Ooh, well, Wolverine is my favourite, because he's a grumpy bastard, and he's completely softhearted underneath, and he has lots of hidden talents and skills and knowledge, and he likes to wind people up, and has a dark past, and sometimes he's actually not a nice person, at all. (And I totally have a type.) And, hm... see, the X-Men facts are so changeable, and Wolverine's such a well-known character... Um. He was a very sickly child, son of a rich 19th century landowner. He wore frills. :)

And I didn't watch Buffy properly until it was over (I saw a few eps, thought it looked interesting, but there was a lot of backstory so it was hard to understand). However, when I did get into it, I borrowed the videos / DVDs from my brother, and watched them in order. I loved how they evolved the characters - I think it's one of the strongest things about Joss Whedon's writing, how he lets them change and evolve and grow, and be affected by the things that happen to them.

Yeah, X-Men has a whole warship's worth of canons. Facts change as and when it's convenient. It's one of the reasons I gave up reading the comics - it drove me mildly nuts. But yes, the characters mostly seem to stay the same, sort of. Well, the main ones. Most of them. Sort of. Actually, Rogue changed a heck of a lot...

Yes to Joss Whedon. I don't know many shows that allow that much change in their characters. Stargate doesn't really - okay, it has some change, but overall they're not half as screwed up as they should be. IMO.

I suppose I ought to say that my actual primary source for X-Men was the cartoon. The 80's one. I loves it.

Oh, yes. There were lots of angsty fannish stories in my head that were completely her fault. And maybe a bit of time thinking jealously about her ability to do anything and how she could totally be the most powerful mutant evar. And maybe also some ruminations over whether I liked her better with Gambit or Wolverine (even in the movies, which is probably totally wrong, but...oh well).

when she grows up a little... He's over 100, so a few years for him won't make any difference...

Exactly! And I agree about the movie Rogue. Very...innocent, comparatively.

Hm. Favourite secondary character would be Jacob (um, if we're not counting Janet - I find it hard to think of her as a secondary character, although I guess she is). Jacob just seems so real - he has a lot of authority, and he's a pain in the ass, and he's got a sneaky sense of humour, and you can see a lot of why Sam is how she is from watching Jacob.

Least favourite... Er, I'm not fond of Landry (again, it's arguable how much of a secondary character he is). He just annoys me - which Beau Bridges doesn't usually do. He just feels a bit tactless and thoughtless, and unsubtle. To me.

Favourite alien tech - I like that mysterious thing that Jack picked up and asked Teal'c what it was, and Teal'c refused to explain ("What do you think it is?"), and Jack got icked. I don't know what the hell it was, and I don't really care to find out. :)

Least favourite... the weather device in Touchstone, I wasn't convinced that it would be a good idea in the long term - no matter how much practice they had in balancing it, it just seemed like it would cause more trouble than good.

And, hah, I thought I should give you a chance to get revenge. :) Well, Cam is the one who springs to mind, if I'm honest. I don't really want to kill any of them off, but he's the one I'd miss the least. And it would be all tragic, and he'd have a heroic death, and everyone would be sad. I'm all for the killing off of main characters, if it works for the story. Keeps things from feeling too safe.

I actually forgot about Jonas. Oops! :7 But yes, perhaps him, on that basis. Poor Jonas.

In my personal canon, Teal'c totally knew what that thing was, and it was something completely uninteresting and technological - he just wanted to freak Jack out. *g*

Ooh...

Well, favourite Doctor... I think it has to be Peter Davison. Not because he's better than other Doctors (Tennant and Tom Baker are the ones I jointly consider 'best'), but because he's MY Doctor, and I have a completely sentimental attachment to him.

Riker... beard. I think he looks hideous with it, but I liked his character better in the beardy years. Generally I can't stand him, though.

Buffy's sister - I thought it was a brilliant way of bringing in a new character, and although she's annoying, I felt that she was meant to be annoying. I kind of liked her. I thought she brought out some interesting ideas.

And... well, occasionally I find Peter Deluise a bit annoying and flippant, but he also directed some of my favourite eps, and seems to exercise a proper, thoughtful, directorial control over the show when actually working, so overall, a good influence. Dom Deluise I love, but I don't think he fitted well with the show, if I'm honest. I've seen him interviewed, though, and could listen to him talking for hours. David Deluise, well, I found Pete Shanahan a bit irksome, but I don't hold that against the actor. :) But boy, there's a lot of Deluises on that show. Rather nepotistic.

