Gakked from likeadeuce (who got it from kindkit)

[alixtii]

Pick a fictional character/ character from a fandom I know and I'll answer the following questions.

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her. Likewise if you dislike the character.

2) Is he/she important to the general plot?

3) Can you relate to this character at all? Do they grip you emotionally?

4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?

5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by their relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)

6) Is there anything about the character you would change?

7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how do you see yourself interacting with him/her? (Would you get along well? Fall in love with? Dislike? Friendly rivalry? etc etc)

8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?

9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about (if you dislike) to someone whose new to the fandom?

10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

Comments

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

Anne Catherick!

[dkompare.livejournal.com]

Right then: Gwen Cooper.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Musicalverse, obviously. I will read the book one day, I promise.

1) OMG, so awesome. She's just so . . . yeah. With the accent (fake, even!). And the crazy. And the being British and crazy while singing. Angela Christian, you have my incredible respect.

2) Um, yeah. She's the eponymous character.

3) She does grip me emotionally, which is a problem because her arc doesn't get resolved. She's basically used as a plot device, which is sad and wrong because she's totally the most awesome character in the whole thing.

4) It's hard to judge because I'm not sure what I have to compare it against. As a work of art . . . there are things I love about it, but it's not ALW's best work and the lyrics are just inane. But . . . Anne Catherick!

5) Anne/Laura, definitely. Also but less so with Anne/Marian and Anne/Walter. I'm interested in the Anne/Glyde backstory, but not in a wish fulfillment OTP way, obviously.

6) Her ultimate fate? Seriously, that scene in the asylum crushes me every time. I think we're supposed to be relieved and happy that [SPOILER], but I'd so rather that not be the case.

7) She's insane.

8) Without a doubt my favorite character from tWiW.

9) I would tell them that's she awesome but she's sadly not in it as much as she should be (all the time!)

10) I have no clue.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

1) I think she works as the audience-identification character in the beginning, when we're being introduced to Torchwood. She works even better to show the slowly corruptive effect Torchwood has as she loses her humanity bit by bit. It's important, I think, that we get to see that, that we're not faced with these extragovernmental monarchists who think they are better than everybody else and can do whatever they want and don't have to answer to anybody without understanding how these people came to be that way.

2) Sometimes but rarely. She's much more important to the thematic thrust and emotional arc of the show. Her position as audience viewpoint doesn't well-equip her with what is necessaery to move the plot forward; she tends to be more reactive than active.

3) I think I can relate to her, that Eve does a good job making her feel emotionally real and posessing a human warmth even as she's being corrupted absolutely.

4) OMG, favorite current TV show. A show about secret agents which doesn't make it look like the violation of civil liberties is a good thing? (Although I'm still uncertain exactly what British civil liberties actually include. But certainly the curtailment of said liberties, even if allowable under the unwritten constitution, should fall under the jurisdiction of Parliament and not the Sovereign.) Love. Admittedly I worry that a) the audience doesn't always get the satire, b) it's not intended as satire.

5) I love Gwen/Owen. It's broken and destructive and so perfectly encapsulates everything which Torchwood represents.

6) Hmm, it has been a while since I saw an episode. *rereads old posts tagged as Torchwood* I think she could stand to be developed a little more; she doesn't have to just be an audience stand-in.

7) I don't think we'd interest each other in the least.

8) She might be second after Suzie, I don't remember.

9) Neither.

10) Somehow I have the feeling that she's not? It seems to be the fairly common prominent female character misogyny deal; it's not like we haven't seen it in a dozen other fandoms.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Note that "favorite current TV show" may very well need to be caveated by "until the Sarah Conner Chronicles come out." Still, much Torchwood love.