Friday fives
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fannish5:
What are the five coolest gadgets, in any fandom?
1- Lightsabres; Star Wars. They slive, they dice, they cauterize on contact! They're primal and futuristic at the same time, and they're totally in the realm of fantasy, all cool.
2- Sonic screwdriver; Doctor Who. My words can not do the awesomeness of this justice, so I shall just quote: 'Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks "Oooh, this could be a little more sonic."?' 'What? you never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?'
3- Stillsuits; Dune. Okay, I know they're kinda gross with the whole reclaimation and recycling of bodily fluids, but I just adore the image of the Fremen all dolled up in their stillsuits walking across the desert; it's one of those things that gives me chills as much now as it did the first time I read it.
4- The DRDs; Farscape. They're just so cute, with their little blinky eye lights! 1812 is my favorite! I was sad when he sacrificed himself!
5- The Disco Cumber-Bubble-Bund; Mystery Science Theater 3000. Because it's the same damn thing as the regular cumber-bubble-bund barely disguised as anything else, and because of the bit of the Poopie reel where they're laughing at Frank's paltry bubble effort. And 'cos I couldn't think of another.
From last week, which I neglected to answer even though it was a really good one. Hence this post! Okay, so some, most, of these are really typical. There was a time they weren't, when they were fresh and new, and that's generally when I started on them. I like epic-ness, epic love, sometimes tragedy too.
What are your five favorite canonical romances?
1- Leia/Han; Star Wars. Because, dear God, where to start? They were the first ship, they are the ultimate ship! Years before I knew what romantic love was, before I knew about sex, Han and Leia made me feel all gooey inside. The paint's wearing off on my vintage Han action figure chest from having to lean into action figure Leia's bust too often to get a kiss, hee!
2- Sorsha/Madmartigan; Willow. Because they came on the scene right when I was learning about romantic love and, especially, sex. Because they're still such a huge part of my imagination, and influenced so much of it at an impressionable young age.
3- Buffy/Angel; Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Because for about a year I lived for each weekly update on the saga that was their lovelife. I never could quite accept anyone else with Buffy; I think they took Angel off way too soon and not for a good enough reason. I never much got into Angel.
4- Aragorn/Arwen; The Lord of the Rings. Which is actually an extension of my love for Luthien and Beren. I like Luthien better than Arwen, though Beren really can't compare to Aragorn, possibly my favorite character from all Tolkien's stories, and I love the epic scope of Luthien and Beren's love story better, but there's just something that touches me about Aragorn and Arwen in a way no other LotR ships do. And the movies really added to that.
5- Rogue/Gambit; X-Men. And talk of epic loves with a dash of tragedy! I remember getting each issue in the mid-90s and scouring the pages before reading just to see how much Rogue/Remy was featured in it!
Honorable mentions: Aeryn/John; Farscape. And talk of epic loves! Season Three is what did it for me, made me absolutely fall for their story, and I was cheering for them by the end of The Peacekeeper Wars.
And: Horatio/Barbara; Hornblower. My Horatian friends will know; I don't even need to explain this one! ;-)
Peace, Ghani
fannish5:What are the five coolest gadgets, in any fandom?
1- Lightsabres; Star Wars. They slive, they dice, they cauterize on contact! They're primal and futuristic at the same time, and they're totally in the realm of fantasy, all cool.
2- Sonic screwdriver; Doctor Who. My words can not do the awesomeness of this justice, so I shall just quote: 'Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks "Oooh, this could be a little more sonic."?' 'What? you never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?'
3- Stillsuits; Dune. Okay, I know they're kinda gross with the whole reclaimation and recycling of bodily fluids, but I just adore the image of the Fremen all dolled up in their stillsuits walking across the desert; it's one of those things that gives me chills as much now as it did the first time I read it.
4- The DRDs; Farscape. They're just so cute, with their little blinky eye lights! 1812 is my favorite! I was sad when he sacrificed himself!
5- The Disco Cumber-Bubble-Bund; Mystery Science Theater 3000. Because it's the same damn thing as the regular cumber-bubble-bund barely disguised as anything else, and because of the bit of the Poopie reel where they're laughing at Frank's paltry bubble effort. And 'cos I couldn't think of another.
From last week, which I neglected to answer even though it was a really good one. Hence this post! Okay, so some, most, of these are really typical. There was a time they weren't, when they were fresh and new, and that's generally when I started on them. I like epic-ness, epic love, sometimes tragedy too.
What are your five favorite canonical romances?
1- Leia/Han; Star Wars. Because, dear God, where to start? They were the first ship, they are the ultimate ship! Years before I knew what romantic love was, before I knew about sex, Han and Leia made me feel all gooey inside. The paint's wearing off on my vintage Han action figure chest from having to lean into action figure Leia's bust too often to get a kiss, hee!
2- Sorsha/Madmartigan; Willow. Because they came on the scene right when I was learning about romantic love and, especially, sex. Because they're still such a huge part of my imagination, and influenced so much of it at an impressionable young age.
3- Buffy/Angel; Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Because for about a year I lived for each weekly update on the saga that was their lovelife. I never could quite accept anyone else with Buffy; I think they took Angel off way too soon and not for a good enough reason. I never much got into Angel.
4- Aragorn/Arwen; The Lord of the Rings. Which is actually an extension of my love for Luthien and Beren. I like Luthien better than Arwen, though Beren really can't compare to Aragorn, possibly my favorite character from all Tolkien's stories, and I love the epic scope of Luthien and Beren's love story better, but there's just something that touches me about Aragorn and Arwen in a way no other LotR ships do. And the movies really added to that.
5- Rogue/Gambit; X-Men. And talk of epic loves with a dash of tragedy! I remember getting each issue in the mid-90s and scouring the pages before reading just to see how much Rogue/Remy was featured in it!
Honorable mentions: Aeryn/John; Farscape. And talk of epic loves! Season Three is what did it for me, made me absolutely fall for their story, and I was cheering for them by the end of The Peacekeeper Wars.
And: Horatio/Barbara; Hornblower. My Horatian friends will know; I don't even need to explain this one! ;-)
Peace, Ghani
