15 Character Meme Answers
The characters on my list were:
1. Alex Millar (Being Human UK)
2. Hank Schrader (Breaking Bad)
3. Jamie Moriarty (Elementary)
4. Cora Mills (Once upon a Time)
5. Felix Dawkins (Orphan Black)
6. Lix Storm (The Hour)
9. Guinevere "Gwen" (Merlin)
7. Bruce Banner (MCU)
8. Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow)
10. Lucas Buck (American Gothic)
11. Jo Grant (Doctor Who)
12. Ray Carling (Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars)
13. Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
14. Cameron (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
15. Jack Harkness (Torchwood, Doctor Who)
Alex, Moriarty, Felix and Bruce are all on a bus as it is trapped by snow in a remote mountain pass. What do they do as the passengers form an unlikely community and wait for rescue?
Alex, being a ghost, is the obvious choice for getting help, except for the part where only other supernatural beings can see her. She'd probably try to alert someone at the next suitable place anyway via typing messages and faking emails, and then return to the bus, wondering whether she could rentaghost the snow masses away. Meanwhile, Bruce tries to keep his composure as best he can, despite the fact Moriarty, who is only on the bus because she wants the Hulk for her evil scheme du jour, tries to draw him into a conversation. She's playing a sweet nerdy scientist persona, figuring this will set Bruce at ease, and it's not that she isn't excellent at this sort of thing, but if the military and spies have been after you for years and Natasha Romanov works with you on a regular basis, you're hard to fool. So Bruce knows there is something off with her, his paranoia increases and he's really holding on with his fingernails. It doesn't help that Felix finds him attractive and, figuring they have a few hours to kill anyway, seriously hits on him. Will Bruce Hulk out, have sex with Felix or out of sheer desperation figure out how the bus could get going again despite the snow (now that Alex has cleared the path a bit)? Tune in next week!
Bruce and Andrew are trapped in a Groundhog Day like time loop. What do they use the extra time for, do they cooperate and what are their attempts to escape it, if they make any?
Poor Bruce seems to get trapped a lot. Well, first of all Andrew is actually familiar with that kind of thing - it's one of the things the Trio did to Buffy in Life Serial (though it was Warren's ploy), plus of course being the geek he is, he knows all the sci fi movie and show precedents. He assumes it's karmic payback for his wannabe supervillain days and gives Bruce a highly edited Andrew-style version of his backstory (think "We were as gods!"), then explains they need to find out what it is they need to fix/accomplish. Bruce is highly sceptical and tries to get rid of Andrew while finding Tony so they can work on a scientific solution. Getting rid of Andrew is even more impossible once Andrew figures out who Bruce and Tony are; he's in Geek heaven and thus actually not compelled to do anything (but to dodge Bruce's footsteps) to change the Groundhog Day situation for a while. He even starts a documentary about the whole thing. When the inevitable happens and Bruce Hulks out on Day 45, it stops being a game, though (and not just because Andrew breaks his left leg being thrown across the room that day); Bruce's guilt about the casualties the next day is an all too uncomfortable reminder of the late Jonathan. Andrew then tries to recall how exactly Warren set up the time loop back in the day, by way of doing that confronts his unresolved feelings about Warren, tells Bruce the mechanics without any hyperbole (like claiming they were his own invention like he did before), and this enables Bruce to find a way to end the loop.
(Andrew is still keeping that photo of naked post Hulk Bruce Banner, though. His inner redemption reaches just far enough that he wouldn't post it on the net or even show it around. But he's keeping it.)
(This reply was very difficult to write without making it into a rip off of one of the best Avengers stories ever.)
Hank Schrader, Ichabod Crane, Lix Storm and Lucas Buck need to rob a bank. Who's the inside man, who's the wheelman. How does it go?
