Fandom Meme

[potentiality_26]

Hello everyone!

So, I'm trying this fandom meme my new friend megan_moonlight is doing.  It's similar to ones I've done before, but there are a couple of different questions, so I can excuse it.


Give me a fandom and I'll tell you:

Favorite male character:
Favorite female character:
Prettiest character:
Funniest character:
Most badass character:
Favorite season:
Favorite episode:
Favorite romantic ship:
Romantic ship you don't like:
Favorite friendship:
Character who would be your BFF:

As a reminder, my main fandoms are Angel, The Blacklist, Cabin Pressure, Castle, Discworld, Doctor Who, Due South, Firefly, The Good Wife, Harry Potter, Heroes, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, Justified, Longmire, Marvel Cinematic Universe (Avengers movies & Agents of SHIELD), Murdoch Mysteries, Once Upon a Time, Orphan Black, Person of Interest, Pirates of the Caribbean, Profit, Robin Hood, Sanctuary, Sherlock, Sleepy Hollow, Star Trek (all the series and movies), Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Torchwood, Warehouse 13, Welcome to Night Vale, X-Men 

I feel like I’m forgetting a few (when am I not?), so if you want to ask me about a fandom I haven’t mentioned, go for it. I’ll tell you if I’m not familiar.
 

Comments

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Due South

Favorite male character: Ray Kowalski
Favorite female character: Elaine
Prettiest character: Fraser
Funniest character: Frannie or Bob Fraser; they’re both funny, but in different ways
Most badass character: Welsh; he’s maybe not conventionally badass, but he takes no shit and I love that about him.
Favorite season: S3 or 4- they sort of run together in my head
Favorite episode: I love “I Coulda Been a Defendant” but also “Odds”
Favorite romantic ship: Fraser/Ray K
Romantic ship you don't like: I don’t actively dislike any ships for this fandom, but Fraser/Thatcher never struck me as something that would work out; in the end, I was really happy the show never pushed it.
Favorite friendship: Fraser and Ray V
Character who would be your BFF: I don’t really see any of them as “BFF” material, but I think Turnbull and I would have a good time. He would just be so hilarious to be around.

Heroes

Favorite male character: Nathan
Favorite female character: Claire (yes, I’m a special snowflake in some circles); I also really adored Emma
Prettiest character: Mohinder
Funniest character: Hiro
Most badass character: The Haitian
Favorite season: S1 (since that’s got to be the most common answer ever, I will add that I thought S4 was great too)
Favorite episode: “How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?”
Favorite romantic ship: Claire/Gretchen. I’m going to be depressed that that didn’t get to be explored further for a long time.
Romantic ship you don't like: Maya/Mohinder. I didn’t like Maya in general, but their ‘thing’ made it all even worse.
Favorite friendship: Hiro and Ando, though I also loved the friendship Peter and Sylar started to develop after “The Wall.” I’m sad that will never get to be explored further too.
Character who would be your BFF: Monica

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Elaine <33333333 I adore her so much!
I agree about Fraser being the prettiest and Welsh being badass! I'm glad that most pairings weren't really pushed, but I also think Fraser/Thatcher wouldn't really work out.

I'm not a fan of Claire, but I know what you mean about the snowflake feeling. I still remember some people's comments when I said I like Simone.

So agreed about Mohinder and Hiro! Hiro and Ando's friendship was pretty much amazing. And I wish there were more fics for Claire/Gretchen.

My favourite pairing is Matt/Mohinder :)

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

I liked Simone too- yeah, it's a strange feeling when you love a character that everyone seems to hate.

I love Matt/Mohinder too. Lots of great fics.

[gingergal2.livejournal.com]

I don't quite understand how you can list Fraser and RayV as your favorite friendship, but prefer Seasons 3-4 (the Kowalski seasons) and two episodes from those seasons, to the RayV seasons. Seasons 3-4 didn't have Fraser's and RayV's friendship as the focus, so your answer doesn't make much sense.

Elaine's my favorite female too. :-) And I think she's the prettiest, followed closely by Frannie and Meg Thatcher. Fraser's looks don't do anything for me, and neither does Kowalski's looks, although I admit they're attractive. But I think RayV is very attractive too, and seems more approachable and real than either Fraser or Kowalski.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not a huge fan of the seasonal question, frankly. With a show with a seasonal plotline- or something like Heroes that has one season that absolutely everybody agrees was far superior to the others, it's easy to answer. With Due South, it's a lot harder. I just thought about the episodes that I remembered enjoying most, and more of them were in the later seasons than the earlier ones.

[gingergal2.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add: Did you know that the original scripted version of "COTW" had Fraser and Meg
Thatcher in Canada together at the end? Turnbull was there, too, and it was implied that Meg had accepted a posting where Fraser was to have a romantic relationship with him.
The Rays were both in Chicago and were friendly with each other.

Since I'm a RayV fan, and not a F/K fan, I wish this ending had been filmed instead - because then Fraser wouldn't pick Kowalski over RayV. But I'm not sure about Fraser and Thatcher working as a romantic couple.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

That's interesting, I didn't know that. I wonder why they decided to go such a different route.

I see where you're coming from. See, if you do ship F/K, then it doesn't seem quite so much like Fraser is choosing Ray K over Ray V, because they have a fundamentally different relationship and therefore the Rays aren't really comparable. Ray V is his friend, and Ray K is something else. If you don't ship it, then yeah- I see how it's an unsatisfactory ending, because it seems like Fraser is saying that Ray K is somehow his favorite friend. I guess it's up to interpretation that way, but I can see why you would prefer the original version.

I do like the idea of the two Rays being friends, though.

[gingergal2.livejournal.com]

I still don't know. If I had a best friend who was like a sibling to me, which is how I see Fraser's relationship with RayV, and that best friend had just returned to town after being away from all of his or her loved ones, and was also recovering from a gunshot wound, then I like to think that I would be a good enough friend that I would spend time with my best friend while he or she recovers - instead of going off on a vacation with a potential lover.

But I don't think that most F/K shippers, not even those who love RayV, think that Fraser's being a bad friend to RayV by going off with Kowalski and, in a sense, choosing Kowalski over RayV. I think most of us have to choose between a friend and a lover or spouse at some time in our lives, but a lover or spouse shouldn't always be your first priority. It depends on the circumstances. And Fraser had already ignored his friendship with RayV to be with a lover - Victoria - so I think RayV would be terribly upset if Fraser went off with Kowalski, and chose another lover over him, while RayV was recovering and probably hoping to spend time with Fraser. Fraser was again saying the friendship wasn't important because he had a lover. At least he runs after Ray when Ray comes to his apartment the second time in "Victoria's Secret," and apologizes for missing his party and says he didn't want to lose his friendship.

I guess you could imagine that Fraser and Kowalski didn't go off right away, just as RayV didn't go to Florida right away, so Fraser and RayV spent time together after Muldoon was captured. And maybe the Rays started becoming friends, provided that Kowalski got over being jealous of any other man who showed Stella attention.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Personally, I like to think they didn't go off right away, but the show didn't give us a lot to go on in that respect.