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Okay, so first you list 6 of your favoritecurrently airing TV shows*. (Note: I changed this to any TV show, current or not since most of what I watch is no longer airing).
1) FARSCAPE
2) VERONICA MARS
3) DOCTOR WHO
4) TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
5) THE WIRE
6) MAD MEN
*Except for six, these are listed in the order in which they broke my heart
01.) Who is your favorite character from #2?
Dude, you know it's Veronica - yeah she's smart, sassy, equally quick with her wit and her taser but it's her oh, so fallable and old-beyond her years mix of self-knowledge and self-delusion that makes her a keeper.
02.) Who is your least favorite character from #4?
Besides Skynet (genocidal robots suck, yo)? I'm back to hating on Derek Reese. I'm not sure that qualifies as least favourite, though. I'd have to go with Charley Dixon. It's not that I don't love him, it's that I don't quite pine for him when he's gone.
03.) What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
My mind breaking, mostly. Um, John Connor and Aeryn Sun fighting a losing war against drug crime in the underbelly of some gritty alien city, I suppose.
04.) Who is your favorite ship from #6?
Don Draper/me - it would be a doomed but extremely hot affair. Oh, you mean on the show? Well, I don't know that I'd ever want them to actually fuck but there's something powerful in Don Draper and Peggy Olsen's relationship. He's her amoral mentor and she's the one girl he can't sell. They keep each other's secrets in a place where the power is in maintaining the image. On a show where there's no making love - you either fuck or you're getting fucked - Don and Peggy teeter in the grey area between the intimate and the erotic.
05.) If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
I could see the Doctor walking in a charming Joan Holloway away from her typewritter, couldn't you? After all, he is a doctor.
06.) If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be and what would you do?
I don't think you ever want to meet anyone from THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES - if Sarah Connor shows up at your door, you better have your life insurance paid up and your will in order. But that said, if Sarah Connor did show up at my door, we'd do what Sarah Connor always does: we'd save the world.
07.) If you could change one thing about #2's plotline, what would you change?
The bus crash in season two meandered. I'll give Rob Thomas the benefit of the doubt that he always knew whodunnit but it would have been a better season if Veronica had solved the mystery in the second episode only to discover she was wrong later on. Unlike Lily Kane's death, Veronica's connection to the bus crash always felt tenuous and coincidental, making the audience work too hard to believe that Veronica believed the bus crash was meant to kill her.
08.) Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5 and why you like the relationship between them.
Leland Freeman + everyone was one of the best parts of the show. Freeman comes into season one a nameless, dialogue-less face in the background only to turn into hands-down the best natural po-lice of the bunch. He's a mentor to Prez and Kima, a conscious for Daniels and can drink Bunk under the bar. But watching Freeman and McNulty's folie a deux was one of the most painful, brilliant arcs of the show as the old hand and the young turk immolate themselves in righteous outrage at a system designed to fail the people and the city they've sworn to serve and protect.
09.) If the lead title characters (first names in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
Dude, John Crichton over Ten any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
10.) If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
Nope, the credits work just fine for me. The marketing, on the other hand...
11.) If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline of #6, what would the character be like, and what would their role be?
As much as I don't subscribe to the auteur theory of TV - it's far too collaborative a medium, even more so than film due to the amount of material produced over fairly tight timelines - I wouldn't mess with Matt Weiner's roster of characters.
12.) What happens in your favorite episode of show #2?
I don't want to say because it's a mystery show and if you haven't seen it, you don't want to know. Suffice it to say, by the end of the penultimate episode of Season One, Veronica has lost her faith in every one she knew from before Lily's death. "A Trip to the Dentist" has perhaps the rawest performance of the show from Kristen Bell as Veronica confronts who she believes to be her rapist only to discover that the truth is kind of worse.
13.) If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it?
Scorpius has outlived his usefulness as a villain so I'd introduce an even badder, more dangerous threat to John and Aeryn who Scorpious would try to manipulate for his own ends only to be very surprised to be bested and killed at the end of episode one.
14.) If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose?
Dude, I'd visit a Doctor Who shoot in Cardiff in a heartbeat.
15.) If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person would it be?
Ellison from THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES - he's decent, moral, upstanding, intelligent and sane. True, he's also judgemental, arrogant and has a martyr complex but he also has a fine, fine voice that makes me kind of quivery on th inside when he says the word "Row-boughts".
I want Don Draper to take me away for a weekend, fuck me stupid and look at me with those "you could save me and make me better" eyes of his but we'd both know he was a lying bastard. John Crichton's married. John Connor isn't legal yet (and his mother would kill me dead). Derek Reese is an asshole. So are Logan Echolls and Ten. Jack Harkness is a hottie but he'd cheat on me or give me space herpes. No, no and OH HELL NO to getting involved with any of the burnouts on THE WIRE and Daniels has a partner. And Sarah Connor doesn't date.
