1. Name 3 of your most favourite fandoms. That's a difficult question! I have sooo many different fandoms I love.
Transformers has to be on the list, though it's not one we share, since I've been consistently active in Transformers fandom for a year.
Usually, I do a lot of fandom-hopping. It's not that I fall out of love with a show, but since my fandom activity consists mostly of reading fanfic, I feel the need for a change of scenery after a while.
I'll pick Buffy, though I haven't spent a lot of time on Buffy in a while since it's one of these fandoms I always fall in love with all over again when I get back into it. And I've been into Buffy for ages! The oldest Buffy fic I have on my computer is from 2001!
I'm torn for the third spot, tempted to go for Harry Potter since it's another long-time fandom love, but I don't think we share this one, so I'll say Torchwood instead.
2. Name one character of each fandom you particularly like. Tell us why.
Transformers: Prowl and Starscream are my favourites, but I'll tell you about another favourite instead, Rumble - you already have to read about him on your flist so often (he's the one I roleplay) so I might as well tell you why! When he is on screen, he never fails to make me smile or laugh. That's what made me fall in love with him. He has this huge spirit, such a tiny guy among giants, but he doesn't let it stop him. He isn't intimidated (and probably too dense to know when he should be afraid) no matter what, yet his arrogance isn't annoying and he takes such joy in destruction. That he is the worst and most enthusiastic poet on any planet helps, too *laughs*
Buffy: I love pretty much the whole main cast of Buffy, whether old or new. Yet if I had to choose one, just one, I would pick Xander. Because he is the ordinary guy among all these people with super powers or who are extremely smart and educated, but he's still there, still saving the world. Even when they don't take him seriously, he never quits. Xander is such an amazingly loyal friend and I don't think they could have done half the stuff they did without his emotional support (and sometimes being there to whack a baddie.) Yes, he does some pretty dumb and hurtful things, but that just makes him more human. If he was perfect, he wouldn't be Xander.
Torchwood: Harsh! I'm torn between Ianto, Toshiko and Jack. We've already discussed the awesome of Ianto and Toshiko often, so I'll go for Jack tonight (and damn, I need to shorten this or I'll be writing until morning!) I started out loathing him, grew to sympathize with him as he showed some human vulnerability (I think the fairy episode was the first time I liked him) and came to love him. I love how dedicated he is to his team and to the idea of Torchwood as he envisions it. How he has gone through so much and has neither given up (for long.) And how he still, after everything, is capable of feeling compassion and still dares to let himself care for others, though he knows he'll have to watch them die.
3. Name one character of each that you don't like. Tell us why.
Transformers: I don't really have a character I dislike. There are those who interest me more or less, but no one I actively dislike. I'll name Shockwave just because he's the most prominent of these characters I just can't bring myself to care about either way.
Buffy: Spike with a soul, although it breaks my heart to name my favourite vampire and I thought the whole idea was very interesting. Simply because I thought Spike being a good vampire with a soul took away from his choice of doing good despite being a soulless vampire. Which was really one of the problems I always had with the show, this soul = good. Because it doesn't work that way for humans and they even acknowledged it with their human villains, but they never made it an issue with the vamps.
Torchwood: For once, it's easy. Gwen. I don't have a problem with unsympathetic characters, I would have just shrugged that off, but I think the writers wasted so much potential with her character. It would have been better if they'd just decided on whether she was supposed to be a sympathetic character or "jerk but has a reason for it" like they did with Owen.
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Date: 2010-10-05 10:42 pm (UTC)That's a difficult question! I have sooo many different fandoms I love.
Transformers has to be on the list, though it's not one we share, since I've been consistently active in Transformers fandom for a year.
Usually, I do a lot of fandom-hopping. It's not that I fall out of love with a show, but since my fandom activity consists mostly of reading fanfic, I feel the need for a change of scenery after a while.
I'll pick Buffy, though I haven't spent a lot of time on Buffy in a while since it's one of these fandoms I always fall in love with all over again when I get back into it. And I've been into Buffy for ages! The oldest Buffy fic I have on my computer is from 2001!
I'm torn for the third spot, tempted to go for Harry Potter since it's another long-time fandom love, but I don't think we share this one, so I'll say Torchwood instead.
2. Name one character of each fandom you particularly like. Tell us why.
Transformers: Prowl and Starscream are my favourites, but I'll tell you about another favourite instead, Rumble - you already have to read about him on your flist so often (he's the one I roleplay) so I might as well tell you why! When he is on screen, he never fails to make me smile or laugh. That's what made me fall in love with him. He has this huge spirit, such a tiny guy among giants, but he doesn't let it stop him. He isn't intimidated (and probably too dense to know when he should be afraid) no matter what, yet his arrogance isn't annoying and he takes such joy in destruction. That he is the worst and most enthusiastic poet on any planet helps, too *laughs*
Buffy: I love pretty much the whole main cast of Buffy, whether old or new. Yet if I had to choose one, just one, I would pick Xander. Because he is the ordinary guy among all these people with super powers or who are extremely smart and educated, but he's still there, still saving the world. Even when they don't take him seriously, he never quits. Xander is such an amazingly loyal friend and I don't think they could have done half the stuff they did without his emotional support (and sometimes being there to whack a baddie.) Yes, he does some pretty dumb and hurtful things, but that just makes him more human. If he was perfect, he wouldn't be Xander.
Torchwood: Harsh! I'm torn between Ianto, Toshiko and Jack. We've already discussed the awesome of Ianto and Toshiko often, so I'll go for Jack tonight (and damn, I need to shorten this or I'll be writing until morning!) I started out loathing him, grew to sympathize with him as he showed some human vulnerability (I think the fairy episode was the first time I liked him) and came to love him. I love how dedicated he is to his team and to the idea of Torchwood as he envisions it. How he has gone through so much and has neither given up (for long.) And how he still, after everything, is capable of feeling compassion and still dares to let himself care for others, though he knows he'll have to watch them die.
3. Name one character of each that you don't like. Tell us why.
Transformers: I don't really have a character I dislike. There are those who interest me more or less, but no one I actively dislike. I'll name Shockwave just because he's the most prominent of these characters I just can't bring myself to care about either way.
Buffy: Spike with a soul, although it breaks my heart to name my favourite vampire and I thought the whole idea was very interesting. Simply because I thought Spike being a good vampire with a soul took away from his choice of doing good despite being a soulless vampire. Which was really one of the problems I always had with the show, this soul = good. Because it doesn't work that way for humans and they even acknowledged it with their human villains, but they never made it an issue with the vamps.
Torchwood: For once, it's easy. Gwen. I don't have a problem with unsympathetic characters, I would have just shrugged that off, but I think the writers wasted so much potential with her character. It would have been better if they'd just decided on whether she was supposed to be a sympathetic character or "jerk but has a reason for it" like they did with Owen.