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shadowkatWe'll see how quickly I can do this before going to bed. Goal is 15 minutes. [ETA: Failed miserably - it took an hour. Dang it. And I lost steam towards the end.]
30-Day Buffy and Angel and Doctor Who Challenge in One Day
Day 1: Favorite Season
Buffy: Hmmm. Tempted to say S2 - because by far the most lovable villians, but the character arcs were overly melodramatic in hindsight and somewhat cliche and dated now. (ie - so high school). Granted Becoming was by far the best season finale, but I need more than that. Also tempted towards S5 - which for me had the best thematic arc, metaphor wise, and some of the best character centric standalone episodes. Yet, S7 and S6 jump above it - in episodes.
Off hand - I'd have to say my favorite is still S5, for some reason I find this season comforting - maybe because unlike all the other seasons it focused more on mother issues and female dichotomy and the duality between genders - it was also the least romantically angsty of the seasons - both Xander and Willow were in stable romantic relationships. (Although S7 and S6 come in close second), this partly due to the fact that the DVD for S2 is crappy.
Doctor Who: right now? The Donna Noble season - with River Song episodes. Although the season before it with Martha Jones is a close second - both contain my favorite episodes of that series to date. (It's too early to know what I'll think of the current season - could end up being my favorite yet.
Angel: Season 5 hands down. I identified with the corporation metaphor and evil law firm metaphors, and evil hollywood metaphors - perhaps more than most. People - trust me when I state that unless you've worked for an entertainment company - you missed half of the inside jokes. Also, I liked the cast the best - they'd finally gotten rid of the weak links and that whole shanshu fatalism nonsense that drove me nuts. Can we say cliche? Yes, we can. I did miss Lilah though. Plus Angel/Spike - favorite pairing EVER!
Day 2: Favorite Episode:
Buffy - Once More with Feeling - the pivotal episode of the season, where every character is wittly explored, while the show made fun of itself at the same time.
Angel: Destiny - the brother relationship, the mirror images, and the demonstration of what Angel did to people - how he corrupted them, broke them down over time, cut away at them, belittled them - demonstrating how emotional abuse can be far worse than physical, and far more destructive - and how his victim rises up and fights back. It was beautifully ambiguous. And turned the whole shanshu prophecy and Angel's ability to be redeemed on its head.
Doctor Who: Two Parter - River Song in Donna Noble Season, Library and Forests of the Air -
played with my head. Made me fall in love with the Doctor, up to that point I really didn't understand what the fuss was about. And scared me shitless at the same time - the piranha of the air that came out of the books and lived in the shadows of the forests....what a concept.
That was new. Also the girl whose mind was the library construct. And a library to beat all libraries. Plus a female heroine to equal the Doctor, who thought like he did, understood him, and was his equal - while we also had Donna who was his equal in another way, and the best platonic relationship he'd ever had. Oh. I loved it.
Day 3: Favorite Song Used In An Episode
Buffy - Pavolov's Bell in the episode Sleeper - best use of a song to depict a character's arc and a character's personality in an episode ever! If want to see how - see my meta: Spike, Triggers, Chips and Souls.
Angel - did Angel have music? Okay it had music. But songs? I'd have to say the song that Cordelia sings when Lorne passes out. The Greatest Love of All is For Yourself - great use of an annoying song.
Doctor Who - again does this have songs? I can't remember any.
Day 4: Favorite Female Character
Buffy - I'd still have to go with Buffy. The character is actually the least like me, (if they were straight - Tara or Willow would most likely be the most like me), but in some ways she resonated for me the best. Whedon was correct - she's like Jimmy Stewart. What can I say? I love the character. If I didn't I wouldn't have fallen in love with the series to the degree that I did. Some people can fall deeply in love with series in which they don't love the lead, I'm not amongst them.
Angel - sigh, it's a tie between Illyria and Lilah. Probably Illyria although it is seriously a toss up.
Doctor Who? River Song. Yes, a minor character, but there you go. I did however love Donna Noble - Catherine Tate is amazing actress. The jury is still out on Kare Gillian.
Day 5: Least Favorite Female Character
Buffy: Harmony - grated on my nerves.
Angel: Harmony
Doctor Who: Rose Tyler
(see a pattern?)
Day 6: Favorite Male Character
Buffy - Spike - enuf said.
Angel - Wesley - for more or less the same reasons Spike is in Buffy, best character arc. It should be Angel, which possibly explains why I didn't like the series that much and kept leaving it and coming back. Angel, the character, I liked depending on the episode and whether Boreanze decided to actually show up or phone it in.
Doctor Who? The Doctor - which is a good thing, because the show would be unwatchable for me otherwise. I fell a bit in love with him during the Donna Noble season.
