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I've been meaning to do this for a while, and am only doing it now as a means of avoiding grading final papers. Hooray for the internet!
via Billville via docsrock:
Before reading the questions, name your top six favorite TV shows:
1. Lost
2. Doctor Who
3. Battlestar Galactica (2003 edition)
4. Heroes
5. The Sopranos
6. House
The Questions
1. Who is your favorite character from #2?
Well, the Doctor, duh. My favorite portrayals of the Doctor are, in order of preference:
Christopher Eccleston (#10, who revived the program in 2005)
Tom Baker (#4, the actor with the longest run on the series)
David Tennant (the current version)
William Hartnell (the first)
Peter Davison (#5)
Patrick Troughton (#2)
My favorite companions include Rose Tyler, Leela, and Romana II.
2. Who is your least favorite character from #4?
Matt Parkman, the cop who can read minds, mostly because I'm bored with his angst and he doesn't seem to do much with his otherwise remarkable ability.
3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
Tony Soprano choking evil-Others leader Ben with a wire he pulls up from the beach. Sawyer fucks Meadow and becomes Tony's point man. Adriana comes back to life and becomes an unwitting tool of the Others, who convince her to enact revenge on Christopher. A.J. and Charlie form a band. Tony's crew whack the Others and start a distribution ring with leftover supplies from the Dharma Intiative.
4. Who is your favorite ship from #6?
Following Billville's interpretation of this question as one about relationships, I live for any hint that House loves Wilson as much as he, despite himself, loves House.
5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
I would like to see how Starbuck might bring Wilson out of his shell and help him to become more assertive. I would also pay hard cash to see how long House and Caprica Six could mind-fuck one another before one of them explodes.
6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do?
I'll spare you my impure and possibly illegal thoughts about spending the day with Claire Bennet and go for the simpler pleasures of hanging out with Hiro and enjoying his infectious earnestness about using his power responsibly.
7. If you could change one thing about #2’s plot line, what would you change?
There are clearly a lot of ghosts in the TARDIS closets, as indicated by the some of the Doctor's contemplative moments in the latest seasons of the show. I'd like to see him confront some of them: finding out how Susan, his grand-daughter, is faring on a post-invasion Earth, or how Jamie, his Scottish chum, copes in a pre-industrial age with his knowledge of the universe, or saving Leela's descendants from the destruction of Gallifrey. Nothing too heavy.
8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them.
Tony reminds me of the speaker in Randy Newman's song, "Marie." He loves his wife, but can't bring himself to tell her unless he's drunk. It is fascinating to watch how they modify their behaviour toward one another as their marriage is alternately threatened or reaffirmed. Reminds me of home, in a sick way.
9. If the lead title characters (first name in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
Fuck, dude, Adama has to save the human race! Those people on the island are all doomed, anyway.
10. If you could change the title characters’ order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
I envision a badass spinoff involving Future Hiro's samurai adventures in 2025. Sort of like a post-apocalyptic Lone Wolf and Cub.
11. If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline for #6, what would the character be like, and what would their role be?
I would bring in a manipulative sexbomb to fuck with the male staff and set them against one another in fits of jealousy and lust. House, uncharacteristically non-plussed, would be put in the position of saving his staff from themselves. That, or a bartender that House could periodically confide in.
12. What happens in your favorite episode of show #2?
Jesus, only 30+ years of episodes to choose from, huh? Of the most recent series, I'm fond of the early episode where the Doctor takes his new companion to witness the end of the world from an orbiting space platform. The occasion is styled as an upscale celebration, complete with a working jukebox (misidentified by one of the futuristic aliens in attendance as an iPod) that plays Britney Spears and Soft Cell, and the last remaining human, who has had so much cosmetic surgery that all that's left of her body is the outstretched skin of her face. Everything I love about the show is contained in that episode.
Of the "classic" series, I like:
via Billville via docsrock:
Before reading the questions, name your top six favorite TV shows:
1. Lost
2. Doctor Who
3. Battlestar Galactica (2003 edition)
4. Heroes
5. The Sopranos
6. House
The Questions
1. Who is your favorite character from #2?
Well, the Doctor, duh. My favorite portrayals of the Doctor are, in order of preference:
Christopher Eccleston (#10, who revived the program in 2005)
Tom Baker (#4, the actor with the longest run on the series)
David Tennant (the current version)
William Hartnell (the first)
Peter Davison (#5)
Patrick Troughton (#2)
My favorite companions include Rose Tyler, Leela, and Romana II.
