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beer_good_foamyWith LJ dead resting, let's find something to do.
Ask me my fannish Top Five [whatevers]. Any top fives. And I will answer, either in a new post or in the comments to this post as fancy dictates.
Ask me my fannish Top Five [whatevers]. Any top fives. And I will answer, either in a new post or in the comments to this post as fancy dictates.
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Date: 2011-07-28 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 12:06 pm (UTC)I'll have to give that one a bit of thought. I'll get back to you!
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Date: 2011-07-28 09:21 pm (UTC)1. Willow.
Buffy's out. Glory has Dawn. Sometime real soon, she's gonna use Dawn to tear down the barrier between every dimension there is. So if you two wanna fight, do it after the world ends, okay? All right. First we head back to Sunnydale. Xander'll take Giles to a hospital. Anya's looking after Tara. And Spike, you find Glory. Check her apartment, see if she's still there. Try anything stupid, like payback, and I will get Very Cranky. Everyone clear?
2. Spike
Why does a man do what he mustn't? For her, to be hers. To be the kind of man who would never... To be a kind of man. And she will look upon him with forgiveness, and everybody will forgive, and love... and he will be loved. So everything's okay, right? Can we rest now? Buffy?... Can we rest?
3. Faith
FAITH: Angel said there was no way you were gonna give me a chance.
BUFFY: I gave you *every* chance! I tried *so* hard to help you, and you *spat* on me. My life was just something for you to play with. Angel, Riley, anything that you could take from me, you took. I've lost battles before... but nobody else has *ever* made me a victim.
FAITH: And you can't stand that. You're all about control. You have no idea what it's like on the other side! When nothing's in control, nothing makes sense! There's just pain and hate and nothing you do means anything. You can't even...
BUFFY: Shut up!
FAITH: (pleading) Just tell me how to make it better.
4. Wesley
WESLEY: Yes, you will. I know you. We know you. We know you're a man with a demon inside - not the other way around. *We* know you have the strength to do what needs to be done, and you will come back to us.
FRED: I could go with you. I know how to prepare the challenge torch.
WESLEY: You'll come back.
GUNN: You really think he'll come back?
WESLEY: I need *him* to think it.
5. Buffy
BUFFY: You ever heard the expression, "biting off more than you can chew"? Okay, um, how about the expression, "Vampire Slayer"?
VAMPIRE: What the Hell are you talking about?
BUFFY: Wow! Never heard that one? Okay, how about, "Oh God, my leg, my leg?"
VAMPIRE: Oh God, my leg! Ah!
BUFFY: See -- now we're communicating.
[dust]
BUFFY: Well, been a long while since I met one didn't know me. You should get home.
TEEN: How d'you do that?
BUFFY: It's what I do.
TEEN: But... you're just a girl ...
BUFFY: That's what I keep saying.
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Date: 2011-07-28 11:40 pm (UTC)Yes, I flip a coin whenever I come to an impasse. :)
That doesn't exactly speak to a favorite, does it?
The funny thing is that my list would look very much like yours. The first three are easy.
1. Willow
2. Buffy
3. Faith
Those answers are firm. And for me that's pretty amazing.
I'll spare you the muttering and the coin toss.
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Date: 2011-07-28 12:04 pm (UTC)Top 5 favourite TV villains (which you can define as loosely as you like).
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Date: 2011-07-28 12:35 pm (UTC)1. Tony Soprano, The Sopranos. Yes, he's the villain. He's the protagonist, he's a family guy, he's trying to deal with both daily life and his own psychological issues, he's relatable, he's not as bad as some others we see... and precisely because he's all those things, he gets to get away with some truly horrible things and become a more or less respected member of society (and TV).
2. Scorpius, Farscape. Not only is he tons of fun, but he's nearly unstoppable despite being not much in the physical department, and basically spends the entire series playing a long game against our heroes who most of the time are too busy squabbling with each other to be able to stop him. He simply never gives up.
3. BOB, Twin Peaks. How awesome is he? He started out as a blooper when one of the crew accidentally got reflected in a mirror in one shot, and it scared the director so much he re-jiggered the story to fit it in.
4. Richard Wilkins III, Buffy (just ahead of Angelus, Warren and W&H). He's just so... nice about trying to kill everyone. Much like Tony Soprano, he's the sort of villain you could picture actually getting away with things in real life. As long as he doesn't try to turn into a snake.
5. The Daleks. Full stop. They're so cute.
I tried to come up with one from The Wire, but I'm still not sure who the villains are in that one... Though Snoop is always Snoop.
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Date: 2011-07-28 01:05 pm (UTC):) They terrorised my childhood, I'll have you know.
And I didn't know that about Bob from Twin Peaks. Interesting.
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Date: 2011-07-28 04:21 pm (UTC)(Waaah. My Dalek icons are on LJ.)
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Date: 2011-07-28 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 09:27 pm (UTC)Hey, at least your childhood was terrorised by something awesome. Compared to what we had...
