Top Five Meme

[potentiality_26]

Ask me my "Top Five" anything!

Saw this on my dash on tumblr and thought I'd bring it over here, if anyone wants to ask.
 

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[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

ummmm
top 5 favorite doctor who episodes.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

1. "Turn Left" (I love alternate universe stuff, and this episode is really important to me)
2. "A Christmas Carol" (my favorite Christmas special)
3. "The Doctor Dances" (it's hard to separate this one from "The Empty Child" but if I have to pick I prefer the conclusion. I have a lot of feelings about early Jack Harkness, okay?)
4. "Journey's End" (also hard to separate from the part before it, "The Stolen Earth" and in this case they really run together for me, I just love all the companions- and all their companions- working together at once)
5. "The Doctor's Wife" (I loved all the cool stuff that happened in this episode, and of course the human TARDIS was awesome)

This was hard though. There are lots of episodes I love.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Favorite Shows (old and new).

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

1. Profit (single best thing ever aired on television, all nine episodes of it)
2. Star Trek Voyager (I grew up on this show, and it's Star Trek)
3. Star Trek Deep Space Nine (I didn't get into this one while it was airing, but I think you have to be in the right headspace to get DS9, and when I finally did I loved it like it was my job)
4. Stargate SG-1 (I loved every minute of this show, more or less, and of course you know about me and Daniel Jackson)
5. Ultraviolet (also a short lived program, but 100% the best vampire show ever)

These are all off-sir shows, because I withhold judgement on true "this is my favorite show" until then, because who knows when it could go to hell. As far currently airing shows:

1. The Blacklist (I can't really be mad at this show)
2. The Musketeers (this show is basically my crack)
3. Orphan Black (speaks for itself)
4. Doctor Who (I haven't watched it recently, but I do still love it and I'll get caught up eventually)
5. Castle (I've always loved this show, and it's aging fairly well)

As an example of 'going to hell' I'm pretty mad at Sleepy Hollow right now, which is why it isn't up there, but I live in hope that it'll win me back over.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Let me love you for this list!! Whoot!!

*Happy!Hugs*

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

Top five Doctor Who plot twists?

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Tough one.

1. Does centurion!Rory count as a plot twist? That arc is one of my favorites.
2. The new Master. I haven't watched all of the current season, and I haven't loved everything I have seen, but I loved that particular twist so much.
3. All the companions working together in "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" was great, though not necessarily a twist. I especially loved Martha, Mickey and Jack going off together. I will sulk for the rest of my life about not getting an actual Torchwood S3 (not the travesty that was COE) with Martha and Mickey as replacements for Owen and Tosh. They could have actually built a relationship between those two instead of just going 'Hey, they got together' in Ten's last episode.
4. Canton Delaware's boyfriend/significant other. I spent that whole episode going 'I hope he wants to marry a man' and he did! Canton is one of my favorite one-off characters ever.
5. River being Amy and Rory's daughter. Moffat's payoffs aren't always as good as they could be, but that came together so well.

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

Many a good thing here :D But absolutely a big yes to what S3 of Torchwood should have been! That would have been so grand to have both Martha and Micky join the team. I would have loved that. I don't concider COE a travesty as I did think it was a good story, however scary and sad, but I do feel it ruined too much. I would much more have liked more seasons ala the first two than all the angst and heart-break that followed.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

I agree that COE was well-made, but when a show's writers dismantle everything I ever loved about said show, I call it a travesty now matter how good it was.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Top 5 books that were influential to you.

Also, if you'd like to do another one: top 5 favorite women characters.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Books:

1. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (I live for this book)
2. All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriet (my mother read this to me as a kid, and it definitely shaped me)
3. Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (first female-driven fantasy I ever read- before that it was all Tolkien and Redwall- very formative)
4. Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson (military sci-fi/fantasy written like a memoir, all about how history is written by the victors, super thought-provoking)
5. Does The Collected Works of William Shakespeare count? (I act in Shakespeare plays a lot and I adore them)

If they don't count, then The Book of John Mandeville (a medieval 'tour guide' book written by a guy who clearly did more drugs than traveling, and which his contemporaries used as an honest-to-god source for what was out in the world even though he was just making shit up, I wrote my thesis on it)

Favorite women characters:

1. Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek Voyager (she was my hero growing up and she still is)
2. Claire Bennet, Heroes (fight me)
3. Martha Jones, Doctor Who (one of the only companions who didn't need powers from outside herself to save the world; I love Donna and everything, but Martha is my girl and she doesn't get enough love)
4. Vala Mal Doran, Stargate SG-1 (she's so funny and crazy and yet complex)
5. Milady de Winter, The Musketeers (they took this ridiculous characature of a femme fatale from the book and made her into such a layered and amazing antagonist, I love her so much)

I wish I could add Jenny Mills and Melinda May, but since I'm upset with both shows at the moment they're bumped to lower numbers.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

2. Claire Bennet, Heroes

YAY CLAIRE. ♥

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

♥

When it comes to Claire I'm actually kind of glad I missed the heyday of this fandom, because she gets a lot of hate and I would fight duels over her.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Oh believe me, as someone who used to be in that fandom during its beginning, there was. Granted there was a lot of hate and drama surrounding many things, most of the women unfortunately got caught in the crossfire. I'm someone who has loved and am still protective over them, from Niki to Claire. ♥

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

I loved them all too (and when I didn't it was easy to blame the plot, not them- like with Maya), but Claire's special to me.

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Top 5 favourite songs.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

1. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon (and let me tell you, this is a rough favorite song to have if people ask you in a social setting)
2. Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills and Nash (I listened to this song constantly as a kid and it still sends me to my happy place)
3. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits (same as above)
4. Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky (my favorite instrumental song)
5. Have You Heard by Thea Gilmore (I love everything ever by Thea Gilmore, and this was the first song of hers I ever heard, so it has a special place in my heart)

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard any of those songs before. It's always great to check out something new to listen to :)

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

:)