Another fannish meme

[thisbluespirit]

Meme found in the wild: Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc. Treat us to some commentary once you're done.

I thought it'd be fun... I hadn't quite realised what a weird jumble of characters I have - some of them are there more for the action in the icon than the character. So, in most cases, let's say that instead of a commentary, a horrified silence might be more appropriate?

(Actually, it turned out better than I expected. For the first half of the alphabet, anyway.)



1. Ace & Ainsley Hayes (TWW)
This looks unlikely on the face of it, but, actually, could really work. Certainly at least as one of Ace's Girls of the Week. Ainsley would know all the best places to take her out for a meal.

2. Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart & Annie Oakley (Carry on Cowboy)
!!! This may sound random, but in fact, this is Annie Oakley from Carry On Cowboy, played by the Brigadier's Doris, Angela Douglas! True love, obviously.

3. Barbara Wright & Beatrice Eliott (HoE)
But for the fact that neither Ian/Babs, nor Jack/Bea can be broken up, ever, this would indeed be a pairing of awesome, and make quite a lot of sense.

4.Bertram Muffet (Richard O'Callaghan in Carry on Loving) & Bob Cratchit (1970 Scrooge, David Collings)
Ummm. Random reading icon and random writing icon collide in match made in... er. Well, they're both quite sweet, really. It could work out. In some strange reality where they were in the same time period/story and not married to other people. Just maybe.

5. C3PO (Star Wars) & Cally (B7)
Well. Er. (I have nothing else to say.)

6. Cassius (Julius Caesar) & Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey)
I don't know how they would meet (unless, of course, Catherine Morland has become a companion), but given that Catherine is quite naive and Cassius is a schemer, should he decide for some reason to win her, I suspect he'd succeed. And Catherine's got more to her than first seems, so it could last. Well, not really, because of Politics and Brutus and Tragedy. But in theory.

7. Charley Pollard (DW) & Charlie Crews (Life)
LOL. They might just deserve each other. I don't think it'd work somehow, though. Not for very long.

8. Clyde Langer & D84 (from Robots of Death)
As a romantic pairing, I don't think it'd fly. But oh my, Clyde and his cute robot sidekick solve crimes and defeat aliens and... I don't know what they would be doing anywhere near each other, but still. It would be awesome.

9.A Dalek & Dani Reese (Life)
No. Really. No. One of them would be dead very shortly, and given that Dani's never met aliens, it would probably be her. That would be bad.

10. Dayna Mellanby & Del Tarrant (B7)
Ha. ♥

11. Donna Moss (TWW) & Donna Noble
Unlikely, but they are in more or less the same time period, and you could imagine they could go somewhere forever and talk about office woes and men and things. And maybe decide they might as well have each other, although I suspect not, knowing those two.

12. Eighth Doctor & Elizabeth Bennet
This really is kind of beautiful. Tough on Darcy, obviously, but well...

13. Eowyn (LoTR) & Evangeline Eliott (HoE)
It's hard to imagine. I don't think they have very much in common, even aside from the impossibility of those two worlds meeting. About the only thing I can think that would work out for them is if Evie designed Eowyn's wedding dress. And even then, Evie's modern designs might not be the best fit for Middle Earth (and she hates to compromise on her art).

14. Evelyn Carnahan (The Mummy films) & Fifth Doctor
Oh, I could see this. In fact, even given my Rick/Evie love, I'd adore to see this. I don't know quite how it'd go, but she'd ignore his being sarcastic completely, and they both love adventures.

15.First Doctor & Fourth Doctor
Only if they were both really, really drunk and had some brain bleach to hand for afterwards. And it was all the fault of the Master and the Meddling Monk and the Rani. (Probably trying to ensure the existence of the Valeyard somehow.)

16. Frobisher (DW) & Gandalf
*observes pairing of penguin-shaped whifferdill and wizard in stunned silence*

17. George Litefoot (DW) & Gerry Standing (New Tricks)
The romance would come to a grinding halt straight off. But they could totally solve crimes together. If they were in the same century.

18. Gordon Brittas (Brittas Empire) and Harry Pearce (Spooks)
A world of no, as Buffy would say. Harry would kill Mr Brittas. It would be entirely justifiable for the security of the nation. Maybe he did kill Mr Brittas. (There should also now be fic where this happened.)

19. Harry Sullivan & Henry Gordon Jago
I have a feeling that even if one of them had romantic notions, the other would remain totally oblivious. They would get on, though. And possibly fight aliens/solve crime. being old-fashioned, Harry would fit right in with Litefoot and Jago's world.

