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bedlamsbard1. Stargate Atlantis
2. CSI:NY
3. Dark Angel
4. Space: Above and Beyond
5. Supernatural
6. The Unit
1. Who is your favorite character from #2? (CSI:NY)
Danny Messer. He's just -- Danny! *flails* Not perfect at all, and he can be a little bit of a bastard sometimes, but he's smart and funny and he really cares about people and about his job.
With a really very good show, I will not have favorite characters. This is why it used to be so easy for me to write CSI:NY and why it isn't so easy anymore; I don't really care about the majority of the characters anymore.
2. Who is your least favorite character from #4? (Space: Above and Beyond)
I don't have a least favorite character among the leads; I love them all nearly equally. I have to admit I'm hovering on the edge about Kylen, though, even though she was only in a couple episodes -- she's been made up into the "perfect girl", which I understand is a thematic necessity, but I get the impression that Nathan will never be able to go back to her, and she's not going to understand why.
3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include? (Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural)
...absolute terror and/or awesomeness. For some reason Dean and Sam have to break into a military facility, and while they're able to bluff their way through security, they soon get lost in the vast recesses of Cheyenne Mountain. Dean accidentally stumbles on one of the labs, and the next thing he knows the weird crap in there is lighting up like Christmas day. The next thing they know, they've got airmen pointing guns at him and they're being shipped off to Atlantis so Dean can be a lightswitch somewhere else. Plus, Dean Winchester and John Sheppard. Dude.
4. Who is your favorite ship from #6? (The Unit)
I think my shows are in the wrong order; I don't ship The Unit because it's a non-ship show, ya know? It's not character-interaction oriented, except with the men and their wives and the wives and each other, to be a fertile ground for ships. Give me a couple eps where Bob and Mack are stuck together doing something, then we'll talk.
5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be? (Dark Angel and The Unit)
Max and Bob Brown. If, um, Bob weren't married, of course, and if the shows were set during the same time period. Can't you just see it? It'd start out awkward, and then they'd have to go save people from something and then it would be awesome.
6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do? (Space: Above and Beyond)
Paul Wang. He's just so much fun! And funny, to boot. I almost said Vansen, but she's a little too intense; Wang would be more fun. He could show me all around the Saratoga and teach me how to shoot a gun, or, alternately, show me all around Chicago and explain baseball.
7. If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change? (CSI:NY)
Lindsay Monroe. Leave. Just...leave. Permanently. Please? Or even not permanently; she can still come back as a guest star from time to time. As in, once or twice per season. I don't like the character, I don't like the actress, I don't like the way they're using her in the show. (And don't get me started on on-camera romances.) I have never been so happy with the show as I was when she was in Montana.
8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them. (Supernatural)
Dean and Sam Winchester. They're these brothers who drive around America on a permanent roadtrip in a '67 Chevy Impala, you see, and they save people from supernatural monsters. And it's just -- they're brothers. And they care about each other before all else, even their father. They finish each other's thoughts, they laugh at each other, they're deadly serious, and they know each other inside and out. It's hard to think of one without the other.
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? (Stargate Atlantis and Dark Angel)
John Sheppard. Max can hold her breath forever, and she's a genetically engineered killing machine; I think she can rescue herself from drowning. John's just human. Both are equal shades of awesome, though.
10. If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose? (Space: Above and Beyond)
Does it matter? I think not.
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? (The Unit)
Okay, seriously, I think I need to reorder the shows so I get questions I can actually answer. I wouldn't mind seeing a recurring female character that's not one of the wives -- not a unit member, oh God no, but military personnel. That's doing...something important. Actually, I hate it when we get politics in the show, but I'd be curious to see how Our Boys would react to the PTB trying to diversify the Unit by putting a girl on the team, or in training. Especially one that can really kick ass.
12. What happens in your favourite episode of show #2? (CSI:NY)
Again with the reordering of the shows! I'm pretty sure I don't have a favorite ep. Tanglewood, from season one, maybe; I really miss the gritty feel the show had at the beginning. Plus, mafia. Man, I really miss the first season.
13. If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it? (Stargate Atlantis)
Seriously, wrong questions for the wrong shows. Up through season one, which is all I've seen? Probably...oh, God, I don't know. I don't like killing off characters.
14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose? (Dark Angel or Supernatural)
Is both not an answer? No? Probably Supernatural, because Dark Angel's filmed in Vancouver and set in Seattle, so that's local and boring. Supernatural is much more interesting. Also, monsters.
15. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
Paul Wang from Space: Above and Beyond. He's a sweetheart, and funny, and a space Marine, dude.