Oh good lord. Two lawfully good characters, an adventurous but definitely not into robbery journalist and, err, someone who may or may not be the devil. Well, I'll assume the whole situation is somehow Lucas' fault as a complicated temptation/test scenario, that Marie's and Abbie's lives are at stake to make Hank and Ichabod cooperate. Lix is along because she got temporally displaced out of her era and Lucas swore the vault of the bank holds the key to sending her back to whichever era she wants to go within her own life. (This offers Lix the opportunity to save her daughter and her daughter's adopted parents.) She's also the wheelman; if you've driven with Spanish Fascists at your heels, a little USian traffic is nothing by comparison. (This time travel device thing also works as an added lure for Ichabod since he could do similar things for his son and Katrina.) Being a DEA agent, Hank of course is the inside man though he also volunteers for that particular job because he wants to make sure no one gets killed (and tries to figure out a way to contact help so Marie can get rescued which then would allow him to go after Lucas Buck). This being a Lucas Buck dastardly scheme, the bank does get robbed and while no one gets killed, someone gets wounded. However, Ichabod has managed to contact Abbie via Katrina on the dream plane, Abbie has saved first herself, then Marie from wherever Lucas had held her, and shows up to rescue Ichabod, Hank and Lix. Hank actually manages to get the drop on Lucas in the ensueing showdown, but Lucas, alas, uses the time travel device himself to make an exit.
Jame Moriarty, Bruce Banner, Hank Schrader, Andrew Wells and Jack Harkness are a team. Who is:
the fighter
the plotter
the tech
the socialiser
the leader
and which is the token morally ambiguous person?
Oh, good lord. Moriarty must have succeeded in recruiting Bruce in disguise of a fake persona after all. And who isn't morally ambigous? Well, let's see: Fighter: well, the Hulk, obviously, though if we discount him and count Bruce only as Bruce, Jack and Hank both have experience at combat. The plotter is Moriarty, of course, though she lets Jack believe he is half of the time. The tech is Bruce because he's an MCU scientist and thus automatically good at all things that even remotely are called scientific. The socialiser is Andrew, no question. (He's also apprenticing himself to Bruce, whether Bruce wants that or not.) The leader: Hank and Jack both think they should be, Moriarty knows she is but is perfectly willing to lead from the backseat via manipulation. Jack eventually lets Hank lead because being the sidekick is more relaxing anyway. As for token morally ambiguous person, token good guy is more like it in this team, though both Hank and Bruce have their character flaws as well. On a scale of evil supervillain to shades of grey goodness, the ranking probably goes: Moriarty - Jack - Andrew - Hank - Bruce.
Felix and Lucas are having dinner. What are the chances of them being interrupted by a) rogue dinosaurs from the future or b) a ravenous hole in space-time? Are their chances of saving the day improved (or weakened) by having Moriarty along?
Poor Felix. Dinner with Lucas and Moriarty... Either dinosaurs or a hole in time and space would probably not surprise him anymore after all the clone weirdness. Lucas wouldn't be into either event, because Lucas likes to be in control of how things proceed in Trinity, and dinosaurs and ravenous holes are so disorderly and chaos inducing. His first reaction would probably be to try and manipulate the various good guys of his show to fix this for him (Ben Healy would probably have to hunt down the dinosaurs, because such is Ben's lot in life). He'd try to get Felix to help there, too, but Felix isn't either into dinosaur hunting nor does he have scientific skills to deal with space time. Otoh he's smart and probably figures out there is something extremely questionable about Lucas Buck himself. This would not stop him from hitting on Lucas (let's face it: Lucas is hot), because if you do have dinner with a very attractive devil, then shagging him is the least you expect to get out of that if you're Felix. Otoh, Moriarty would wonder whether she use this dinosaur thing somehow and wouldn't want it to stop any time soon so would encourage Felix with Lucas as a distraction, since it wouldn't take her long to conclude Lucas Buck, since he's unwilling to be a minion, would be a serious obstacle to any plan of hers. The day will eventually get saved, but whether Felix also got laid before this happens, he'll never tell.
Cora, Ichabod, Ray & Cameron are imprisoned by aliens with no weapons & no hope of rescue. Their captors insist on observing native sexual customs. Who pairs with whom, and what do they do?
