25 Favorite TV Character Meme

[shadowkat]

Gaked from embers_log and well James Gunn and Joss Whedon:

MY 25 FAVORITE TV CHARACTERS EVER
(or at least the ones I could think of sitting down for a half-hour...)
The RULES

No puppets or cartoons, otherwise Kermit and Homer would definitely be on this list.

No mini-series, otherwise I'd definitely include Philip Marlow from THE SINGING DETECTIVE.

No reality show people, otherwise Matt Kennedy Gould from THE JOE SCHMO SHOW would be on here.

All characters must be regulars on the show. Okay, here we go - (these are mine by the way, for Whedon's go here:http://whedonesque.com/index.php?comments=11157#137930 and I think I only share about four in common with Whedon - Logan, Beltzer, Columbo, and House.)


1. Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series
2. Starbuck from Battle Star Galatica new verison
3. Aeryn Sun from Farscape
4. David Addison from Moonlighting
5. Jane Tennyson from Prime Suspect
6. Columbo
7. Bayliss from Homicide Life on the Streets
8. Gaius Baltar from Battle Star Galatica
9. Logan from Veronica Mars
10. Keith Mars
11. Wash from Firefly
12. Nikita from La Femme Nikita
13. Christina from Grey's Anatomy
14. House from House
15. Beltzer from Hill Street Blues
16. Wesley Wyndom Price from Angel the Series
17. Josh Lyman from the West Wing
18. CJ Cregg from the West Wing
19. Hawkeye Pierce from MASH
20. Mr. Steele from Remington Steele
21. Dr. Carter from ER
22. Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation
23. Chandler from Friends
24. Murphy Brown from Murphy Brown
25. George from Dead Like Me

Am thinking should have made this harder for myself and limited it to one character per series.
Hard enough as is. And like all lists subject to change as my mood does. These are basically the ones I remember.

And as an aside - yes, I know, Joss Whedon managed to kill my favorite character in each of his series.
Another aside, I find it mildly frightening that I've watched or currently watch all the tv shows Whedon is, including General Hospital. Ack.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah tough...I have a tendency to change my favorites each time I do it.

BTVS?
1. Prophecy Girl (The Pack and Nightmares)
2. Passion (School Hard, Becoming I & II, Innocence, Surprise, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered are close seconds)
3. Dopplegangland, (Lover's Walk, Enemies, Consequences, Band Candy, and the Wish are pretty close seconds)
4. Restless (although Hush, Harsh Light of Day, The Freshman, Pangs, Yoko Factor, Who are You, Something Blue all come in close second)
5. Fool for Love (but hard to choose - since I also adore The Replacement, The Body,
The Gift, Checkpoint, Out of my Mind, Intervention, Forever, Triangle, Tough Love, Crush, Into the Woods all favorites)
6. OMWF (but also hard - love Afterlife, Bargaining, Tabula Rasa, Smashed, Gone, Hell's Bells, Entropy, Dead Things, Life Serial, Flooded, Villains, Two to Go, Grave - I think there may have been only three that season that I wasn't in love with.)
7. Four-way tie: Beneath Me, Selfless, Sleeper, and Conversations with Dead People
(Also loved Him, LMPTM (more than most people do - even though I see the issues people had with it, I'm a comics fan and saw what the writers intended as well - it's one of those episodes I can see five different ways and from five different perspectives, rare in tv), Potential, Dirty Girls, Chosen, Lessons, Same Time Same Place, Never Leave Me, Empty Places, Touched. I think Storyteller may have been the only one that didn't completely work for me.)

Angel...

1. The Faith episodes which I can no longer remember the name of. (Dear Boy and In the Dark were also enjoyable. I remember giving up on the series half-way through and coming back when they had cross-overs.)
2. Darla (close second are the ones that included Drusilla) (They lost me at different points.)
3. Wes taking the baby episode and getting his throat cut, Loyalty a close second
4. Can't choose one. Deep Down/Souless/Supersymmetry/Orpheus/the Faith episode/Home
all come close to first place. I adored that entire season. Didn't mind the evil Cordy arc - the character got more interesting actually with it.
5. Also can't choose just one. Destiny/Damage/Hellbound/Girl in Question (adored that episode), Shells/Smile Time. I think the only episode I didn't like that much was the wolf one which can't remember the name of. Everything else worked for me.

I really adored the last two seasons. Angel got darker and his friends got more depth and attention, less focus on who we are saving this week. More character arcs.

Feel no real need to re-watch the earlier seasons, but I do enjoy re-watching the later ones, which seem to have more layers and can be twisted this way and that.

I honestly think Whedon and his writers improved as they moved forward. And they had the best group of writers in their latter seasons.