2. Who is your least favorite character from #4?
Matt Parkman, the cop who can read minds, mostly because I'm bored with his angst and he doesn't seem to do much with his otherwise remarkable ability.
3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include?
Tony Soprano choking evil-Others leader Ben with a wire he pulls up from the beach. Sawyer fucks Meadow and becomes Tony's point man. Adriana comes back to life and becomes an unwitting tool of the Others, who convince her to enact revenge on Christopher. A.J. and Charlie form a band. Tony's crew whack the Others and start a distribution ring with leftover supplies from the Dharma Intiative.
4. Who is your favorite ship from #6?
Following Billville's interpretation of this question as one about relationships, I live for any hint that House loves Wilson as much as he, despite himself, loves House.
5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be?
I would like to see how Starbuck might bring Wilson out of his shell and help him to become more assertive. I would also pay hard cash to see how long House and Caprica Six could mind-fuck one another before one of them explodes.
6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do?
I'll spare you my impure and possibly illegal thoughts about spending the day with Claire Bennet and go for the simpler pleasures of hanging out with Hiro and enjoying his infectious earnestness about using his power responsibly.
7. If you could change one thing about #2’s plot line, what would you change?
There are clearly a lot of ghosts in the TARDIS closets, as indicated by the some of the Doctor's contemplative moments in the latest seasons of the show. I'd like to see him confront some of them: finding out how Susan, his grand-daughter, is faring on a post-invasion Earth, or how Jamie, his Scottish chum, copes in a pre-industrial age with his knowledge of the universe, or saving Leela's descendants from the destruction of Gallifrey. Nothing too heavy.
8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them.
Tony reminds me of the speaker in Randy Newman's song, "Marie." He loves his wife, but can't bring himself to tell her unless he's drunk. It is fascinating to watch how they modify their behaviour toward one another as their marriage is alternately threatened or reaffirmed. Reminds me of home, in a sick way.
9. If the lead title characters (first name in the credits) from #1 and #3 were both drowning, and you could only save one, who would it be?
Fuck, dude, Adama has to save the human race! Those people on the island are all doomed, anyway.
10. If you could change the title characters’ order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose?
I envision a badass spinoff involving Future Hiro's samurai adventures in 2025. Sort of like a post-apocalyptic Lone Wolf and Cub.
11. If you were able to add a new character, any kind of character you wanted, to the storyline for #6, what would the character be like, and what would their role be?
I would bring in a manipulative sexbomb to fuck with the male staff and set them against one another in fits of jealousy and lust. House, uncharacteristically non-plussed, would be put in the position of saving his staff from themselves. That, or a bartender that House could periodically confide in.
12. What happens in your favorite episode of show #2?
Jesus, only 30+ years of episodes to choose from, huh? Of the most recent series, I'm fond of the early episode where the Doctor takes his new companion to witness the end of the world from an orbiting space platform. The occasion is styled as an upscale celebration, complete with a working jukebox (misidentified by one of the futuristic aliens in attendance as an iPod) that plays Britney Spears and Soft Cell, and the last remaining human, who has had so much cosmetic surgery that all that's left of her body is the outstretched skin of her face. Everything I love about the show is contained in that episode.
Of the "classic" series, I like:
- the one in which the Doctor is offered the opportunity to destroy one of his greatest enemies at the moment of their conception, but realizes they serve a larger purpose in the universe and must be allowed the right to survive
- the one in which the Doctor is haunted by a ghost-like being who warns him of upcoming trauma and who turns out to be the future incarnation of the Doctor himself, who "dies" in the episode
- the one in which the newly regenerated Doctor slowly unwinds his trademark scarf to find his way around his own ship
- the one in which the Doctor makes fun of the Cybermen for their bad grammar
- any of the episodes written by Douglas Adams
13. If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it?
Well, the writers of the show are pretty good about killing the characters off by themselves, but I would like to see Jin go out in a blaze of sacrificial glory, not because I don't like him, but because he is one of the characters who truly wants and needs to find redemption on the island. A more interesting question for this show might be: who would I like to see survive? I think it will be Locke, who will be driven insane, and Hurley, who will find his purpose.
14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose?
I wonder if the sets for Galactica are as claustrophobia-inducing as they appear to be.
15. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
I've always been drawn to sad women who put up a brave face to the world, and disguise their vulnerability through drink and/or bad relationships, and Kate from Lost is pretty much the perfect version of that woman.
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