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[author_by_night]

 Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.

The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the to 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.

 Let's see.. how about Ten Takes? 

1. From what I remember of The Hunger Games, I never understood people saying there was a "love triangle". It seemed clear to me that Katniss was never into Gale, and she only played into the concept of love triangle because of the reality TV show District 13 had them doing.

2. Given everything that was supposed to happen to Inara, I'm actually kind of relieved there was only one season of Firefly. Kind of. There's a good chance the network never would've allowed half of it anyway.

3. I'm kind of surprised there don't seem to be many former Firefly fans in the Our Flag Means Death fandom, from what I can tell. I think they're actually quite similar. (Even the second season of OFMD being darker mirrored Serenity being darker than the original show. Funny how that worked.)

4. Buffy: I wish that Willow's descent had actually focused more on her going to drastic extremes to fight the good fight, as well as her trauma, rather than "magic as a drug metaphor". The fact that Willow originally became a witch to honor Jenny Calendar is huge, and that's what I think they could've worked with.

5. I don't like either Spike or Angel for Buffy. Sorry! I kind of wish she'd ended up with Faith. I saw chemistry between them when I watched S3 for the first time, without any exposure to Fuffy whatsoever. (Which is interesting, because I was spoiled for practically everything except Faith.)

6. I have a headcanon - which I may eventually turn into a fic - that Cordy, Fred and Tara banded together and are kicking ass in an alternate dimension. Maybe a parallel version of Willow is also there.

7. I think Kevin Can Fuck Himself is woefully underrated, and if it had received half the recognition it deserved, it would've sparked a lot of interesting conversation. 

8.   I think David and Patrick from Schitt's Creek are one of the best couples on television. No pun intended re: "the best". Also, I see a bit of myself in David (I just told a friend I'm David Rose in a Ted Mullens costume), so I appreciate seeing him finding love and friendship, even if he is basically the inside of a roasted marshmallow. 

9. But as much as I love David and Patrick, I think Alexis deserves more love in the fandom. She changes so much over the course of the show. 

9.  I don't want to spoil anyone for Heated Rivalry, so I'll just say I love how the third episode dealt with an extremely complicated situation. Lani Diane Rich once said that a great love story is when a conversation can't fix a problem, and that episode was an example.

10. There are two scenes where Ilya opens up in different ways - again, wording this carefully so as not to spoil. I love both of them.

Also, "Canadian Wolf Bird" will forever live in my head rent free.

Comments

[pattrose]

I love some of these shows. But on the Heated Rivalry, let me know if you would like to see the Moodboards I made for them. :)

[author_by_night]

Sure!

[pattrose]

If you like these, you can use them wherever you like. Enjoy.

Boys

[author_by_night]

Thanks!

[rogueslayer452]

The whole "love triangle" thing in The Hunger Games was definitely an in-verse thing, played up for the Capitol, as you said, however I also think our in real life media caught wind of this and misunderstood the concept (as it did throughout its entire marketing, tbh) which led to the whole "Team Peeta vs. Team Gale" nonsense that overtook everything, especially since it was around the time of Twilight doing the same thing so, naturally, it was a marketing ploy during the making of the movies. Additionally, from what I recall, there were rumors about Suzanne Collins not wanting there to be a "love triangle" but was forced by her publishers to do so in order for the books to sell better. I don't know how accurate or true this is, however it wouldn't surprise me.

(I personally would've loved for there to have been no romance at all, and that everything was played up for the Capitol and Katniss, Gale and Peeta just remained close friends without any romance attached, kind of a "fuck you" to the expectations of both the Capitol and the tropes featured in such stories, but that's just me, I suppose.)

I agree in regards to Firefly only remaining one season. I love the show, flaws and all, but after hearing what was intended had they gotten a second season it makes me relieved we didn't have that. I also agree that it probably wouldn't have happened in the way that it was described, or even happen at all since changes in production and scrapped scenes happen all the time, but nevertheless.

I wish that Willow's descent had actually focused more on her going to drastic extremes to fight the good fight, as well as her trauma, rather than "magic as a drug metaphor". The fact that Willow originally became a witch to honor Jenny Calendar is huge, and that's what I think they could've worked with.

They really dropped the ball when it came to Willow during that arc, not gonna lie. I'm not the biggest Willow fan, but there was much to explore with her character and her relationship with magic that could've happened naturally that wasn't....whatever the hell that was. It just kind of came out of left field. There was also the whole thing with Tara being a natural witch versus Willow being a witch practitioner that I think also needed more exploring alongside with that. We did get a little bit of it in S6 with Willow using magic to "fix" things and avoiding responsibility and facing consequences of her actions, but it just wasn't fully examined and went nowhere aside from the bad "magic = drug addiction" metaphor.

Buffy/Faith is my OTP, and I also wished they'd gotten together too. :) Although, I do like Buffy/Angel and they are my second OTP behind Buffy/Faith.

I have a headcanon - which I may eventually turn into a fic - that Cordy, Fred and Tara banded together and are kicking ass in an alternate dimension.

Oh, I love that idea!

