Character Meme
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
spiletta42 gave me the letter 'D'. Because she wanted to make it very easy for me.
Donna Noble (Doctor Who): I think that I fell for Donna when she calmed down on the rooftops of London and sat with the Doctor and talked with him. She gave him a moment to grieve, showed no interest in him sexually (which was nice because while I find Tennant incredibly sexy, not everyone does and it's good for the show to acknowledge that), and got miffed at him when he talked about her like she didn't matter. All the wonderful things that Donna 'becomes' in S4 she already is in that scene. Donna Noble is a good person, who is capable of standing up to (quite possibly) the most remarkable man in the universe. She's magnificent and always will be.
Dexter Morgan (Dexter): A funny and sympathetic serial killer. Before I actually saw the show, that description would have turned me off so hard. But he really is a very strong, interesting, compelling character. And, with Debra, he also has one of the few intense sibling relationships on TV that vibes as solely sibling-ekse, rather than borderline incestual. His relationship with Rita and her kids has been fascinating to watch. Brilliant show, brilliant character.
Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1): Oh, Daniel. SG1 is definitely 'the Daniel show' to me. Even S6 is defined in terms of his story arc. I love his mind, his passion for knowledge, his interactions with his team -- pretty much everything. I'm a canon serial monogamist -- I ship Daniel/Sha're, Daniel/Jack, and Daniel/Vala.
Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series): She was the first character on-screen to show us Joss Whedon's two BtVS rules: 1) the cliche is going to be subverted and 2) the female characters are never as helpless as you think they are. She ended up getting character depth and a great arc and some really fantastic lines. Darla was amazing and tough and a pretty damn good actress. She was true to herself when she was evil and when she wasn't. She told (what she believed to be) a priest scolding her for not going to church that maybe he should have visited her (as a prostitute).
Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter): I have a bit of a weakness for the bratty nemesis who was never as important to the hero as he wanted to be (see: MacDonald, Lindsey). While I think that JKR could have done more with Draco (and, in fact, any of the themes she brought up in the first six books), I'm pretty happy with what I got in Half-Blood Prince. He's snotty and racist and listens too much to his parents... but he isn't a killer and he isn't an irredeemable monster.
Debra Morgan (Dexter): I love Debra and her very foul mouth. I really love that she isn't the bombshell beauty described in the books, that she's a bit of a tall, skinny, awkward tomboy type instead. I love that she's trying to live up to what she thinks her dad would want (and I'm hoping that she'll grow past it). I'm amused that in S1, she dated the brother of her brother and in S2, she dated someone who was a lot like her father. She's got a lot of character and fight and she's so very much not perfect, but she tries so hard to be a good person. I love her.
Doctor, The (Doctor Who): There's a bit, up top, where I call the Doctor 'quite possibly the most remarkable man in the universe'. And, really, that kinda sums it up for me. For good or ill, he's definitely remarkable. He's dangerous and charming. He's deadly, but dorky. He's casually cruel, but can be attentively sweet. He's a complicated puzzlebox of a man who happens to be an alien. All of those things are true for him in any regeneration, though the mixture gets switched around a bit, depending.
It's also no shock to regular readers that I think that David Tennant (and David also starts with a 'D', though I suppose people might argue that he doesn't count as fictional), who plays the tenth Doctor, is a majorly talented actor and incredibly attractive and charismatic. I can't think of any other actor that I would fly to another country to watch in a play (across country, yes. another country, no.).