Meme!

[mitchy]

I have been saved of thinking of actual content for today's (leap year!) post by sabaceanbabe's timely meme :D

1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.

sabaceanbabe gave me the letter "P".

Now it doesn't say if the names have to be first name or surname so I'm going to cheat wildly and use a combination of both :D

1. Parker (Leverage - TV) - Best thiefy character on TV at the moment. She's so unapologetic, it's a refreshing change, and her "relationship" with Hardison has been written superbly.

2. Lieutenant Tom Paris (Star Trek: Voyager - TV) - the "bad boy" of the ship. Could have been a completely two-dimensional character and in the first season, almost was, but Robert Duncan McNeil played him so well, that the character developed actual layers. And I'm a sucker for the "character gone bad but is redeemed" trope :D

3. Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds - TV) - Best. Geek. Ever! Seriously, I wanna be Penelope when I grow up :) She gets all the good lines too :D Another character that was never meant to be part of the permanent cast, until the show aired it's first season and the fans went nuts. Credit to the writers for following the lead of the brilliant actress, Kirsten Vangsness, who took what easily could have been a cartoon character and made her multi-dimensional. Huzzah!

4. Peter Burke (White Collar - TV) - What can I say about this show that hasn't already been said? Nothing, but I'll say it anyway. Smartly written and superbly acted - Peter Burke could have been a total stuffed shirt, a caricature of the Upright FBI Agent. Instead, he's actually a character you can believe his subordinates would follow to the ends of the earth and his relationship with his wife has been superbly created to be very real. One of the best written characters on TV at the moment (with Neal Caffrey).

5. Jackie Payton (Nurse Jackie - TV) - I may come back and replace this later but I was struggling to come up with a fifth character. Jackie is prolly the most unlikeable leading character in a TV series that I've ever watched (and yes, she's worse than House). Yet the show is so well done that it's kept me watching and I'm eagerly awaiting the start of season 4. I think (and this is a huge tribute to Edie Falco) the reason I keep watching is that the character does occasionally show redeeming features - she will do anything for a deserving patient - and, at the same time, you're waiting for all the lies and cheating to catch up with her and bring her world crashing down around her ears. By all accounts, Season 4 is going to be the season where this happens, so that's one reason I'm really looking forward to it.

Edited because I can't spell "Kirsten Vangsness" to save my life. *sigh*

Comments

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

ooh, prefab blog posts, I approve - letter meeeeee :D

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Yes, for when the Writer's Block prompt doesn't appeal :D

Mmmm a letter for yoooooou *ponder ponder ponder*

T!

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

It's probably a bad sign I can only think of Ted from Better off Ted :P

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

*grins* Want a different letter? :)

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

As I am now up to a grand total of 2, possibly :P

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

OK, umm, how about C? :)

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

That works! I now have to whittle down, as opposed to pretend that t looks quite a lot like l if you squint

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

Oh, g'wan then!

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply amused how certain memes bring the Usual Suspects to my LJ :D

M!

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Parker (and Hardison, too, but really, Parker is the important one ;) approves your choices. *nods*

ETA: And combining first and last names is totally not cheating. If I'd wanted to cheat on mine, I would have included Armie Hammer, who isn't actually a fictional character, he's just... *swoons*

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I was going to ask you about that, I saw the swooning on your LJ :) Umm, who he? :)

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

BTW, would you like another letter? :)

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

I think I'll skip doing another letter. It was fun, but I'd rather work on my monster fic, since I seem to be done distracting myself for now. :P

Thanks for asking, though! :D

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Allow me to direct you to this comment on my journal.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh. *petses* I see :)

[elfsausage.livejournal.com]

Oh go on, hit me :-) I'm having a day off, so I can be wicked & waste time on silly stuff.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Poifect!

Have the letter J :)

[gayeld.livejournal.com]

Parker - The Pretender. Cold, calculating (sharply-dressed) bitch, fighting hard to hide a heart of gold. Drawn to the same man she's supposed to be hunting down.

P. P is for Parker. A fine character no matter what the show. *g*

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Well said :D

Hmm, don't think I know "The PRetender"?

[gayeld.livejournal.com]

It was an awesome show about a boy (Jared) who was raised by shadowy corporation in a big glass box and taught basically everything. They used him to develop weapons, diseases, cures, plan assassinations, all kinds of stuff. Then one day, he broke out.

Parker, whose father ran the corporation, spent the next four years repeatedly almost catching Jared. Jared spent them pretending to be a doctor/lawyer/gov't agent/chef.... doing good deeds to make up for the evil he'd been used for and trying to unravel who he really was and what was behind the Company.

[mrorangemonkey.livejournal.com]

Any reason all yours are from TV shows, Mitchy?

[jenni411.livejournal.com]

Because she's an aaaadiiiiict? *flees*

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Because none of my fave literary characters have names that start with P? :)

*eyes jenni411* And that too :D (I'll get you! And your little dog too!)

[mrorangemonkey.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense.

Did I get a letter?

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Didn't realise you wanted one :D

Have, umm, D :)

[jenni411.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hiya.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

You want a letter? OK. How about S? :)