Random Fandom Meme

[teylaminh]

I'm sure I've used that subject title before... Anyway, stolen off commoncomitatus, whom I suspect will be the only person to play.

Reply with a show/fandom, and I'll tell you the following:

› Favorite character.
› Least favorite character.
› Prettiest character.
› Character I'd marry.
› Favorite pairing.
› Favorite episode.
› Unpopular opinion.

My fandoms are listed in my interests, or my tags list, but I think most of them are obvious. :P

G'wan then.

Comments

[commoncomitatus]

LOL. I'll play a dozen times if you want; I'm sure we have at least that many fandoms in common.

For now, though, OH LET ME THINK. Could it possibly be Jonathan Creek? ;)

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

YES, PLEASE DO! Then I might get to play it more than once.

Anyway. Jonathan Creek...

> Favourite character - ARGH, SO HARD TO CHOOSE. I think Jonathan, though it's very hard to choose between him and Maddy. The hair sells it.

> Least favourite character - CARLA FRIGGING BOREGO. Although for some reason initially I said Adam, then remembered there had been worse.

> Prettiest character - this meme is hard when there are only three main characters. :P So by process of elimination, clearly the answer is Maddy. I think she's prettier than Joey, sorry Sheridan!

> Character I'd marry - Jonathan, again. Because WINDMILL.

> Favourite pairing - Jonathan / Maddy. Though I'm really starting to like the Jonathan/Joey friendship, too.

> Favourite episode - "House of Monkeys", because I am that predictable.

> Unpopular opinion - sometimes I think David Renwick really needs an editor. He is 90% of the time an awesome, amazing writer, but he sometimes doesn't "hear" people talk very well and his scripts can be a bit repetitive... He just needs someone to iron things out. AND HE NEEDS TO RING CAROLINE QUENTIN RIGHT NOW OR I'LL HAVE TO START SENDING ANGRY LETTERS!!!

*ahem*

Do feel free to choose another, this is fun. :D

[commoncomitatus]

Y'know, I suspect I could've filled in your answers for you before you did!!!

...though I confess, living in a windmill would ROCK.

That said, I now can't figure out whether to give you another one now, or at least pretend to give other people a chance to choose one first... I'm kinda picturing your entire FList coming in to play, and me having stolen every fandom in the world ever.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Hee, yes. Quite probably. :)

Give it until tomorrow. If there's no more, have at it!

[commoncomitatus]

Woot!!!

...though, should I be worried that I'm already collating a list in my head?

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

You should be a bit worried, I didn't think we had that many fandoms in common... Though of course, there are several which aren't tagged...

[commoncomitatus]

Hee, well my list kinda maxed out at five, plus a couple I've not seen but have read enough of your posts to be curious about nonetheless.

I NEED HELP, OBVIOUSLY.

ETA: Wait, SIIIIIIIIX.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was about what I came up with too.

You might as well do one more anyway. Someone else might do the fandoms we don't share. :P

[commoncomitatus]

OKAYINTHATCASESUNSETBOULEVARD.

Ahem.

*way too enthusiastic about this, clearly*

(ETA again - and I've clearly thought way too hard about this - for 'episode', sub 'song'. *g*)

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

LOL at that icon. I suspect you already know most of my answers... plus I am picturing your brain exploding from the effort of keeping that one in. :P

Sunset Boulevard...

Favourite character - Joe. I think partially because of Jeremy, and partially because I spent so much time and effort writing terribly angsty fic in which I emotionally tortured him. You get attached to characters when you break their brains on a regular basis, I suppose...

Leave favourite character - uhm... this is hard. I suppose Artie, but that's not to say he's not a good character. It's just because he has so little to do. I don't have a least favourite character, just characters I know less about.

Prettiest character - Jeremy!Joe. You had to be there. :D

Character I'd marry - none of them! Actually, probably Artie. Joe is too high maintenance. :)

Favourite pairing - NORMA/JOE. Seriously, how many more thousand words do you want??

Favourite episode scene - (given it's not a series...) - well, obviously, the Tango Scene. BECAUSE GUH. (Edit: And I wrote the comment before I'd read your edit, so favourite song also - "Too Much in Love to Care", even though it's the Joe/Betty song...)

