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morganoconner gave me Supernatural, Good Omens, Star Trek, and Pirates of the Caribbean. And damn, it was hard!
morganoconner gave me Supernatural, Good Omens, Star Trek, and Pirates of the Caribbean. And damn, it was hard!Supernatural:
Um. Right. I have four characters in this fandom vying for top spot, and it's hard to choose between an archangel, an angel, a demon and a human. But ... the character who actually made me watch the damn show in the first place was Castiel, so I suppose I'll have to go with him. *grins*
With Cas ... it's the contradictions of him, mostly. The obdurate, granite face and the capacity for change behind it. The slow bitterness and the strange capacity for faith. How innocent he sometimes seems, and how ruthlessly, desperately ancient he really is. His curiosity, his fragility, how absolutely indomitable he is ... And most of all, the fact that he keeps going. Of all of them. Cas keeps going. He fought all of Hell first, to find Dean. Then all of Heaven to free him. Then all of creation, and his own weakness, to save him. Um. Yeah. Angel is awesome, people. Seriously, adorably awesome. If I had to pick one creature in all creation to be on my side, it's Cas. No question.
Good Omens:
*waffles terribly* Okay, there's probably not going to be much doubt who my favourite pair in this fandom are, but ... I want them as a unit, dammit! How am I supposed to pick between them, when they work so damn well together, and balance each other out so nicely ... But if I had to, if I was forced to ... Aziraphale edges out on top. Just by a hair, mind. -_-;
Why? In a word ... faith. Not religion (perhaps unusually), but faith. Aziraphale has faith. Not in God, though he has that too. Not in destiny, though he does believe in the Ineffable Plan. Aziraphale believes in people, in the fundamental worthiness of creation and those who inhabit it. Not blindly, not stupidly, because he's not a stupid angel, and he's been down here for six thousand years, he knows exactly just how blind and petty and stupid and cruel humanity can be. But six thousand years down the line, he still believes we're worth fighting for, and is willing to personally step up to the plate to do it. *laughs* And he's fussy and silly and occasionally petty, and just enough of a bastard, and when push comes to shove, he makes you want to believe in yourself. That is something to admire. And fear, in its own way, but that only makes things richer.
Star Trek:
I'm not sure which Trek is meant, here. I've seen most of them (yes, even Enterprise), and I have favourites in each. TOS, it's McCoy. TNG, it has to be Q. DS9, it's Garak, Voyager it's the Doctor, and from what little I've seen of Ent, Shran probably has my vote. But if we're picking the character I adore above all, from the entire franchise ... Q. Gotta be. McCoy is close, because I adore that southern gentleman, but ... Q.
First off, you should probably know that I've a real thing for the Trickster archetype. For the catalyst gods that force the worlds and people around them to change, through a combination of playfulness and pettiness, vengeance and indifference, desire and occasionally blind ignorance. And Q ... Q fits it to a tee. He's petty and pouty and damaged and adorable, and a force of nature, and sincere and quite possibly more clever and more long-thinking than he seems. Given that he changed forever the one force capable of controlling him, the Continuum, by the time he was done ... And besides that, his hair-pulling, playground attachment to Picard is absolutely adorable. *grins* And sort of tragic, too, but I like 'em that way. Heh. And John de Lancie as an actor is wonderful to watch ...
Pirates of the Caribbean:
This is probably the only one of these fandoms where I have a clear-cut favourite. *grins sheepishly* But it's undeniable. Commodore James Norrington all the way!