Day 7: Least Favorite Male Character
Buffy - Robin Wood although Andrew is a close second (for more or less the same reasons I don't like Harmony).
Angel - hard one, have to go with Angel. Yes, I liked all the male characters on the series more than the lead - pathetic I know.
Doctor Who? Right now Rory. The character's voice grates on my ever-living nerve.
Day 8: Favorite Friendship
Buffy - Willow and Buffy (yes, I like their friendship more than Buffy/Xander, partly because unlike Xander, Willow whose gay has a truly platonic relationship with no demands - it's pure.)
Angel - Angel and Spike - Spike actually made me fall for Angel again and enjoy the character.
I loved them hard together. But platonically.
Doctor Who - Doctor Who and Donna Noble, best platonic friendship on the series and ended miserably damn RTD!!!
Day 9: Favorite Romance
Buffy - Buffy/Spike
Angel - Lilah/Wesley (although was tempted to go with Angel/Darla, but no...has to be Lilah/Wes).
Doctor Who - Doctor Who 10 and River Song
Day 10: Least Favorite Season
Angel - Season 3, I gave up on the series and had to be coaxed back, people bribed me by sending me tapes to catch up. LOL! Waiting in the Wing is possibly the Worste Whedon episode ever, followed closely by Amends... Whedon really did not get Angel or the series.
Buffy - Season 1 - stupid villians and campy beyond belief
Doctor Who - Season 2 - sigh the Doctor/Rose angst...I stopped watching early on and didn't come back until the end to see her written off.
Day 11: Least Favorite Romance
Buffy - Buffy/Angel (sigh)
Angel - Buffy/Angel (sigh)
Doctor Who - Rose/Doctor 10 (sigh - it's odd I liked Rose Tyler in S1 with Doctor 9)
Day 12: Least Favorite Episode
Buffy - Amends
Angel - sigh, too many to count in S1 and S3, unfortunately, I'd have to go with Provider or whatever that one was about taking care of the Baby in S3?
Day 13: Favorite Potential Slayer
Buffy - what if you don't have one? Kennedy?
Angel - Dana
Doctor Who - are there slayers in Doctor Who?
Day 14: Favorite Female Villain
Buffy - Drusilla
Angel - Lilah
Doctor Who - is there one? I guess we could go with...the Prime Minister
Day 15: Favorite Male Villain
Buffy - Angelus (yes I preferred Angelus to Angel in the Buffy series)
Angel - Angelus and possibly Angel himself
Doctor Who - possibly the Doctor himself although the Master comes in a good second
Day 16: Episode You Like That Everyone Else Hates
Buffy - Him
Angel - Hole in the World and Underneath
Doctor Who - don't know, I'm guessing the River Song episodes?
Day 17: Character You Relate To The Most
Buffy - Willow, although to a degree Buffy herself and Spike (so those three - a tie)
Angel - no one. Maybe Spike or possibly...Cordy in the early seasons
Doctor Who - Donna Noble
Day 18: Character Who Didn’t Get Enough Screen Time
Buffy - Giles
Angel - Illyria and Lilah
Doctor Who - River Song
Day 19: Character You Like That Everyone Else Hates
Buffy - I don't know...Buffy? Fandom is funky. Depends on the faction.
Angel - Connor, definitely Connor - in particular S4 Connor, who I loved and everyone else hated. I much prefered him to pod!Connor/StepfordSonConnor in S5 after the mindwipe.
Doctor Who - Martha Jones
Day 20: Best Spike-centric Episode
Buffy - Fool for Love (although I do love the end of Beneath You)
Angel - Destiny (although Damage is wickedly good but Destiny has that amazing fight sequence, made even more so by the knowledge that Boreanze was injured prior to it and you cannot tell.)
Doctor Who - there isn't one, but if you go to Torchwood, you can claim that episode at the beginning of the second season with Captain John.
Day 21: Best Willow-centric Episode
Buffy - Dopplegangland - there's no contest, although I do rather like Tough Love and Villians.
Day 22: Best Xander-centric Episode
Buffy - The Replacement in S5 - which yes, I prefer to the Zeppo, blasphemy, I know.
Day 23: Two Characters You Wanted To Get Together That Never Did
Hmmm, I guess Willow/Xander, and Giles/Joyce don't count, nor does Giles/Anya?
I don't know. Maybe Faith/Spike or Willow/Spike or Xander/Spike?
Doctor Who - can't think of anyone.
Angel - Angel/Lilah
Day 24: Favorite Example of 90s Special Effects
Drawing a blank - I don't remember the 90s, it's a blur
Day 25: Episode You Hate That Everyone Else Loves
Buffy - Storyteller
Angel - Waiting in the Wings and possibly Origin
Doctor Who - the Girl in the Fireplace
Too freaking late now to do 30...and I deleted the ones I could not come up with an answer for.