Oh yes. Absolutely. I also have a soft spot for Paul McGann, because that was when I first properly got into Doctor Who - but Peter Davison was the first. I was SO upset when he regenerated into Colin Baker. :)

Me no like cold any more. Roll on summer, pls.

Hm. Well, the first thing that made me pay attention was Jack O'Neill finding Kinsey in his house, and the casual way he called the police, shushing Kinsey with his gun - "It's ringing." And then Kinsey pulled the phone out of the wall... and Jack took out his mobile, and kept on phoning. *g*

That was the first ep I saw (Full Alert) - completely ass-backwards way to get into it. I thought Daniel looked dashing with his James Bond dishevelled look (well, I didn't know), and there were some other people, and it was quite exciting and totally confusing.

But that was enough to get me to look it up online, and vaguely remember enjoying the film, and find some Sam/Jack fic - I think by Jojo - online, and fall for the pairing, and research which was the shippiest season, and buy season 4. And I watched it in a very few days, so that's all kind of a blur, but I was hooked by the end.

Teal'c. Definitely. Worf's okay, but Teal'c has the power of Ineffable Cool. Worf would get his Klingon weapons caught on everything (seriously, those things have too many ornamental frills and furbelows).

(Unless you mean I'm fighting one of them, in which case I'd rather fight Worf!)

And yes, I did mean by your side in battle, not who you'd prefer to battle yourself.

Phew. Because Worf might not be ineffably cool, but he could still kick my ass. *g*

I think Worf has the problem that he looks a bit daft when he's angry (possibly a problem with the show more than the character), whereas Teal'c's anger is an impressive, serious thing, and not daft in the slightest.

Hm... I'm not amazingly fond of Gambit, just because of his overuse of the third person. It's a wee bit irritating. But aside from that, I don't hate the pairing. They do seem to have a lot of problems, and issues with Mystique that are a little icky. And they don't seem to trust each other a great deal. I dunno - it just doesn't especially ping me. I prefer my non-canon ship. :)

Scully. I love Mulder, but working with him would be a nightmare, and I'd rather go about something logically and scientifically, and gather the proof to back up my findings. I think he has preconceptions about what the answers might be, far too much for my liking (if I was working with him).

See, there's the obvious answers - fishing, depths of a museum, working on the bike / naquadah reactor ("This is fun to me, sir."), visiting Ry'ac - but that's boring.

So -

Jack: Beach. Drinks with little umbrellas and girls with little bikinis. He's a sunfish, I believe. Working on an even tan.

Teal'c: Angkor Wat (Cambodian temple) - because he's working on seeing all the wonders of Earth, and is doing it alphabetically.

Daniel: The nearest, highest mountain. He spends a lot of his time looking at things very close up, and every now and then feels the need to stretch his eyes and look at the far distance.

Sam: Diving. She's working on her scuba diving certificate. She's seen alien worlds, but sometimes the life on Earth is stranger.

Ahaha!

Well... Manny tries to save the day with his awesome knowledge of how to make a raft from banana skins and some old soap. Bernard gets himself entangled in some rope, throws a tantrum and knocks a hole in the raft. All panic. Bernard comes up with a very complex plan, that would only work if we'd planned the sinking three months ahead. Fran eventually takes charge, and we float to safety in her enormous shoe suitcases.

Three weeks later, we land, and vow never to speak to one another again.

We'd have to paddle with the shoes. And we'd have to restrain Fran, who would insist that she ABSOLUTELY needs to take ALL of them with her - what if we get rescued by drug dealers who invite us to party on their yacht? We take some. Eventually, in a state of thirst-induced delirium, we eat them.

Hey, what's all this morbid stuff about 'battle to the death', eh?

;)

Well, I can't believe Felger could ever win, in that fight. He'd have an amazing idea involving lasers, but it would go horribly wrong at the wrong moment. Whereas Woolsy would have a boring idea, and follow it through to the letter, and it would work, and he'd win. But everyone would hate him for killing Felger (even though they found Felger more than a little annoying).