TV Question Meme

[teratornis]

Seen from argentum_ls and annavere, and thought it looked fun. I was pretty clear on what to use for the first four, but I struggled with which to put for five. Can't promise it wouldn't be something different next week, but that's not really a bad thing.

TV questions: pick your five favourite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don’t cheat!

1. Leverage
2. Person of Interest
3. Highlander
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
5. Sanctuary

1) Who’s your favourite character in 2 (Person of Interest)?
Oof, that's tough. For the main bunch, probably Finch, but Zoe Morgan and Elias are high on the list, as well.

2) Who’s your least favourite character in 1 (Leverage)?
Oh man don't do me like this. How am I supposed to pick that? It's tempting to pick Nate, since he's such a bastard, but he's such a great character. I guess probably Chaos? He only turns up a few times, but I tend to find him uninteresting at best and obnoxious at worst.

3) What’s your favourite episode of 4 (Avatar: The Last Airbender)?
S3.E20, Sozin's Comet Part 3: Into the Inferno. This remains one of the best series finale episodes of any show I've ever seen.

4) What’s your favourite season of 5 (Sanctuary)?
Hard to choose between seasons 1 and 3. They're very different from each other, but both a lot of fun. If I have to narrow it down I'd probably go with 1, since I wouldn't have stuck with the show if I hadn't enjoyed it as much as I did.

5) What’s your favourite ship in 3 (Highlander)?
If we're talking canon ships, Duncan and Tessa are wonderful. For non-canon. . . so hard to choose. There are so many potential ones that could be so much fun. After writing 100k words of Methos & Richie friendship, I do find that intriguing as a romantic ship, as well.

6) Who is your anti-ship in 2 (Person of Interest)?
Finch/Reese. The most popular ship, naturally.

7) How long have you watched 1 (Leverage)?
I think since the first season aired, so 2008? Don't remember for sure.

8) How did you become interested in 3 (Highlander)?
A friend of mine posted a gifset of a scene from Forgive Us Our Trespasses on tumblr. I didn't know a damn thing about Highlander before that, but I enjoy stuff with swords and I recognized Peter Wingfield from the gifset, so I got intrigued and went looking, and fell very hard.

9) Who’s your favourite actor in 4 (Avatar: The Last Airbender)?
Mako, as Uncle Iroh. Grey Griffin did an amazing job as Azula, too.

10) Which show do you prefer? 1 (Leverage), 2 (Person of Interest), or 5 (Sanctuary)?
Leverage is by far my most rewatched of this selection, with good reason.

11) Which show have you seen more episodes of; 1 (Leverage) or 3 (Highlander)?
I mean, Highlander has more episodes in general, but I have probably rewatched Leverage more times. Kind of a toss-up, I guess?

12) If you could be anyone from 4 (Avatar: The Last Airbender), who would you be?
Oh boy. Is some random background character in Ba Sing Se an option? Somebody really boring and secure in their daily life? I really wouldn't want to be any of the main cast.

Maybe June. She's cool, rides a giant animal, and doesn't suffer overmuch in the show.

13) How would you kill off your favourite character in 1 (Leverage)?
D:

Going with Eliot here, probably playing human shield for one of the rest of the team.

14) Give a random quote from 1 (Leverage).
"Oh, I didn't kill you. God killed you. I just made sure it took."

15) Would a 3 (Highlander)/4 (Avatar: The Last Airbender) crossover work?
I. . . huh. I mean, I could make it work. I can see ways to make it pretty interesting. The implications of immortals in a setting in which powerful eternal spirits are a fact of life would be intriguing as hell. It would probably be pretty firmly in the realm of crack crossover, though.

16) Pair two characters in 1 (Leverage) that would make an unlikely, but strangely okay couple.
Ponder

Hmm Tara and Maggie. They'd be a terror together.

17) Has 5 (Sanctuary) inspired you in any way?
I've written one bit of fic for this show, and it is a setting I wouldn't mind exploring further. Some seriously wacky worldbuilding there that could be fun to play with, some pretty entertaining characters, and some good fix-it and canon-divergent opportunities.

18) Overall, which show has a better cast? 3 (Highlander) or 5 (Sanctuary)?
Oh boy. Well, they share Jim Byrnes and Peter Wingfield, so that's already points in the favor of both. That's hard, they both have some really, really strong cast members, and then a handful of much weaker ones. That's a really tough choice. I think Sanctuary might just barely take the lead at least partially on the strength of Christopher Heyerdahl's performances.

19) Which has better theme music, 2 (Person of Interest) or 4 (Avatar: The Last Airbender)?
I gotta go with Avatar. The whole soundtrack is really excellent original music, the main theme is iconic, and The Last Agni Kai is a staggering enough piece of music to catapult this to the top of the list all on its own.

Comments

[annavere]

Very entertaining to read. And wow, Sanctuary has Jim Byrnes, Peter Wingfield and Christopher Heyerdahl? I clearly need to see this show.

I also get the feeling I'm the only person on the HL discord who hasn't seen any Leverage, so I'm gonna have to rectify that at some point.

[teratornis]

Sadly Byrnes and Wingfield only turn up a handful of times, but Heyerdahl has two major roles, and performs them both so wonderfully that I didn't realize they were both him until I saw the credits. It's a very flawed show, but in the vein of HL and Teen Wolf, it's got the bones and the cast to make it worthwhile. It's also available on Tubi right now.

Leverage is also absolutely worth the time. It's such an excellent combination of very fun and very poignant, with a really, really excellent bunch of characters that get a chance to really develop. It's available on youtube and freevee.

So many good free shows. \o/