Cora's first instinct would be to rip the hearts out of the aliens (if they have those) and make them her minions, or, if that's impossible, magic herself the hell out of there with no interest in anyone else's welfare. For entertainment purposes, I'll assume neither reaction is an option and the aliens have found a way to render Cora's magic ineffective. Cameron, being a Terminator, would conclude none of these people is covered by her allegiance to John Connor and thus they're all disposable, plus the aliens can't kill her anyway, so she refuses to do anything and proceeds to rip any obstacle to her escape apart... until, that is, she's hit by an energy bolt by the aliens and upon resuming function/awakening has temporary amnesia a la season 2.04, believing herself to be human and Alison of Palmdale again. Ray has reacted to the whole sexual customs announcement in a predictable Ray way, i.e. he leered and declared either Cora or Cameron or both would be fine with him, but since, as his files on Ashes to Ashes declare, for all his boasts and leers he's not known to actually have had any girlfriend, and there was a very strong subtext about him being a repressed and overcompensating gay man, he's inwardly scared as hell. (After Cameron goes on a superstrong rampage and suddenly changes personality upon awakening, he's even more scared.) Ichabod, trying to surpress his indignation at the whole indignity at least verbally and inwardly resolved to never degrade the ladies or himself that way, first tries to reason with the aliens, pointing out that any data derived from enforced cohabitation is not scientifically reliable anyway. This unfortunately does not impress them. Cora actually wouldn't object to Ichabod, who is pretty enough, but has no intention of remaining anyone's prisoner, finds Cameron a potentially interesting tool for her own purposes and can see through Ray in no time flat. Thus she comes up with A Cunning Plan: Ichabod and Ray will put on a show for the aliens while Cora will find a way to get Alison/Cameron back into fighting machine mode, if the later promises to then make mincemeat of the aliens, not the fellow prisoners. (Cora's idea is that whatever device the aliens use to keep her from using her magic will be destroyed by Cameron's rampage, and then she doesn't need anyone else anyway.) The obstacle to this turns out to be Alison's horror at the idea of being a Terminator, but she's brave and the sacrificial hero type, though she goes along with this. Ichabod is still not keen on this whole mating idea but has remembered his pal Ben Franklin and the uses of electricity, so, having observed that an energy bolt did change Miss Alison/Cameron's personality the last time, tells Cora to maneouvre Alison into the forcefield that's holding the lot of them prisoner and otherwise sacrifices himself to distracting the aliens until this happens. Ray is outwardly indignant and inwardly just the slightest bit thrilled and then declares he'll sacrifice himself, too, if everyone promises Fenchurch Station will never hear a word of this. (He also suspects the aliens are in league with Alex Drake who made him canonically go undercover in a gay bar once already.) The Ichabod and Ray show commences, Cora pretends to make out with Alison and gets her against that forcewall, Cameron comes back and rips up the floor underneath them which also happened to contain the main energy transfer line of the aliens' lair, the forcefield collapses and Cora is gone, with Cameron because she doesn't know yet that Cameron is somewhat one track minded when it comes to whom she serves. This leaves Ichabod and Ray making their escape the more conventional, running-the-hell-away way. They succeed, and before separating, Ray tells Ichabod he's not so bad for a posh Southern (in English, not American geographical terms) poof after all.
Which character on the list would you most like to be friends with in real life and which character (if any) would you choose to avoid in real life?
Gwen, Jo and Felix would all make fabulous friends. So would Lix but I doubt she'd have time for me. Bruce has the problem that his few friends often end up as redshirts or damsels, used against him, and I'd like to survive, which is why I would also stay the hell away from Jack and Ichabod. Hank and Ray would piss me of on a regular basis. Andrew would be fun to hang around with fannishly - in small doses, not all the time -, but he does have a certain reliability problem, so better not. Definitely I'd stay away from Moriarty, Cora and Lucas Buck!
Alex, Felix and Jack are planning a heist. What are they stealing, and who's the brains of the group?
This is actually the most plausible scenario yet, what with Felix having a grifter for a sister and not being above the occasional illegal activity himself and given Jack's conman career. Alex probably is after leftover files from Rook & the Men in Grey on all the supernaturals in Britain and can't find them without some living helpers for some reason, so needs to break into Thames House (since MI-5 has what's left of Rook's files). Jack can see her because he's been so often dead himself and is game because he has payback issues with Thames House anyway. Felix is hoping to find out the truth about Mrs. S. after her disappearance with Kira at the end of s1. As for who is the brains: Alex. By virtue of being, literally, a spirit. :) (This is a pun with the German "Geist" which can mean both "mind" and "ghost".) More seriously, probably Jack, since he knows the place already.
Lix has just won ten million dollars! Or the equivalent in Lix's local currency. What to they do with it? And will Jack come up with some way to get Lix to part with some of the money?
This is a possible crossover, considering Jack was around in Britain in the 50s. Now Torchwood gets paid by the crown so he doesn't actually need Lix' money, but maybe he does for some illegal extra operations. Also, again, this being Jack, he and Lix probably met a couple of times in Spain and France during the 30s and 40s when she was being a war journalist. As for what Lix would do with the money: use it to improve the often broken and run down BBC toilets, for starters. The rest she'd probably gamble and drink away for the hell of it on a party night, which is where her old war buddy Jack comes in.