30-Day Buffy and Angel and Doctor Who Challenge in One Day
Day 1: Favorite Season
Buffy: Hmmm. Tempted to say S2 - because by far the most lovable villians, but the character arcs were overly melodramatic in hindsight and somewhat cliche and dated now. (ie - so high school). Granted Becoming was by far the best season finale, but I need more than that. Also tempted towards S5 - which for me had the best thematic arc, metaphor wise, and some of the best character centric standalone episodes. Yet, S7 and S6 jump above it - in episodes.
Off hand - I'd have to say my favorite is still S5, for some reason I find this season comforting - maybe because unlike all the other seasons it focused more on mother issues and female dichotomy and the duality between genders - it was also the least romantically angsty of the seasons - both Xander and Willow were in stable romantic relationships. (Although S7 and S6 come in close second), this partly due to the fact that the DVD for S2 is crappy.
Doctor Who: right now? The Donna Noble season - with River Song episodes. Although the season before it with Martha Jones is a close second - both contain my favorite episodes of that series to date. (It's too early to know what I'll think of the current season - could end up being my favorite yet.
Angel: Season 5 hands down. I identified with the corporation metaphor and evil law firm metaphors, and evil hollywood metaphors - perhaps more than most. People - trust me when I state that unless you've worked for an entertainment company - you missed half of the inside jokes. Also, I liked the cast the best - they'd finally gotten rid of the weak links and that whole shanshu fatalism nonsense that drove me nuts. Can we say cliche? Yes, we can. I did miss Lilah though. Plus Angel/Spike - favorite pairing EVER!
Day 2: Favorite Episode:
Buffy - Once More with Feeling - the pivotal episode of the season, where every character is wittly explored, while the show made fun of itself at the same time.
Angel: Destiny - the brother relationship, the mirror images, and the demonstration of what Angel did to people - how he corrupted them, broke them down over time, cut away at them, belittled them - demonstrating how emotional abuse can be far worse than physical, and far more destructive - and how his victim rises up and fights back. It was beautifully ambiguous. And turned the whole shanshu prophecy and Angel's ability to be redeemed on its head.
Doctor Who: Two Parter - River Song in Donna Noble Season, Library and Forests of the Air -
played with my head. Made me fall in love with the Doctor, up to that point I really didn't understand what the fuss was about. And scared me shitless at the same time - the piranha of the air that came out of the books and lived in the shadows of the forests....what a concept.
That was new. Also the girl whose mind was the library construct. And a library to beat all libraries. Plus a female heroine to equal the Doctor, who thought like he did, understood him, and was his equal - while we also had Donna who was his equal in another way, and the best platonic relationship he'd ever had. Oh. I loved it.
Day 3: Favorite Song Used In An Episode
Buffy - Pavolov's Bell in the episode Sleeper - best use of a song to depict a character's arc and a character's personality in an episode ever! If want to see how - see my meta: Spike, Triggers, Chips and Souls.
Angel - did Angel have music? Okay it had music. But songs? I'd have to say the song that Cordelia sings when Lorne passes out. The Greatest Love of All is For Yourself - great use of an annoying song.
Doctor Who - again does this have songs? I can't remember any.
Day 4: Favorite Female Character
Buffy - I'd still have to go with Buffy. The character is actually the least like me, (if they were straight - Tara or Willow would most likely be the most like me), but in some ways she resonated for me the best. Whedon was correct - she's like Jimmy Stewart. What can I say? I love the character. If I didn't I wouldn't have fallen in love with the series to the degree that I did. Some people can fall deeply in love with series in which they don't love the lead, I'm not amongst them.
Angel - sigh, it's a tie between Illyria and Lilah. Probably Illyria although it is seriously a toss up.
Doctor Who? River Song. Yes, a minor character, but there you go. I did however love Donna Noble - Catherine Tate is amazing actress. The jury is still out on Kare Gillian.
Day 5: Least Favorite Female Character
Buffy: Harmony - grated on my nerves.
Angel: Harmony
Doctor Who: Rose Tyler
(see a pattern?)
Day 6: Favorite Male Character
Buffy - Spike - enuf said.
Angel - Wesley - for more or less the same reasons Spike is in Buffy, best character arc. It should be Angel, which possibly explains why I didn't like the series that much and kept leaving it and coming back. Angel, the character, I liked depending on the episode and whether Boreanze decided to actually show up or phone it in.
Doctor Who? The Doctor - which is a good thing, because the show would be unwatchable for me otherwise. I fell a bit in love with him during the Donna Noble season.
Day 7: Least Favorite Male Character
Buffy - Robin Wood although Andrew is a close second (for more or less the same reasons I don't like Harmony).
