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eye_of_a_catSo you're cleaning all the pollen off your TV screen and a genie pops out. In return for freeing her, she offers to grant you 5 changes to any TV show(s) you wish. With only 5 wishes, what do you wish for?
I've got pretty good at rationalising away pretty much anything, but if there's a genie right there...
1) Make Chris Carter go back in time and actually have a plan for The X-Files. I don't even care what the plan involves, I'd just like there to be one.
2) Take Lennier's diary out of Objects at Rest. Actually, if this genie has really powerful associates: I'm okay with Lennier's betrayal being left as it is, since Something Big was clearly going to happen and I'm just glad it didn't involve his death, but change the eventual consequences to something involving reconciliation and forgiveness and happy endings for everyone involved as far as is possible.
3) A more believable take on Delenn's role in the war in In the Beginning, or at least some more of an indication that she was not the lone powerless voice speaking against the war that she so badly wants to remember herself as. Also, it would have been nice if we'd got to see Branmer a couple of times.
4) Uncancel Space: Above and Beyond.
5) Make whatever they did with Cordelia in Angel be some kind of bizarre hallucination everyone had for a very long time.
Share the Female Character love. Ten female characters that have your undying affection, and why.
1) Delenn, although I don't often like her in fanfic; I blame this on canon Delenn and fanon Delenn being two different characters who don't have a lot in common. Canon Delenn is powerful and manipulative and fascinating.
2) Boomer, from the new BSG. Galactica!Boomer especially, although Caprica!Boomer is interesting too. I don't usually like characters whose main role is to angst, but badly-programmed-Cylon angst is a different matter. (Does anyone know if there's any decent Boomer fic out there, btw?)
3) Shane Vansen, from Space: Above and Beyond. Partly because she got to be Captain and was really good at it without it being a Great Big Deal that she was in charge and female, and partly because she got to be human and sulky and once grumbled that "we never get a planet with a friendly name, like the Planet Chuckles or something."
4) Dana Scully in the first few seasons of The X-Files, before they went down the road of mysterious alien pregnancies and throwing continuity out of the window. Back when she was smart and funny and practical and rolled her eyes at Mulder's theories.
5) Nerdanel, who deserved more than a mostly-blank space in canon as Mrs Feanor.
6) Terry Pratchett's Susan Sto Helit, the best governess you could ever hope for ("Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs") and Death's best apprentice.
7) Wednesday Addams, who was once my role model
8) Mina Harker (from Dracula), who was so much more interesting than any of the men. (Maybe Lucy too, although she's doomed from the first time she wonders why girls can't be allowed to marry three men if they want to.)
9) (The first) Catherine in Wuthering Heights, who was just as cruel and wild as Heathcliff, even if she didn't get as much of an opportunity to develop it
10) and, er, would River from Firefly count? I only ever saw one and a half episodes, but she was my favourite character in both of them.
I've got pretty good at rationalising away pretty much anything, but if there's a genie right there...
1) Make Chris Carter go back in time and actually have a plan for The X-Files. I don't even care what the plan involves, I'd just like there to be one.
2) Take Lennier's diary out of Objects at Rest. Actually, if this genie has really powerful associates: I'm okay with Lennier's betrayal being left as it is, since Something Big was clearly going to happen and I'm just glad it didn't involve his death, but change the eventual consequences to something involving reconciliation and forgiveness and happy endings for everyone involved as far as is possible.
3) A more believable take on Delenn's role in the war in In the Beginning, or at least some more of an indication that she was not the lone powerless voice speaking against the war that she so badly wants to remember herself as. Also, it would have been nice if we'd got to see Branmer a couple of times.
4) Uncancel Space: Above and Beyond.
5) Make whatever they did with Cordelia in Angel be some kind of bizarre hallucination everyone had for a very long time.
Share the Female Character love. Ten female characters that have your undying affection, and why.
1) Delenn, although I don't often like her in fanfic; I blame this on canon Delenn and fanon Delenn being two different characters who don't have a lot in common. Canon Delenn is powerful and manipulative and fascinating.
2) Boomer, from the new BSG. Galactica!Boomer especially, although Caprica!Boomer is interesting too. I don't usually like characters whose main role is to angst, but badly-programmed-Cylon angst is a different matter. (Does anyone know if there's any decent Boomer fic out there, btw?)
3) Shane Vansen, from Space: Above and Beyond. Partly because she got to be Captain and was really good at it without it being a Great Big Deal that she was in charge and female, and partly because she got to be human and sulky and once grumbled that "we never get a planet with a friendly name, like the Planet Chuckles or something."
4) Dana Scully in the first few seasons of The X-Files, before they went down the road of mysterious alien pregnancies and throwing continuity out of the window. Back when she was smart and funny and practical and rolled her eyes at Mulder's theories.
5) Nerdanel, who deserved more than a mostly-blank space in canon as Mrs Feanor.
6) Terry Pratchett's Susan Sto Helit, the best governess you could ever hope for ("Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs") and Death's best apprentice.
7) Wednesday Addams, who was once my role model
8) Mina Harker (from Dracula), who was so much more interesting than any of the men. (Maybe Lucy too, although she's doomed from the first time she wonders why girls can't be allowed to marry three men if they want to.)
9) (The first) Catherine in Wuthering Heights, who was just as cruel and wild as Heathcliff, even if she didn't get as much of an opportunity to develop it
10) and, er, would River from Firefly count? I only ever saw one and a half episodes, but she was my favourite character in both of them.
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Date: 2005-05-01 02:54 pm (UTC)