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]

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.