[meme] any question

[krickets]

Meme:
Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

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[far-to-nowhere.livejournal.com]

If you could kill any character from any tv show who would it be and why?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Oh good gracious!

My immediate, knee-jerk reaction to this question is Benjamin Linus from Lost. Only I would have done it way back in season two. My issues with his character are two-fold. One, I just didn't like him, what he stood for, how he acted, and how he got away with fucking everything. I just generally don't understand the love. I don't feel sorry for anything he went through or for being ignored by Jacob or any of that. I will never get over the way he completely abandoned Alex, let her get killed instead of giving himself up, and then for whatever reason made sense in his scary brain, went after Penny as some sort of retribution. No, no, no. And no.

He said "What about me?" And when Jacob said to him, "what about you?" I practically cheered. I felt exactly the same way, and thank god somebody finally said it.

The second part of why I'd rather him dead is that I felt like the writers used him in a way that completely altered the storyline and changed it in a way that turned it into a different kind of show that I couldn't really connect with. Ben was kind of a prop. He came in to stir things up but his antics were never really fully explained or amounted to much. I felt in some ways that Ben was the personification of the hand of the producers and I resented his character deeply for that. Even if he had been more likable, I think I would have been pissed at that.

So undoubtedly, give me a time machine, and help me kill Ben Linus. [Except unlike Sayid, I'll do the job right.]

[turquoisetumult.livejournal.com]

Hear hear! ♥

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

IAWTC! (Even though I did often find ME's portrayal entertaining.)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I really love ME but it kind of pisses me off that the reason his character became so pivotal was just because he was an awesome actor. So while admiring him, I also kind of resent him.

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

Exactly this.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I especially love the guy in interviews. He's pretty great. But GET OFF MY SHOW MAN! (Too little, too late, I know.)

[bachlava.livejournal.com]

I will help you kill Benjamin Linus, then help you dismember his corpse and feed it to the sharks.

(Erm. I've been watching Dexter a lot?)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

LOL Yeah you must have.

*hands you a machete*

[isis2015.livejournal.com]

Have you ever had/have a show that you just enjoy(/ed) mindlessly, even if it's not very good or doesn't have much redeeming value, but you always just have fun watching it? If so, what? :)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

This is a really hard question because I would probably say that having fun watching it would be a redeemable quality.

I would say that there are times when I love watching So You Think You Can Dance and since I don't put much stock in reality talent competitions that's probably mindless. And on that same note, I really liked the VH1 show Scream Queens. I found it hilariously interesting. Watching people actually TRY to act. Sometimes failing very badly. I would love it if the show came back and did both male and female contestants.

[turquoisetumult.livejournal.com]

Do you have a favorite character from Misfits? Why?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I would have to say probably Simon. Why? Well I always thought he was terribly misunderstood and felt pretty bad for him. I also thought he was always such a great voice of reason and I'm really drawn to characters like that. (How boring! Haha.) I also really like Curtis for that same reason.

[turquoisetumult.livejournal.com]

While I can probably say they're all my favorites, I love your reasoning behind loving Simon (& Curtis! That guy gets no love!)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I think Curtis is a great guy. A very likeable character, but the writers have not really done him any favors in terms of making him stand out from the others. He does tend to fade into the background and it probably has a lot to do with the writing. Even bringing Nikki (sp?) in and having him and her have this almost separate storyline from the others was not doing him any favors.

I realize that the Simon/Alisha storyline could also be considered separate, but because the writers have done a really good job at cementing both Simon's and Alisha's characters as a CORE part of the group it hasn't had a negative effect on them.

Curtis hasn't really had any great moments with the other ASBO 5 except for Alisha, while all of the others in the group seem to have developed independent friendships. Simon and Kelly. Alisha and Kelly. Kelly and Nathan. Nathan and Alisha. Nathan and Simon. Simon and Alisha. Whereas Curtis has been more of "Curtis & NathanSimonKelly" and then "Curtis & Alisha."

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

I don't quite see you as a die hard shipper, for some reason, but I'm asking this questions all over so you'll get it too:

from all of your years in fandom, with every pairing you've loved, which is the one that is the dearest to your heart?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Oh geez. I want to say probably Pacey/Joey (of Dawson's Creek) which just makes me feel like a dork, haha. But really? Pacey/Joey? They were epic. Well, at least Pacey was epic. Most of the time. Season 3 Pacey/Joey was especially epic. Damn. Haha. Okay yes, them.

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

Why Claire? Do you like her as written/acted or do you like the potential of the character as a fictional entity separate from the show (i.e. what you & others can do w/her in fic)?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I would say "the potential" to this question but I would probably answer that way to the same question if you had asked it about Richard, Alex, Jack, and also Sawyer.* I think all of those characters at some point were either terribly inconsistent, or not fully fleshed out, or just had amazing potential with no where to go or nothing underneath. I needed to fill their burrito. (That is not a sexual innuendo.)

