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anotheranon) wrote2006-09-15 10:03 pm
anotheranon) wrote2006-09-15 10:03 pm
teevee meme-icry: 25 coolest characters
A much belated meme from Joss Whedon by way of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
semmie17. Belated because I couldn't come up with 25 characters: Perhaps I don't watch enough of the tee vee. Whedon held himself to "no shows of my own", but luckily I have no shows so I am not similarly restricted:
1) Malcolm Reynolds ("Firefly"): a new-school Han Solo/Southern gentleman, he looks after his crew and does the right and noble thing, even when it's to the detriment of him/his crew/his wallet.
2) Kaylee Frye ("Firefly"): wizard mechanic and unapologetically sexual and cheerful, she's another of Whedon's long line of Strong Women Characters(TM). Simon was clearly an idiot for not jumping sooner :P
Speaking of non jumping idiots: Clark Kent (at least his teenage self) is one too. Both 3) Lois Lane and 4) Chloe Sullivan (both from "Smallville") are kick-ass, self sufficient reporters in training who are each far more brilliant than the rather watery Lana Lang. Chloe, in particular, has carried a futile torch for the oblivious Clark for far too long. She should move to Neptune CA and hook up with:
6) Veronica Mars ("Veronica Mars"): She only LOOKS like a sweet teenage cheerleader. On the inside she's a cynical calculating investigator who has stood up for the "wrong side of the tracks" from the first episode. Together she and Chloe could take down both Lex Luthor and Neptune's assorted baddies, if she'd just stop wasting her time with such rubbish boyfriends :P
7) Al Swearengen ("Deadwood"): Every time he's on screen it's like watching a trainwreck - you know that whatever he's doing is going to be messy, but you're unable to look away. Never has evil been so eloquent (even with all the anachronistic profanity).
8) The Prince of Fire ("Lexx"): Never has evil sounded so good...
9) Jeeves ("Jeeves and Wooster"): So cool that when he's not dusting or ironing clothes, you just know he's got an inside line to the Prime Minster, and hope fervently that it's his sensible finger on the big red button instead of the PM's (even though it's the 1930s). No one is as impeccably slick as this guy, ever.
10) Gregory House, M.D. ("House, M.D."): A masterpiece of snark in two seasons.
11) Aeryn Sun ("Farscape"): Crichton told her "you can be more", and she was. But when she pinned Crichton in the first episode, that was plenty for me!
12) Kryten ("Red Dwarf"): because only he could deliver a line like "my nipples don't work", deadpan, and you believe it.
13) Bernard Black ("Black Books"): drunken misanthropy has never been so, er.. witty? ("I could tell you stories about the old country that would melt your face")
14) Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (the new "Battlestar Galactica"): the saucy swing of her hip and chawing on her cigar... sorry, where was I? But she's more complex than than the first Starbuck ever thought of being.
15) Willow Rosenberg ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"): develops from frightened geek to powerful witch, and oh, yes - she's kinda gay, but without the shock value fanfare.
16) Stephen Colbert ("The Colbert Report"): Yes, I consider his blow-hard conservative shtick to be a character, cool only because you know he's making fun of everyone from Rush to Hannity. And the ability to do the Spock eyebrow thing is just slick.
semmie17. Belated because I couldn't come up with 25 characters: Perhaps I don't watch enough of the tee vee. Whedon held himself to "no shows of my own", but luckily I have no shows so I am not similarly restricted:1) Malcolm Reynolds ("Firefly"): a new-school Han Solo/Southern gentleman, he looks after his crew and does the right and noble thing, even when it's to the detriment of him/his crew/his wallet.
2) Kaylee Frye ("Firefly"): wizard mechanic and unapologetically sexual and cheerful, she's another of Whedon's long line of Strong Women Characters(TM). Simon was clearly an idiot for not jumping sooner :P
Speaking of non jumping idiots: Clark Kent (at least his teenage self) is one too. Both 3) Lois Lane and 4) Chloe Sullivan (both from "Smallville") are kick-ass, self sufficient reporters in training who are each far more brilliant than the rather watery Lana Lang. Chloe, in particular, has carried a futile torch for the oblivious Clark for far too long. She should move to Neptune CA and hook up with:
6) Veronica Mars ("Veronica Mars"): She only LOOKS like a sweet teenage cheerleader. On the inside she's a cynical calculating investigator who has stood up for the "wrong side of the tracks" from the first episode. Together she and Chloe could take down both Lex Luthor and Neptune's assorted baddies, if she'd just stop wasting her time with such rubbish boyfriends :P
7) Al Swearengen ("Deadwood"): Every time he's on screen it's like watching a trainwreck - you know that whatever he's doing is going to be messy, but you're unable to look away. Never has evil been so eloquent (even with all the anachronistic profanity).
8) The Prince of Fire ("Lexx"): Never has evil sounded so good...
9) Jeeves ("Jeeves and Wooster"): So cool that when he's not dusting or ironing clothes, you just know he's got an inside line to the Prime Minster, and hope fervently that it's his sensible finger on the big red button instead of the PM's (even though it's the 1930s). No one is as impeccably slick as this guy, ever.
10) Gregory House, M.D. ("House, M.D."): A masterpiece of snark in two seasons.
11) Aeryn Sun ("Farscape"): Crichton told her "you can be more", and she was. But when she pinned Crichton in the first episode, that was plenty for me!
12) Kryten ("Red Dwarf"): because only he could deliver a line like "my nipples don't work", deadpan, and you believe it.
13) Bernard Black ("Black Books"): drunken misanthropy has never been so, er.. witty? ("I could tell you stories about the old country that would melt your face")
14) Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (the new "Battlestar Galactica"): the saucy swing of her hip and chawing on her cigar... sorry, where was I? But she's more complex than than the first Starbuck ever thought of being.
15) Willow Rosenberg ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"): develops from frightened geek to powerful witch, and oh, yes - she's kinda gay, but without the shock value fanfare.
16) Stephen Colbert ("The Colbert Report"): Yes, I consider his blow-hard conservative shtick to be a character, cool only because you know he's making fun of everyone from Rush to Hannity. And the ability to do the Spock eyebrow thing is just slick.