Unpopular opinion - Norma/Joe, apparently. :P Or probably that I think making a movie of the musical would not be sacrilege, IF THEY DO IT RIGHT. I only think this because making a musical of the movie SHOULD have been sacrilege, but it worked. If they can reverse that process using the same magic, it will be brain-meltingly awesome. But if Hollywood get involved (ironically enough), it won't be. And that's that.

[commoncomitatus]

LOL, you're not far off with the mental image of my brain...

You get attached to characters when you break their brains on a regular basis, I suppose...

Or. When. They. Break. YOURS. It's a mutual thing, I find.

And yes, sorry about the edits. I get waaaaaay too zealous about these things, evidently! As if it even bore saying.

But, weirdly, after seeing it on stage, I so feel you on TMILTC; I was so blah about it before, and then I saw it and everything changed, and I still can't quite fathom why, because again, I don't exactly ship Joe/Betty at all. There's just something intangible about it and... and I'm gonna stop now because this fandom and words do not mesh well, as we know.

I will now restrain myself from inundating you with more fandoms until tomorrow. Or, y'know, TRY.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

I tend to break theirs before they get a chance to break mine. I learnt my lesson after Niles Crane and the Phantom, thank you very much. :D

I just love the imagery in TMILTC more than anything else. That and the ALW Gene which makes me powerless to resist a big love ballad / duet. One of these days it will become AN ACTUAL CONDITION.

And, well... only four to go, anyway. :P

[commoncomitatus]

Contrarily, I tend to break theirs in vengeance for their breaking mine! My muses are vindictive!

LOL, ALW Gene. Is this the same gene that incites an unnatural infatuation with hearing the same thematic tune repeated ad infinitum? Because AWIDUHWEDIUH.

Five! Plus the ones I don't actually know! And you just know my brain'll pick up another three before t'morning...

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I did that at first. John and Aeryn broke my brain between them (damn you, season 3!) so obviously, they just got angst fics in return whereby I made them miserable. :D

And yes, I do believe that is also one of the symptoms. :)

Oh, it was six PLUS Jonathan Creek? Wow. I clearly need to stop inflicting things on you. :P

[commoncomitatus]

LMAO - see, vindictiveness (vindication?) is the way to go! I always feel guilty tormenting characters that haven't tormented me in one way or another. ...of course, given my fandoms, they ALL torment me in one way or another. I could even legitimise tormenting Rygel after Die Me Dichotomy.

Now that I think on it, I could probably come up with a whole list of random infatuations that could be traced back to Too Much Lloyd-Webber. Random Unnecessary Reprises, too...

Yes, six MORE, it was! ...now seven, since Paul's comment kind of reminded me of another I'd not thought of. I TOLD YOU I'D END UP WITH MORE DAMMIT.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why I started torturing Joe, actually. It just happened. I don't know why I tormented Spike so much either, considering what he'd already taken from Buffy. :P Tortured Soul Complex: Not Just For Actual Tortured Souls, Apparently.

Oh, same here. He is horrendously addictive.

I am intrigued as to what these seven are now... Jonathan Creek, Sunset Boulevard, RHPS, Farscape, Priscilla, Glee, Buffy? I don't think Damages counts from one series (random dreams aside)... If these are different to yours then I apologise for making the list any bigger. :P

[commoncomitatus]

LOL, tortured soul. I suppose, if you look at very very very late-s6 Spike he's kiiiiiinda tortured. And S7!Spike definitely is. So maybe you just, I dunno, pre-empted the soul-torture before it happened? Soul!Torture Foreshadowing!!!

Yes, he is. It's like "all these things SHOULD irritate me, but I cannot get enough". It makes no sense, but I find myself eternally grateful nonetheless.

I'D COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN PRISCILLA. HOW!? But, okay, my six (JC notwithstanding) were Sunset, Scape, Buffy, Glee, Life On Mars (I know I'm a season behind, but it counts), and *ahem* Trapdoor. Seventh, thanks to Paul's picking RHPS, was gonna be Little Shop of Horrors. And now I've got an eighth in Priscilla, and a ninth in *AHEM* Tubby the Tuba.

This meme will never end. Even if nobody ever contributes ever...