[author_by_night]

owever I also think our in real life media caught wind of this and misunderstood the concept (as it did throughout its entire marketing, tbh) which led to the whole "Team Peeta vs. Team Gale" nonsense that overtook everything, especially since it was around the time of Twilight doing the same thing so, naturally, it was a marketing ploy during the making of the movies

I was just going to say, Twilight definitely played a role in that. They wanted to do what Twilight was doing. And yes, I believe Gale was initially Katniss's cousin, not a love interest at all!


(I personally would've loved for there to have been no romance at all,

Same here. It would have been a great subversion. If she published the books now, she might actually have an easier time of it - Frozen and Tangled made letting the hero be single cool. Then again, romantasy's in, and while THG isa YA sci fi/dystopia, that didn't change the Twilight comparisons back then, either.

on. I love the show, flaws and all, but after hearing what was intended had they gotten a second season it makes me relieved we didn't have that. I also agree that it probably wouldn't have happened in the way that it was described, or even happen at all since changes in production and scrapped scenes happen all the time, but nevertheless.

Yeah, I think the show would have gotten very dark either way. Look at what happened to AtS, or even Buffy, really. I think it worked better on Buffy than on Angel, minus the Willow thing, but it was still a very different show than how it started. I'm not sure we needed Kaylee as Simon's evil and embittered ex, Inara Dead and Mal sad, etc. etc.

ield. There was also the whole thing with Tara being a natural witch versus Willow being a witch practitioner

I really wish we could've explored that! Is there a difference? How does it work? Could Tara have Slayer lineage? (Doubtful, but interesting to consider.)

We did get a little bit of it in S6 with Willow using magic to "fix" things and avoiding responsibility and facing consequences of her actions, but it just wasn't fully examined and went nowhere aside from the bad "magic = drug addiction" metaphor.

Exactly. Honestly, to me it felt more like Willow had depression, for the most part. Which again, could have worked well with Buffy's.

The other thing is, magic was used as a metaphor for lesbian sex in the fourth and fifth seasons. Then it becomes a drug metaphor, then it becomes about rage and avenging Tara's murder? I don't think that's how the show meant for it to land, but it does land badly.

What do you think of Cordelia and Angel? I find I'm good either way with that one.

[hamsterwoman]

I'm with you on Buffy/Faith! (I found Buffy/Angel deeply boring, and Buffy/Spike interesting but in a way that made me like both characters less, while Buffy/Faith had so much interesting stuff going on! And I 100% saw it just in the show, when I usually don't even ship f/f.

Also agreed with you on the Hunger Games point.

[author_by_night]

I liked Buffy/Angel until I watched Angel the series. Then it was like, "Angel, what are you doing? Go fight Wolfram and Hart." I don't know, there's just something about Angel in his own show.

Buffy/Spike interesting but in a way that made me like both characters less

That's a great way of putting it.

[mekare]

>> Buffy: I wish that Willow's descent had actually focused more on her going to drastic extremes to fight the good fight, as well as her trauma, rather than "magic as a drug metaphor".

It‘s been ages but yes!

[kingstoken]

I love the third episode of Heated Rivalry, as you said "a conversation doesn't fix it". That episode made me fall in love with Scott and Kip, which is saying a lot considering they don't get as much screen time as Shane and Ilya. I loved episode 5, but I found myself really wanting to know what they had been up to in the mean time, like have they still been talking even though they weren't together? One podcast I watched had this theory that Scott left tickets for Kip for every game and this was the first time he showed up because it was the playoffs. I know that I could just read their book, but I also know that they made a lot of changes to their story to adapt it to the show, at least from the discourse I've seen online.

[author_by_night]

I know that I could just read their book, but I also know that they made a lot of changes to their story to adapt it to the show, at least from the discourse I've seen online.

I've also heard the book wasn't as good? I read a sample with it, and can't say I was terribly impressed. Though to be fair, it's pretty much line-by-line from the show (or I should say, the show pretty much takes from the book line-by-line) so that probably didn't help.

I was also a little confused by season five's conclusion, as much as I was endeared to it. I love the idea that Scott left tickets for Kip. My personal headcanon is that Scott kept getting smoothies - the first time was basically just muscle memory, but then he started going more often, and they'd talk. I definitely got the sense they'd been in touch, if he got tickets for Kip, Kip's dad and Elena.

[lunabee34]

I love your idea for Cordy, Fred, and Tara kicking ass in an alternate dimension.

[soricel]

I love the idea of being David Rose in a Ted Mullens costume. :)) But also, yes, Alexis! I haven't finished the series yet, so haven't really dipped into looking at any fic for fear of spoilers, but I *did* notice that Alexis seems pretty underrepresented! I'm going to chalk this up, in part, to how hard it seems to me to try describing in writing all the facial gestures and sounds she makes.

[author_by_night]

How far are you?

Yeah, Alexis was a little more represented in the early days, but the focus has always been primarily on David and Patrick. Which is fair, but like I said, I'd love for Alexis to get just a little more focus.

I think some of it is difficulty writing her, maybe? People generally do a good job, though!