otherwise in possessed-by-Bob mode, telling Theresa Banks while being in bed with her "you look just like my Laura", and all that implies, for example.
Favorite Location: Norma's diner with its damm good coffee and cherry pie.
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Date: 2019-05-06 09:26 am (UTC)I must say, though, that my favourite female character would be Audrey, followed by Catherine and Norma as close seconds, each of them for very different and individual reasons, of course.
Favourity Ship (if any): Also Ed/Norma. In addition I have very soft feelings for Garland and Betty Briggs. Being married to a person like Garland seems like a pretty tough job to me, but still in each of Garland and Betty's scenes you can see love and respect shining through on both sides.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: Rather a character appearance than a particular moment. Denise Bryson. Loved her back then when the show first aired, and now, with various seasons of X-Files under my belt, I love her even more.
Favourite Location: Aw, while Norma's diner is a wonderful place to hang out, I'd still say The Great Northern for all its wooden gorgeousness and the way it is located right next to these amazing waterfalls.
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Date: 2019-05-04 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 04:41 am (UTC)Also, Netflix put up the Guy Ritchie King Arthur, which I didn't watch in the cinema but I would have walked out if I had. As it was, I simply switched the tv off after a while, because it was that terrible, and not in the fun sense.
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Date: 2019-05-04 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 08:55 am (UTC)Favorite Male Character: the Doctor. *insert Peter Capaldi fangirling here*
Favorite Female Character: For me, Clara went from very generic standard Companion in the Eleven era to one of my all time favourite Companions in the Twelve era. And then came Bill, whom I also adore. Can't decide between these two.
Least Favorite Character: not one character, but the Monks sucked as villains, as the Silence had done before them.
Favorite Ship (if any): well, the TARDIS, obviously. :) Okay, other than the overall Doctor/TARDIS OTP which accounts for all of DW, it's Doctor/Master in its Twelve/Missy variation. I don't ship all incarnations of the Doctor or the Master, but definitely these two.
Favorite Friendship: again, can't decide between Doctor & Clara and Doctor & Bill, which are very different from each other. With Bill, it's arguably the first teacher-student, father/daughter dynamic since Seven & Ace, though far less co-dependent and without dysfunctional undertones. It's also one of the few New Who Doctor/Companion relationships which at no point have a romantic undertone, and which in the matter of fact fondness both participants have for each other reminded me a bit of the Doctor and Donna, without the tragic ending. Whereas the Doctor and Clara did become co-dependent, able to bring out both the best and the worst in each other, but Clara is also one of the very few Companions in any era to successfully pull of an "I am the Doctor" bluff in a way that makes not just the momentarily foiled villains but the audience wonder, because her entire arc in the Twelve era is very much about a human being becoming the Doctor, and what that means for her in both good and bad terms.
Favorite Quote: "Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?" (The Doctor to Clara in the s8 finale two parter; sums them up)
Worst Character Death (if any): can't think of something that applies in the sense of "how could they?", but the moment in Heaven Sent when you realise what the dust on the floor meant, and the skulls in the water... and then it goes on.... It's emotional horror in a breathtaking way.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: "Hello, Sweetie." THE big pay-off for River's traditional greeting comes near the end of The Husbands of River Song, aka the Christmas Special which established Doctor/River as a ship to root for to me in a way Eleven's run had not.
Saddest Moment: the Doctor says goodbye to Bill and Nardole in the s10 finale, especially since at that point we didn't know whether he'd ever see either of them again and who would survive (this being the end of Capaldi's run, minus the Christmas special).
Favorite Location: The Thames Frost Fair in Regency England he visits with Bill was beautifully realized. Also Coal Hill, the school where Clara taught (and where of course Ian and Barbara taught decades earlier).
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Date: 2019-05-06 12:02 am (UTC)I've mulled over the idea of watching DW, starting with 12. I just wasn't enjoying Eleven and Clara enough to continue back then; it felt like another "ordinary character BUT WAIT, they're actually extraordinary BECAUSE of their link to the Doctor." And I didn't need that again.
I do like what I've seen of Capaldi's Doctor. I vaguely recall being displeased with spoilers about Danny Pink, but have forgotten the specifics since then. And maybe it works better in context anyway?