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

With Spike, the whole Buffy thing in general was enough, seeing as he spent three seasons angsting about it...

I still blame the fact that my parents went to see Cats in London whilst I was in utero, which clearly made me powerless to resist ALW for the rest of my life.

LOL, Trapdoor. I don't know what the "prettiest character" answer would be. Boni, maybe? Also double LOL Tubby. Although terrifyingly, it's easier to answer than LSOH... ...Moulin Rouge!!! That makes ten!

[commoncomitatus]

He does seem to angst a LOT for a soulless undead neutered harbinger of destruction, doesn't he?

...you had to mention Cats, didn't you?! Hi, 11.

And I can't believe you'd class Boni as prettier than Drutt! Drutt had babies, clearly he is the most alluring!!! I mean, CLEARLY.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

I doubt the peroxide helps, really. :P Also I never thought he was that convincing as a harbinger of destruction in the first place, he was too bloody cocky for starters! And anyway, he'd just sik Dru on everyone...

Disney Villains makes 12, though I don't know if they count as a fandom. Maybe you should get back to trawling the Swircle in case you uncover any more. Most Haunted's Jaunty Hat! Er... yes, I'm going to bed now. You can leave me another fandom for the morning if you like.;)

For all we know 'Im Upstairs could be the most attractive creature in the castle!

[commoncomitatus]

The Spike thing is really interesting - I did buy him as harbinger of destruction, and consequently had trouble buying him as the angsty smitten puppy. I wonder, if I'd been less convinced of him in S2, maybe I'd've bought him more in S5 onwards...

Also LOL!!!! @ Disney Villains. I think we're just making things up now! (Though Most Haunted is totally going on there, 'cause dammit I saw enough episodes to understand it, and you had BETTER pick the Jaunty Hat as prettiest character!).

But yes, I think it's only fitting I give you Trapdoor next, to settle this complicated matter once and for all.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Also I think the rambling accent didn't help...

I think Most Haunted is exempt by virtue of not having characters. :P

Okay, Trapdoor:

> Favourite character - That weird shape-shifting thing in that one episode. It was funny.

> Leave favourite character - Drutt. He's too... Drutty.

> Prettiest character - Boni! He has cheekbones! And... everything-bones. But still.

> Character I'd marry - probably Berk. At least he tries to keep the place tidy.

> Favourite pairing - oh dear God, I've just remembered that one with the slash. Berk/Boni. OBVIOUSLY.

> Favourite episode - They all sort of merge into one, but now the "I like your body, Boni" line in my head and it won't go away. OR: the inevitable JC crossover episode which has to happen now.

> Unpopular opinion - I don't even know of any popular opinions!

[commoncomitatus]

Ahhh yes, the accent. I think Americans are just incapable of pulling off an English accent with any kind of believability. They all seem to think we still hail from Dickensian times. ...though, to be fair, if I recall that one episode of Doctor Who, we're not much better at theirs...

THE HAT IS A CHARACTER DAMMIT. And so is... errrrr... the spirit guide dude thing object person ghost?

And so many levels of LOL for your Trapdoor answers, I can't even. I'll take your dislike of Drutt as an unpopular opinion, if only because it's unpopular with me. :P

...is it worrying, though, that I'm now picturing a double wedding between Berk/Boni and Tuba/Piccolo?

[yoshi.livejournal.com]

Rocky Horror Picture Show (as in the film rather than the stageshow, yeah).

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

› Favourite character - Riff Raff. Despite spending the majority of my late teens being infatuated with Frank, I really like Riff.

› Least favourite character - Rocky. In the film I find him a bit annoying, which I think is because he's always better live.

› Prettiest character - Frank, obvs. :P

› Character I'd marry - probably Riff, actually. At least it'd be entertaining, though I don't think Magenta would thank me...

› Favourite pairing - Magenta/Riff. Again, it mostly stems from one particular live show where they were SO ADORABLE. Elbowsex FTW!

› Favourite episode song - as with SB, I suppose this should be changed, so... "Science Fiction: Double Feature". Though "Sweet Transvestite" comes a close second.

› Unpopular opinion - I really like "Once in a While"! It's notoriously unpopular at live shows, and it doesn't fit in the film at all anyway, but I like it. :)