Character Love Meme

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Name a character, and I will tell you in no less than 100 words why I love that character.

Fandoms you may question me on are: Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI (Vegas), Firefly/Serenity, Harry Potter, Jane Austen (any of the books/adaptions), The Lord of the Rings, The Mummy/Mummy Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek (Original), Star Trek (TNG), Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1

Of course, you could also ask about any of the other fandoms I've written for or admitted to watching, but I can't guarantee being able to come up with a love-paragraph about any given main character for every one of them. =)

Comments

Data (TNG)

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There was always something really earnest and likeable about Data for me. I know they went to cliché places a lot of the time with his really wanting to be human and failing spectacularly at it, but that really worked for me when I started watching as a teenager, the fact that he was so brilliant but had no idea how to relate to the people around him and still ended up being more human than they were sometimes. (So speaks the genius kid who got held to her age level in school instead of advanced according to what she could actually do).

I hated, hated, hated how they dealt with the Data subplots in movies seven, nine, and ten-- I've only watched them once each and have no desire to again-- but on the other hand I did love the stuff with him initiating dream subroutines on the show, and the time Q allowed him to experience laughter before he found out about the emotion chip, and the episode where Picard was stuck on the Enterprise with terrorists during a baryon sweep while Data engaged in a small-talk marathon with the station commander that everybody else hated talking to, and the bit in movie eight where (IIRC) the borg Queen tempted him with a closer approximation of humanity than he could reach on his own and he was so tempted but didn't really give in, and so on.

Re: Data (TNG)

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I love Data. Movies seven, nine and ten had a lot of problems, never mind the Data subplots. Mind you, I saw Generations the other week - the only thing I managed to catch in the Star Trek week on sci-fi - and even though the Data stuff was bad... I still loved it 'cause it was Trek, which I haven't really seen any of in a while.

Do you mind if I ask another? Earlier I almost asked about Nick Stokes, so I was happy someone else did that. But I also wanted to ask about Greg Sanders. :D

Greg Sanders (CSI)

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Leggo my Greggo!

I think the first time Greg Sanders really made an impression on me was in that early episode where Grissom painted his feet with bacteria simply because his heritage is Norweigan, both because of the way he reacted to the whole thing and because I'm 25% Norweigan myself.

I actually liked him better while he was still a lab tech, when he still got to express all of his style, but everyone has to grow up sometime, and I've been enjoying his developing friendship/mentoring thing with Sara over the last couple of seasons, too. (Though I think we've seen less of his carefree friendship with Nick lately, something else I miss). He's still so earnest about his job, having to ask questions, being the intercessory character between audience and plot (the same role the Hobbits fill in LOTR).

I'm curious to see where they go with him in the newest season.