1. The Unit
2. Dark Angel
3. Space: Above and Beyond
4. Supernatural
5. Stargate Atlantis
6. CSI:NY
1. Who is your favorite character from #2? (Dark Angel)
Zach. He's so damn earnest, and I know a lot of fans don't like him because they think he's too tightly wound, but he literally doesn't give a damn for his own welfare, just his people's, and his last scene in "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole" just killed me. Plus, cute and kickass.
2. Who is your least favorite character from #4? (Supernatural)
Of the leads, or recurring? Probably John Winchester. It's not that I don't like him, but he just...don't really follow his reasoning, that's all. I like his character, he just doesn't do much for me.
3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include? (The Unit and Stargate Atlantis)
After he's found to have the ATA gene, Bob Brown is sent through the Stargate to Atlantis base, where he goes on top-secret sneak attacks against the Wraith and makes friends with Ronon. Also pisses off the Marines, since he's Army.
4. Who is your favorite ship from #6? (CSI:NY)
Danny/Flack, but just as the default I tend to fall back on, since I've more or less moved away from shipping right now.
5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be? (Space: Above and Beyond and CSI:NY)
Paul Wang and Danny Messer. Because it would be funny -- both their reactiosn and their banter. (Although Mac and McQueen would so totally be old Marine buddies, my God.)
6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do? (Supernatural)
One? What, when there's two? Sam would probably be safer. Plus, he's a sweetheart and a Stanford boy. He can take me to a library any day.
7. If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change? (Dark Angel)
*cracks knuckles* Okay, to start with, I would have spread it out longer. Probably at least twp more seasons, but maybe even three. That said, I would have carried the main theme of the first season through a second season -- Max on her own and with Logan, trying to find the remaining X5s, working a little with some of the issues they brought up and dropped: other genetically engineered or altered humans, the state of the U.S., a little more backstory about how she ended up in Seattle, international conflict, etc., and then slowly brought in what was really quickly introduced in season two: Manticore's other "monsters." Season two really should have been two seasons, not three. I'd keep the breeding cult, but introduce it more slowly and naturally; the same with the Terminal City residents. I'd want the season two change to flow smoothly from season one, which it totally didn't; they felt like two different shows. They introduced a lot of stuff near the end of the second season that wasn't worked with; I'd develop that, especially Max's mysteriously appearing runes. Rather than have her be a "chosen one", I'd have it be all the X5s, so they'd start showing signs of it too. I'd bring in the other original escapees, but I wouldn't have them kowtow to Max.
Okay, yeah, one change. See, I'd write this, but it would be a monster.
8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them. (Stargate Atlantis)
John Sheppard and Rodney McKay. Okay, apart from the part where they act like they're married, they play off each other really well. They trust each other in their respective specialties, their banter's easy, they relax in each other's presence, and...no, they're just married. *shakes head*
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? (The Unit and Space: Above and Beyond)
Nathan West. I like him better than Jonas. Also, cuter.
10. If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose? (Supernatural)
There's two of them. What can you change? Does it matter? I think not.
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? (CSI:NY)
Danny's hot Mafia uncle, duh. On a more serious note, I think it'd add an interesting shade of ambiguity and clear up a few of the questions raised by the Tanglewood affairs, as well as adding a touch of very New York, because, well, Mafia. Also, Val Constantine. Anyone who's been on my journal for a while knows what he's like.
12. What happens in your favourite episode of show #2? (Dark Angel)
"Freak Nation", the series finale. It wins just for Alec's, "No. Now I'm safe." That's the scene that makes the entire ep for me.
Also, "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole", the season one finale. Just...buckets of win. Buckets and buckets and buckets. And the second to last scene with Zach and Max. *cries* Just...guh. Holy God.
13. If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it? (The Unit)
Jonas Blane. He doesn't do much for me, and I think it'd be pretty interesting to see how the unit deals with Mack in charge instead of Jonas. (Actually, I did kill him off, in the Unit's guest appearance in "And Your Friends Which Are No More.")
14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose? (Space: Above and Beyond or Stargate Atlantis)
Both is not an option? Where's the righteousness in the world? I love the Saratoga, but I think Atlantis has to win here, because, well, Atlantis.
15. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
Back to Paul Wang from Space: Above and Beyond again. Seriously, buckets of yay. He's so much awesome rolled up in one.
2. CSI:NY
3. Dark Angel
4. Space: Above and Beyond
5. Supernatural
6. The Unit
1. Who is your favorite character from #2? (CSI:NY)
Danny Messer. He's just -- Danny! *flails* Not perfect at all, and he can be a little bit of a bastard sometimes, but he's smart and funny and he really cares about people and about his job.
