Meme Time

[potentiality_26]

Nabbed from chamilet:

Give me a show/movie/fandom, and I'll tell you:

My favorite female character
My favorite male character
My favorite season
My favorite episode
My favorite cast member
My favorite ship
A character I'd die defending
A character I just can't sympathize with
A character I grew to love
My anti-OTP
  

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[corvidology]

Wild Wild West.

[potentiality_26]

My favorite female character: Eh... Haruko Ishuda, I guess (she's the Japanese secret service agent in "The Night of the Deadly Blossom". Whenever I write AUs in this fandom, I give her a really expanded role)
My favorite male character: Artie
My favorite season: S3
My favorite episode: The Night of the Vipers
My favorite cast member: Ross Martin is the one I've seen in the most other things. I'm a big fan of Michael Dunn too
My favorite ship: Artie/Jim
A character I'd die defending: No one really. I do sometimes feel defensive of Jim, in the sense that fics sometimes make him much more of a jerk than I think he is and I'm not sure what that's about
A character I just can't sympathize with: Manzeppi (is that even how it's spelled? idk). Like Loveless is a super fun villain and for a bad guy who got multiple episodes Manzeppi is just boring. I don't know what he even wants, so...
A character I grew to love: Loveless! Like I said he's a super fun villain. I always smile when he shows up
My anti-OTP: I'm not into Jim with anyone other than Artie, but since the fandom is tiny and nothing else is anywhere near as popular it's hard to feel strongly about it

[corvidology]

Artie is my favourite as well.

I'm also an Artie/Jim shipper and agree that Jim gets worse press than he deserves in a lot of fan fiction.

[potentiality_26]

Yeah, I like fics to have the best version of the characters (where possible), so it's weird when people... go in a different direction.

[telemicus]

Broadchurch!!

[potentiality_26]

My favorite female character: Ellie
My favorite male character: Paul
My favorite season: I'm almost tempted to say S3 because a lot of people say the show took a major downtown in the third season while I actually really liked it, but probably S2. I've seen some shows do a full season on one case, but I've never seen one go past that into the trial, and how figuring out whodunnit is not actually the end
My favorite episode: I really couldn't tell you. It's hard for me to keep track of specific episodes in a show like this. Maybe the finale of S1, though? That was heavy
My favorite cast member: Olivia Coleman
My favorite ship: Paul/Beth, which is tragically rare
A character I'd die defending: Ellie
A character I just can't sympathize with: Ellie's husband (what's his name?). Ugh
A character I grew to love: Chloe was a bit annoying in the beginning, but her overall arc was really interesting
My anti-OTP: Ellie and her husband (what's his name???)

[telemicus]

Yay for Broadchurch! And Ellie's husband was Joe the paramedic IIRC, took me all afternoon to remember that!

My sympathies for the blackouts :(

[chamilet]

Sherlock

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My favorite female character: Mrs. Hudson
My favorite male character: Mycroft
My favorite season: S1
My favorite episode: A Study in Pink
My favorite cast member: Rupert Graves, I think
My favorite ship: I guess Mystrade but... I'm honestly down with most ships here
A character I'd die defending: No one really
A character I just can't sympathize with: Mary? I don't hate her the way some people do, but I think on a writing level the show majorly dropped the ball in terms of making her a sympathetic (and coherent) character
A character I grew to love: Lestrade. I was surprised by the series' take on him (in comparison to most versions of the character) so he didn't work for me immediately, but he came to
My anti-OTP: Again, I don't really have a problem with anything

[firestorm717]

Justice (1971) with Anthony Valentine! :D

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My favorite female character: Harriet
My favorite male character: James
My favorite season: 3, since it's the only one I've seen lol
My favorite episode: "Growing Up" I think
My favorite cast member: Anthony Valentine :)
My favorite ship: James/Harriet
A character I'd die defending: Eh... nobody. I feel like I'm only really defensive of characters who get hate. Can't have hate if there's no fandom
A character I just can't sympathize with: Again, can't really think of anyone
A character I grew to love: That clerk. How much he dislikes James is jarring at first since it seems unearned, but I've come to find it weirdly charming. Does he have a name that I'm missing btw? I've been thinking about writing a third party POV fic where he sees James and Harriet dancing around a relationship and Does Not Like It
My anti-OTP: Well, I don't like Dr. Moody much, so him and Harriet. I'm hoping if I had seen the earlier seasons something would have endeared him to me, but as it is he's just sort of a dude who shows up, negs her a bit, and then leaves every once in a while

