Yay it's Friday meme

[frayadjacent]

Snagged from lostdragonfound 

Send me a show and I'll tell you...
- The first character I fell in love with:
- The character who is my ‘baby’:
- The character who I do not understand:
- The character that I think the show ruined:
- The most attractive male and female character:
- The character death that was the worst for me:
- The character that is the most like me:
- The character I think the writer(s) love:
- The character that I just want to be happy:
- My four favorite characters, past or present:
- My four least favorite characters, past or present:

I think all my shows appear in my tags list?

Comments

[frayadjacent]

Oh, awesome, I never talk about AtS anymore!

- The first character I fell in love with: I'm having a hard time remembering! I love Cordelia, but I know I didn't the first time I watched BtVS, and that might have been the case with AtS as well. So I'm going to go with Lorne, because I adored him pretty darn fast.

- The character who is my ‘baby’: Ahhhh definitely Lorne. Especially after his last scene in "Not Fade Away".

- The character who I do not understand: I've been sitting here for several minutes and I can't think of any. Which is a hallmark of a good show, I say. If I were doing this about Battlestar Galactica or Doctor Who, on the other hand, I'd list the majority of characters. :(

- The character that I think the show ruined: Oh, I know this one! All the female characters! No I mean mainly Cordelia. Her season 4 stuff is basically the definition of ruining a character, in my book. And I don't know about ruined, but I'd say they pretty much wasted Fred.

- The most attractive male and female character: Gunn, especially in Season 5 when he has a little hair and wears a suit. He wears suits really well. Cordelia is stunningly gorgeous in a pretty straightforward sort of way. As is Lilah.

- The character death that was the worst for me: Fred, in the way they totally fridged her and used her to develop Wesley, and in that it was genuinely awful and tear-jerking to watch.

- The character that is the most like me: Huh, maybe some combination of Fred and Gunn?

- The character I think the writer(s) love: Wesley.

- The character that I just want to be happy: Lorne! Ugh my heart.

- My four favorite characters, past or present: Gunn, Cordelia, Lorne, and Wesley in the first two seasons. For the record, I think Wesley and Angel (especially Wesley) are really well-written, but I don't like them.

- My four least favorite characters, past or present: I don't know about four, but I always had a super hard time connecting to Darla or Lesley. I just couldn't sympathize with their struggles or desires. I could intellectually recognize that they had interesting stories, and the way they related to Angel in S2 is really well done, but on an emotional level they just never clicked for me.

[endeni]

/Which is a hallmark of a good show, I say./ - Totally! ;)
We are in agreement about Cordelia and Fred's treatment. *nods*
Also, I'm with you about Darla and Lindsey. You can say I only connected with Darla at the moment of her heroic death scene and I found her "vision" by Connor during season 4 really moving. Lindsey I didn't really connected during last season, maybe 'cause his motives weren't deeply explained...

[frayadjacent]

Yeah, Connor's vision of Darla -- or whatever was going on there -- was great, I agree. Probably one of my favorite scenes from that arc.

I felt like Lindsey was ambitious and smart and also had a lot of class hatred, expressed as wanting to rise to the top/beat the other guy...and I guess that's about as far as I think about it? His obsession with Darla annoyed me, though. I like him best as a foil for Angel, especially in light of Angel's choices in S5 to join Wolfram & Hart.

(A lot of what I think about Lindsey is highly influenced by obsessive24's vid Cukoo -- I assume you've seen it? But it doesn't really help me like him or want to see him on my screen more!)

[endeni]

/obsessive24's vid Cukoo -- I assume you've seen it?/ Oh yes, loved it! ;)
Personally I didn't mind Lindsey's obsession with Darla very much 'cause I thought Julie Benz and Christian Kane were great together. ;)
ETA: BTW have you seen astartexx's "Bite you" vid? It's Darla PoV, with some Darla/Lindsey.

[frayadjacent]

Ooh, I hadn't. Thanks for the rec!

(heh, every time I say something like that I think of possessed!Xander saying "Thanks for the tip!" in "After Life".)

[endeni]

LOL