Fandom Review Of The Year Meme

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I got this from elfinessy's lj: Fandom Review Of The Year Meme.

elfinessy summed up my thoughts on my current favourite pairing: Captain Jack Harkness and the Doctor. If she doesn't mind my quoting her:

...and so: Utopia was the most amazing thing... just to watch the slash on screen, the moment that seemed to last a lifetime from the end of Torchwood to the start of that episode, unfurling to bring about that gorgeous face-off through the glass panel of a door shielding the Doctor from the radiation and the Doctor from Jack, that sing-song note in the Doctor's voice, 'Jaack'. So gorgeous, so incredible... so destroyed by the final episode when offered the love of his life, the adventure of so many lifetimes, Captain Jack Harkness TURNED IT DOWN to stay with the bunch of miserable, self-interested cretins that work at Torchwood in CARDIFF. 'No thanks, I mean space is all great but I'd rather stay in SOUTH WALES.' It'll be a long, long time before I forgive RTD for that one and seriously, this series of Torchwood needs to be SCORCHING.

And so I hope it will be.

The best fannish show of the year: 1 January, 2007, the first airing of the Torchwood episode "Captain Jack Harkness", one of the most romantic TV episodes I've ever seen, and the hottest m/m kiss I've ever seen on screen.

The worst fannish moment of the year: 30 June 2007, the first airing of the Doctor Who episode "The Last of the Time Lords", which broke my heart with what it did to my Jack/Doctor relationship.

Biggest fannish surprise of the year: The news that Rose would be back in Doctor Who series 4. As the Doctor would say: "What?"

Best new tv show: Life.

Fallen angel: Heroes. Nichelle Nichols played a wonderful, wonderful character - but did she get good lines or a place in the plot? I could make any number of comments about Heroes, a show I love - a show with many characters in it whom I adore, like Hiro and Ando and the Petrelli family and Mr. Bennet - but Mohinder is a colossal disappointment (he's scum, absolute scum) as are, on the whole, all the women.

Best merchandise: The 2008 Torchwood calendar. (Salute here to josanpq, and a hug too.)

Best tie-in: The Torchwood novels.

Best comic book series: Daredevil. Not for the first time.

Best comic book series: Daredevil. Not for the first time.

Best movie of 2007: 300. It was original, it was historical fiction, and it had both Gerard Butler and David Wenham - as well as a strong female lead.