Ah well. Before returning to DW I would really like to catch up on The Expanse, which I'm enjoying a lot. And since I'm still on season one of that show, it may be a while.
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Date: 2019-05-04 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 05:17 am (UTC)Favorite Female Character: Michael, and let me add I love that in this show, I have so many to choose from! But it's still Michael.
Least Favorite Character: Primeverse Landy for being terribly written.
Favorite Ship (if any): I was tentatively shipping Lorca/Cornwell, and you know, I could have coped with him having gambled on the Klingons capturing her because I do ship some couples who did awful things to another, but when he turned to be Mirrorverse it meant that a) she actually really didn't know hm, and b) he had no emotional investment in her beyond not wanting to be found out, and that was that, alas.
Favorite Friendship: again, an embarassment of riches to choose from. Michael & Saru overall is a strong contender, but so is Michael & Tilly in s1, Tilly & Stamets in s2, and, if "friendship" also includes family relationships, Michael & Spock in s2.
Favorite Quote: Because of its contemporary relevance: The only way to defeat fear is to tell it 'No'. No, we will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness. No, we will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts. No, we will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority. (Michael in the s1 finale.)
(On the funny side, Michael's and Spock's double act while giving Section 31 the slip: "Say goodbye, Spock." "Goodbye, Spock."
Worst Character Death (if any): Cornwell. Not the scene by itself, but the utter lack of narrative logic in it beyond "well, someonne's gotta die..."
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: in the s2 opening episode, Michael (fresh from near death) tells Tilly how to get that sample she wanted after all. They are such science geeks, and I love them.
Saddest Moment: Me being angry re: Cornwell prevents me being sad, so I'm going with the aftermath of Pike having learned his future and rallying himself to live with that.
Favorite Location: The mushroom garden on Disco, from the moment Lorca showed it to Michael, was one of the standouts in terms of GCI location that still is filled with emotional meaning. Also, I dig Sarek's and Amanda's house on Vulcan.
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Date: 2019-05-05 12:03 am (UTC)(I'll do my own answers for it later when I have time.)
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Date: 2019-05-05 05:54 am (UTC)Favorite Female Character: in retrospect, looking back at the show, it's Sydney. During first time watching, it wavered between, at different times, Syd, Emily and Nadja, but overall, definitely Sydney.
Least Favorite Character: Vaughn. He had a race going with Sark, but I actually started to feel glimmers of amused toleration for the white haired one in s4 and s5. ("The beautiful man is dying" certainly had me in hysterics.) Never reached that stage with Yawn, err, Vaughn. Also, I resented the way the show gave him Dixon's job as Syd's field partner (that was not his original qualification!), then tried to make him Jack Lite (so not qualified!), and then desperately tried to weave him into the Rambaldi stuff to make him relevant.
Favorite Ship (if any): I admired what they did with the Spyparents without actively shipping it. (Though my pitch of The Americans to Alias fans will always be "Jack/Irina if they'd both been Russian spies undercover", and I do ship Philip/Elizabeth.) Whereas the Sloanes kill me in every scene, so I think Arvin/Emily it is, in terms of canon romances.
Favorite Friendship: Jack & Sloane, which is a great many other things a well, but also a friendship. They just know each other really well (though they also miss some important stuff about each other over the years) and get each other on a number of levels. Whereas, as you point out, Sloane & Sydney is a great many things, but not a friendship - I'm really into it, too, though, whatever it is. So, maybe: Sloane & the Bristows? I think what first sold me was Jack in s1 correctly gambling on Sloane offering Sydney a chance to escape when he first suspects her of being a double, which says a lot about both relationships right then and there.
Favorite Quote: When I'm silly, "what's my counter mission?" “Ah, Jack, now you’re in danger of outsmarting yourself.” (Sloane in S3's Breaking Point when Jack tries to find a hidden sinister motive for Sloane catching a bullet for him.) (Oh, and "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't do to you what I did to my wife!" from s4 is also fun for the indavertend slashiness.) And then there is:
Syd: The way he looks at me. That's the way you look at me.
Sloane: And which way is that, Sydney?
Syd: Let's just say it's equally disconcerting.