Gwen mysteriously appears from out of nowhere in Moriarty's house (or wherever Moriarty happens to live). How do they both react to this odd occurrence? Does Moriary let Gwen stay the night, now that Gwen's there?
Of course she does. After all, Gwen is very attractive and could be useful, either as a model to paint or as a potential minion. Of course, Gwen has experiences with charming women who have gone Dark Side and think they're smarter than everyone else, and that everyone else is just disposable, and she has also experience in playacting harmless. While pretending to be bewildered, naive and grateful, she tries to figure out where and when the hell she is and how fast she can get Merlin (this is post- finale, so Gwen knows Merlin is a sorceror) to transport her back to Camelot where she has a kingdom to rule. Ambiguous dialogue, flirtation and the odd character truth on both sides ensue. The end result is a really great Gwen portrait by Moriarty.
Jo Grant has died and become a ghost. Which of the other fourteen does Jo haunt, and why?
Hm. The best choices would be: a) Lucas Buck, because he deserves being haunted on general principle, and Jo could team up with Merlyn, in which case she'd do it because Merlyn needs to cheer up and cut loose now and then - fighting evil doesn't mean a girl can't have fun as well; b) Ichabod Crane, because this stuff happens to him, and also Jo could talk about time travel with him, and c) Alex Millar, because Alex is a ghost herself and would get on fabulously with Jo. Since Jo was alive, well and with a big hippie family adventuring the world as of The Sarah Jane Adventures, I'm assuming Jo dies at some point after meeting Sarah Jane & Co. and her unfinished business is partly about keeping an eye on Santiago (who meets up with Clyde and Rani at Jo's funeral again and joins them in world saving) and partly because she's just not ready to stop adventuring. So she becomes the newest housemate. Hal is less than thrilled, the patented Jo Grant clumsiness causing regular rage blackouts. Tom is bewildered, then charmed because of course Jo would mother him. Alex, as mentioned, would first love hanging out with Jo and having another (female) ghost around, but would gradually come to be reminded of her own mother issues, which are, of course, her TRUE unfinished business and the reason why Jo ended up with her.
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1. Alex Millar (Being Human UK)
2. Hank Schrader (Breaking Bad)
3. Jamie Moriarty (Elementary)
4. Cora Mills (Once upon a Time)
5. Felix Dawkins (Orphan Black)
6. Lix Storm (The Hour)
9. Guinevere "Gwen" (Merlin)
7. Bruce Banner (MCU)
8. Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow)
10. Lucas Buck (American Gothic)
11. Jo Grant (Doctor Who)
12. Ray Carling (Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars)
13. Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
14. Cameron (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
15. Jack Harkness (Torchwood, Doctor Who)
Alex, Moriarty, Felix and Bruce are all on a bus as it is trapped by snow in a remote mountain pass. What do they do as the passengers form an unlikely community and wait for rescue?
Alex, being a ghost, is the obvious choice for getting help, except for the part where only other supernatural beings can see her. She'd probably try to alert someone at the next suitable place anyway via typing messages and faking emails, and then return to the bus, wondering whether she could rentaghost the snow masses away. Meanwhile, Bruce tries to keep his composure as best he can, despite the fact Moriarty, who is only on the bus because she wants the Hulk for her evil scheme du jour, tries to draw him into a conversation. She's playing a sweet nerdy scientist persona, figuring this will set Bruce at ease, and it's not that she isn't excellent at this sort of thing, but if the military and spies have been after you for years and Natasha Romanov works with you on a regular basis, you're hard to fool. So Bruce knows there is something off with her, his paranoia increases and he's really holding on with his fingernails. It doesn't help that Felix finds him attractive and, figuring they have a few hours to kill anyway, seriously hits on him. Will Bruce Hulk out, have sex with Felix or out of sheer desperation figure out how the bus could get going again despite the snow (now that Alex has cleared the path a bit)? Tune in next week!
Bruce and Andrew are trapped in a Groundhog Day like time loop. What do they use the extra time for, do they cooperate and what are their attempts to escape it, if they make any?
