Meme, part 1
Doing a few of these, on accounta my man has abandoned me for the night. Well, no, he's upstairs, but STILL.
lazar_grrl asked for Fannish Top Five Fictional Hardasses.
1. Batman. I mean, just...Batman.
2. Wonder Woman. Because Batman will do any number of things to you, but Diana will just beat the shit out of you.
3. Xena. And depending on the season, Gabrielle.
4. Michael Westen. Which is kind of cheating, because Fi and Sam would be along, anyway, but still.
5. Jessica Fletcher. No, seriously: would you want to be on Jessica's bad side?
sugar_for_sugar asked for Top Five Candies!
1. I am quite possibly the only person in the world who really, really likes Hershey's Milk Chocolate.
2. That said, Cadbury's Milk is also a favorite.
3. Butter mints. Mmmnnn.
4. Kraft caramels. Okay, admittedly, that one's nostalgia. We used to to take them to Reds' games. The fudge ones were good, too.
5. Tree bark candy, made in my own kitchen. Loooooove sweet and salty. I make it with Matzo for Passover.
madripoor_rose asked for Top five superheroes
1. Nightwing. I love Dick Grayson in all his incarnations, but I find him most interesting as Nightwing.
2. Batman. Yeah.
3. Oracle. I love Babs as Batgirl, but the way she turned her tragedy into action, without ever pretending it wasn't a tragedy, is just amazing.
4. Wonder Woman. I mean...she's Wonder Woman.
5. Wendy Watson. She so counts.
dorinda asked for Top Five Plot Twists. (Or maybe, "plot developments," if Twists feels too specific/limiting. That moment where Something Happens and you go, "...oh, wow.")
1. "No, Luke, I am your father." Seriously, if you didn't experience that completely unspoiled, if you weren't there, if your classmates weren't playing Star Wars at recess or your co-workers weren't going to see it for the seventh time, you just can't know what an absolute mind-blower that was.
2. Babylon 5, the break-away from Earth. A week before, I had been on the phone with a friend saying that no, they weren't really going to, because it would be too much to deal with. And then they DID. And better, they actually dealt with it, with setting up security and figuring out food, and what to do when it was all over, because we all know that "go back to the way it was" never quite works out. For those of us wise in the ways of TV, it was really quite something.
3. The Dark Tower series goes meta. I remain to this day ambivalent about it (or rather, I kind of wish he hadn't done it, but since he did, I think the result was kind of cool), but that doesn't lessen that at the time, it was really a kind of, "Wait, can he do that? He can't do that."
4. Bruce Wayne finally adopts Dick Grayson. There was just not a single angle from which that was not awesome. Okay, the whole, "Hey, Grayson, you're from Gotham, aren't you?" stuff later was kind of head-bangy, but I deeply love the storyline.
5. Angel becomes Angelus, Buffy. I mean, I just really did not see that coming. And the way it played out was really, really cool.
lazar_grrl asked for Fannish Top Five Fictional Hardasses.
1. Batman. I mean, just...Batman.
2. Wonder Woman. Because Batman will do any number of things to you, but Diana will just beat the shit out of you.
3. Xena. And depending on the season, Gabrielle.
4. Michael Westen. Which is kind of cheating, because Fi and Sam would be along, anyway, but still.
5. Jessica Fletcher. No, seriously: would you want to be on Jessica's bad side?
sugar_for_sugar asked for Top Five Candies!
1. I am quite possibly the only person in the world who really, really likes Hershey's Milk Chocolate.
2. That said, Cadbury's Milk is also a favorite.
3. Butter mints. Mmmnnn.
4. Kraft caramels. Okay, admittedly, that one's nostalgia. We used to to take them to Reds' games. The fudge ones were good, too.
5. Tree bark candy, made in my own kitchen. Loooooove sweet and salty. I make it with Matzo for Passover.
madripoor_rose asked for Top five superheroes
1. Nightwing. I love Dick Grayson in all his incarnations, but I find him most interesting as Nightwing.
2. Batman. Yeah.
3. Oracle. I love Babs as Batgirl, but the way she turned her tragedy into action, without ever pretending it wasn't a tragedy, is just amazing.
4. Wonder Woman. I mean...she's Wonder Woman.
5. Wendy Watson. She so counts.
dorinda asked for Top Five Plot Twists. (Or maybe, "plot developments," if Twists feels too specific/limiting. That moment where Something Happens and you go, "...oh, wow.")
1. "No, Luke, I am your father." Seriously, if you didn't experience that completely unspoiled, if you weren't there, if your classmates weren't playing Star Wars at recess or your co-workers weren't going to see it for the seventh time, you just can't know what an absolute mind-blower that was.
2. Babylon 5, the break-away from Earth. A week before, I had been on the phone with a friend saying that no, they weren't really going to, because it would be too much to deal with. And then they DID. And better, they actually dealt with it, with setting up security and figuring out food, and what to do when it was all over, because we all know that "go back to the way it was" never quite works out. For those of us wise in the ways of TV, it was really quite something.
3. The Dark Tower series goes meta. I remain to this day ambivalent about it (or rather, I kind of wish he hadn't done it, but since he did, I think the result was kind of cool), but that doesn't lessen that at the time, it was really a kind of, "Wait, can he do that? He can't do that."
4. Bruce Wayne finally adopts Dick Grayson. There was just not a single angle from which that was not awesome. Okay, the whole, "Hey, Grayson, you're from Gotham, aren't you?" stuff later was kind of head-bangy, but I deeply love the storyline.
5. Angel becomes Angelus, Buffy. I mean, I just really did not see that coming. And the way it played out was really, really cool.