Worst Character Death (if any): Nadja. Death by accidental shard of glass table to trigger Sloane's return to evilness combines just the maximum amounts of DNWs for me at that point of Alias and is one of the many reasons why I dislike s5 as a whole and think the s4 finale would have been perfect.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: like you, that beach stroll. Coming close: s4 finale scene near the end of the episode between Sydney and Sloane when he's in prison and she, for the first time, tells him sincerely he did the right thing. It's a moment of grace and would have been the perfect ending for him (not his freedom - he really did too much for that).
Saddest Moment: both take place in Sloane's head in s4 - one is his memory of Emily after they lost their baby, and the other is him telling Nadja she whould let him die because "there is no place for monsters in this world" (he doesn't say this self pityingly or self dramatizingly, just matter of factly.
Favorite Location: there was much inadvertent hilarity whenever they went to Germany (I'll never get over the caption "Munich" on what was a picture of Passau, for example), and the sepia tones for each Argentina flashback for Nadja were lovely, but nostalgia makes me vote for hidden-in-a-bank SD6.
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Date: 2019-05-05 06:05 am (UTC)LOL! Poor Vaughn. I have to say, I didn't even find him interesting enough to dislike, not remotely. But you do have a good point about his role in the show. They really did seem to be flailing about a lot trying to find places to work him into things, and it often felt terribly forced, and still not interesting.
So, maybe: Sloane & the Bristows?
Oh, yes, I think that is in fact the right answer to that question. :)
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Date: 2019-05-05 02:47 am (UTC)(would love more of your thoughts on Ana if you have them! LOVED your Ana fic)
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Date: 2019-05-05 07:17 am (UTC)Favorite Female Character: Peggy.
Least Favorite Character: of those we were meant to like, Chief Dooley. I'm not immune to the "gruff yet fair boss" trope, but Dooley considering torture a viable method of police interrogation definitely puts him beyond the lines for me.
(I also never could warm up as much to Angie Cartinelli as most of fandom did, but I also never disliked her, as opposed to disliking Chief Dooley)
Favorite Ship (if any): Edwin/Ana OTP, most def. Ana as embodied by Lotte V. was so delightful from the moment she appeared on screen that she immediately obliterated any hankering regret I had for the demise of my s1 theory that Dottie was also Mrs. Jarvis. (Since we'd never seen Ana on screen in s1, that was what I assumed until the s1 finale.) The relaxed playfulness between them really works as selling this as a long term established relationship for me, while Ana's compassion for Jason Wilkes and her bravery when confronting Whitney Frost show her qualities outside the marriage context to be just as attractive. For a character who doesn't have much screentime, she never feels less than three dimensional. But seriously, 'twas the show's most sucessful attempt at an on screen romantic m/f relationship to me. I also love the barely subtextual Peggy/Dottie foe yay.
Favorite Friendship: Peggy & Jarvis. Runner up is Peggy & Howard.
Favorite Quote: "Your desire to help others is noble, but I doubt you'll find much success unless you allow others to help you." (Runner up: "Do as Peggy says!")
Worst Character Death (if any): doesn't apply in the "how could they?" sense, but both the Finnow backstory and the on screen massacre in the s1 finale were truly ghastly and pushed my horror buttons.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: I'm usually not much into fight scenes, but Peggy's taking Leviathan henchmen out in her bruiser way while the ridiculous Captain America Radio series was intercut was both hilarious and to the point. Also, they showed (accurately) how some of the radio sound effects were created then.
Saddest Moment: in a way, the flashback to Dottie's childhood and the Red Room program. Fantasy surroundings aside, child soldiers are something that makes me incredibly sad because even in the rare cases when they can get out, can get deprogrammed and start a non-killing life, they'll always have to live with what was done to them.
Runner up: Agnes/Whitney's flashbacks. Again, fantasy surrounding aside, it was all too lifelike, in terms of what could (and still can) happen to a girl with a brilliant mind but no economic or emotional support.
Favorite Location: Aside from his portraits, Howard's LA mansion reminded me of some actual places and the three months I spent in LA in the mid 90s, so I was awash in nostalgia.
