Characters I Love Meme
Snagged from green_queen.
•Post a list of 20 TV shows you watch/ed.
•Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show.
•When someone guesses your favorite character, bold the title.
•When guessed, tell us at least one reason why you like that character.
1. Buffy: the Vampire Slayer: Faith Lehane. Everything about Faith is so extreme. She clings to the slayer persona because she has nothing else. And her story arc is just plain awesome. Every time she tries to dig herself out of the hole she's in, her shovel just snaps in half.
2. Angel
3. Firefly: Badger (minor character). I guess I am really charmed by the whole antagonist-or-ally thing. And the man's got style, you can't deny that! Jayne Cobb (major character). I think this actually might be just that he got the best stories (IMO), particularly in Jaynestown and Ariel. I liked how, even though a lot of what he did was so expected, he was also full of surprises. (Seriously, how adorable is he in Heart of Gold?!)
4. Dollhouse: Boyd Langton. I know a lot of people were pissed by the Boyd plot twist. But he was my favorite before, and he was still my favorite after. I think it's amazing writing (and acting) that you can take the character he was, the mormoral compass of the show, and then do that, and have it be plausible.
5. Veronica Mars: Cliff McCormack. Ugh, what can I say? He's amazing, like a character straight out of a pulp novel. Perceptive and smart and good at his thankless job, but also a bit smarmy and sleazy and too cynical by half.
6. Pushing Daisies: Emerson Cod. He's so grumpy and cuddly at the same time!!! How is possible?! He knit himself a goddamn gun cozy. GUN. COZY.
7. Dead Like Me: Roxy Harvey. It is all about the attitude, man. Jasmine Guy just brought it. It doesn't hurt that Roxy had the best lines, either. (SIR, I'M GOING TO SAY THIS AS POLITELY AS POSSIBLE: I WILL FUCK YOU UP.)
8. The Golden Girls: Dorothy Zbornak. She keeps it real. SHADY PINES, MA! She also has more of the 'everyman' appeal than the other girls. And the occasional snark about grammar is awesome, too.
9. Haven: Audrey Parker. She is the show. And I am suitably impressed that she manages to function without being in a constant existential crisis coma. (Cupcake room!)
10. Eureka: Nathan Stark. He is just so handsome & sarcastic, okay? And remember that time he built himself a robot son & basically broke all the laws to keep him safe? SWOON. And the way he casually admits to thinking about world domination on a regular basis?
11. The Middleman: Ida. My main selling point when trying to pitch this show to someone has always been "robot on rollerskates". BECAUSE. ROBOT. ROLLERSKATES.
12. Stargate: Atlantis: Sgt. Bates (minor character). Poor Bates. He does what he came to Pegasus to do, and he's good at his job, but he always gets the short end of the stick, and everyone gets pissed at him for being right.
13. Grimm: Monroe. I just instantly loved him, man, I don't know. Every time he gets a little bit geekier, he gets even more awesome. And then I remember that he wasn't always that way; this is what he chose for himself. I LIVE.
14. Chuck: Anna Wu. She's everything I would want in a female character. Smart, badass, comfortable with her sexuality, and uncompromising when it comes to being herself. (Toooootally ignoring you-know-which piece of canon that doesn't fit in with the rest of her characterization at all, and which was written just to service a male character's storyline.)
15. New Girl: Schmidt. I am, like, helpless to resist Max Greenfield, okay? He is just too damn adorable. I love the random things that Schmidt takes very seriously.
16. Alcatraz
17. Highlander
18. In Plain Sight: Mary Shannon. Again, everything I could want in a female character: smart, badass, comfortable with her sexuality. She has a lot of anti-hero characteristics that you typically only see in male protagonists, so that is delightful, as well.
19. Roswell: Maria DeLuca. Maria is sort of an anomaly among my favorite characters. She isn't particularly strong, or brave, or smart, or loyal, even. She has a lot of teenage immaturity and self-centeredness. But she is also capable of great acts of kindness that are actually sort of quiet in their greatness.
20. Enterprise
For about 5 of these, my favorite is a minor character, so I might accept 2 different answers. XD
Burn Notice is not on this meme because I simply cannot choose a favorite.