20. Ian Chesterton & Jack Maddox (HoE)
*looks back at 3* *dies laughing* Oh, well. In the true tradition of internet slashing, that's okay, then. LOL. It must be meant to be. They would, you have to admit, make an attractive foursome. And they have quite a bit in common.

21. Jenna Stannis (B7) & Johnny Finger, the Rumpo Kid (Sid James, Carry on Cowboy)
Surprisingly, I can kind of see this working. For a week or two, before one of them double crossed the other and ran off with the takings.

22. Jonathan Creek & Jools Siviter (Spooks)
Hmm. I don't think so. They could reasonably meet, but not meet and have things go well, and certainly not meet and fall in love. :lol:

23. Josiah Bartlet (TWW) & K9
Romance is probably out of the question, but, oh my (again), this should happen. This should happen now. K9 would correct him on his historical facts and it'd be brilliant. I don't know whether Bartlet would love him, or kick him in the Oval Office, but it would be great.

24. Kathryn Janeway (Voyager) & Kenny Phillips (Press Gang)
Compared to some of the pairings on this list, this seems perfectly reasonable. He'd need to be a little older, and have found a way into the future (and/or the Delta Quadrant), but he's used to a much bossier female, they've both got a good sense of humour and are reasonable human beings. Not a fairy tale match, but a thing that could work better than their canon romances. (I have faith in Kenny that he would never run off with a younger blonde at the last minute.)

25. Kerr Avon (B7) & Laura Lancing (Brittas Empire)
It could work. For a fling, anyway. Much as I do love Avon, I have to say... Laura has sufficiently bad taste in men. :lol: And she's cool-headed, intelligent and not easily impressed, so he'd have cause to be at least mildly interested.

26. Leela & Liz Shaw
They would be awesome and forever. If they ever met.

27. Lucie Miller (DW) & Lynda Day (Press Gang)
I don't think either of them would ever shut up for long enough. It would be highly amusing for the spectators of the inevitable epic argument, though. Lynda would win in the end, but Lucie wouldn't stop trying for ages. If ever. Colin could sell tickets.

28. Maddy Magellan (Jonathan Creek) & Maid Marian (Maid Marian & Her Merry Men)
Were it possible for them to meet, ever, you can kind of see it. After all, their canon(ish) relationships are not exactly ideal...

29. Marshall P Knutt (Jim Dale, Carry on Cowboy) & Martha Jones
Well. He's quite sweet and well-intentioned, and Martha's kind-hearted. And if the Brig's snitched Annie Oakley, then why not? Marshall would certainly appreciate her, unlike other people.

30. Lady Mary Crawley (DA) and the (Delgado) Master
*dies* This should happen! Of course the Delgado Master would arrive at Downton in disguise and flirt with Mary. She'd be sceptical, but it'd be amazing. Why does this not exist already? (Or maybe he disguises himself as the Archbishop of Canterbury and flirts with Violet? I don't care; it'd be wonderful.)

31. Meggie Folchart (Inkheart) & Melanie Bush
Provided Meggie was older and had escaped Inkworld, there's probably no huge reason why not. I don't think it'd ever be an ideal match, though.

32. Mortimer Folchart (Inkheart) & the Ninth Doctor
That's kind of... It shouldn't work, but it does have a strange sort of appeal. I think Nine would find Mo's experiences in being fictionalised interesting & the demands of being an unwilling hero. Mo is pretty taken, though.

33. Nyssa & Orac (B7)
Well, Orac would find her unusually logical for an organic being. Nyssa would find him fascinating. So, yes, I suppose it would end up with components all over the place...

34. Herr Otto Flick of the Gestapo (Allo Allo) & Peri Brown
Scarily, it might work for a one-off. Peri's taste in men is kind of worrying. And every villain she meets always lusts after her. Probably, however, Helga would get her out of the way with some cunning but complicated scheme involving everyone else in Nouvion. The General would probably have to be after Peri at the same time.

25. Polly (DW) & R2D2 (Star Wars)
Well, they'd like each other. She'd think he was adorable. How much further it could go, I don't know.

26. Rani & Cardinal Richelieu
I think there are rather too many obstacles in the way of this pairing. I suppose if she travelled back in time, he could plot against her and have her kidnapped but... No.

