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Well, I kept hoping for more interest (and there still could be), but I think I should answer a couple of meme things.
goldy_dollar asked here about my favorite female characters and why.
I had to think about this a lot, because, well I spend a decent amount of time not ranking characters of one show relative to characters on another show, but here’s few that I landed on.
Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
If you’ve never watched Babylon 5, let me explain, Susan Ivanona is made of awesome. She kicks ass and takes names, has had too many traumatic deaths near to her in her life, carries around deep secrets, and is fiercely loyal to her friends. She’s complicated and real, broken and hard all at once.
And she gives the best speeches to explain her own awesomeness, so I’ll turn the rest over to her.
"And just one more thing. On your trip back I'd like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: 'Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out.' Babylon Control out.”
"Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me."
Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica)
For the first three to three and a half seasons Laura Roslin was my favorite character on the show. She wasn’t the sort of person you’d expect to be in her position, but when she found herself there, she shone. She wasn’t really happy with the person she became, but she accepted it. She sure as hell wasn’t always right and certainly not comfortably so (even if I usually wound up agreeing with her), but she did what she had to do to keep the last of humanity alive and semi-functional.
Laura Roslin was the character that really exemplified BSG for me, that it was complicated and messy, but about people stepping up the challenge presented by desperate times. That right and good weren’t the same thing and neither was the same as easy, and that all the things could so easily get confused. She wasn’t always on the right or good side, but she always tried.
Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
Well it’s not as if I haven’t sung Rose’s praises plenty over the past several years, but I’ll do it again for a bit. Rose Tyler is the legacy of RTD’s era of Doctor Who, recreating the role of the companion, and making her the hero. Rose took the hero’s journey, grabbed it with both hands and held on tight, she never let go of herself or what she wanted. She loves with her whole heart, and we watch her grow so much as a character.
Rose Tyler doesn’t know the meaning of giving up. The impossible is daunting task to overcome but she always believes it can be done. That kind of courage and faith is something hard for me to understand but I wish I could. She’s brilliant if uneducated, kind if sometimes selfish, so very desperately real that they make sure to introduce her with bed hair.
Rose is pretty much amazing defined.
Honorable mention: Delenn (Babylon 5), Aeryn Sun (Farscape), Wendy Watson (The Middleman), Marian (Robin Hood), Buffy Summers (BtVS), Kira Nerys (Deep Space Nine), Kaylee Frye (Firefly), Dana Scully (The X-Files), Katara (Avatar)
On the unpopular opinions question redfairie19 asked about Stargate, I did both
Unpopular opinions about the Stargate-verse. To be honest I’m making guesses at fandom opinions since I’m only on the fringes of that fandom.
SG1:
1) I don’t like Daniel/Vala even though over time I warmed up to Vala. I can’t completely say why I don’t like the ship, except that to me it always seemed like any extra affection Daniel had for her was because she was the outsider in the and not because he had romantic feelings for her. I do acknowledge that Vala probably had a crush on him for exactly that reason.
2) I don’t completely buy Jack/Sam. In that I think they do love each other, but I’m not sold they would work as a romantic pair, at least in this universe. This is unusual for me because they should ping like all my shipping kinks, but they don’t quite, again, not sure why.
3) I like Cam, I suspect this is unpopular since most people logically miss Jack a lot when he leaves. And if I had to choose I’d take Jack too, but I don’t think they have to be mutually exclusive, I like them both. And I think in a way the big plot of the last couple years needed Cam’s youth, not for the action stuff, but for his exuberance and optimism that Jack’s long term, and justifiable, cynicism cut him off from.
SGA:
1) Most of the popular ships I don’t support. I sometimes see McShep but I don’t ship it, ShepWeir rubs me all the wrong way for reasons unknown. I’m lukewarm on McKay/Keller but at least that I know is largely because I preferred Ronon/Keller, and I always kind of wanted McWeir to happen.
2) John Sheppard is a long way from my favorite character. At first it just seemed like how Jack isn’t my favorite SG1 character though I still liked/loved him, but I never warmed up to John, I’d rather watch the adventures of Rodney and Radek any day (and would gladly have watched Rodney, Radek, Sam, and Keller be geeks together for ages).
3) I like SG1 way more than SGA in just about every way. I have no idea where general opinion stands on that, but I see some louder love for SGA sometimes.