With a really very good show, I will not have favorite characters. This is why it used to be so easy for me to write CSI:NY and why it isn't so easy anymore; I don't really care about the majority of the characters anymore.
2. Who is your least favorite character from #4? (Space: Above and Beyond)
I don't have a least favorite character among the leads; I love them all nearly equally. I have to admit I'm hovering on the edge about Kylen, though, even though she was only in a couple episodes -- she's been made up into the "perfect girl", which I understand is a thematic necessity, but I get the impression that Nathan will never be able to go back to her, and she's not going to understand why.
3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include? (Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural)
...absolute terror and/or awesomeness. For some reason Dean and Sam have to break into a military facility, and while they're able to bluff their way through security, they soon get lost in the vast recesses of Cheyenne Mountain. Dean accidentally stumbles on one of the labs, and the next thing he knows the weird crap in there is lighting up like Christmas day. The next thing they know, they've got airmen pointing guns at him and they're being shipped off to Atlantis so Dean can be a lightswitch somewhere else. Plus, Dean Winchester and John Sheppard. Dude.
4. Who is your favorite ship from #6? (The Unit)
I think my shows are in the wrong order; I don't ship The Unit because it's a non-ship show, ya know? It's not character-interaction oriented, except with the men and their wives and the wives and each other, to be a fertile ground for ships. Give me a couple eps where Bob and Mack are stuck together doing something, then we'll talk.
5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be? (Dark Angel and The Unit)
Max and Bob Brown. If, um, Bob weren't married, of course, and if the shows were set during the same time period. Can't you just see it? It'd start out awkward, and then they'd have to go save people from something and then it would be awesome.
6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do? (Space: Above and Beyond)
Paul Wang. He's just so much fun! And funny, to boot. I almost said Vansen, but she's a little too intense; Wang would be more fun. He could show me all around the Saratoga and teach me how to shoot a gun, or, alternately, show me all around Chicago and explain baseball.
7. If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change? (CSI:NY)
Lindsay Monroe. Leave. Just...leave. Permanently. Please? Or even not permanently; she can still come back as a guest star from time to time. As in, once or twice per season. I don't like the character, I don't like the actress, I don't like the way they're using her in the show. (And don't get me started on on-camera romances.) I have never been so happy with the show as I was when she was in Montana.
8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them. (Supernatural)
Dean and Sam Winchester. They're these brothers who drive around America on a permanent roadtrip in a '67 Chevy Impala, you see, and they save people from supernatural monsters. And it's just -- they're brothers. And they care about each other before all else, even their father. They finish each other's thoughts, they laugh at each other, they're deadly serious, and they know each other inside and out. It's hard to think of one without the other.
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? (Stargate Atlantis and Dark Angel)
John Sheppard. Max can hold her breath forever, and she's a genetically engineered killing machine; I think she can rescue herself from drowning. John's just human. Both are equal shades of awesome, though.
10. If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose? (Space: Above and Beyond)
Does it matter? I think not.
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? (The Unit)
Okay, seriously, I think I need to reorder the shows so I get questions I can actually answer. I wouldn't mind seeing a recurring female character that's not one of the wives -- not a unit member, oh God no, but military personnel. That's doing...something important. Actually, I hate it when we get politics in the show, but I'd be curious to see how Our Boys would react to the PTB trying to diversify the Unit by putting a girl on the team, or in training. Especially one that can really kick ass.
12. What happens in your favourite episode of show #2? (CSI:NY)
Again with the reordering of the shows! I'm pretty sure I don't have a favorite ep. Tanglewood, from season one, maybe; I really miss the gritty feel the show had at the beginning. Plus, mafia. Man, I really miss the first season.
13. If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it? (Stargate Atlantis)
Seriously, wrong questions for the wrong shows. Up through season one, which is all I've seen? Probably...oh, God, I don't know. I don't like killing off characters.
14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose? (Dark Angel or Supernatural)
Is both not an answer? No? Probably Supernatural, because Dark Angel's filmed in Vancouver and set in Seattle, so that's local and boring. Supernatural is much more interesting. Also, monsters.
15. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
Paul Wang from Space: Above and Beyond. He's a sweetheart, and funny, and a space Marine, dude.
1. The Unit
2. Dark Angel
3. Space: Above and Beyond
4. Supernatural
5. Stargate Atlantis
6. CSI:NY
1. Who is your favorite character from #2? (Dark Angel)
Zach. He's so damn earnest, and I know a lot of fans don't like him because they think he's too tightly wound, but he literally doesn't give a damn for his own welfare, just his people's, and his last scene in "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole" just killed me. Plus, cute and kickass.