27. Robin of Kensington (Maid Marian) & Roj Blake (B7)
LOL. You know, this could explain a lot about Blake's fashion sense and the clothes available on the Liberator. (Robin of Kensington, for those who don't know the BBC Maid Marian, was a not-so-brave Robin Hood, who preferred designing the Merry Men's Lincoln Green outfits to doing any daring deeds.)

28. Rose Tyler & Rupert Giles
Oh, no, this is just kind of wrong. Can I swap the next two pairings? I should think Sam and Rose would annoy each other to death, but they might get on for one night if Rose didn't let him do much talking. And Rupert Giles/Ruth Evershed would be fabulous, and whywhywhy does that not exist in a fanfic already? (Is that cheating?)

29. Ruth Evershed (Spooks) & Sam Seaborn (TWW)
Well. Ruth could totally play Sam (for obvious Spooks-y reasons). He's very pretty, so's she, and they both have brains and ideals. It could work for a short space of time. (But see above.)

30. Sandra Pullman (New TRicks) & Sapphire (S&S)
Elements will flirt with anyone if needs be, so why not?

31. Sarah Jane Smith & Second Doctor
Sarah/Doctor? It's kind of hard to imagine it being particularly successful romantically, though, in this incarnation. Very timey-wimey, as well.

32. Servalan (B7) & Seventh Doctor
I don't know what would happen; it would not be very romantic, and there would certainly be no happy ever after, but it would be interesting to see.

33. Silver (S&S) & Sixth Doctor
Oh, Silver. I'm sorry. (Although given that he's sandwiched alphabetically between Seven and Six, this was probably the best outcome). I don't know what would happen, but it'd be interesting to find out?

34. Soolin (B7) & Spike (BtVS)
She would never give him the time of day. She would slay him. Well, unless he was good at that point (although she might still kill him anyway), but I don't think she'd do anything else with him. Unless it was somehow vital to a mission, one for which she was being paid a considerable amount of credits.

35. Spike Thompson (Press Gang) & Steel (S&S)
Elements will flirt with anyone at need (and so will Spike), but it's hard to imagine. Besides, then you'd have Lynda vs Steel and there'd probably be an apocalypse of some type.

(I think I'd cheat and swap these again - Spike and Spike would have its own logic, at least for my sense of humour, and Steel and Soolin wouldn't be out of the question in passing on an assignment.)

36. The TARDIS & Tegan Jovanka
I think this does exist in fanfic. And, given that Tegan seems to have a mind that aliens are always after, yes, I'd believe this one. (Not how many times the TARDIS lands in places that Tegan mentions? It's practically canon.)

37. Tenth Doctor & Third Doctor
Ah, yes. Of course. I know this one. It no doubt involves Ten, naked, chained to Three, covered in cake, and all the fault of the Master. Not that I would know anything about that...

38. Vicki (DW) & Vila Restal (B7)
This would be quite sweet. Although Vicki would be inclined to try and persuade Vila to do more dangerous things than he would like (but what's new?), she would adapt to a life of crime with enthusiasm. Possibly a worrying amount of enthusiasm.

39. Private Widdle (Carry on up the Khyber)
Luckily for everyone else, Private Widdle is all alone.

Comments

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

That's the third time I've seen this meme in 24 hours, once even on a journal archive from seven years ago that I was reading through; clearly it is FATE. ;P

(LJ or DW, though, that's the question. My icons are not all the same...)

(BOTH, of course. ;P)

Also, a few responses to yours:

* I want Threepio and Cally and Clyde and D84 to all team up now. I do not know D84 really, but the other three would WIN ALL THE THINGS (although 3PO would be rather nervous about it. ...okay, time for sleep, my brain just tried to insist that his gold-coloured plating probably makes him more hyperconductive and therefore sensitive than silver-coloured 3PO units. If I remember, there will be a follow-up comment remarking on the rest later.)

[thisbluespirit]

I confess, I stole it from your flist! (When I am bored, I read your flist and one other person's a lot. When I am really bored I do friends of friends. Sometimes LJ is quiet when I have little brain and nothing else to entertain myself with. ;-D)

LOL, I didn't see you'd written both - that was what I thought as soon as I read it.

I find that hard to imagine. Clyde and D84, though. Aww. (I love D84, but then I love Robots of Death; it is to blame for a lot of things like me liking Leela, Blake's 7, David Collings and stuff written by Chris Boucher far too much. But whatever a person thinks about it, the robots are beautiful.)

