the revenge of the tv meme

[kaydeefalls]

I'm bored. I mean, I am eternally grateful that for a short space of time I have had ACTUAL WEEKENDS, and I'm sure I'll be kicking myself this time next week when I realize yup, they're going away again for another few months. But I have no particular fannish projects holding my attention at the moment (still in post-Big Bang slump, though it still needs another round of editing once my betas have had a chance to slog through it) and nothing much to DO. I've watched another disc of True Blood, which finishes the first season. There are other shows I'm vaguely interested in, but none enough to seek out for download. And while I would love to curl up with my laptop and read good fic, I'm still in a Jack/Ianto frame of mind and I've spent the past month rereading just about every halfway decent fic for the pairing, and I want to read NEW fic. But that fandom's taken a bit of a hit since CoE, and even the CoE fix-it phase of fandom seems to have died down, at least for the moment.

And there is no new Doctor Who today. TRAGIC.

So instead I'll knock out a few more of the TV meme, since I am terminally incapable of posting on anything resembling a regular basis.


Day 19 - Best TV show cast

I freaking LOVE ensemble shows. TEAMS! The biggest downfall of Doctor Who, for my particular tastes, is that it focuses too tightly on the Doctor and the Companion. This is why I get so bloody excited about multiple companions, like Nine & Rose & Jack, or Eleven & Amy & Rory, and why for all of the many pitfalls of "Journey's End", I will love it forever for giving us all of those awesome people flying the TARDIS together. The TEAM! element of Torchwood is vastly more important to me than my shipping Jack/Ianto, and my biggest problem with CoE. But I digress, clearly. So: Whoniverse, basically out for this one.

THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD ENSEMBLE SHOWS, guys! I clearly cannot pick just one! Here, have a celebratory picspam of AWESOME TEAMS BEING AWESOME.




















Day 20 - Favorite kiss

I was going to say, there is no way I can narrow this down. And then maybe try to picspam you again. Because there's Mulder/Scully in "Millennium", and Nine/Rose in "Parting of the Ways", and Simon/Kaylee MAKING THE FUCK OUT FINALLY in "Serenity" (yes I know that's the movie, but it's just an extension of the show and it totally counts), and Stuart/Vince at Vince's birthday party, and and and...

But no. Look, I have a ship for every show, and every kiss is awesome. But I do play favorites occasionally.



Look, this is the scene that made me start watching the Whoniverse as a whole. I had seen nothing, and then I saw this scene on YouTube, and then I downloaded the first episode of new!Who and went for it in order to eventually see this in context. That is one damn important kiss in my fannish life.

Also, NNGK.


Day 21 - Favorite ship

DO WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN.

Picspams take a freaking long time. I'm going to be lazy now.

Torchwood - Jack/Ianto. Doctor Who - Doctor/Rose, Amy/Rory(/Doctor). West Wing - CJ/Danny. Firefly - Zoe/Wash. QAF UK - Vince/Stuart. X-Files - Mulder/Scully. All of these are ships for which I will trawl the internet for quite literally weeks or months on end, to varying degrees of success. Every show has its own ship, but those are the ones that are still my bulletproof kinks. I am not shippy to the exclusion of other pairings, nor to the point of hating any pairings involving just one of my ship. But yeah.


Day 22 - Favorite series finale

...hmm. Most series tend to drift by the end; there are very few series finales that leave me satisfied. I'm definitely not counting miniseries here, because they're written to be one complete story -- otherwise "Points" for Band of Brothers would be an automatic win.

Toss-up: "West Wing" ended VERY well, given how long the show ran; the final episode is a bit sentimental, but god knows it earned it. And I love love LOVE Josh in the Oval Office with Santos -- "What's next?" BIG SPARKLY HEARTS.

But also? Queer as Folk UK. Now there was one show Russell T Davies showed out with style. Everyone gets their own freaking awesome epilogue -- Hazel gets married (for tax reasons)! Bernard becomes a porn baron! Nathan becomes king of the world! -- and, most importantly: There are many rumours about Stuart and Vince -- all of them true. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Comments

[msilverstar]

Ensemble shows, I hadn't thought of that but yeah! I have such happy memories of MASH and Emergency and Thirtysomething (back when I was twentysomething) and Northern Lights, and Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere...

Learned something about myself there.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Darn it, I miss a few days and now you're ahead of me! :)

You have some impressive dedication to start with the beginning of NuWho in order to get a Torchwood kiss in context! Go you.

for all of the many pitfalls of "Journey's End", I will love it forever for giving us all of those awesome people flying the TARDIS together.

Yeah. Up until Ten lands the TARDIS at bloody Bad Wolf Bay, I utterly adore JE. So many awesome people trying to save the Earth! TARDIS-flying party!!!! It's so satisfying. And then all of a sudden the show makes me cry.

[coldwater1010.livejournal.com]

Apparently I prefer shows that revolve around teams or groups of people and their interactions rather than shows that have one or two characters as their main cast too. All my favourite shows have had that element.

The TEAM! element of Torchwood is vastly more important to me than my shipping Jack/Ianto, and my biggest problem with CoE.

The team interaction was the main reason I watched Torchwood. That was the biggest loss I felt in COE.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Ensembles are just so much more interesting -- so many different dynamics to play. (I have recently started watching MASH from the very beginning. I'm all of two episodes in and it is RIDICULOUSLY SLASHY.)

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Word on "Journey's End". Up until Bad Wolf Bay, it is a BRILLIANT and extremely satisfying episode. And then the Doctor starts taking everyone else's choices away from them, and I get upset.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

There are just so many more interesting interpersonal dynamics possible with groups rather than pairs. And, yeah, that's the big advantage Torchwood used to have over Who, until CoE.