I am such a huge, huge fan of character-driven dramas. I love watching flawed, emotionally stunted, emotionally bereft, emotionally saturated, broken, layered, strong, weak, etc., characters unfolding on my TV screen.

For me? Lost failed. Even when they didn't fail entirely they ultimately failed. I saw so much potential, so much unrealized potential, in so many of these characters. Even when they did bring out the characterization guns, it was like a cheap card they played as an afterthought and not something that was ever central to the story after season one ended.

Writing Claire, for me, is kind of a way to explore all the hidden potential I saw in the character. She was one of the most underused, most mistreated, most prop-icized characters and one that I really really wanted to love in canon. But ultimately I couldn't because she was never truly whole.

I can't really explain the reasons I ship her with Jack 95% of the time. But I think in my fic, whether it's with Jack or Sawyer or the both of them, I have explored all aspects of Claire's character that I saw tiny glimpses of on screen. From the whimsical to the very dark and twisted. So for me, that's the it. That's why I like to play with her so much.

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. This is how I feel about Lost too! And I reacted similarly to many of the Lost characters I've written.

I love watching flawed, emotionally stunted, emotionally bereft, emotionally saturated, broken, layered, strong, weak, etc., characters unfolding on my TV screen.

Me too!

I saw so much potential, so much unrealized potential, in so many of these characters. Even when they did bring out the characterization guns, it was like a cheap card they played as an afterthought and not something that was ever central to the story after season one ended.

OMG, yes! THIS.

I agree about Sawyer too. He was so beautiful and fucked up and twisty early on. And while I wanted some sort of 'redemption' for that character, what the show gave us was not even close to what it could and should have been.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Since I know you're watching it and I'm dying to hear your thoughts, what do you think of Being Human (the original) so far?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Being Human is a lot of fun but there are some things that I feel could be done differently or better but DON'T ASK ME HOW. It's just an overall feeling. I love Annie and George is OK, but my all time favorite is Mitchell. He reminds me a LOT of Stefan from The Vampire Diaries. He cares too much and he struggles and he's a good person and just the way he looks at people, you can see their pain reflected in his eyes and he kind of breaks my heart a little. I think he exists on a different plane than Annie and George, really. His story is so much more dark and so much more epic than theirs and I HATE TO SAY THAT but it's true. I would love for both of them to join him in that darkness but I imagine that there will always be a balance of some kind. Oh, the angst of that boy. I could eat it with a spoon. (Among other things, yes?) I definitely ship Annie/Mitchell but not George/Mitchell which seems like an unpopular opinion based on the fic-writing and fic-reading habits of people I know.

Though George is my least favorite of the bunch, I do feel he makes up for it in personality. (And at times feel that Annie could do with a bit more personality.) He reminds me of Ricky Gervais. Which I've just realized moments ago. And as much as I made fun of his girly screams, I LOVE THEM OKAY?

Also?

Mitchell + HUGS? What business does he have being such a good hugger?

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I honestly think Mitchell is the single best vampire character I've ever encountered. He's so different. Like you said, there's a darkness to him and to his story that they never shy away from or try to sugar coat and I love that. I've always liked that Annie and George don't go that dark (although I think George in particular has an endless reservoir of angst) because they balance Mitchell out a bit, they give him a link not only to humanity, but to his humanity. It's wonderful to watch.

Heh. George is totally my favorite. I have such a type. His girly screams are the best. Oh, Russell Tovey, never change.

Mitchell/Hugs= True BH OTP. <3

[bachlava.livejournal.com]

Same question I'm giving everyone, but it always interests me: Fandom of your choice: pick one character you feel got shafted the most by canon, and tell me what ending s/he would have gotten if you'd been in charge of things.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Okay I'm going to move away from lost here and say LEOBEN from BSG.

We never really got to say goodbye to his character and we never really got any payoff with the whole Starbuck thing. They were my favorite, I loved the whole destiny thing, the water, the prophecy, his belief in her, the sexual tension. However, I ship Kara with everyone so I was by no means hoping for a Kara/Leoben ending, haha. But it would have been nice to have some acknowledgment in the end. And maybe to see him on Earth. Maybe for Starbuck to say Thank You or You WERE RIGHT or anything at all to him. It would have been nice to see them have some kind of sendoff.

[beerbad.livejournal.com]

Any shows you swore you would never watch but are now favorites?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Both Friday Night Lights and The Vampire Diaries were on my "oh lawd, nevah!" list. What a sad, silly, person I was. Haha.

My defense? I actually DID watch the VD pilot and didn't like it. How was I to know it would turn itself around?

I'm trying to think if there were any others like this...

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I'll get back to ya!