30 Day TV Meme: Days 20-22

[geeklover80]

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast


Day 20 - Favorite kiss

Definitely Jack/Ianto's kiss in Torchwood's "To the Last Man." It's actually kind of what got me into the show. I'd been watching some YouTube vids with gay couples in it. I'd seen Jack/Ianto a couple of times. I thought Jack/John Barrowman was so HOT and kind of thought the other guy was a little eh (which makes me laugh because not only did I come to adore and become majorly obsessed with Gareth-David Lloyd/Ianto, but I had the same reaction when I first saw Merlin. Bradley James took my breath away and I thought Colin Morgan was just alright. Now I still think Bradley is the hottest thing to ever hot, but Merlin became my favorite and I drool over Colin.) Anyway, I saw the kiss from TTLM in a YT vid and going gaga over it. I watched it multiple times. I then sought out some specific Jack/Ianto and Torchwood vids. After a month or two, I got Torchwood on Netflix.

Day 21 - Favorite ship

Will forever and always be Merlin/Arthur. I don't think I'll ever love a couple like them. The chemistry, the banter, the eye fucking, the friendship, the hotness, the deep and everlasting connection, the hotness, the chemistry (I've mentioned chemistry and hotness already but those two really can't be overstated.) They were the total package.

Day 22 - Favorite series finale

It would have probably been Merlin if it weren't for those last five minutes. So I will choose Friends. It's the only recent series finale that I can think of that I truly enjoyed and that everythign I wanted to happen, happened. No one died and my favorite couple reunited beautifully.

Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.


Stacey

Comments

[0idontknow0]

Colin is like... Dorky hot.

And Jack and Ianto were so damn adorable. And I love that I actually got to watch that ship on screen.

I cannot remember the Friends finale lol. Which is weird because I've watched all of it. Multiple times.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Despite how it ended, I do love that Jack and Ianto got to be an established couple on-screen. They were very cute.

Stacey

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[heartsdesire456.livejournal.com]

No joke, the Merlin Finale was by far my favorite tv show finale ever. It was HORRENDOUSLY SOUL CRUSHING but it was absolutely perfect. Sometimes you can't have a happy ending, you know? It was something I wouldn't wish on ANYBODY (I tell people I get into Merlin to just treat end of series 4 like the end of the show and stop there, no lie) but at the same time it could not have ended more perfectly.

Also I totally dont remember which kiss you mean but I'm pretty sure I agree, lmao.

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[geekslave.livejournal.com]

I don't necessarily need a happy ending all the time. Though I'm much more likely to be ok with a bad ending in a movie versus TV. With a movie, I generally only invest a couple of hours. But with a TV show, you invest years. I don't like to see my favorite characters end up dead; not a huge fan of tragedy.

I definitely don't think the finale was perfect. There was a lot, lot, lot to love about it. But there were definite holes and stupid stuff. The whole thing with the blonde traitor. I didn't love Gwaine as much as other people did and I was ok with him dying at first. But when I thought about it, it felt really pointless. If he had died during the Battle of Camlann and they had rationalized it by saying it made sense that there would be casualties during the battle, ok. But to have him die after just felt like they wanted an even number of deaths on both sides of good vs. evil so they threw a dart on the knight board and came up with killing Gwaine.

And the last five minutes, ugh! You mean to tell me Arthur is dying this whole time and it only occurs to Merlin to call Kilgarrah after Arthur is already dead?! And then to have the writers try and have Kilgarrah sell us on some BS about how Merlin did everything he set out to do. No! A more perfect ending for me would have been, beyond Arthur not dying in the first place, instead of some lame five second scene of Old Merlin just walking by Lake Avalon for a few seconds, either show Merlin at Lake Avalon or keep it the way it was and pan over to the water and show something bubbling up to the surface and either cut away or show an arm bursting from the water.

Can you tell I've thought about this alot? :)

But I definitely agree that stopping at the end of series 4 is wise advice. I wish I'd done that.