Angel - hard one, have to go with Angel. Yes, I liked all the male characters on the series more than the lead - pathetic I know.
Doctor Who? Right now Rory. The character's voice grates on my ever-living nerve.
Day 8: Favorite Friendship
Buffy - Willow and Buffy (yes, I like their friendship more than Buffy/Xander, partly because unlike Xander, Willow whose gay has a truly platonic relationship with no demands - it's pure.)
Angel - Angel and Spike - Spike actually made me fall for Angel again and enjoy the character.
I loved them hard together. But platonically.
Doctor Who - Doctor Who and Donna Noble, best platonic friendship on the series and ended miserably damn RTD!!!
Day 9: Favorite Romance
Buffy - Buffy/Spike
Angel - Lilah/Wesley (although was tempted to go with Angel/Darla, but no...has to be Lilah/Wes).
Doctor Who - Doctor Who 10 and River Song
Day 10: Least Favorite Season
Angel - Season 3, I gave up on the series and had to be coaxed back, people bribed me by sending me tapes to catch up. LOL! Waiting in the Wing is possibly the Worste Whedon episode ever, followed closely by Amends... Whedon really did not get Angel or the series.
Buffy - Season 1 - stupid villians and campy beyond belief
Doctor Who - Season 2 - sigh the Doctor/Rose angst...I stopped watching early on and didn't come back until the end to see her written off.
Day 11: Least Favorite Romance
Buffy - Buffy/Angel (sigh)
Angel - Buffy/Angel (sigh)
Doctor Who - Rose/Doctor 10 (sigh - it's odd I liked Rose Tyler in S1 with Doctor 9)
Day 12: Least Favorite Episode
Buffy - Amends
Angel - sigh, too many to count in S1 and S3, unfortunately, I'd have to go with Provider or whatever that one was about taking care of the Baby in S3?
Day 13: Favorite Potential Slayer
Buffy - what if you don't have one? Kennedy?
Angel - Dana
Doctor Who - are there slayers in Doctor Who?
Day 14: Favorite Female Villain
Buffy - Drusilla
Angel - Lilah
Doctor Who - is there one? I guess we could go with...the Prime Minister
Day 15: Favorite Male Villain
Buffy - Angelus (yes I preferred Angelus to Angel in the Buffy series)
Angel - Angelus and possibly Angel himself
Doctor Who - possibly the Doctor himself although the Master comes in a good second
Day 16: Episode You Like That Everyone Else Hates
Buffy - Him
Angel - Hole in the World and Underneath
Doctor Who - don't know, I'm guessing the River Song episodes?
Day 17: Character You Relate To The Most
Buffy - Willow, although to a degree Buffy herself and Spike (so those three - a tie)
Angel - no one. Maybe Spike or possibly...Cordy in the early seasons
Doctor Who - Donna Noble
Day 18: Character Who Didn’t Get Enough Screen Time
Buffy - Giles
Angel - Illyria and Lilah
Doctor Who - River Song
Day 19: Character You Like That Everyone Else Hates
Buffy - I don't know...Buffy? Fandom is funky. Depends on the faction.
Angel - Connor, definitely Connor - in particular S4 Connor, who I loved and everyone else hated. I much prefered him to pod!Connor/StepfordSonConnor in S5 after the mindwipe.
Doctor Who - Martha Jones
Day 20: Best Spike-centric Episode
Buffy - Fool for Love (although I do love the end of Beneath You)
Angel - Destiny (although Damage is wickedly good but Destiny has that amazing fight sequence, made even more so by the knowledge that Boreanze was injured prior to it and you cannot tell.)
Doctor Who - there isn't one, but if you go to Torchwood, you can claim that episode at the beginning of the second season with Captain John.
Day 21: Best Willow-centric Episode
Buffy - Dopplegangland - there's no contest, although I do rather like Tough Love and Villians.
Day 22: Best Xander-centric Episode
Buffy - The Replacement in S5 - which yes, I prefer to the Zeppo, blasphemy, I know.
Day 23: Two Characters You Wanted To Get Together That Never Did
Hmmm, I guess Willow/Xander, and Giles/Joyce don't count, nor does Giles/Anya?
I don't know. Maybe Faith/Spike or Willow/Spike or Xander/Spike?
Doctor Who - can't think of anyone.
Angel - Angel/Lilah
Day 24: Favorite Example of 90s Special Effects
Drawing a blank - I don't remember the 90s, it's a blur
Day 25: Episode You Hate That Everyone Else Loves
Buffy - Storyteller
Angel - Waiting in the Wings and possibly Origin
Doctor Who - the Girl in the Fireplace
Too freaking late now to do 30...and I deleted the ones I could not come up with an answer for.