I would, however, be kind of interested in finding out just how far John Henry's 'functionality' extends.
lenageekOkay, so first you list 6 of your favorite
1) FARSCAPE
2) VERONICA MARS
3) DOCTOR WHO
4) TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
5) THE WIRE
6) MAD MEN
*Except for six, these are listed in the order in which they broke my heart
01.) Who is your favorite character from #2?
Dude, you know it's Veronica - yeah she's smart, sassy, equally quick with her wit and her taser but it's her oh, so fallable and old-beyond her years mix of self-knowledge and self-delusion that makes her a keeper.
02.) Who is your least favorite character from #4?
Besides Skynet (genocidal robots suck, yo)? I'm back to hating on Derek Reese. I'm not sure that qualifies as least favourite, though. I'd have to go with Charley Dixon. It's not that I don't love him, it's that I don't quite pine for him when he's gone.
03.) What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
My mind breaking, mostly. Um, John Connor and Aeryn Sun fighting a losing war against drug crime in the underbelly of some gritty alien city, I suppose.
04.) Who is your favorite ship from #6?
Don Draper/me - it would be a doomed but extremely hot affair. Oh, you mean on the show? Well, I don't know that I'd ever want them to actually fuck but there's something powerful in Don Draper and Peggy Olsen's relationship. He's her amoral mentor and she's the one girl he can't sell. They keep each other's secrets in a place where the power is in maintaining the image. On a show where there's no making love - you either fuck or you're getting fucked - Don and Peggy teeter in the grey area between the intimate and the erotic.
05.) If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
I could see the Doctor walking in a charming Joan Holloway away from her typewritter, couldn't you? After all, he is a doctor.
06.) If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be and what would you do?
I don't think you ever want to meet anyone from THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES - if Sarah Connor shows up at your door, you better have your life insurance paid up and your will in order. But that said, if Sarah Connor did show up at my door, we'd do what Sarah Connor always does: we'd save the world.
07.) If you could change one thing about #2's plotline, what would you change?
The bus crash in season two meandered. I'll give Rob Thomas the benefit of the doubt that he always knew whodunnit but it would have been a better season if Veronica had solved the mystery in the second episode only to discover she was wrong later on. Unlike Lily Kane's death, Veronica's connection to the bus crash always felt tenuous and coincidental, making the audience work too hard to believe that Veronica believed the bus crash was meant to kill her.
08.) Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5 and why you like the relationship between them.
Leland Freeman + everyone was one of the best parts of the show. Freeman comes into season one a nameless, dialogue-less face in the background only to turn into hands-down the best natural po-lice of the bunch. He's a mentor to Prez and Kima, a conscious for Daniels and can drink Bunk under the bar. But watching Freeman and McNulty's folie a deux was one of the most painful, brilliant arcs of the show as the old hand and the young turk immolate themselves in righteous outrage at a system designed to fail the people and the city they've sworn to serve and protect.
09.) If the lead title characters (first names in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
Dude, John Crichton over Ten any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
10.) If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
Nope, the credits work just fine for me. The marketing, on the other hand...
11.) If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline of #6, what would the character be like, and what would their role be?
As much as I don't subscribe to the auteur theory of TV - it's far too collaborative a medium, even more so than film due to the amount of material produced over fairly tight timelines - I wouldn't mess with Matt Weiner's roster of characters.
12.) What happens in your favorite episode of show #2?
I don't want to say because it's a mystery show and if you haven't seen it, you don't want to know. Suffice it to say, by the end of the penultimate episode of Season One, Veronica has lost her faith in every one she knew from before Lily's death. "A Trip to the Dentist" has perhaps the rawest performance of the show from Kristen Bell as Veronica confronts who she believes to be her rapist only to discover that the truth is kind of worse.
13.) If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it?
Scorpius has outlived his usefulness as a villain so I'd introduce an even badder, more dangerous threat to John and Aeryn who Scorpious would try to manipulate for his own ends only to be very surprised to be bested and killed at the end of episode one.
14.) If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose?
Dude, I'd visit a Doctor Who shoot in Cardiff in a heartbeat.
15.) If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person would it be?
Ellison from THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES - he's decent, moral, upstanding, intelligent and sane. True, he's also judgemental, arrogant and has a martyr complex but he also has a fine, fine voice that makes me kind of quivery on th inside when he says the word "Row-boughts".
I want Don Draper to take me away for a weekend, fuck me stupid and look at me with those "you could save me and make me better" eyes of his but we'd both know he was a lying bastard. John Crichton's married. John Connor isn't legal yet (and his mother would kill me dead). Derek Reese is an asshole. So are Logan Echolls and Ten. Jack Harkness is a hottie but he'd cheat on me or give me space herpes. No, no and OH HELL NO to getting involved with any of the burnouts on THE WIRE and Daniels has a partner. And Sarah Connor doesn't date.
I would, however, be kind of interested in finding out just how far John Henry's 'functionality' extends.