Poor Bruce seems to get trapped a lot. Well, first of all Andrew is actually familiar with that kind of thing - it's one of the things the Trio did to Buffy in Life Serial (though it was Warren's ploy), plus of course being the geek he is, he knows all the sci fi movie and show precedents. He assumes it's karmic payback for his wannabe supervillain days and gives Bruce a highly edited Andrew-style version of his backstory (think "We were as gods!"), then explains they need to find out what it is they need to fix/accomplish. Bruce is highly sceptical and tries to get rid of Andrew while finding Tony so they can work on a scientific solution. Getting rid of Andrew is even more impossible once Andrew figures out who Bruce and Tony are; he's in Geek heaven and thus actually not compelled to do anything (but to dodge Bruce's footsteps) to change the Groundhog Day situation for a while. He even starts a documentary about the whole thing. When the inevitable happens and Bruce Hulks out on Day 45, it stops being a game, though (and not just because Andrew breaks his left leg being thrown across the room that day); Bruce's guilt about the casualties the next day is an all too uncomfortable reminder of the late Jonathan. Andrew then tries to recall how exactly Warren set up the time loop back in the day, by way of doing that confronts his unresolved feelings about Warren, tells Bruce the mechanics without any hyperbole (like claiming they were his own invention like he did before), and this enables Bruce to find a way to end the loop.
(Andrew is still keeping that photo of naked post Hulk Bruce Banner, though. His inner redemption reaches just far enough that he wouldn't post it on the net or even show it around. But he's keeping it.)
(This reply was very difficult to write without making it into a rip off of one of the best Avengers stories ever.)
Hank Schrader, Ichabod Crane, Lix Storm and Lucas Buck need to rob a bank. Who's the inside man, who's the wheelman. How does it go?
Oh good lord. Two lawfully good characters, an adventurous but definitely not into robbery journalist and, err, someone who may or may not be the devil. Well, I'll assume the whole situation is somehow Lucas' fault as a complicated temptation/test scenario, that Marie's and Abbie's lives are at stake to make Hank and Ichabod cooperate. Lix is along because she got temporally displaced out of her era and Lucas swore the vault of the bank holds the key to sending her back to whichever era she wants to go within her own life. (This offers Lix the opportunity to save her daughter and her daughter's adopted parents.) She's also the wheelman; if you've driven with Spanish Fascists at your heels, a little USian traffic is nothing by comparison. (This time travel device thing also works as an added lure for Ichabod since he could do similar things for his son and Katrina.) Being a DEA agent, Hank of course is the inside man though he also volunteers for that particular job because he wants to make sure no one gets killed (and tries to figure out a way to contact help so Marie can get rescued which then would allow him to go after Lucas Buck). This being a Lucas Buck dastardly scheme, the bank does get robbed and while no one gets killed, someone gets wounded. However, Ichabod has managed to contact Abbie via Katrina on the dream plane, Abbie has saved first herself, then Marie from wherever Lucas had held her, and shows up to rescue Ichabod, Hank and Lix. Hank actually manages to get the drop on Lucas in the ensueing showdown, but Lucas, alas, uses the time travel device himself to make an exit.
Jame Moriarty, Bruce Banner, Hank Schrader, Andrew Wells and Jack Harkness are a team. Who is:
the fighter
the plotter
the tech
the socialiser
the leader
and which is the token morally ambiguous person?
Oh, good lord. Moriarty must have succeeded in recruiting Bruce in disguise of a fake persona after all. And who isn't morally ambigous? Well, let's see: Fighter: well, the Hulk, obviously, though if we discount him and count Bruce only as Bruce, Jack and Hank both have experience at combat. The plotter is Moriarty, of course, though she lets Jack believe he is half of the time. The tech is Bruce because he's an MCU scientist and thus automatically good at all things that even remotely are called scientific. The socialiser is Andrew, no question. (He's also apprenticing himself to Bruce, whether Bruce wants that or not.) The leader: Hank and Jack both think they should be, Moriarty knows she is but is perfectly willing to lead from the backseat via manipulation. Jack eventually lets Hank lead because being the sidekick is more relaxing anyway. As for token morally ambiguous person, token good guy is more like it in this team, though both Hank and Bruce have their character flaws as well. On a scale of evil supervillain to shades of grey goodness, the ranking probably goes: Moriarty - Jack - Andrew - Hank - Bruce.
Felix and Lucas are having dinner. What are the chances of them being interrupted by a) rogue dinosaurs from the future or b) a ravenous hole in space-time? Are their chances of saving the day improved (or weakened) by having Moriarty along?
