I was tagged by stillhidden and maggiesview, both using the same questions.
This is the second one of these in as many days that I'm doing, so I'm not going to tag anyone or think of new questions, and hence I am not posting the rules, but... I want to answer my girls, so....!
1. If you could write (or rewrite) a series finale for your favorite show, what would it be like?
Hm. If I could do that, I would have ended the X-Files when Duchovny left it, and I would start my rewrite even earlier to allow Mulder and Scully's relationship a satisfying resolution. What exactly I would do is a big writing project I can't undertake at the moment, but... yes. The X-Files. I would get rid of the whole baby thing, or alter it drastically.
2. If you could pick a fictional character to be your roommate, which character would it be and why?
Gosh. Hard one. Peggy Olson from Mad Men. She needs a friend.
3. If you could have a supernatural power of any fictional character that has them (be it a power of a species — like a vampire — or a power of a comic book hero), which one would you pick and why?
Definitely whatever power Loki has that allows him to look so awesome in those golden goat horns. It might just be the superpower of being Tom Hiddleston.
4. Who is your absolute definitive NOTP, a couple you cannot stand together (be it canonical or only a possibility)?
Bill and Sookie. Obviously. BARF. Also, I am a casual, guilty pleasure (? I'm not sure it's even a pleasure, really) watcher of The Vampire Diaries, and I swear, I will die of boredom (more than I already am) if Elena ever takes Stefan back.
5. If you had a chance to meet your favorite actor/actress, and talk to them at some length, what would you ask them?
I don't know that I have any specific things I'd ask. I think I'd just try to engage them and see where it went. Organic-like.
6. Is there an issue (in media or in your life) that you will absolutely get into a verbal fight over? Something that is so important to you, you cannot stand not to engage?
I am really quite frustrated by the broad strokes approach to feminism, representation of women in narratives, and relationship/consent issues. I think there's a great tendency in people to dumb down complexities in favour of generalisations that do more to obscure the issues than they do to interrogate and truly process them. I barely manage to restrain myself from engaging several times a day because I know what I have to say won't go over well, and you gotta choose your battles.
7. If you had a chance to sit a writer down (TV or book or movie) and let them know exactly how you feel about their work (positive or negative), who would it be and what would you say?
I would tell Martin Scorsese to stop making films. I am SO FUCKING SICK of his films. Films about men and what men gotta do, and he has nothing new or interesting to say on the topic. I know he is a lionised giant of the cinema, but I fucking loathe every one of his films. Except maybe King of Comedy that one was borderline ok.
8. Are you in love with a fictional character (and it doesn’t have to be romantically)? Which one and why?
Well, I'll never NOT be in love with John Thornton. I think it's how emotional he is, and how willing he is to suffer it honestly and abjectly, without being woobified. I love that he needs Margaret to save him, not just in an emotional sense, but in the eyes of the world, too. I would die of that man, and I would totally make out with Richard Armitage's version of him. I'm also a bit in love with the character of Sherlock Holmes. I love the idea of him as looking like a cold, stony mountain and actually being a volcano. I wouldn't want to date him -- obviously he is taken! -- but I do love the idea of him.
9. Is there a book that hasn’t been brought to screen that you would like to see adapted?
Yes! I would love to see a film of Donna Tartt's The Secret History. I think it would be just brilliant in the right hands. Not Martin Scorsese's.
10. Are there any shows you regret watching and loving in hindsight?
Not really. I enjoyed my time with all of them for different reasons. There are some I can't love like I used to, but I don't regret loving anything. There are things I never really loved and now regret watching though. Gold medal in that category goes to Scandal, which SUCKS ASS, IMHO.
Thanks for tagging me, ladies!