wasting time

[cornerofmadness]

while my computer crawls along (AVG viral scans take it about two damn hours for reasons known only to itself) I decided to answer one of those fanfic meme's. I wasn't going to simply because of time but since I can barely do anything on the computer (and my only other chore is cleaning the house. snort, yeah right), I figured why not.

Taken from oh....the whole Flist at this point.

BtVS

1. The first character you first fell in love with:

Giles. I absolutely adored Giles, sexy smart and unexpectantly funny. By S2 Spike came to rival him. I couldn’t get enough of evil Spike. He also was smart, ingenious enough to videotape the slayer to get her moves, full of plans though his choice in helpers left a lot to be desired.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:

Buffy herself. She struck me as vacuous and flighty and I didn’t click with her. I was a little too much like Willow at that age. The Buffy types annoyed me then and they annoy me for the most part now

3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:

Andrew. No need to even mull this over. Here’s a character that helped pick out women to turn in to sex slaves, bitched when he couldn’t be the first to rape her, dumped her murdered body, tried later to kill various members of the team right up to Xander and Dawn who were helping him escape and then turns around and is welcomed into the group without so much as a mea culpa and we’re expected to like him because he’s funny

4. The character you love that everyone else hates:

Riley. Yes, he could have used more of a personality but he was intelligent, loyal, cute, strong and had flashes of humor. I should be so lucky to have a boyfriend like him. I always felt sorry for Marc Blucas who was all to aware of how much the fans hated him (and respect for Mr. Marsters who ran interference for him once with fans at a con).


5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:

Spike. His complete overexposure in S6-7 and then on AtS 5, really cooled me on his character and I’m just now finding his voice again for fanfic. It was getting to the point in 6-7 where I was just like ‘retitle it the Spike show, that’s all it’s about anyhow.’ I also cooled a bit towards Willow after her turn to evil. We never got her back after that EXCEPT for on Angel (what was up with that? The only time Willow was written like Willow and it wasn’t even on Buffy). And Giles became a real heartless freak in S7 (so I guess there were quite a few characters that I didn’t like towards the end)


AtS

1. The first character you fell in love with:
Well I already loved Angel by the time he got there, so I can’t really count him. So, I guess it would be Kate. She was the first adult female interaction we got to see Angel dealing with outside of Jenny and Dru and he never really interacted with Jenny and Dru...that’s not normal. Kate was someone who didn’t need him per se. She was already tough enough on her own. I thought she was interesting and was sorry to see her go. That said, I wasn’t too keen on them pushing her as a love interest only because at this point Angel had no idea he could have a relationship so long as he’s not perfectly happy. He should be running fast from the mere idea of a relationship.

2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:

Wesley. I couldn’t stand him on Buffy. The changes they made in Wes were great. Out of all the characters he had the most personal growth. I enjoyed seeing that.


3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:

Fred. Can’t stand her. Don’t know why exactly. I think it’s because she can do anything. Any science question, just ask Fred. I’ve got two separate science degrees, in two unrelated fields and I can’t touch Fred’s overwhelming scientific know-all. I also can’t buy into it. That and she’s a total flirt. We call Faith skeezy but outside of Connor was there a male Fred didn’t make a pass for?

4. The character you love that everyone else hates:

Okay, seriously, if I have to answer this, you are obviously a total stranger to my LJ so introduce yourself to me. I was totally amazed at how fans simply didn’t get that Connor couldn’t ‘get over’ his issues. It’s like they’ve never met anyone raised by a prejudiced parent (how do we think hatred and prejudice spreads anyhow) or have a clue what kind of PTSD would be incurred with Connor’s upbringing (with all respect to the fans, obviously Angel didn’t get it either and he has no excuse)

5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Cordelia. It took me a while on BtVS to like her because, like Willow, I was a frequent target of my school’s version of the Cordettes. That said, I loved how perfectly they nailed that stereotype. And Cordelia slowly grew into a better woman up until S3 when she became the perfect warrioress and otherwise saintly creature that could do no wrong. After that version of Cordy, Evil!Cordy came as a relief