Poor Felix. Dinner with Lucas and Moriarty... Either dinosaurs or a hole in time and space would probably not surprise him anymore after all the clone weirdness. Lucas wouldn't be into either event, because Lucas likes to be in control of how things proceed in Trinity, and dinosaurs and ravenous holes are so disorderly and chaos inducing. His first reaction would probably be to try and manipulate the various good guys of his show to fix this for him (Ben Healy would probably have to hunt down the dinosaurs, because such is Ben's lot in life). He'd try to get Felix to help there, too, but Felix isn't either into dinosaur hunting nor does he have scientific skills to deal with space time. Otoh he's smart and probably figures out there is something extremely questionable about Lucas Buck himself. This would not stop him from hitting on Lucas (let's face it: Lucas is hot), because if you do have dinner with a very attractive devil, then shagging him is the least you expect to get out of that if you're Felix. Otoh, Moriarty would wonder whether she use this dinosaur thing somehow and wouldn't want it to stop any time soon so would encourage Felix with Lucas as a distraction, since it wouldn't take her long to conclude Lucas Buck, since he's unwilling to be a minion, would be a serious obstacle to any plan of hers. The day will eventually get saved, but whether Felix also got laid before this happens, he'll never tell.
Cora, Ichabod, Ray & Cameron are imprisoned by aliens with no weapons & no hope of rescue. Their captors insist on observing native sexual customs. Who pairs with whom, and what do they do?
Cora's first instinct would be to rip the hearts out of the aliens (if they have those) and make them her minions, or, if that's impossible, magic herself the hell out of there with no interest in anyone else's welfare. For entertainment purposes, I'll assume neither reaction is an option and the aliens have found a way to render Cora's magic ineffective. Cameron, being a Terminator, would conclude none of these people is covered by her allegiance to John Connor and thus they're all disposable, plus the aliens can't kill her anyway, so she refuses to do anything and proceeds to rip any obstacle to her escape apart... until, that is, she's hit by an energy bolt by the aliens and upon resuming function/awakening has temporary amnesia a la season 2.04, believing herself to be human and Alison of Palmdale again. Ray has reacted to the whole sexual customs announcement in a predictable Ray way, i.e. he leered and declared either Cora or Cameron or both would be fine with him, but since, as his files on Ashes to Ashes declare, for all his boasts and leers he's not known to actually have had any girlfriend, and there was a very strong subtext about him being a repressed and overcompensating gay man, he's inwardly scared as hell. (After Cameron goes on a superstrong rampage and suddenly changes personality upon awakening, he's even more scared.) Ichabod, trying to surpress his indignation at the whole indignity at least verbally and inwardly resolved to never degrade the ladies or himself that way, first tries to reason with the aliens, pointing out that any data derived from enforced cohabitation is not scientifically reliable anyway. This unfortunately does not impress them. Cora actually wouldn't object to Ichabod, who is pretty enough, but has no intention of remaining anyone's prisoner, finds Cameron a potentially interesting tool for her own purposes and can see through Ray in no time flat. Thus she comes up with A Cunning Plan: Ichabod and Ray will put on a show for the aliens while Cora will find a way to get Alison/Cameron back into fighting machine mode, if the later promises to then make mincemeat of the aliens, not the fellow prisoners. (Cora's idea is that whatever device the aliens use to keep her from using her magic will be destroyed by Cameron's rampage, and then she doesn't need anyone else anyway.) The obstacle to this turns out to be Alison's horror at the idea of being a Terminator, but she's brave and the sacrificial hero type, though she goes along with this. Ichabod is still not keen on this whole mating idea but has remembered his pal Ben Franklin and the uses of electricity, so, having observed that an energy bolt did change Miss Alison/Cameron's personality the last time, tells Cora to maneouvre Alison into the forcefield that's holding the lot of them prisoner and otherwise sacrifices himself to distracting the aliens until this happens. Ray is outwardly indignant and inwardly just the slightest bit thrilled and then declares he'll sacrifice himself, too, if everyone promises Fenchurch Station will never hear a word of this. (He also suspects the aliens are in league with Alex Drake who made him canonically go undercover in a gay bar once already.) The Ichabod and Ray show commences, Cora pretends to make out with Alison and gets her against that forcewall, Cameron comes back and rips up the floor underneath them which also happened to contain the main energy transfer line of the aliens' lair, the forcefield collapses and Cora is gone, with Cameron because she doesn't know yet that Cameron is somewhat one track minded when it comes to whom she serves. This leaves Ichabod and Ray making their escape the more conventional, running-the-hell-away way. They succeed, and before separating, Ray tells Ichabod he's not so bad for a posh Southern (in English, not American geographical terms) poof after all.
