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
  

Comments

[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...