I await your further comments. *taps foot impatiently* (Heh. ;-D)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

* FROBISHER/GANDALF. *also observes in stunned silence* (I kind of want to see how they'd get along now, though. ;P)

* Harry Sullivan and Henry Gordon Jago: I agree with you completely. (Not that I've seen Jago, but I've seen his actor in a different role? o_O ...when I don't admit this stuff I can carry on quite a Knowledgeable Who-Fan impersonation. XD)

* LIZ/LEELA FOR ALL OF THE EVERS NOW PLSKTHX. I WANT FIC OF THIS. (I might even try to write some myself if I'd seen more than, er, five minutes of Leela. Oh library, why must you be such a pain. Oh Netflix, ditto ditto.)

* Six/Silver and Seven/Servalan: I don't even know. Wow. I think the universes would explode. (I barely know Servalan, but if she is as... not "sneaky", what's the word I want? The same thing Seven is. Chess-master-ish. If she's as that-word as I get the impression she is, they would totally outmaneuver each other until they blew up the universe.)

(Six and Silver, OTOH, would just blow it up on principle through being too much alike. That amount of somewhat self-centred shininess can't exist in one universe without breaking something, I do think. XD)

* I love that you actually got Ten/Three (chained together, of course, and covered in cake. Goes without saying, which is why we keep saying it. *g* I'm working on one, y'know, intermittently, although I seem to have settled on the one possible plot that requires me to watch the entire third season of NuWho...)

ETA: Also, I am glad my flist is interesting to you! XD

[thisbluespirit]

*handwaves* You are totally a knowledgeable Who fan, yes. ;-)

Servalan is pretty sneaky, but probably not quite up to Seven's level. It would be an interesting match, though. Oh, yes... :-)

Actually, Six and Silver, I hadn't thought about them being the same. They come at their smugness from such different angles. I can't quite explain. Six is bombastic and boasts of his cleverness and is, well, Six, but he's the Doctor. He can forget all that and be tactful, caring and compassionate when the moment comes, more so than quite a few of his other incarnations. It's not quite just an act, but it partly is. (I love that contrast in him; it's why he's such fun to write - you can go OTT on the first aspect and it's lovely, and then you can come down to something quiet and serious.) Whereas Silver, for all his deliberate mischief and annoyingness, his smugness is actually kind of fundamentally him... but also just a fact rather than big-headedness? He's been made very shiny and he's happy about that, and he is sure that everyone else will apreciate it (and him), too, but it's not anything he did. Although he does like to play on it as well, true. Heh. But, yeah, what they would do together, I don't know. Actually, it could be a showdown; it would most likely involve something quite pragmatic as to the why; but it could also be surprisingly sweet, much more so than Silver/Other Doctors. Or Silver might just be scared of him. I really don't know. (Ten/Silver made me wonder, what if he'd had to distract other incarnations, so, I er, had considered it in passing before. *cough*)

It's terrible, I think about everyone/Silver sometimes... *dies* Basically, as you can tell, I have been thinking about S&S almost constantly for the past 8 months. It's scary. I should find something else to obsess about, but this seems to do the trick nicely. The most mysterious things are always the most beautiful. (Also S&S has more David Collings.)

Of course, I got Ten/Three. The internet knows the rules by now. And, ooh, really? And, wait, you have a plot in mind? I didn't think any of the rest of us needed one of those. Oh, except Prim, of course. ;-) (Well, maybe other people as well, but it was mainly just Ten, naked, chained to Three and covered in cake at the hands of the Master. It seems to work.)

Also, bad, bad Library and Netflix. They should give you Classic Who at once! What is this failing on their part? *glares at them*

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

* Well, I haven't seen Six either (at all, iirc), so I'm going off fanon and CBaker's blog / reports of his silliness at cons. (I would have seen him, only he never met the Brig, did he? The last time I had Netflix I think all the Who I watched was a Brig!tribute marathon - SJA, and Seven, and Fivey, and the audio recon of Web of Fear. (I got distracted before I hit Android Invasion, working backwards, and Zygons isn't out yet, is it? I wish to see kilt!Brig muchly.) Sixie does sound interesting, and CBaker is what they call (somewhat disturbingly to me) Good People (not precisely nice, at least in his blogging persona, but he rails at the right things in a sensible manner), it seems, so I expect I shall like him (possibly with mutterings against JNT) when I get there.