Which character on the list would you most like to be friends with in real life and which character (if any) would you choose to avoid in real life?
Gwen, Jo and Felix would all make fabulous friends. So would Lix but I doubt she'd have time for me. Bruce has the problem that his few friends often end up as redshirts or damsels, used against him, and I'd like to survive, which is why I would also stay the hell away from Jack and Ichabod. Hank and Ray would piss me of on a regular basis. Andrew would be fun to hang around with fannishly - in small doses, not all the time -, but he does have a certain reliability problem, so better not. Definitely I'd stay away from Moriarty, Cora and Lucas Buck!
Alex, Felix and Jack are planning a heist. What are they stealing, and who's the brains of the group?
This is actually the most plausible scenario yet, what with Felix having a grifter for a sister and not being above the occasional illegal activity himself and given Jack's conman career. Alex probably is after leftover files from Rook & the Men in Grey on all the supernaturals in Britain and can't find them without some living helpers for some reason, so needs to break into Thames House (since MI-5 has what's left of Rook's files). Jack can see her because he's been so often dead himself and is game because he has payback issues with Thames House anyway. Felix is hoping to find out the truth about Mrs. S. after her disappearance with Kira at the end of s1. As for who is the brains: Alex. By virtue of being, literally, a spirit. :) (This is a pun with the German "Geist" which can mean both "mind" and "ghost".) More seriously, probably Jack, since he knows the place already.
Lix has just won ten million dollars! Or the equivalent in Lix's local currency. What to they do with it? And will Jack come up with some way to get Lix to part with some of the money?
This is a possible crossover, considering Jack was around in Britain in the 50s. Now Torchwood gets paid by the crown so he doesn't actually need Lix' money, but maybe he does for some illegal extra operations. Also, again, this being Jack, he and Lix probably met a couple of times in Spain and France during the 30s and 40s when she was being a war journalist. As for what Lix would do with the money: use it to improve the often broken and run down BBC toilets, for starters. The rest she'd probably gamble and drink away for the hell of it on a party night, which is where her old war buddy Jack comes in.
Gwen mysteriously appears from out of nowhere in Moriarty's house (or wherever Moriarty happens to live). How do they both react to this odd occurrence? Does Moriary let Gwen stay the night, now that Gwen's there?
Of course she does. After all, Gwen is very attractive and could be useful, either as a model to paint or as a potential minion. Of course, Gwen has experiences with charming women who have gone Dark Side and think they're smarter than everyone else, and that everyone else is just disposable, and she has also experience in playacting harmless. While pretending to be bewildered, naive and grateful, she tries to figure out where and when the hell she is and how fast she can get Merlin (this is post- finale, so Gwen knows Merlin is a sorceror) to transport her back to Camelot where she has a kingdom to rule. Ambiguous dialogue, flirtation and the odd character truth on both sides ensue. The end result is a really great Gwen portrait by Moriarty.
Jo Grant has died and become a ghost. Which of the other fourteen does Jo haunt, and why?
Hm. The best choices would be: a) Lucas Buck, because he deserves being haunted on general principle, and Jo could team up with Merlyn, in which case she'd do it because Merlyn needs to cheer up and cut loose now and then - fighting evil doesn't mean a girl can't have fun as well; b) Ichabod Crane, because this stuff happens to him, and also Jo could talk about time travel with him, and c) Alex Millar, because Alex is a ghost herself and would get on fabulously with Jo. Since Jo was alive, well and with a big hippie family adventuring the world as of The Sarah Jane Adventures, I'm assuming Jo dies at some point after meeting Sarah Jane & Co. and her unfinished business is partly about keeping an eye on Santiago (who meets up with Clyde and Rani at Jo's funeral again and joins them in world saving) and partly because she's just not ready to stop adventuring. So she becomes the newest housemate. Hal is less than thrilled, the patented Jo Grant clumsiness causing regular rage blackouts. Tom is bewildered, then charmed because of course Jo would mother him. Alex, as mentioned, would first love hanging out with Jo and having another (female) ghost around, but would gradually come to be reminded of her own mother issues, which are, of course, her TRUE unfinished business and the reason why Jo ended up with her.
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