Awesome ladies hall of fame
Day 15 - Favorite female character
What, just one? By which you mean, I assume, "all of them." Therefore:
Liz Lemon
I first watched 30 Rock because my college roommate made me. It was New Year's, and she sat me down with "The Head and the Hair," and halfway through I turned to her and said, "Did you want me to watch this because it's about me?"
"Thank God," she said. "I didn't want to have to bring it up."
Rose Tyler
Here's what I wrote about Rose two years ago:
And there's Rose Tyler, and I love Rose because, in my mind, the show is really about her, and by extension, about humanity--she is (we are) loyal and courageous and creative and brilliant in the face of adversity, even as she is careless and reckless and prone to breakage. I believe in Rose's love as a force; I am horribly, uncharacteristically spoiled up through the end of S4, and although I'm fuzzy on the details (and therefore may be making all of this up), I find it unbelievably satisfying that it's Rose's devotion and determination that bring her back to the Doctor. How are we to resist a love that defies the laws of time and space? The stuff of legends, indeed.
It's still true.
Tami Taylor
Well, the sunglasses alone. But also her heart and her strength and her sense of humor and her ability to call people on crap, while also having crap of her own. FAVORITE.
Lorelai Victoria and Lorelai Leigh Gilmore
Both of them. Together. Because as much as I love them separately, it's just not the same. I mean, remember Season Five?
CJ Cregg
She's the Jackal, she's good in bed, she's a six-foot wet girl in a Donna Karan dress.
I have long thought that, should aliens invade, I would like CJ Cregg to represent the female race at the intergalactic getting-to-know-you mixer. Say what you will about Sorkin and women; Claudia Jean can do whatever she wants in my world.
(Also: Joan Holloway Harris, Sarah Walker, Rachel Berry, Emma Pillsbury, Tina Cohen-Chang, Sue Sylvester, Sophie Devereaux, Parker, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Dr. Temperance Brennan, Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro, Dr. Camille Saroyan, Leslie Knope, April Ludgate, Ann Perkins, Donna, Tyra Collette, Smash Williams's Mama, Donna Moss, Kima Greggs, Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Cordelia Chase, Olive Snook, Lois Lane, Jessi Spano, Zoe Washburn, Kaylee Frye, Inara Serra, River Tam, River Song, Donna Noble, sometimes Martha Jones, Sydney Bristow, Irina Derevko, Lane Kim, Mrs. Kim, Sookie St. James, Emily Gilmore. And more.)
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
- Guess who took an epic nap this afternoon, and is now wide awake?
- After last week's weirdo job interview/horror show, I have decided to enact a new policy: Don't Apply For Things That Suck. It's liberating, this decision to be a little bit picky, and also I've applied for a number of things lately that I actually hope to hear back from. Oh, the possibilities!
- I just finished reading The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender, which I think exemplified why I so rarely read new fiction: it was well-written, but depressing, without much in the way of redeeming moments or other great qualities to keep things sustainable. Also, the most interesting segment of the plot...sort of never happened, which I think was intentional, but it was still obnoxious.
- But! My immediate to-read list is exciting: I just picked up Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, entirely out of morbid curiosity, and I expect to start Life of Pi (finally!) and/or Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather, soon. I chose the latter for carmen_sandiego's and my Twentieth-Century Novels book club; even if it's a mistake, who can resist that title?
- So, I have mostly given up on Christian music, except that one old Caedmon's Call album I keep on my iPod. But last night, I had a free ticket to the David Crowder Band show in Santa Rosa, and it was...surprisingly great? It was mostly un-cheesy, eclectic in a genuine way, and David Crowder himself is both charismatic (in the non-theological sense) and a really, really good musician. Also, they have a key-tar and a robot drummer (built and programmed by the human drummer) named Steve-3PO. Which is good enough for me.
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Wooo, car thieves! That was totally fun!
However: COME ON, WRITERS. You let Parker share with Hardison a story of being abandoned on the job, and then do not allow Hardison a chance to stick with/come back for her in a difficult situation, thereby proving his faithfulness? SHAME ON YOU/DON'T DO IT AGAIN.