[firestorm717]

Hee! I was going to answer this too, but your responses are basically identical to mine. So happy we both ship Harriet/James! :DDDD They are a super adorable couple, and by God, do they FLIRT like there's no tomorrow. Harriet's quip about James wearing the necklace/black dress always cracks me up. I've been thinking about a crossdressing fic with these two ^_~. If you haven't already, you really must watch "Decisions, Decisions" for the emotional final scene between Harriet/James. James all but confesses his feelings, it's soooooooo sweet! And not to worry, the writers leaves plenty of room for post-series fic.

"Growing Up" is also my favorite episode, because it showcases James at his finest on cross, and the story itself is very interesting and deals with an issue - sex and masculinity - that's important to me.

The clerk is named William (Bill) Corletti. He's introduced in an earlier season, and no, they never give a reason why he dislikes James on sight. So I'd love to read your take, hehehe ^_~. It's worth checking out seasons 1-2 for the backstory on Harriet's career, her professional relationship with Sir John Gallagher, and her romance with Dr. Ian Moody, who's not quite as bad as he seems in season 3. Remember when this show was made... it's the early 70's feminist movement, and I think Moody is meant to represent the typical benignly sexist man of the era. He and Harriet struggle at first, but he eventually learns to respect her and actually moves his medical practice to be closer to her, when that was extremely rare for dual career couples. So yeah, he's not terrible, though I'm still annoyed that the writers wouldn't let Harriet/James get together. Maybe it was too transgressive for the time, Harriet being the older, more powerful woman and all.

Btw, there's several episodes in the early seasons involving espionage, which would make great crossover fodder with Callan. Check out "No Flowers by Request" and "A Nice Straightforward Treason." Clifford Rose shows up in the latter as a creepy prison doctor.

[potentiality_26]

Oooh, would love a crossdressing fic!

I'll watch "Decisions, Decisions" at some point, I'm just not quite ready yet.

You're definitely right that Moody isn't bad for a man of his time, he's just... also boring. But obviously I was missing some history on him, and that all sounds interesting. At some point I'll try to watch the whole series. It's such a shame that they wouldn't let her and James end up together. But that age difference would be a pretty big thing even now, let alone back then.

LOL. Were creepy doctors just Clifford Rose's thing? I'll try to check that one out.

[firestorm717]

Yeah, Moody is pretty boring in season 3. I wish they'd done more with him, but a lot of the storylines were already played out in season 2. The writers should have given Harriet a younger lover, though :P if only for the eyecandy. She had a handsome young solicitor flirt with her in season 1, but she never took the bait, probably cause the young guys are all kinda fuckboys (even James is like that), and Harriet won't put up with that nonsense. But with James, I feel like there's genuine emotion behind their relationship, so with a stern hand, she could steer them on the right course... it's just a pity that older woman/younger man age gap relationships are still a taboo! (Though you're right, 20+ years is pretty big - I didn't realize it was such a gap since Margaret Lockwood still looks fab for a woman in her late 50's).

Sorry, I made a mistake. The other spy episode is "To Help an Old School Friend", not "No Flowers by Request". In the former, Harriet investigates the mysterious death of an old classmate's son, who was involved in sensitive research that drew the attention of British security. It's a dark episode for Justice (1971), which means it fits right in with Callan. I like it because we see Harriet's courage in standing up to forces that could very well threaten her life.

LOL, Clifford Rose is totally typecast! Just take a look at his filmography. Half of his roles were him playing an evil interrogator - most notably, Sturmbannfuhrer Ludwig Kessler in two TV shows. Now that you mention it, that could make for a cool crossover with Horst Mohn in Colditz...