Three more meme sets

[potentiality_26]

For tags.  And... er... science.

One for a fandom I'm very new to, one in the middle, and one old standby.

1.      The first character I fell in love with: Allison.  She was my favorite from the moment I first saw her, and she's my favorite now.  I love the way she moves, the way she talks, the way she acts- and I love the way that if I didn't know it I would never, ever guess that she and Sarah (and all the clones) were played by the same actress.  I mean, I love all the major characters, but Allison is so perfectly just a regular woman trying to find her way through a mindblowingly bizarre situation.  And she makes a mistakes- at lot of them- but she always gets back up again.

2.      The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Paul, maybe.  I don't love Paul, but he's starting to be not quite the loathsome jerk I'd been thinking of him as.  In fact, he's starting to be rather sweet, which worries me.  I'm not quite finished with the season, and giandujakiss and I think some others too billed Orphan Black as a show with no major straight white men in the cast.  Now, I would've called Paul a major character, and he appears to be a straight white man- so what gives?  Is he going to die?  Because male characters have a tendency to die on me just when I'm thinking they're not quite the loathsome jerks I'd been thinking of them as.  This used to happen basically every season on Burn Notice.

3.      The character I love less than I used to: I think I'm on essentially the same page with most of the characters (apart from Paul) that I was at the start.

4.      The character I just want to slap: Vic.  Vic is always a good choice.  I crack up every time he appears, but as soon as he does I just wish he'd go the heck away again.  I keep hoping he'll stay away next time, and he keeps popping up again.

5.      A pairing that I love: I'm interested in what's happening with Cosima/Delphine.  I hope Cosima wins with Delphine over the way Sarah appears to have Paul, but we'll see where that goes.  I'm not quite on a fic reading/writing level with it.  

6.      A pairing that I despise: I can't think of one.  I mean, Vic and Sarah must have had a pretty terrible relationship, and Vic needs to just go already, so there's that.

1.      The first character I fell in love with: Finch, I think.  The way he moves- specifically, the way he turns his body to look at someone standing beside him- was fascinating to me from square one, and I have continued to love his character ever since.

2.      The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Carter.  I love strong female characters, but so many female cops in these sorts of shows are just variants on the same theme.  Carter was different, so I always liked her a lot, but when she consistently didn't fall into the kinds of tropes that make strong female characters so problematic (like non-relationships with their male counterparts that are extremely dis-empowering, like the Stargate Sam/Jack fiasco), I grew to love her more and more.  The women on Person of Interest always surprise me in a positive way, though.

3.      The character I love less than I used to: I think I'm on about the same page with most of these characters, too.

4.      The character I just want to slap: Fusco.  Often just because I'm curious about what his face will do.  Also because he makes strange choices.  But I don't dislike his character.  Sometimes I'm even fond of him.

5.      A pairing that I love: Finch/Reese.  I always thought their relationship was fascinating, though it took me a couple of episodes to to start slashing them, but mostly what I love is the kind of King/Knight dynamic they have happening.  It's so interesting to watch, and I love the fact that Reese is big and tough and yet completely not the backbone of their organization.  Finch is what makes everything happen.

6.      A pairing that I despise: Carter/Reese.  Not because the idea of them together bothers me so much, but because I think it's a bad direction for the show to go.  Person of Interest has been better than a lot of similar shows in just about every way I can quantify, and maybe they can do a romantic relationship that much better too- but I doubt it.  Also, I love women and I love slash.  This is a problem, because as soon as the main het ship starts to really muscle in on the slash pairing, the bashing of the woman quickly starts in among the slash shippers, and I hate it.

1.      The first character I fell in love with: Daniel.  I loved him from the beginning and I've never been sorry.  I love every bit of his character arc from season one to ten and beyond.

2.      The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Teal'c.  I remember watching episodes of this show and not understanding it until I watched from the beginning.  A show about present day people going into space using technology they barely understand is naturally going to be strange to anyone expecting Star Trek, but the main part of the show I didn't understand was Teal'c.  But then I figured him out.  And then I learned to love him to an astonishing degree.

3.      The character I love less than I used to: I love most everyone on this show.  I always have and I think I always will.

4.      The character I just want to slap: Jack, though in fanfiction and not the show.  He tends to be such a jerk in fanfic that I got so tired of him I was practically overjoyed when his character left the show.  And I do love Cameron, but rewatching- Jack O'Neill is a perfectly nice guy and I love him.  What are writers doing?

5.      A pairing that I love: Daniel/anyone.  Seriously: Sha're, Jack, Sam, Cameron, Vala, Teal'c, Janet, Jonas, other people I'm blanking on... anyone.

6.      A pairing that I despise: Sam/Jack.  I could seriously rant about this for a long time, so I'm going to simplify to my main issue.  Nothing.  Ever.  Happened.  And I never really shipped it, so it's not that I wanted anything to happen, I didn't- I just hated the dance they did trying to make it look like something would.  And Grace was one of my favorite episodes.  It was a wonderful Carter-centric ep which told a beautiful story about what each of her friends mean to Carter- and about her own inner strength and determination.  But, at the end of the day, it was about putting to bed the Sam/Jack thing for good, saying Sam had just been hiding behind something she knew would never happen so she wouldn't have to have a real relationship.  So she let go, and had a real relationship.  And about a season later, she ended it so she could go back to her not-thing with Jack.  Sigh.

 

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I ADORE ORPHAN BLACK. And hold on tight! The finale is a mind-blower...

FELIX. We'll be getting more for him next season. I just...adore Felix. (Sorry, it needed to be said).

And I agree about Vic. He just needs to go @$!# off somewhere.



OMG. I adore Jack. And I always tried to NOT write him as a jerk. Then again, I kept most of my Gate scribblings to myself *sniffs* so there is that...

UGH. SAM/JACK. JUST...NO. NONONONONONONONONONONOOOOOO!! They RUINED Carter. And they were destroying Jack, so...yeah. I was kind of happy when RDA said 'screw this' and walked. I loved Pete with Sam. That was just FUBAR all the way around. UGH.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I should be watching that tomorrow and I may end up gushing.

I love Felix too, and I'm excited for more from him.

Yes, see, I love Jack too- but there's all these fics (typically pre-Meridian Jack/Daniel fics) where I just want to throttle him and I don't get what happened in fanon to cause it.

Sam/Pete was love, damn it. I never got why they killed it and I never will.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Heh - Orphan Black - I said that about straight white men when it was only a few episodes in, Paul's role was smaller. Then he got more to do :-).

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

LOL sorry to name drop you. You're legitimately not the only person who said that, but I couldn't remember who else (a review I read on IMDB, maybe?).

But since it was what pushed me to watch the show- and I'm loving it- I'm down with it.