Holy Hannah, what a plethora of parentheses. ;P

* S&S is a perfectly reasonable thing to obsess about! ;-) I went off it rather quickly because my way of obsessing is to write fic and I cannot write timey-wimey fic to save my life. But there is much prettiness and good writing, and all the stars are good actors, and the special effects do not try to do what they can't. And what more do you need in a show, really? XD

* By "plot" I really more mean "setup". I couldn't just do "Delgado!Master has an Evil Plot", even though that is the cutest, because it's been done to death and I have to feel slightly Original. ;P But being a totally knowledgeable Who fan, of course I have seen Masters other than Delgado... ;P *facepalm*

(And of course I had to throw in Martha being Awesome. Because she deserves some, and she is a Ten companion, but I can't actually write Martha because I've only seen her in three eps and one of those was Blink. Hence having to see the whole of S3 instead of just the finale three-parter.)

*glares at library and Netflix too*

[thisbluespirit]

Poor Six; his stories were not the best. (I like Vengeance on Varos, Mark of the Rani is probably the most traditional, and Revelation is probably the best, although it's yet another dark Eric Saward script.) The audios are lovely, though - and he met the Brigadier in Spectre of Lanyon Moor. (Which I think I sent to you; I don't know if you had any luck with them? If you wished to try again, I could re-upload that one for you?)

Also, John Nathan-Turner had his faults (costuming, primarily, :lol:, although I like Six's coat. Why the hell should the Doctor's outfit be normal or tasteful?) but there was an amazing amount of rubbish happening behind the scenes with DW in the 1980s, and he did some great stuff when he was working with a script editor he got on with. (Not that I mean you should mutter against Eric Saward, unless you wish. Although, maybe you should a bit. *cough* It sounds more like one of those things all round, really.) But the thing is, he's dead now, earlier than he should have been, and he gave up his career to keep Doctor Who alive, and never got to see it come back in triumph, which I'm sure he would have loved. If he'd walked away from DW in the mid 80s, there wouldn't have been a better producer, hurrah, there'd have been no more show, because nobody else was willing to do it. They tried to find someone else, and they couldn't. A number of the powers that be wanted it dead from well before Colin Baker even started. (Sorry. Just, you know. Mutter kindly, okay? Enough people have heaped more than enough hate on his head.) It's hard to believe anyone managed to make Trial of a Time Lord under the circumstances they were working in. (Sorry. I am so sick of 1980s Who-bashing.)

No, no, no, the Master (any of them) has an Evil Plot that makes No Sense is always okay. Originality is OOC for him. :lol:

I found, watching S&S, that the basic idea of the stories was something I'm always sort of writing - and with S&S you don't even need to explain it too hard. ♥ And all my aliens are always psychic, and the first time I make up a OC, she's a displaced Victorian housemaid. What can I say? I'm just dying to get my hands on it properly, writing-wise, although I'm still trying to get my head around Elements, which makes it even more fascinating. Plus, I have all this time and nothing better to do, heh.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

*nods* I will definitely mutter against Eric Saward as well; I forget what exactly it was I saw him say that made me go "you are not quite a right-thinking person and I do not like you now", but there was something. I just tend to forget about him, because JNT's thing for the question-mark theme eats my brain. (Yes, I am slightly obsessed with fashion design. *g*) I don't mind Sixie's coat as much as I do Seven's jumper, but I rather liked CBaker's idea about the black leather and midlife crisis thing, so I wish that had got taken up.

(Although there have been some amazing fem!Six cosplays I have seen. I still need to draw those pictures of the fem!Doctor costumes from my story, actually...)

I never did get to the library for those, no. Would you, please? :-) I don't recall if you sent me Spectre of Lanyon Moor, but I think that and the Frobisher one were the ones I was specially interested in. You needn't bother with the others at first (I am slow with audio stuff, it takes me more energy to listen to a story than to read one. And I can't follow dialogue at all on the bus.)

[thisbluespirit]

I was JUST this second editing this comment to remove my rant (though it is true, as far as I know); I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to rant at you.

And it's no problem - I deleted everything from 4Shared now, I think, but I can reupload those 2 for you (I'll email you again once its done. Give me a couple of days or so.) You'll like Lanyon Moor - it's very traditional, and it's got the Brigadier!! :-)

You know, it's a terrible confession, but I have this complete blind spot over Seven's tank top. When people talk about the question marks, I always think that Seven didn't wear any at all; he just had his umbrella. (It's a pattern, my brain says. :lol:). (Sylvester, btw, came up with the umbrella, but didn't like the jumper much, either.)