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Date: 2019-05-05 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 06:26 am (UTC)Favorite Female Character: Max. Eleanor's a strong second.
Least Favorite Character: of those we were meant to like, Blackbeard. Sorry, Ray Stevenson.
Favorite Ship (if any): this was a really good show triangles that were not annoying but actually presented all three participants as interesting and (if in varying degrees) interested in each other. I really dig both Flint & the Hamiltons in the past and Jack/Anne/Max in the present, with Flint/Miranda in the present breaking my heart. But I would be lying if I wouldn't admit that Flint/Silver fascinates me not that key tiny bit more and thus is my overall favorite.
Oh! Almost forgot: with Eleanor/Max, I didn't root for them during those three episodes in s1 when they were actually still a couple because the power differential (not just in terms of Eleanor being the trade queen and Max semi-owned by the brothel, but in terms of who was more emotionally invested in whom) was just too great. But I absolutely loved them as exes in s3 and s4, when Max was walking in Eleanor's shoes, so to speak, and Eleanor also related to Max on a far more equal level than during their time as lovers.
Favorite Friendship: Flint & Eleanor, which is arguably the only positive relationship of Flint's (other than the one with Mr Gates) without any romantic overtones whatsoever, and ditto for Eleanor (with the exception of Madi's dad on her part, but there again, power differential etc.).
Favorite Quote: "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history."
Worst Character Death (if any): Hm, I think I'm on board with all the BS deaths in the sense of "yes, that makes sense for the story and the characters". In the sense of "death that hit me the hardest", MIRANDA.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: Idelle brings up Charlotte to Anne in her pro-Max rant in late s4. The reason why this made me so happy: I always appreciated Black Sails as one of the few canons where the minor supporting cast is thought of as people, and where they also can disagree with the main cast without being put narratively in the wrong for it. So, in s2, when Idelle tells Max that after Anne murdered Charlotte she and the other prostitutes are afraid of her and want her gone it's not presented as a sign Idelle is evil or weak. It's an entirely reasonable explanation to have. (And Max' reply doesn't deny that Anne is dangerous,it's focused on why she owes her and is prepared to be there for her at this point.) Conversely, by late s4, Anne is an unquestioningly heroic character who has just been through incredible odds to save the day and suffered a lot. But that doesn't change the fact she killed Charlotte simply because she was going through an emotional crisis in s2, and because she could, not for anything Charlotte had done. Idelle bringing up Charlotte again, the show remembering this, is one of those elements that sell me on the emotional reality of both supporting and main cast.
Saddest Moment: I'm going with Eleanor's over Miranda's, because of Flint's tenderness in lying to her re: her husband. Miranda's death is more a moment of "you BASTARDS!" in terms of emotion.
Favorite Location: It's Miranda's house versus the Spanish warship, which must admit I prefered to the Walrus, at least in terms of how the captain's cabin looked.
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Date: 2019-05-05 06:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-05 01:23 pm (UTC)Favorite Male Character: well, this show does have my favourite version of Antony. Of the ocs, despite my complaints below, Pullo.
Favorite Female Character: Atia, bless her scheming heart.
Least Favorite Character: well, Livia was something of a let down compared to the I, Claudius incarnation, but then, she was written that way, and at any rate those were her salad days.
Favorite Ship (if any): Antony/Vorenus, though I also have a soft spot for Antony/Atia.
Favorite Friendship: Vorenus & Pullo. If we count family relationships; I really love the development of Atia and Octavia through all the stages from overbearing mother/teenage oppressed daughter to deep dysfunctionality to emerging on the other side where they are in fact each other's best support and strength. When Octavia says to Atia "I don't know what I would do if you gave up" near the end of the show, this isn't the same woman who told her mother for understandable reasons "I hate you" and meant it. And it is, and we've seen the development.
Favorite Quote: Anything from "Atia of the Julii, I call for justice" to Antony's sincerely admiring "now that's who to make an exit", because, yes. That entire scene. Oh, and while I have my issues with how they've written Cleopatra in this show her "You have a rotten soul" to Octavian by way of farewell wasn't have bad, either.
