More Top 5 memeage

[thisbluespirit]

swordzsnorcery also asked for Spaceships:

1. Liberator
2. The TARDIS
3. Star Bug (it's cute)

At this point, though I do like spaceships, I'm not sure I'm attached to any others in the same way?

4. Padme's ship in SW (it's really elegant, I like it)
5. Voyager, maybe? The Millennium Falcon? I don't know.


liadt asked Top 5 humorous reads? I read less humorous things generally, because it takes up a lot of energy to manage to read, even more to feel, and getting my sense of humour to work on top of that is never guaranteed. Anyway, moaning aside, these are therefore almost all very old favourites, but they all still make me smile:

1. The Truth - Terry Pratchett (Discworld, generally, but that's my favourite of the series, probably)
2. PG Wodehouse (there's no point specifying, almost any Wodehouse will do, although I have a particular soft spot for Blandings)
3. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones
4. High Rising - Angela Thirkell (made me laugh even while ill; it must be good)
5. Sprig Muslin - Georgette Heyer (Heyer's usually more low-level amusing/witty, but she does have some very funny set-pieces in quite a few of her novels, and the bit where everyone finally catches up with Gareth, Hester, Amanda and Hildebrand (and all their lies) at the inn is a very good one, with a few other smaller funny bits in the run up.)


trobodora wanted Top 5 TV shows:

A tough choice - TV is my medium at the moment, and, in terms of fandom at least, always has been:

1. Doctor Who (despite everything)
2. Public Eye (I was tempted to make it #1 because it probably deserves it, and also I don't like DW at the minute, but I didn't.)
3. Sapphire & Steel
4. Blake's 7
5. Spooks | MI5

But it is very hard to narrow it down only to five, and not even by category.


For hamsterwoman - How about top 5 Babylon 5 characters

This question is a bit like the fruit one - #1 is G'kar, then everyone else, who I like pretty evenly. (More evenly than I like all non-banana fruit, though.) I shall try, however, but it is a bit arbitrary:

1. G'kar
2. Vir
3. Delenn
4. Londo
5. Susan

Comments

[swordznsorcery]

No love for the White Star? I really, really like that one. And Sheridan drove it into a planet. *glare*

B5 is a hard one. So many great characters. On any other show, a character like Sheridan probably wouldn't appeal to me much, but I really liked him too. And Marcus of course. Susan's fab - and then of course all the non-humans, all being amazing despite all that latex! I think part of it is that we saw them go through such terrific character arcs. None of them were dead-weight.

[thisbluespirit]

I couldn't remember any spaceships in B5! I'm sorry, my brain is like a sieve for everything I've watched in the last 10 years unless it contained James Maxwell or David Collings.

I really do like everyone in B5! Apart from Byron, of course; that would be silly. But G'kar is definitely top. No matter how much I like everyone else, I can't be doing with that bit in S1 where they go for like five or seven whole episodes without him! But, yes, Marcus, and the original Na'toth, and Sheridan and Lyta and everyone.

[liadt]

Can't go wrong with a bit of Pratchett:D Thanks for the wee list:)

Shame the neat futuristic ancient machines on MCOG aren't spaceships or I'd have the Golden Condor on the list and the sea going ship.

[thisbluespirit]

My pleasure! I'm not much help with finding new good stuff though. Heh.

Shame the neat futuristic ancient machines on MCOG aren't spaceships or I'd have the Golden Condor on the list and the sea going ship.

The ship wouldn't count, but there were definitely aliens at the end of MCOG so the Golden Condor might actually be a spaceship! That'd certainly be a very good one. Either that, or it comes forever top in the Goldon Condor category.

[liadt]

Fortunately, I'm not too bothered whether the good stuff is new or old:)

Hee, I can't imagine another Golden Condor being as good!

[jhall1]

The Anastasia would be in my top five spaceships, having as a child been a fan of the Dan Dare comic strip in the Eagle back in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

[thisbluespirit]

I had to go look that up and, aww, it does indeed look cheerfully very 1950s and 60s and a very nice spaceship. With goggly eyes! XD

[stranger]

Another vote here for including the Whitestar as a spaceship, mainly for its grown-into-its-design look. Actually all the spaceships in B5 look very much what they should be, even when what they should be is clunky like the Earth liners, or frankly organic Vorlon pods.
I also have a sentimental attachment to the Millenium Falcon for the way it fits the SW universe: it looks patchy and awkward, and then whooom, hyperspace!

You're right about the B5 character list -- the nonhuman characters win the prizes. I'm still convinced Ivanova and her suppressed telepathy were going to be a major part of the S5 Telepath War arc, and losing the character crippled that arc.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, it's a shame that things got messed up with the arcs in S5, but it did still have some good Londo & G'kar bits, and that's what counts at the end of the day. XD

[sovay]

2. Public Eye (I was tempted to make it #1 because it probably deserves it, and also I don't like DW at the minute, but I didn't.)

I do think of this as a TV show I should definitely watch!

[thisbluespirit]

I do think of this as a TV show I should definitely watch!

It is the thing that got Alfred Burke nominated for a BAFTA. XD

[hamsterwoman]

1. The Truth - Terry Pratchett (Discworld, generally, but that's my favourite of the series, probably)

Yay, Discworld! Going Postal is my favorite, but The Truth is definitely one of the very good ones! (it's just that there are a LOT of them in this series)

And yay Tough Guide to Fantasyland, too :)

#1 is G'kar, then everyone else, who I like pretty evenly. (More evenly than I like all non-banana fruit, though.)

G'Kar as the top banana is a perfectly understandable answer :D (he's #2 for me after Londo, but it's very close). And in terms of the performance, I'd definigely put G'Kar/Andreas Katsulas at the top

It also makes a lot of sense for me that the list would be heavily skewed towards the aliens; mine definitely is, too, and I love Vir and Delenn (though over time I think I've actually gotten to where Lennier ranks above Delenn for me; but I choose to ignore season 5). Susan actually took a while to grow on me, but I do like her a lot at this point.

(To the spaceships discussion upthread, while I love how different all the spaceships are from each other on B5, and how they seem to fit the aesthetic of the races, I don't have a favorite meaningful ship. I never particularly bonded with the White Star, and as for the others, I like the names of the Earth ships a lot -- the Agamemnon is a great warship name (I realize not unique to B5, even in sci-fi, and there's actually a real US naval ship and probably others with that time), and I'm very fond of the cheerful green sphere that's the luxury liner Asimov :D Also, that alien race that has flying saucers, because that was a great low-key running gag.)

[thisbluespirit]

(it's just that there are a LOT of them in this series)

There are!

G'Kar as the top banana is a perfectly understandable answer

This made me laugh a lot. Also I think somehow G'kar would be totally okay with being top banana.

Also, that alien race that has flying saucers, because that was a great low-key running gag.

Oh, yes, that is pretty amusing!

[hamsterwoman]

. Also I think somehow G'kar would be totally okay with being top banana.

I concur! :D