Another meme!

[dolorous_ett]

This one I nicked from tree_and_leaf

Give me a fandom and I'll tell you...

1. The first character I fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I would sleep with any time
6. The character I'd want to be like
7. The character I'd slap
8. Favorite character
9. Five favorite characters
10. Five least favorite characters
11. Character I am most like
12. DEEP DARK SECRET REGARDING THIS FANDOM
13. A pairing (or more!) I love
14. A pairing (or more!) I despise
15. Five favorite things about the fandom
16. Five least favorite things about the fandom
 
It helps if it's a fandom I know something about... but I'll try anything, really.

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[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I fell in love with - Don't remember. I first listened to the Archers when I was in bed for 4 weeks with glandular fever, aged eleven. I had this idea I didn't like Nelson Gabriel and liked Shula, but I think on both counts it was just the sound of the name.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now - Amy the Vicar's daugher - she's actually stood up to Alice on several occasions on Moral Issues, the way teenagers do. To be sure, it's a little obnoxious, but it's typical behaviour at that age, and I was quite prone to it myself. And at least someone's trying to stop a member of the Archer clan getting its hand on military-grade weapons, which can only lead to trouble, if not the Apocalypse.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't. For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would like Brian Aldridge.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates. Debbie Aldridge - she stood up to Brian and had the sense to actually get out and carve out a life elsewhere.
5. The character I would sleep with any time Excused this one on grounds of taste and decency. Thank god.
6. The character I'd want to be like. I don't particularly want to be like any of them, thank you very much! Usha, perhaps?
7. The character I'd slap. SHULA!
8. Favorite character. I don't really have one. Lynda Snell?
9. Five favorite characters. Lynda Snell. Fallon (minus Ed). Kenton sometimes. Clarrie Grundy. Jazzer.
10. Five least favorite characters: Brian Aldridge, Shula Hebden Lloyd Whatever, Susan Carter, David Archer, Peggy Archer
11. Character I am most like. Siobhan, I'm afraid. Not because I'm remotely attracted to seedy, adulterous old men, nor am I a gorgeous redhead, but we share same profession, and a completely inability to fit in in the Enclave.
12. DEEP DARK SECRET REGARDING THIS FANDOM I haven't actually listened to an episode for months - there was this rash of really annoying storylines and I just couldn't take it any more. I participate in this fandom entirely through online discussions and reading episode synopses.
13. A pairing (or more!) I love. Ed/Debbie (crucial to breaking the curse in the Terror that Walks in Darkness arc). Will Grundy/Nic - he deserves a bit of happiness in his life, but not with anyone much nicer or interesting than he is. They appear to be made for each other.
14. A pairing (or more!) I despise. Ed/Fallon - never have I seen such a cack-handed storyline in my life. It's as fake as... there is nothing faker. It's nothing to do with shipping Ed/Debbie, either - it just didn't strike me as a plausible development of romance. I'm not too hot on Matt/Lilian either - she strikes me as quite nice, whereas he is unpleasant verging on sinister.
15. Five favorite things about the fandom. Five? Hmmm... fans in surprising places, occasional rather good fanfiction, source of information that's helped me out in one or two classes, brilliant material for subverting into dark supernatural fanfiction, on at an hour when I'm usually at home (when I can bear to tune in)
16. Five least favorite things about the fandom. The BBC noticeboard expresses some quite unpleasant opinions from time to time, especially where female characters are concerned.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I can't understand why anyone would like Brian Aldridge.

As Shula put it, "He wears shoes with gold tassels!"

I love Lynda, too. An appallingly wasted character.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think the appeal of Brian Aldridge is that, unlike the rest of the Archer clan, he's not a simpering goody-goody. But it doesn't make up for the fact that he has the morals of a polecat and awful taste in shoes.

(Though I suspect his voice might have something to do with it)

editing for missing "can't"

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

As Shula put it, "He wears shoes with gold tassels!"

I can't quite decide whether this is using Shula to justify his awfulness, or to use the fact that she disapproves to excuse it...

Re: editing for missing "can't"

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Neither - if I can agree not only with Shula's attitude to something, but her reasons (one notes she didn't say - Ok, she may have done, but it's not remembered - "Caroline, adultery is a sin"), then he must be bad to bring us together!