2. Who is your least favorite character from #4? (Supernatural)
Of the leads, or recurring? Probably John Winchester. It's not that I don't like him, but he just...don't really follow his reasoning, that's all. I like his character, he just doesn't do much for me.
3. What would a crossover between #1 and #5 include? (The Unit and Stargate Atlantis)
After he's found to have the ATA gene, Bob Brown is sent through the Stargate to Atlantis base, where he goes on top-secret sneak attacks against the Wraith and makes friends with Ronon. Also pisses off the Marines, since he's Army.
4. Who is your favorite ship from #6? (CSI:NY)
Danny/Flack, but just as the default I tend to fall back on, since I've more or less moved away from shipping right now.
5. If you were to set one person from #3 and one person from #6 on a blind date, who would they be? (Space: Above and Beyond and CSI:NY)
Paul Wang and Danny Messer. Because it would be funny -- both their reactiosn and their banter. (Although Mac and McQueen would so totally be old Marine buddies, my God.)
6. If you could meet one person from #4 and spend the day with them, who would it be, and what would you do? (Supernatural)
One? What, when there's two? Sam would probably be safer. Plus, he's a sweetheart and a Stanford boy. He can take me to a library any day.
7. If you could change one thing about #2's plot line, what would you change? (Dark Angel)
*cracks knuckles* Okay, to start with, I would have spread it out longer. Probably at least twp more seasons, but maybe even three. That said, I would have carried the main theme of the first season through a second season -- Max on her own and with Logan, trying to find the remaining X5s, working a little with some of the issues they brought up and dropped: other genetically engineered or altered humans, the state of the U.S., a little more backstory about how she ended up in Seattle, international conflict, etc., and then slowly brought in what was really quickly introduced in season two: Manticore's other "monsters." Season two really should have been two seasons, not three. I'd keep the breeding cult, but introduce it more slowly and naturally; the same with the Terminal City residents. I'd want the season two change to flow smoothly from season one, which it totally didn't; they felt like two different shows. They introduced a lot of stuff near the end of the second season that wasn't worked with; I'd develop that, especially Max's mysteriously appearing runes. Rather than have her be a "chosen one", I'd have it be all the X5s, so they'd start showing signs of it too. I'd bring in the other original escapees, but I wouldn't have them kowtow to Max.
Okay, yeah, one change. See, I'd write this, but it would be a monster.
8. Explain a relationship between two people (not necessarily romantic) from show #5, and why you like the relationship between them. (Stargate Atlantis)
John Sheppard and Rodney McKay. Okay, apart from the part where they act like they're married, they play off each other really well. They trust each other in their respective specialties, their banter's easy, they relax in each other's presence, and...no, they're just married. *shakes head*
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? (The Unit and Space: Above and Beyond)
Nathan West. I like him better than Jonas. Also, cuter.
10. If you could change the title characters' order in the credits for #4, what order would you choose? (Supernatural)
There's two of them. What can you change? Does it matter? I think not.
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? (CSI:NY)
Danny's hot Mafia uncle, duh. On a more serious note, I think it'd add an interesting shade of ambiguity and clear up a few of the questions raised by the Tanglewood affairs, as well as adding a touch of very New York, because, well, Mafia. Also, Val Constantine. Anyone who's been on my journal for a while knows what he's like.
12. What happens in your favourite episode of show #2? (Dark Angel)
"Freak Nation", the series finale. It wins just for Alec's, "No. Now I'm safe." That's the scene that makes the entire ep for me.
Also, "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole", the season one finale. Just...buckets of win. Buckets and buckets and buckets. And the second to last scene with Zach and Max. *cries* Just...guh. Holy God.
13. If you could kill off one of the characters in #1, who would it be and how would you do it? (The Unit)
Jonas Blane. He doesn't do much for me, and I think it'd be pretty interesting to see how the unit deals with Mack in charge instead of Jonas. (Actually, I did kill him off, in the Unit's guest appearance in "And Your Friends Which Are No More.")
14. If you got the chance to visit the set for either show #3 or show #5, which would you choose? (Space: Above and Beyond or Stargate Atlantis)
Both is not an option? Where's the righteousness in the world? I love the Saratoga, but I think Atlantis has to win here, because, well, Atlantis.
15. If you could date anyone from any of these shows, which show and which person?
Back to Paul Wang from Space: Above and Beyond again. Seriously, buckets of yay. He's so much awesome rolled up in one.