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[scarfman]

Five fannish things meme responses.

• from billfl: Who are your top 5 favorite fan relationships? Alternately, which five relationships seem to makes sense to you even though there's little to no established basis for them?
  1. Doctor/Peri, Doctor Who. I don't have a favorite Doctor but I have a favorite companion. Though I've never been a 'shipper I'm taking a stab at this one these days (but my general inability to sustain a plot for more than four to ten panels is getting in the way).
  2. Archer/T'Pol/Tucker, Star Trek: Enterprise. For two and a half years the producers couldn't make up their mind which of the two men they were going to pair T'Pol with. By the time they did, I'd decided for them in my only previous attempt at extra-sourcework* 'shipping.
  3. Buffy/Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. First of all, I said about a quarter into season six that Buffy was just using Spike, and about a third of the season later she said the same thing. All the cookie dough metaphor really meant was, "I found a new way to be in denial about this," but she'll grow up.
  4. O'Neill/Carter, Stargate SG-1. You can't tell me they haven't been sleeping together since he left her chain of command. Especially after the first twenty minutes of Continuum you can't.
  5. Lois Lane/Superman. I mean, come on.
• from omorka: Your top five M*A*S*H quotes.
  1. "There are certain rules about a war. Rule number one is, young men die. Rule number two is, doctors can't change rule number one."
  2. "You're going to kill yourself one day." "If I have to." "If we had more men like you we'd have less men like you."
  3. "Radar, you tricked me!! ... I gave a discharge to a sheep. ... I'm losing my mind. ... I've got command on my tail!! And a hospital full of Greeks, waiting for a lamb that is on a plane, on his way to Iowa, to become Radar's little brother."
  4. "What's normal, Frank?" "Normal is everybody doing the same thing." "What about individuality, Frank?" "Individuality's fine - as long as we all do it together."
  5. "We'll see. Then we'll know."
• from bewarethespork: - Strong female characters?
  Hard to pick only five, but:
  1. Mary Richards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Mary might often come off as wishy-washy (you know, I really don't remember; I haven't rewatched the show in decades), but in the end she doesn't let you walk all over her.
  2. Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, M*A*S*H. Too strong, this one. As much or more in denial of her emotions as Spock; Major Freedman once called her "ten kinds of emotion looking for an exit". But Frank and Donald were learning experiences, and she learned.
  3. Colonel Samantha Carter, Stargate franchise. Built a career on her own terms in a man's field, and became the one everyone depends on in a crisis.
  4. Nyota Uhura. Doesn't get a lot of lines, but quietly breaks down the boundaries just by being there**.
  5. Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Flawed, but at the very root of her she's the subversion of Helen/Guenevere/Pauline stereotype.
• from bewarethespork: - Characters you started off hating and ended up loving?
  1. I don't hate anyone.
• from bewarethespork: - Classic Who companions?
  1. Peri. There are three great things about Peri, and the third is the way everyone extrapolates much the same backstory for her from the minimal information in the first serial she was in.
  2. Susan. The original, you might say.
  3. Sarah Jane. Barely edged out of my top five strong women, she's the only companion to get two shots at a spinoff***.
  4. Leela and/or Jamie. Being all brain, the Doctor works well with a companion who's all action.
  5. Rose. Because she shook him out of his post-Time War PTSD, because the Doctor believes he was his One True Love even if I don't, and because qtrhorserider would kill me if I left her off even when the question was classic companions.
• from rustyverse: Spaceships!
  I don't go in for hardware much, but:
  1. The Enterprise, "no bloody A, B, C or D".
  2. The Millennium Falcon.
  3. Serenity.
  4. Discovery.
  5. The Enterprise-D.

* What do you call what the next fan would call non-canon when you don't believe in canon?
** Master of unintentional alliteration!
*** The tin dog doesn't count.

Comments

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

The Enterprise, "no bloody A, B, C or D".

I Approve.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Mary's got spunk.

Lou hates spunk.

[billfl.livejournal.com]

Lois/Clark is - I don't really know how to describe it except to say they're an actial canon (sorry) OTP!

a hospital full of Greeks, waiting for a lamb that is on a plane, on his way to Iowa, to become Radar's little brother
The Spam Lamb!

[scarfman]

they're an actial canon (sorry) OTP!

Is that an objection? Because if you mean fanon relationship when you said fan relationship I didn't get it. That'd disqualify O'Neill/Carter too. And Buffy/Angel.