What, just one? By which you mean, I assume, "all of them." Therefore:
Liz Lemon
I first watched 30 Rock because my college roommate made me. It was New Year's, and she sat me down with "The Head and the Hair," and halfway through I turned to her and said, "Did you want me to watch this because it's about me?"
"Thank God," she said. "I didn't want to have to bring it up."
Rose Tyler
Here's what I wrote about Rose two years ago:
And there's Rose Tyler, and I love Rose because, in my mind, the show is really about her, and by extension, about humanity--she is (we are) loyal and courageous and creative and brilliant in the face of adversity, even as she is careless and reckless and prone to breakage. I believe in Rose's love as a force; I am horribly, uncharacteristically spoiled up through the end of S4, and although I'm fuzzy on the details (and therefore may be making all of this up), I find it unbelievably satisfying that it's Rose's devotion and determination that bring her back to the Doctor. How are we to resist a love that defies the laws of time and space? The stuff of legends, indeed.
It's still true.
Tami Taylor
Well, the sunglasses alone. But also her heart and her strength and her sense of humor and her ability to call people on crap, while also having crap of her own. FAVORITE.
Lorelai Victoria and Lorelai Leigh Gilmore
Both of them. Together. Because as much as I love them separately, it's just not the same. I mean, remember Season Five?
CJ Cregg
She's the Jackal, she's good in bed, she's a six-foot wet girl in a Donna Karan dress.
I have long thought that, should aliens invade, I would like CJ Cregg to represent the female race at the intergalactic getting-to-know-you mixer. Say what you will about Sorkin and women; Claudia Jean can do whatever she wants in my world.
(Also: Joan Holloway Harris, Sarah Walker, Rachel Berry, Emma Pillsbury, Tina Cohen-Chang, Sue Sylvester, Sophie Devereaux, Parker, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, Dr. Temperance Brennan, Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro, Dr. Camille Saroyan, Leslie Knope, April Ludgate, Ann Perkins, Donna, Tyra Collette, Smash Williams's Mama, Donna Moss, Kima Greggs, Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Cordelia Chase, Olive Snook, Lois Lane, Jessi Spano, Zoe Washburn, Kaylee Frye, Inara Serra, River Tam, River Song, Donna Noble, sometimes Martha Jones, Sydney Bristow, Irina Derevko, Lane Kim, Mrs. Kim, Sookie St. James, Emily Gilmore. And more.)
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
- Guess who took an epic nap this afternoon, and is now wide awake?
- After last week's weirdo job interview/horror show, I have decided to enact a new policy: Don't Apply For Things That Suck. It's liberating, this decision to be a little bit picky, and also I've applied for a number of things lately that I actually hope to hear back from. Oh, the possibilities!
- I just finished reading The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender, which I think exemplified why I so rarely read new fiction: it was well-written, but depressing, without much in the way of redeeming moments or other great qualities to keep things sustainable. Also, the most interesting segment of the plot...sort of never happened, which I think was intentional, but it was still obnoxious.
- But! My immediate to-read list is exciting: I just picked up Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, entirely out of morbid curiosity, and I expect to start Life of Pi (finally!) and/or Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather, soon. I chose the latter for carmen_sandiego's and my Twentieth-Century Novels book club; even if it's a mistake, who can resist that title?
- So, I have mostly given up on Christian music, except that one old Caedmon's Call album I keep on my iPod. But last night, I had a free ticket to the David Crowder Band show in Santa Rosa, and it was...surprisingly great? It was mostly un-cheesy, eclectic in a genuine way, and David Crowder himself is both charismatic (in the non-theological sense) and a really, really good musician. Also, they have a key-tar and a robot drummer (built and programmed by the human drummer) named Steve-3PO. Which is good enough for me.
-
Wooo, car thieves! That was totally fun!
However: COME ON, WRITERS. You let Parker share with Hardison a story of being abandoned on the job, and then do not allow Hardison a chance to stick with/come back for her in a difficult situation, thereby proving his faithfulness? SHAME ON YOU/DON'T DO IT AGAIN.