Worst Character Death (if any): now this is a show where the death scenes all tend to be memorable and well staged. Of those not dictated by history, Niobe's and Gaia's affected me the most, though for different reasons. Niobe's because it was the tragedy the entire s1 development had been working towards, and the way the writers intertwined the personal, invented (Niobe) with the historical (Caesar) in the same episode was masterly. And Indira Varma and Kevin M. are so very very good in that scene and break my heart. With Gaia, it wasn't that I liked Gaia so much but that I thought it smelled of the cheap kind of fanservice employed when killing off unpopular female characters in the last season of BSG (first Cally, then Tory), and also, I could never decide whether the show's writers were aware of the double standard used for Pullo and Gaia. Meaning: Pullo murdered Irene's lover, he beat him to death brutally, for no other reason than that the poor guy loved Irene and she loved him. But basically, we're supposed to feel sorry for Pullo in this situation (Vorenus throws him out, his downfall starts etc.), and be on board with Irene eventually forgiving him and marrying him. Whereas Gaia, when she confesses the truth about having murdered Irene for basically identitical reasons, is literally thrown away like garbage. I'm not saying this is ooc for Pullo in either case - he has great warmth and tremendous loyalty to his friends, but he also has a terrible temper and is a trained killer - but I would have appreciated some signal that the show is aware Pullo and Gaia are no better than each other.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: Antony's method of revitalizing a grieving Vorenus is such a memorable scene, even if you don't slash them. (Also it comes at the right point, story pace wise, and the counterpoint scenes between Vorenus and Antony in Egypt when it's Antony who's in a morass of a different kind are great, too.)
Saddest Moment: Vorenus curses his children in the immediate aftermath of Niobe's death. He'll regret it for the rest of his life, but it can't be taken back, and it's devastating for everyone involved.
Favorite Location: can't narrow it down to one building, but I loved how they used the Roman streets from the Cinecitta - this was the colorful Rome I had been waiting to see through decades of white set decorations earlier.
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Date: 2019-05-07 05:57 pm (UTC)>>this was the colorful Rome I had been waiting to see through decades of white set decorations earlier. << I think it was the dust and the dirt that helped everything. It made it feel a lot more real/plausible.
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Date: 2019-05-06 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-06 07:32 pm (UTC)Favorite Female Character: surprisingly in this fandom, it‘s neither Ivanova nor Delenn. (Though I like them both.) It‘s Timov. Runner up is Lochley.
Least Favorite Character: going with the universally popular choice of Byron, here.
Favorite Ship (if any): Londo/G‘Kar all the way, baby.
Favorite Friendship: Londo & Vir. Am also fond of a lot of other friendships, of course, but really, no question as to which one I love best.
Favorite Quote: „The universe is a terrible place but at least it has a sense of humor about it.“. I mean, Londo is endlessly quotable, but right now I take comfort in this one.
Worst Character Death (if any): I‘m going with poor Talia, denied even the dignity of making her own choice about life and death, betrayal or no betrayal, due to exit of actress. I mean, your guy Marcus went out like he wanted to and it fitted his character perfectly. And Londo/G‘Kar was epic tragedy and redemption in one. But Talia?
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: „My people can never forgive your people. You understand that, Mollari, don‘t you?“. „Yes.“. „But I can forgive you.“ (Aka the best scene ever in „The Fall of Centauri Prime“. Things are going rapidly to living hell for Londo, but before they do, he and we still get this wonderful moment of grace. Runner up: „And I suppose I would miss you,“ says Londo in a coma and decides to contlinue living for Vir‘s sake, despite knowing that means facing the ghastly future of his vision, in „The very long night of Londo Mollari“. And then he apologizes to G‘Kar when awake, too.
Saddest Moment: Ending of „The Fall of Centauri Prime.“. I mean, we all knew it was coming, and his own choices brought him there, but - waaaaaah! That image of Londo alone on his throne makes me cry reliably.
Favorite Location: The station, of course, from Londo‘s ambassadorial suite to the hydrophonic gardens and the Zoccalo to down below.
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Date: 2019-05-06 07:55 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm fine with Marcus' death. I mean, I wasn't - I cried buckets, and was full-on sad for a couple of days afterwards - but it's entirely fitting!
Also I love that almost your entire set of answers are Londo-centric :D There's no question about your attachments to this show...