fictional characters! favorite discussion topic!

[lirazel]

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined

Annie Sawyer
Buffy Summers
Ron Weasley
Eleventh Doctor
Toby Ziegler
Tami Taylor
Zoe Washburn
Caroline Forbes
Shosanna Dreyfus
Spike
Veronica Mars
Troy Barnes
Edmund Pevensie
Michelle Richardson
Sibyl Crawley

These are the first fifteen of my favorites who popped into my head. I felt so awful leaving people off, though! *sob*

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I thought I would always love Ten best…but I still haven’t forgiven him for what he did to Donna, and it’s ruined a lot of my love for him? It’s entirely possible that a huge part of my love for Eleven is stanning the hell out of Matt Smith and his ridiculously physical performance. I also love how he’s totally baffled by things—kissing! Soccer!—and yet a total genius. I also love how he seems to be genuinely delighted by just about everyone. Also, the contrast between his personality—very much an old man—and his body—that of a young man. Plus: fezzes! Bowties! River Song! Love all arooooound!

[marketchippie.livejournal.com]

ALL THE HEARTS AND STARS IN MY EYES FOR MATT SMITH AND HIS PHYSICALITY. ♥♥♥♥♥

(Unsurprising commentjack is wholly unsurprising.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for you to show up!

No, but seriously, every time I watch him, I'm more blown away. MATT SMITH, HOW ARE YOU POSSIBLE?

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I know what you mean about Donna. I retcon that bit out of my cognition more often than not, which may be a disservice to her or whatever, but I don't think I've ever seen anything as painful on television as that season finale. (And that includes all of Whedon's work, so, hah, Joss.) But I love Ten even with that (in a dark, painful kind of way), but I will always love Nine most.

HOWEVER, I completely understand about Matt Smith's physicality. Also the contrast, which fits in with your other characters - well, Spike, anyway, and kinda Buffy.

Also what occured to me is you like characters who're post-redemption-storyline. Like, Edmund, and also all BtVS S7. Which is what Eleven is, I think, he's the reprieve after Ten's mad and glorious descent into Time Lord Victoriousness.

Eleven's basically Time Lord Recovering, and I see why you'd love that.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I wish that Donna's plotline hadn't affected me so profoundly...but it has. Oh, it has.

I love you forever. Yes, this is incredibly insightful and not something I'd come up with on my own, but it rings true. I love seeing people live through the aftermath of their worst decisions by becoming a better person. Evil in Recovery, basically, as you say.