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Date: 2011-07-29 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 02:04 pm (UTC)1. Willow/Xander. I'm such a sucker for those two, from that homework scene in "The Pack" to the hospital scene in "Empty Places". The fact that it's not always an honest, equal, easy relationship either keeps it interesting.
2. The Doctor/Donna. "You're not mating with me, sunshine!" Which is most definitely not an honest and equal relationship. I still hope Donna will turn up eventually to get a proper goodbye... *sniff*
3. Marten/Faye from Questionable Content. The first 500 strips seemed to focus entirely on "They'll get together any day now! Really!" Then we get to this, and they've been (mostly) inseparable but completely platonic since. Awww.
4. Tim/Daisy from Spaced might be a little on the sketchy side as it's semi-pseudo-canon that they eventually do become a couple some years after the series ends, but I choose to ignore that and just go with what happened in the series. Probably the best aversion of Will-They-Won't-They ever: every law of sitcom declares that they must get together, and they just stay best friends.
5. Don Draper/Peggy Olsen, Mad Men. Probably the only two people in the entire series who both know who the other person is when you peel back all the pretense and social niceties.
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Date: 2011-07-28 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 08:43 pm (UTC)1. Spike on Buffy, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, season 5.
2. Josh on Donna, The West Wing, pretty much the entire series.
3. Audrey Horne on Agent Cooper, Twin Peaks.
4. Faith on Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 3. (What?...)
5. Sue White on Mac, Green Wing. Because it's so spectacularly WRONG.
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Date: 2011-07-28 01:45 pm (UTC)Also, if the question intrigues: top five favorite plot tropes you actually kind of like to watch.
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Date: 2011-07-28 02:31 pm (UTC)1. The various versions of Tom Waits' "Way Down In The Hole" used for The Wire.
2. The Doctor Who theme. Though I actually prefer the 1960s electropop versions to the newer orchestral ones. It's funky.
3. Twin Peaks.
4. Wonderfalls.
5. Firefly.
I might get back to the second one. Intriguing indeed.
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Date: 2011-07-28 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-29 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-29 02:53 am (UTC)"Worst" can be anything you decide: horribly OOC, cheesy script, hole-filled plot, over-the-top gore-fest, a "HOW COULD THEY DO THAT" moment...
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Date: 2011-07-29 11:59 am (UTC)1. AtS 1.13 "She."
Why: It's an entire episode focusing on an OC who wouldn't be all that interesting even if she were played by a good actress. She's played by... Bai Ling. Add slow pacing and an overdone metaphor and just generally yawn.
Not completely awful points: Cordy's party. "I don't dance." The Baudelaire bit.
2. Buffy 4.11 "Doomed."
Why: Probably in part because it follows a string of really good episodes, culminating in "Hush", and then stumbles and falls flat on its face when it tries to tie up some loose ends and get Buffy and Riley together by any means necessary. Giles is very poorly dubbed, Buffy is revealed to have Super Falling Powers, and I'm bored. It's not as objectively bad as some s1 episodes, but damnit, they should know better at this point.
Not completely awful points: "It's the end of the world." "AGAIN?!?" Spike in a Hawaii shirt, and his rant over the closing credits.
3. Buffy 1.04 "Teacher's Pet"
Why: Preachy, awful special effects, bad bad acting, plot lines disappearing halfway through, a really cheesy horror movie ending... fortunately, most of it is literally obscured by the fact that they apparently had a grand total of 3 25-watt light bulbs available for the night and basement scenes. I literally cannot see what the hell is going on half the time.
Not completely awful points: A teacher sticking up for Buffy for once. Oh, and Giles' tape recorder. Good gag. Wasted.
4. Angel 3.20 "A New World"
Why: For starters, it's a 15-minute episode padded to 42 minutes by having almost the entire damn episode play out in slow motion. It gets ridiculous after a while, and the utter lack of plot for most of the episode (along with Connor adapting a little too quickly to a world nothing like anything he's ever known) doesn't help. I've grown to appreciate Connor's arc more on rewatches, but the end of s3 could easily have been condensed into one or two episodes without losing anything.
Not completely awful points: Hmmm... Lorne's mystic friend with the blue hair is fun. I'd have liked to see more of her. So add "disappointment" to the above complaints.
5. Buffy 2.05 "Reptile Boy".
Why: Not a very controversial episode to put on this list, I guess. Even if I choose to take the over-the-top moral as a deliberate spoof of that sort of moral - which is a stretch - I also despise this episode because it has a commentary track. That's not a very rational reason, perhaps, but given how many great, funny, profound etc Buffy episodes don't have a commentary, I hate "Reptile Boy" because it has a commentary track where the writers treat it as if it were a deep, thoughtworthy episode.
Not Completely Awful Points: Willow ranting at Giles and Angel. Giles' dry "The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture."
(Also, there's no such thing as a bad over-the-top gorefest. ;) )
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Date: 2011-07-29 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 01:04 am (UTC)PS: I didn't specify a show in case you wanted to do a mix-and-match with different series.