This week's fannish5: Every bad movie or series seems to have one character that's too good for it, or even makes an otherwise dreadful thing worth sitting through. Who are your five favorite characters from things you otherwise hated, or would have hated without them?

( mild spoilers for The Postman, Wing Commander, Forgotten Realms, Boondock Saints and Jumper )

Today's fannish5: Name 5 characters you like but that you wouldn't hire to work with you.

Man, most of the characters I like would be horrible employees. It would be a much shorter list if I tried to figure out who I would hire ( Read more... )

I'm watching an episode of Monk on demand right now, and this guy is the most jovial murderer I've ever seen.

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I confirmed the other day that my car CD player can play mp3 CDs, and let me tell you, it is glorious. My Zen is ancient and won't sync up with Vista (and I've lost the disc for it, anyway) so for the past few months I've been ( Read more... )

I just started Splinter of the Mind's Eye and man, it is uncomfortable hearing Luke rhapsodize about Leia. Obviously the book came out in 1978 and Alan Dean Foster had no way of knowing that ROTJ would fill his book with creepy subtext, but still. I'm justifying it to myself as the Force trying to tell him that there's a connection between he and ( Read more... )

Open letter to Dunkin' Donuts ( Read more... )

That frakking song has been stuck in my head for two days now. I think they put some kind of addictive contact poison in the DVD casing.

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This week's fannish5:Name five non-canoncial couples that you would like - or would have liked - to see get together in canon.

1) Gambit/Iceman X-Men comics): Remy/Bobby was an extremely popular slash pairing for ( Read more... )

I realized something hilarious about the new Doctor. Follow with me:

( Cut for those who want to know absolutely nothing about 11 )

This week's fannish5: List five characters who are best equipped to survive in alternate universes, and why.

1) Claude (Heroes): Talk about being able to blend. Unless he's stuck in Everyone's-A-Telepath World or Super Infrared Vision Land he'll have plenty of time to learn the lay of the land before anyone even knows he's there. Even putting his power ( Read more... )

fannish5: Five favorite (or most memorable) lines of dialogue.

1) "A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it."
--Doc Holliday to Wyatt Earp, TombstoneWyatt is trying to figure out Johnny Ringo right ( Read more... )

This week's Fannish5: Name 5 characters you didn't like at first, but eventually learned to love.

1) Sawyer (Lost): I spent the entire first season desperately hoping Sawyer would get eater by a polar bear. He was an aggressively unlikeable bully who enjoyed making people grovel for things like medication, and every time he came up with a new nickname I ( Read more... )