That ten fandoms thing

[cdybedahl]

As stolen from lots of people: I more or less cryptically describe a bunch of shows I like, and you try to guess which ones they are.

1. The higher ones can't be used because they're unstable. Sapphire and Steel.
   
2. Things get better for the protagonists for the first five episodes or so, then it's steadily downhill for the remaining 47. Blake's 7.
   
3. Two women's love for each other overcome death. Repeatedly. Xena: Warrior Princess.
   
4. Everybody keeps pretending it's just a normal town until all that's left is a hole in the ground. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
   
5. Nobody even pretends it's a normal town, but they still somehow manage to keep it secret. (ETA: And it's neither The Village nor Smallville) Eureka.
   
6. The hot blonde ass-kicking villain is pretty seriously obsessed with the hot dark-haired ass-kicking heroine -- in modern times. Birds of Prey (TV, not comic).
   
7. Things stay about the same for the protagonists for the first half episode or so, then it's rapidly downhill for at least three seasons. Battlestar Galactica.
   
8. The XO is God. Babylon 5.
   
9. The direct opposite of the traditional phallic SF starship. Stargate SG-1/Atlantis.
   
10. Like Angel, but not set in the USA and without the optimism and upbeat mood. Ultraviolet (the TV series, not the execrable movie).
    

Comments

[jennyaxe.livejournal.com]

1 - Sapphire and Steel
2 - Blake's 7
3 - Xena
3 - Sunnydale
5 - The Prisoner
6 - I have no idea
7 - Battlestar Galactica
8 - Babylon 5
9 - Stargate SG1/Atlantis
10 - Ultraviolet

[jlms.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course - the Prisoner!

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I wasn't actually thinking of The Prisoner, although I'll admit that it matches. You got the others right, of course.

[jlms.livejournal.com]

I don't think you and I watch the same shows, much (I don't really watch a lot of shows which is probably why) so the only one I recognise is

4. BtVS

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

1. Sapphire & Steel
2. Blake's 7
3. Xena
4. Buffy
5. Smallville
6. Hex

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I've never watched Smallville at all, and I can't really see how you get Hex out of that.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Cassie was the villain and Thelma was the heroine.

[angharad_gov.livejournal.com]

3. xena
4. buffy
6. blade the series
8. babylon 5
9. farscape

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Never watched either Blade or Farscape.

Although I'm currently downloading Blade, since I've seen quite a bit of femslash posted for it and got curious.

[angharad_gov.livejournal.com]

i thought it would be blade because:

The hot blonde ass-kicking villain is pretty seriously obsessed with the hot dark-haired ass-kicking heroine -- in modern times.

describes chase (the blonde) and krista (the brunette) . femslash blade fandom focuses almost solely on those two. decent subtext between 'em.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

6. My first guess was DEBS, but dammit, that's a hot dark-haired ass-kicking villain pretty seriously obsessed with the hot blonde ass-kicking heroine.

So I'm going for Birds of Prey.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

And right you are.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

My guess for no. 5, since it isn't The Prisoner, is Eureka.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

And that's what I was thinking of.

[pope not calle of flaxborough (from livejournal.com)]

5. Torchwood

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Not really a town, in any way I can see.

[pope not calle of flaxborough (from livejournal.com)]

Well, it is set in a town...