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[fajrdrako]

I stole these questions from mlleelizabeth's HP meme: Who would you like to:

1. Have dinner with?
2. Share an apartment with?
3. Be locked in a jail cell with?
4. Go camping with?
5. Go on a date with?

Now, I'm going to have to cheat, because I don't do Harry Potter fandom¹. If we look at Torchwood fandom, the answer is "Captain Jack" all the way; if it's Doctor Who the answer is either the Doctor (of course!) or the Doctor and Martha, or, if I'm really lucky, the Doctor and Martha and Jack. If we're talking about Dunnett fandom the answer is Lymond, if it's Bujold fandom the answer is Aral Vorkosigan, if it's X-Men fandom the answer is Gambit....

Okay, let me set parameters here. Say the fandom is, for a start, Torchwood, and I have to answer someone other than Jack. Okay? So here's who I'd like to:

1. Have dinner with? Toshiko. I loved the scenes where she was eating out with Mary. And I loved her in the "Chinese food" scene in "Day One", too.
2. Share an apartment with? Ianto. He's neat, he doesn't get in the way or talk too much, but he's pleasant to be with, and I bet we could agree on what TV shows to watch.
3. Be locked in a jail cell with? Not Jack? Pity. Gwen would probably be the most persistent and capable at getting out. Ianto would be practical. Rhys was obviously grumpy when locked up and Owen is always grumpy. So I'll say Gwen.
4. Go camping with? Ianto hates camping. I hate camping. Let's decide Gwen. She could at least distract me from my dislike of camping. It might even be fun.
5. Go on a date with? Ooh. I think I must be in a Gwen-positive mood, but she's so good at having fun, and she's so vibrant and sexy... Yeah, Gwen.

I can't believe I didn't answer Detective Swanson to any (or all) of those questions. Guess I don't know her well enough ... yet. (I live in hope.)

Answering for Doctor Who, making "the Doctor", "Martha" and "Jack" ineligible answers:

1. Have dinner with? Sally Sparrow and Kathy Nightingale. Definitely not Margaret Blaine!
2. Share an apartment with? Zachary Cross Flane.
3. Be locked in a jail cell with? Bernice Summerfield. Or maybe Jake Simmonds. Can I have both?
4. Go camping with? Trish and Chloe Webster.
5. Go on a date with? Trish Webster.

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¹ I can't think of anyone in Harry Potter I'd want to have dinner with. Well, maybe Fred and George.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'd rather be stuck in jail with Fred and George. If they couldn't break out within the hour, nobody could!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if I was stuck in that cell with Fred and George... that hour might seem very long and difficult on the nerves!

[mlleelizabeth.livejournal.com]

Dinner with Fred and George would either be an so embarrassing you'd want to crawl away under a rock and never come back, or the most fun thing, ever.

I am intrigued by this Gwen character. I've never seen any of Torchwood (I'm not even sure I have access to it where I am), but she sounds adventurous and entertaining.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

so embarrassing you'd want to crawl away under a rock ... or the most fun thing, ever.

Yes. Either way, I'd feel out of control of the situation! But that in itself might be fun.

Gwen Cooper is... interesting. I was going to say "Gwen is great" but sometimes she isn't. Sometimes I want to smack her. But... she never fails to entertain me. When she's at her best, I have a crush on her: a cute-smart cop-turned-investigator with the sexiest voice and Welsh accent on TV. (Well... close to it, anyway.) She is adventurous and entertaining and she's rather interestingly far from perfect, especially when it comes to sex - leading some fans to call her a slut, but I she isn't. I love her adventurous attitude and impulsive heart. Whatever she is, she isn't a cliché.

Here'sa picture of Gwen (http://www.sfx.co.uk/resources/sfx/evemyles_400wide.jpg).

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe Fred and George.

I would say, yep. But I'd also like to visit Hagrid for dinner. It would be a multi-sensory surreality of an experience, and that would be great fun.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hagrid? Hagrid is nice, but I'd be bored in two hours, I think.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Sounds fitting. Two hours would, to my mind, be just about Hagrid's own limit of being able to interact with a guest. One that wasn't a critter of some kind, I mean.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. If I really was a young fire dragon, I'd do fine with Hagrid.

The part where he gives me tea would be nice.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

3. Be locked in a jail cell with? Not Jack? Pity. Gwen would probably be the most persistent and capable at getting out. Ianto would be practical. Rhys was obviously grumpy when locked up and Owen is always grumpy. So I'll say Gwen.

Ah, my goodness. You have missed the entire point of being locked in a jail cell -- perhaps intentionally! The idea is not how do I now get out, it's gad, what fun we can have till someone remembers we're in here and comes to fetch us!

I'd go back to Harry Potter fandom and say Severus Snape. Imagine the conversations...!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You have missed the entire point of being locked in a jail cell -- perhaps intentionally! The idea is not how do I now get out, it's gad, what fun we can have till someone remembers we're in here and comes to fetch us!

I really was thinking of that - but excluding Jack, which one would I choose? I stick with Gwen!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Heh.