Feel free to ask me for more on either.
goldy_dollar asked here about my favorite female characters and why.
I had to think about this a lot, because, well I spend a decent amount of time not ranking characters of one show relative to characters on another show, but here’s few that I landed on.
Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
If you’ve never watched Babylon 5, let me explain, Susan Ivanona is made of awesome. She kicks ass and takes names, has had too many traumatic deaths near to her in her life, carries around deep secrets, and is fiercely loyal to her friends. She’s complicated and real, broken and hard all at once.
And she gives the best speeches to explain her own awesomeness, so I’ll turn the rest over to her.
"And just one more thing. On your trip back I'd like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: 'Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out.' Babylon Control out.”
"Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me."
Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica)
For the first three to three and a half seasons Laura Roslin was my favorite character on the show. She wasn’t the sort of person you’d expect to be in her position, but when she found herself there, she shone. She wasn’t really happy with the person she became, but she accepted it. She sure as hell wasn’t always right and certainly not comfortably so (even if I usually wound up agreeing with her), but she did what she had to do to keep the last of humanity alive and semi-functional.
Laura Roslin was the character that really exemplified BSG for me, that it was complicated and messy, but about people stepping up the challenge presented by desperate times. That right and good weren’t the same thing and neither was the same as easy, and that all the things could so easily get confused. She wasn’t always on the right or good side, but she always tried.
Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
Well it’s not as if I haven’t sung Rose’s praises plenty over the past several years, but I’ll do it again for a bit. Rose Tyler is the legacy of RTD’s era of Doctor Who, recreating the role of the companion, and making her the hero. Rose took the hero’s journey, grabbed it with both hands and held on tight, she never let go of herself or what she wanted. She loves with her whole heart, and we watch her grow so much as a character.
Rose Tyler doesn’t know the meaning of giving up. The impossible is daunting task to overcome but she always believes it can be done. That kind of courage and faith is something hard for me to understand but I wish I could. She’s brilliant if uneducated, kind if sometimes selfish, so very desperately real that they make sure to introduce her with bed hair.
Rose is pretty much amazing defined.
Honorable mention: Delenn (Babylon 5), Aeryn Sun (Farscape), Wendy Watson (The Middleman), Marian (Robin Hood), Buffy Summers (BtVS), Kira Nerys (Deep Space Nine), Kaylee Frye (Firefly), Dana Scully (The X-Files), Katara (Avatar)
On the unpopular opinions question redfairie19 asked about Stargate, I did both
Unpopular opinions about the Stargate-verse. To be honest I’m making guesses at fandom opinions since I’m only on the fringes of that fandom.
SG1:
1) I don’t like Daniel/Vala even though over time I warmed up to Vala. I can’t completely say why I don’t like the ship, except that to me it always seemed like any extra affection Daniel had for her was because she was the outsider in the and not because he had romantic feelings for her. I do acknowledge that Vala probably had a crush on him for exactly that reason.
2) I don’t completely buy Jack/Sam. In that I think they do love each other, but I’m not sold they would work as a romantic pair, at least in this universe. This is unusual for me because they should ping like all my shipping kinks, but they don’t quite, again, not sure why.
3) I like Cam, I suspect this is unpopular since most people logically miss Jack a lot when he leaves. And if I had to choose I’d take Jack too, but I don’t think they have to be mutually exclusive, I like them both. And I think in a way the big plot of the last couple years needed Cam’s youth, not for the action stuff, but for his exuberance and optimism that Jack’s long term, and justifiable, cynicism cut him off from.
SGA:
1) Most of the popular ships I don’t support. I sometimes see McShep but I don’t ship it, ShepWeir rubs me all the wrong way for reasons unknown. I’m lukewarm on McKay/Keller but at least that I know is largely because I preferred Ronon/Keller, and I always kind of wanted McWeir to happen.
2) John Sheppard is a long way from my favorite character. At first it just seemed like how Jack isn’t my favorite SG1 character though I still liked/loved him, but I never warmed up to John, I’d rather watch the adventures of Rodney and Radek any day (and would gladly have watched Rodney, Radek, Sam, and Keller be geeks together for ages).
3) I like SG1 way more than SGA in just about every way. I have no idea where general opinion stands on that, but I see some louder love for SGA sometimes.
Feel free to ask me for more on either.