Stacey

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[heartsdesire456.livejournal.com]

Idk, apart from a few plot holes, and yeah the Kilgarrah thing, I honestly thought it was great. I liked how Gwaine went out not because I LIKED him dying (obviously not) but because it was such a GWAINE thing to do, to think 'fuck this' and go after Morgana himself.

And I'm not a FAN of ambiguous endings, but I absolutely ADORED Old!Merlin by the lake in present day because it's not really ambiguous as much as hopeful. And it WAS how things were always supposed to go. Anybody with any knowledge of Arthurian legend (or any amount of curiosity) went in KNOWING Arthur was always going to die and Merlin was always going to become immortal, so to me I'd have been kinda peeved if they DIDN'T have it end with SOMEONE explaining that to Merlin. It's still sucky for him, but it at least shows he didn't fail. And if he'd been told BEFORE, we all know what happens when Merlin hears of a prophesy. He fucks shit up trying to avoid it, lmao.

I agree there were plot holes and some irrational things, but more 'spread throughout the final series' than just in the final episode.

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[geekslave.livejournal.com]

I think it was a very Gwaine thing to do. Still think they tacked it on just to up the tragedy quotient.

Not to toot my own horn, but I think my version of the ending would have been far more hopeful. Showing Merlin a thousand years later, still waiting around for Arthur feels more depressing than hopeful. I try and think of it as there still being hope that Arthur may come back someday, but I'm not always successful getting there.

I loved the show, but I never felt any burning desire to look up Arthurian legend just to keep up with it. It wasn't until the fourth series, when I added some Merlin friends to my F-list did I have any idea that Arthur died in the legends. And it really wasn't until towards the end of the series that I heard anything about Merlin being immortal. People speculated that Arthur would die, but I truly didn't believe it would happen. Firstly, because this was basically a family program and killing off one of the main protoganists was not something I thought they would do. This was a silly show with farting goblins. Arthur dying was not something I really expected when I got into the show. I mean this is a show who's very premise, with Merlin being the same age as Arthur and being his servant, twists the legends to suit their purposes. And that's not the only example. I don't know why anyone would have been expected to know that Arthur would definitely die at the end. Given how fast and loose they played with most aspects of the legend them staying true to Arthur's death ticks me off.

And I'm sorry but I do believe Merlin failed. Kilgarrah saying it wasn't so, doesn't change that for me. All throughout the show Kilgarrah has been beating it into Merlin's head that he and Arthur had this great destiny, that they would unite Albion and magic users would be free once again in some fabulous Golden Age. It was something repeatedly stated over and over again. But we never saw Camelot's Golden Age. And if the writers tried to pass of the BS excuse that the Golden Age happened in a measly three years that we never got to see on-screen, I call foul. Plus, magic users were in the exact same position they were when the series started. So I just don't see how Merlin succeeded.

I definitely agree that the plot holes and wtf-ery were spread throughout the final series, not just the finale. The finale was a minor offender compared to the other crap that happened throughout series 5.

Stacey

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[heartsdesire456.livejournal.com]

I can definitely agree it would've been nice to see some concrete proof magic was made free, not just the suggestion that AFTER Morgana was defeated the lands would end up united and magic made free. Which I can believe it was. I can just accept that the Queen united the lands and brought about change, I'd just have liked to see some PROOF.

And lol I think I just take for granted that everybody knows or looks up the original stuff when there's an adaption of something. I did the same thing when people were all shocked at Sherlock 'dying' in Reichenbach. I'm terrible at just assuming everybody knows how it all goes.

And yeah, Merlin still waiting like... 1500 years later is SERIOUSLY depressing but I liked it because it covers the immortality part and leaves hope of Arthur returning. They really left themselves so little time to cram a lot of information in and I'm just glad they got as much across as they could.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh lordy, that KISS *sighs* so many shows could learn from that.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I don;t think he deserves a medla or anything, but I've always been impressed at how GDL committed to their kissing scene. With a lot of straight actors their gay kisses can seem kind of tepid, but Gareth just went for it.

Stacey