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fannish5: Smile Time
Jun. 2nd, 2009 05:45 pmName five fannish things that never fail to cheer you up.
1.) Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Watching Luminosity's masterpiece Scooby Road, the be-all and end-all of Buffy viddom. It uses the Beatles' last album, Abbey Road and captures so many aspects of the show, the characters, the relationships, and does it so well that I'm awash in fannish love and joy each and every time I watch it. And in admiration of the vidder.
2.) Highlander:
The Stone of Scone, aka that caper in the 50s with Amanda, Fitz and Duncan McLeod. Whether it's Amanda double-crossing people, Fitz drunkenly falling on top of Duncan or Duncan palming Churchill off with a fake relic, I just love the episode, and smile non stop while watching. It might have made it impossible for me to believe I saw the real thing when I toured the British Isles, but hey.
3.) Star Trek:
Trials and Tribble-ations. Most of the Trek/Trek crossovers are good, but this one is a long squee-fest, from Dax fangirling Spock and reminiscing about sex with McCoy via Worf deflecting the question about the difference between TOS and post-TOS Klingon looks with aplomb ("wo do not talk about it with outsiders) to Sisko getting Kirk's autograph. Comes complete with Mulder and Scully, err, Lucsly and Dulmer, too. (BTW, the "how do you know we're not in an alternate timeline right now?" question never looked so timely.
4.) Babylon 5:
Londo and Vir singing opera arias together in Knives. Londo and Vir in general affect me inevitably, but it can be the melt-my-heart and make me cry effect as well as the cheering one (even the Parliament of Dreams scene has its bittersweet resonance now), and the question was about things that inevitably cheer me up. The Centauri opera debate complete with singing, though? Makes me want to join in the chorus and leaves me with a wide grin.
5.) Star Trek (again):
"Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're dead, and I am God."
"You're not God. Because I refuse to believe the universe is that badly designed."
In another word, Q-Picard encounters, for the one liners, the snark (on both sides), and the chemistry. More recently also because sometimes when my Prophet issues re: DS9 resurface (to name but the worst: Sarah was raped, and the show never admits that, but asks us to buy the Prophets/Wormhole Aliens as good guys - where is Sheridan with "get the hell out of our galaxy to both sides when you need him?), I long for human /superbeing interaction where the human sticks to refusing to acknowledge the divinity of the superbeing (without going to the other extreme and refusing interacting as well). I so don't need a new plot bunny right now, but a very vague idea bout Sisko, Picard and the Prophets is niggling at me. Q is optional. Aaaaaaaanyway. Where TNG can't go wrong: Picard and Q in the same scene. *is cheered up*
1.) Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Watching Luminosity's masterpiece Scooby Road, the be-all and end-all of Buffy viddom. It uses the Beatles' last album, Abbey Road and captures so many aspects of the show, the characters, the relationships, and does it so well that I'm awash in fannish love and joy each and every time I watch it. And in admiration of the vidder.
2.) Highlander:
The Stone of Scone, aka that caper in the 50s with Amanda, Fitz and Duncan McLeod. Whether it's Amanda double-crossing people, Fitz drunkenly falling on top of Duncan or Duncan palming Churchill off with a fake relic, I just love the episode, and smile non stop while watching. It might have made it impossible for me to believe I saw the real thing when I toured the British Isles, but hey.
3.) Star Trek:
Trials and Tribble-ations. Most of the Trek/Trek crossovers are good, but this one is a long squee-fest, from Dax fangirling Spock and reminiscing about sex with McCoy via Worf deflecting the question about the difference between TOS and post-TOS Klingon looks with aplomb ("wo do not talk about it with outsiders) to Sisko getting Kirk's autograph. Comes complete with Mulder and Scully, err, Lucsly and Dulmer, too. (BTW, the "how do you know we're not in an alternate timeline right now?" question never looked so timely.
4.) Babylon 5:
Londo and Vir singing opera arias together in Knives. Londo and Vir in general affect me inevitably, but it can be the melt-my-heart and make me cry effect as well as the cheering one (even the Parliament of Dreams scene has its bittersweet resonance now), and the question was about things that inevitably cheer me up. The Centauri opera debate complete with singing, though? Makes me want to join in the chorus and leaves me with a wide grin.
5.) Star Trek (again):
"Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're dead, and I am God."
"You're not God. Because I refuse to believe the universe is that badly designed."
In another word, Q-Picard encounters, for the one liners, the snark (on both sides), and the chemistry. More recently also because sometimes when my Prophet issues re: DS9 resurface (to name but the worst: Sarah was raped, and the show never admits that, but asks us to buy the Prophets/Wormhole Aliens as good guys - where is Sheridan with "get the hell out of our galaxy to both sides when you need him?), I long for human /superbeing interaction where the human sticks to refusing to acknowledge the divinity of the superbeing (without going to the other extreme and refusing interacting as well). I so don't need a new plot bunny right now, but a very vague idea bout Sisko, Picard and the Prophets is niggling at me. Q is optional. Aaaaaaaanyway. Where TNG can't go wrong: Picard and Q in the same scene. *is cheered up*