•Post a list of 20 TV shows you watch/ed.
•Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show.
•When someone guesses your favorite character, bold the title.
•When guessed, tell us at least one reason why you like that character.
1. Buffy: the Vampire Slayer: Faith Lehane. Everything about Faith is so extreme. She clings to the slayer persona because she has nothing else. And her story arc is just plain awesome. Every time she tries to dig herself out of the hole she's in, her shovel just snaps in half.
2. Angel
3. Firefly: Badger (minor character). I guess I am really charmed by the whole antagonist-or-ally thing. And the man's got style, you can't deny that! Jayne Cobb (major character). I think this actually might be just that he got the best stories (IMO), particularly in Jaynestown and Ariel. I liked how, even though a lot of what he did was so expected, he was also full of surprises. (Seriously, how adorable is he in Heart of Gold?!)
4. Dollhouse: Boyd Langton. I know a lot of people were pissed by the Boyd plot twist. But he was my favorite before, and he was still my favorite after. I think it's amazing writing (and acting) that you can take the character he was, the mormoral compass of the show, and then do that, and have it be plausible.
5. Veronica Mars: Cliff McCormack. Ugh, what can I say? He's amazing, like a character straight out of a pulp novel. Perceptive and smart and good at his thankless job, but also a bit smarmy and sleazy and too cynical by half.
6. Pushing Daisies: Emerson Cod. He's so grumpy and cuddly at the same time!!! How is possible?! He knit himself a goddamn gun cozy. GUN. COZY.
7. Dead Like Me: Roxy Harvey. It is all about the attitude, man. Jasmine Guy just brought it. It doesn't hurt that Roxy had the best lines, either. (SIR, I'M GOING TO SAY THIS AS POLITELY AS POSSIBLE: I WILL FUCK YOU UP.)
8. The Golden Girls: Dorothy Zbornak. She keeps it real. SHADY PINES, MA! She also has more of the 'everyman' appeal than the other girls. And the occasional snark about grammar is awesome, too.
9. Haven: Audrey Parker. She is the show. And I am suitably impressed that she manages to function without being in a constant existential crisis coma. (Cupcake room!)
10. Eureka: Nathan Stark. He is just so handsome & sarcastic, okay? And remember that time he built himself a robot son & basically broke all the laws to keep him safe? SWOON. And the way he casually admits to thinking about world domination on a regular basis?
11. The Middleman: Ida. My main selling point when trying to pitch this show to someone has always been "robot on rollerskates". BECAUSE. ROBOT. ROLLERSKATES.
12. Stargate: Atlantis: Sgt. Bates (minor character). Poor Bates. He does what he came to Pegasus to do, and he's good at his job, but he always gets the short end of the stick, and everyone gets pissed at him for being right.
13. Grimm: Monroe. I just instantly loved him, man, I don't know. Every time he gets a little bit geekier, he gets even more awesome. And then I remember that he wasn't always that way; this is what he chose for himself. I LIVE.
14. Chuck: Anna Wu. She's everything I would want in a female character. Smart, badass, comfortable with her sexuality, and uncompromising when it comes to being herself. (Toooootally ignoring you-know-which piece of canon that doesn't fit in with the rest of her characterization at all, and which was written just to service a male character's storyline.)
15. New Girl: Schmidt. I am, like, helpless to resist Max Greenfield, okay? He is just too damn adorable. I love the random things that Schmidt takes very seriously.
16. Alcatraz
17. Highlander
18. In Plain Sight: Mary Shannon. Again, everything I could want in a female character: smart, badass, comfortable with her sexuality. She has a lot of anti-hero characteristics that you typically only see in male protagonists, so that is delightful, as well.
19. Roswell: Maria DeLuca. Maria is sort of an anomaly among my favorite characters. She isn't particularly strong, or brave, or smart, or loyal, even. She has a lot of teenage immaturity and self-centeredness. But she is also capable of great acts of kindness that are actually sort of quiet in their greatness.
20. Enterprise
For about 5 of these, my favorite is a minor character, so I might accept 2 different answers. XD
Burn Notice is not on this meme because I simply cannot choose a favorite.