Okay. Um. Where to start. It's ... the honour, mostly, and the way he struggles with it. Norrington is simply the most fascinating, and the most relatable, personal journey in the movies. He's a good man. A bit stiff, a bit rigid, and a bit heavy on the laws of the land/sea, but he is a good man. Perhaps a better man than most of the rest of the cast, arguably. *ducks warily* But it's in that line from the first movie. "By remembering that I serve others, not only myself." That's the crux of it. That's what he struggles with. When he serves others, the question is, which others? And when he serves only himself, as in the second movie ... he's completely lost. I just love the ... the tangle he's woven for himself, and his struggle to make sense of it, and the honour and humour and sneaky intelligence of him in the midst of it. And the tragedy of him. Because in that world, there was no way for him to win. There never was. In a world designed to make you root for the outlaws, the man of the law never stood a chance. But he made his failures worth remembering, and that's no small thing. And he chose right in the end. Not because he chose to side with our 'heroes'. But because he chose the side his heart had been demanding all along, and made his choice count for something. *huffs*
Um. Right. I have four characters in this fandom vying for top spot, and it's hard to choose between an archangel, an angel, a demon and a human. But ... the character who actually made me watch the damn show in the first place was Castiel, so I suppose I'll have to go with him. *grins*
With Cas ... it's the contradictions of him, mostly. The obdurate, granite face and the capacity for change behind it. The slow bitterness and the strange capacity for faith. How innocent he sometimes seems, and how ruthlessly, desperately ancient he really is. His curiosity, his fragility, how absolutely indomitable he is ... And most of all, the fact that he keeps going. Of all of them. Cas keeps going. He fought all of Hell first, to find Dean. Then all of Heaven to free him. Then all of creation, and his own weakness, to save him. Um. Yeah. Angel is awesome, people. Seriously, adorably awesome. If I had to pick one creature in all creation to be on my side, it's Cas. No question.
Good Omens:
*waffles terribly* Okay, there's probably not going to be much doubt who my favourite pair in this fandom are, but ... I want them as a unit, dammit! How am I supposed to pick between them, when they work so damn well together, and balance each other out so nicely ... But if I had to, if I was forced to ... Aziraphale edges out on top. Just by a hair, mind. -_-;
Why? In a word ... faith. Not religion (perhaps unusually), but faith. Aziraphale has faith. Not in God, though he has that too. Not in destiny, though he does believe in the Ineffable Plan. Aziraphale believes in people, in the fundamental worthiness of creation and those who inhabit it. Not blindly, not stupidly, because he's not a stupid angel, and he's been down here for six thousand years, he knows exactly just how blind and petty and stupid and cruel humanity can be. But six thousand years down the line, he still believes we're worth fighting for, and is willing to personally step up to the plate to do it. *laughs* And he's fussy and silly and occasionally petty, and just enough of a bastard, and when push comes to shove, he makes you want to believe in yourself. That is something to admire. And fear, in its own way, but that only makes things richer.
Star Trek:
I'm not sure which Trek is meant, here. I've seen most of them (yes, even Enterprise), and I have favourites in each. TOS, it's McCoy. TNG, it has to be Q. DS9, it's Garak, Voyager it's the Doctor, and from what little I've seen of Ent, Shran probably has my vote. But if we're picking the character I adore above all, from the entire franchise ... Q. Gotta be. McCoy is close, because I adore that southern gentleman, but ... Q.
First off, you should probably know that I've a real thing for the Trickster archetype. For the catalyst gods that force the worlds and people around them to change, through a combination of playfulness and pettiness, vengeance and indifference, desire and occasionally blind ignorance. And Q ... Q fits it to a tee. He's petty and pouty and damaged and adorable, and a force of nature, and sincere and quite possibly more clever and more long-thinking than he seems. Given that he changed forever the one force capable of controlling him, the Continuum, by the time he was done ... And besides that, his hair-pulling, playground attachment to Picard is absolutely adorable. *grins* And sort of tragic, too, but I like 'em that way. Heh. And John de Lancie as an actor is wonderful to watch ...
Pirates of the Caribbean:
This is probably the only one of these fandoms where I have a clear-cut favourite. *grins sheepishly* But it's undeniable. Commodore James Norrington all the way!
Okay. Um. Where to start. It's ... the honour, mostly, and the way he struggles with it. Norrington is simply the most fascinating, and the most relatable, personal journey in the movies. He's a good man. A bit stiff, a bit rigid, and a bit heavy on the laws of the land/sea, but he is a good man. Perhaps a better man than most of the rest of the cast, arguably. *ducks warily* But it's in that line from the first movie. "By remembering that I serve others, not only myself." That's the crux of it. That's what he struggles with. When he serves others, the question is, which others? And when he serves only himself, as in the second movie ... he's completely lost. I just love the ... the tangle he's woven for himself, and his struggle to make sense of it, and the honour and humour and sneaky intelligence of him in the midst of it. And the tragedy of him. Because in that world, there was no way for him to win. There never was. In a world designed to make you root for the outlaws, the man of the law never stood a chance. But he made his failures worth remembering, and that's no small thing. And he chose right in the end. Not because he chose to side with our 'heroes'. But because he chose the side his heart had been demanding all along, and made his choice count for something. *huffs*
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