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[graculus]

From fannish5:

What five characters do you find the most interesting and why?

The grammar pedant in me keeps going 'which, not what!'. ;)

1. Daniel Jackson - no surprises there! If I didn't find him immensely interesting, I doubt I would have stuck with SG this long. I've loved the character since the movie and have stuck with the 'evolution' throughout the series, though I'm still strongly of the camp that he wouldn't have liked being ascended because Daniel just isn't one of life's observers. He wouldn't be able to resist getting involved and so he wouldn't have blithely said being ascended was where he was meant to be (I blame the desperate desire of tptb to shut the Daniel fans up for that line).

2. Ezra Standish - Ezra is just a big old ball of contradictions, so I love him to bits. He desperately wants to settle down and be respectable (or at least be the town's equivalent of the guy with the colourful past), but all the time he's looking for the next mark just in case it doesn't work and he has to skip town in a hurry. He knows his own weaknesses.

3. Illya Kuryakin - ah, what can we say about IK that hasn't already been said a thousand times before? ;) He's cute as a button, is way more intelligent than his partner but doesn't rub it in *too* often, has absolutely no desire to deal with the social niceties of life and looks damn good in black.

4. Any of the CSI (Las Vegas) guys - yep, pretty much any of them. The CSI women I find universally annoying and could happily live without them, but the male characters are all interesting. Let's concentrate on Nick Stokes, though, who's gayer than a gay thing and just keeps on flirting with Greg like he's forgotten they're both supposed to be straight by default (since this is US television, after all), shall we? No straight man dresses like that, particularly not one from Texas.

5. This space left deliberately blank. ;)

Comments

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

I agree with Daniel. The whole Abyss thing was perfectly i character except for that little line. Now I think it was Daniel trying to convince himself that he hadn't screwed up with the ascension. In Changeling, he looks rather sad, which is my cue to think he was convinced Ascended life was overrated and then in Full Circle the poor thing did what he had to do.

And yes, Daniel is a fantastic character, because I doubht any of us could take that load of crap without forgetting we were ever in that fandom. :)

[isabeau.livejournal.com]

The grammar pedant in me keeps going 'which, not what!'. ;)

Wouldn't it be 'what', though? 'Which' seems to me like "select from the following list" (like "Which Stargate character do you find the most interesting"), whereas 'what' is kind of more open-ended (there isn't a base set to choose from, aside from, um, fandom, but it's not /restricted/ the same way that, like, specifying a fandom or a set of characters would be).

Or maybe that's just my grammer pedant disagreeing with your grammer pedant and we're both right ;)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

To me the open-endedness of it made it 'Which 5 characters from all the characters out there...' - it could also be one of those transatlantic things as well as mere pedantry.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Let's concentrate on Nick Stokes

Now there's a plan I can support whole-heartedly. Mmmm :)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

How *did* I know that concept would appeal to you? ;)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Because I have eyes? ;)

[blktauna.livejournal.com]

Nick/Warrick baby!!!!

YUM! ;)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

And the world needs more of it, definitely! :)