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[molly_may]

lycomingst asked for Top Five Fictional Characters I Would Take With Me to a Deserted Island

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[penny_lane_42]

Okay, you did a really good job of selling Twin Peaks to me. It's been on my list for a while because people I trust consistently tell me I'd love it, but I just hadn't gotten around to it. This makes me very, very excited to check it out. I love genre-busting, I love weird, I love great characters, I love shows that look awesome....Yeah. I'm gonna check it out! Thanks!

[molly_may]

I really hope you enjoy it! It's definitely not quite like anything else out there.

[swsa]

I can't believe there are people who dislike Never Again! It has a talking Jodie Foster tattoo! Scully gets some! And Mulder is befuddled in the end.

Paper Hearts has probably MY fave M/S scene, as Scully cradling his head to her stomach just KILLS me.

As for Twin Peaks...I love that story in the extras about how Lynch's whole pitch was basically, "There's a murder in a small-town and there's this *wind* in the *trees*." Heeee. It's one of those series where everytime I've finished it, I kind of want to start it again.

[molly_may]

Scully gets some!

Heh, I think this is a key reason as to why some people don't like it. In fact, I've read arguments about how Scully really slept on the couch all night.

[swsa]

Oh, come on. I love Mulder/Scully as much as the next crazy shipper, but the poor woman deserved to get laid after the years of frustration he put her through. I looked the ep up on wikipedia, and apparently there WAS initially an actual sex scene but Carter insisted it be cut. Interesting.

[molly_may]

Yeah, I wish the writers of that ep, Morgan & Wong, had gotten to do it their way. It would have aired before Leonard Betts, not after, and Scully would have definitely had sex. I really don't know why Carter was so insistent on keeping her celibate.

[mikeygs]

Bad Blood

Always a toss-up between Chung and Bad Blood for me. Super hyper Mulder is awesome.

I've always thought someone should write a B/S reunion fic where they both tell alternate versions of the story.

[molly_may]

Oh, I would totally read that fic if someone wrote it! That's potential comedy gold.

[elisi]

I remember someone once doing a Buffy-verse poll, where one of the questions was 'Who'd you want with you on a desert island?' I still remember my two favourite replies:

Connor, because he grew up in hell and would know everything about surviving in the wild, and

Illyria, because she could walk home and fetch help.

:)

[molly_may]

Exactly. You need people who will help you survive, people that will help you escape. There's no enjoying a desert island without cable or internet access!

[petzipellepingo]

It's weird. Look, there's no getting around this fact, but for some of us it's a definite plus. Twin Peaks was created by director David Lynch, and he kind of specializes in weird. So there are, in fact, dancing dwarves and solemn giants and a hunchback in a brothel and a fish in the percolater. You either enjoy this kind of thing or you don't, but I certainly do.

It's a huge plus, especially since when it debuted there hadn't been anything as weird on television.

And you're right about the look - and the feel. Also something not seen before - and sadly not really since.

[molly_may]

No, it remains a pretty unique viewing experience, even after all this time.