Meme

[raven]

I'm bored, sleepy and I have to work tomorrow. Hence a meme, nabbed from pinkishmew, in which you name your top six television shows and answer the questions that follow. I think my brain is falling out - I've spent the day alternately reading feminist literature and watching The X-Files, so I'm not to blame for what follows.

1. Doctor Who
2. Firefly
3. SG-1
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. X-Files
6. M*A*S*H

1. Who is your favourite character from #2?
Mal Reynolds. And River. And all of them except Inara. But above all, Mal, because he is funny and snarky and uses wonderful words and hits girls and wields guns like an extension of himself. And given that those last two qualities I don't often admire in people, Mal is pretty damn special. *g*

2. Who is your least favourite character from #4?
Buffy. And hating the title character of a show is not good. To be fair I didn't hate her to begin with, but only when she got really self-righteous and trampled over everyone else and just, meh. But in the earlier seasons it's more of a case I liked her okay, but less than Willow and Giles and Xander who are all marvellousness.

3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
Doctor Who and the X-Files? Would be fabulous, I reckon. I think crossovers work - really work - when you can immediately see where the plot is going just as you work through the mechanics of it. The Doctor would just appear in Mulder's basement room, I think, and it'd probably go something like this:

Mulder was on the floor when he heard something, very loud and close at hand, make a noise like vworp, vworp, thud. He stood up in a hurry, pushing bits of paper back into the bottom desk drawer, and stared at the large blue oblong that had just appeared from nowhere into his office.

The door of the thing – Mulder’s brain kicked into gear, flicked through some mental references and informed it was a police public call box, British, all but obsolete – opened and a man wearing glasses and a long brown duster stepped out. "Hello!" he said cheerfully. "I’m the Doctor."

Mulder didn’t say anything. He stared.

"And you," continued the Doctor, "are Special Agent Fox Mulder."

"How did you..."

"It’s on your badge." The Doctor picked it up off the desk and waved it at him. "Er, this is Earth, isn’t it? Is there anything I can help you with? To give an entirely random example, are you having an alien invasion?"

"No," said Mulder wistfully. "Not right now."

"Ghosts? Werewolves? Super-intelligent shades of the colour blue?" continued the Doctor hopefully and so on and so forth, this crossover would write itself.

4. Who is your favourite ship from #6?
Hawkeye/Trapper, still! I remember the Great Divide on the mash-slash list about who slashed Hawkeye/Trapper and who slashed Hawkeye/BJ. It's just at this moment occurred to me that technically that was a ship war, and the thought makes me laugh.

5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
Heee. I think Sam and Margaret. Yes, definitely Sam and Margaret! Both strong women who have to cope with macho military crap all the time. I bet they'd get on like a house on fire.

6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do?
Giles! Heee. Tara a close second, but I do love Giles. He'd be nervous and wipe his glasses a lot, and then warm up and be sarcastic and wonderful and hopefully he'd tell me a bit about Oxford as it used to be and it would all be marvellous.

7. If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change?
Bring back Wash! Waaah. And Book, too! And let Zoe and Wash have the baby they wanted, because that was one of my favourite moments of the original series and it bugs me that the film just removed so much plotty potential.

8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them.
Ah, Mulder and Scully. I'm not entirely sure whether I ship them madly or not. I'm not averse to the idea, but nor am I particularly enthuiastic. I guess I just like their relationship in all its platonic/romantic fucked-up-ness. I like how they complement each other so perfectly, and I just love the reversal of gender stereotypes, with Mulder as the romantic believer and Scully the hard-headed sceptic and the way they play off each other so well. It is love, yes.

9. If the lead title characters (first name in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
The Doctor or Jack O'Neill? Neither of them need saving, for heaven's sake. They're both far too good at pulling solutions from thin air for that. If I had to pick, it'd be Jack, because the Doctor doesn't need saving from drowning anyway, he has a respiratory bypass whatsit.

10. If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
Errr... I don't like this question. Next.

11. If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline for #6, what would the character be like and what would their role be?
Another female character. I love Margaret, and she needed someone who wasn't Frank.

12. What happens in your favourite episode of show #2?
Heh! My favourite episode of Firefly is Our Mrs Reynolds, in which a woman emerges out of nowhere and claims to have married Mal the night before. Mal is terrifed and bewildered in equal proportions. The rest of the crew enjoy themselves thoroughly. It really is a stellar episode.

13. If you could kill off one of the characters of #1 who would it be and how would you do it?
Goodbye, Rose. I don't hate you. No, really I don't. I like you enough to have written lots of fic about you, mostly in your POV. But, you know. Enough already.

14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5 which would you choose?
Well, as neither show is being filmed any longer...

15. So, I saved the best question for last. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
All my favourite characters are completely fucked up. Mal - definitely not, he's too hardened and angsty and carryiny too much emotional baggage. Daniel's the same - too fucked-up. Ditto Fox Mulder and Hawkeye Pierce. The Doctor would be a complete trainwreck.

I think it would be Sam Carter. She's smart and beautiful and amazingly, astoninishingly level-headed and sane.

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

I like to think it's at least a little bit possible that Zoe was pregnant during Serenity and didn't know it. And whatever Simon used to fix her back didn't screw up the baby. I'm a sap sometimes.

This icon is really damn appropriate.

[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha. Oh, I wish all ship wars were like M*A*S*H's. Y'know, where it turns out that some of my best friends and favorite fics are on The Other Side.

Re: 15: I did this meme a little while back, and I came to the same conclusion. All the most attractive characters are also the most fucked up ones. How does that happen?

OMG come to Chicaaaaago.

This has been your daily dose of very biased travel advice.

[insaneizzi.livejournal.com]

This crossover would write itself. That it would. I have no time to write it, oh noes.