The Ten Best of the Best...

[fajrdrako]

mad_jaks today listed that wonderful perennial meme, "Ten fictional characters I wouldn't kick out of bed".

This changes regularly for me, and frankly, it's hard to picture myself in the fantasy - I'm happier thinking of them as "The Ten Sexiest People in Fiction". And it changes. For instance, a few characters who were on the list for many years, have more or less fallen off. I once loved Fox Mulder with a passion. But after a nasty break-up with X-Files and years of not thinking about him, the relationship is not the same now.

So - my current ten choices?

1. Captain Jack Harkness
   
2. The Ninth Doctor
   
3. The Tenth Doctor
   
4. Francis Crawford of Lymond
   
5. Aragorn
   
6. Mr. Rochester
   
7. Dani Rees
   
8. Martha Jones
   
9. Methos
   
10. Spike

Captain Jack Harkness goes without saying. The Tenth Doctor is problematic, but I'm being honest here: my intellectual and visceral reactions to him are at odds, and the hormones win. (He isn't even my type - how does he do that?) Aragorn, Lymond and Mr. Rochester have been on my list since adolescence, and always will be.



Spike is the new addition. And I've hardly got to know him. And I don't like vampires. But he is an exception to all the rules.

Comments

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

My ten would be ... er ... somewhat different.

1. Vicki Nelson (I'd arm-wrestle her vampire for the chance)
2. Susan Ivanova
3. Willow Rosenberg (it WAS Rosenberg, right?)
4. Martha Jones
5. Sarah Jane Smith
6. Jake Green (talk about not my type!!!!)
7. Ianto Jones and his hella gorgeous voice (again, thirty something years my junior and all male and he STILL made the list!)
8. Sarah Connor
9. Donna Noble (I kid you not. It might require a short-term ball
gag but still...then again, I might want her to say "I ain't bovvered")
10. The Ninth Doctor

I just came to the realization that #6 had made the list last night when I realized I'd never see Jake again except in reruns. I was so, so sad!

FWIW, #11 is Indiana Jones and #12 is another male, Mike Celucci (from "Blood Ties," same as my #1 choice. In fact, I'd do them both at the same time. He wouldn't like it. She'd be embarrassed. But I'd be happy...)

Hmmmm.....I think I'll have to post this meme on my own blog and see what my other friends would do with it...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Vicki Nelson (I'd arm-wrestle her vampire for the chance)

Yes. She's magnificent. Any time. (But she doesn't make my lists because I don't watch the show regularly and don't really have a feel for the character.)

Susan Ivanova

Many, many of my friends were crazy over her. I never liked Ivanova in the least, certainly not sexually. I was polite about this, though.

In compensation, I had an overwhelming passion for Lyta Alexander and turned into a puddle of adoration whenever she was on screen. Too bad she didn't have a better role.

Willow Rosenberg (it WAS Rosenberg, right?)

I adore Willow with a passionate passion, but at the moment I'm in season 2 she's only 16 years old in the episodes I've seen, and a very young sixteen at that. Maybe when she matures a little?

Martha Jones

Eeek! I left her off my list! I can't believe I left her off my list! Okay, I have to rectify that. Hmm... okay, Aral is out, Martha is in.

Martha is just so wonderful. Sexy, smart, cosmopolitan, unspoiled, brave, good-humoured, so competent and yet so far from being driven by her ego - ! And did I mention 'sexy'?

Jake Green - I had to look up who he is. Jericho. Well, the show bored me, so I don't watch it, and don't have a feel for the character. But he's gorgeous. He is my type. He was the best thing about the show by far. So - he's my type, I just can't vouch for the specifics. I feel the same way about John Shephard in SGA - don't like the show, but I like the look of the hero.

Ianto Jones and his hella gorgeous voice

Ianto's voice is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I don't want sex with Ianto. I want to hear him read poetry. And then read some more.

Sarah Connor

Do you mean Lena Headey or Linda Hamilton? I almost said Sarah Connor. I watched 8 episodes of Sarah Connor Chronicles because I loved seeing her - even if I didn't really like anything else about the show. But I was so dazzled by her I didn't even notice that for a long time.

Maybe what I should do is divide my list by male/female and choose ten of each. (How decadent.)

Donna Noble: it's a funny thing. I didn't like her much at all in "The Runaway Bride" - the show was all right, and she was amusing, but I felt a rush of relief when she turned down the Doctor's invitation to go with him.

But I see the promo pictures of her for series 4 and I get a rush. What's with that? Why does she suddenly look attractive to me? I don't know, but I'm certainly looking forward to seeing her again.

The Ninth Doctor: To die for. (Captain Jack thought so too.)

Okay, my all-women list (not in preferential order by any means):

1. Sarah Connor
   
2. Renée Montoya
   
3. Dani Rees
   
4. Martha Jones
   
5. Gwen Cooper
   
6. Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
   
7. Ayla Ranzz (Lightning Lass)
   
8. Sarah Jane Smith
   
9. Boomer
   
10. Starbuck

And maybe the Michelle Forbes character in Global Frequency, though I don't recall her name.

Martha Jones. Definitely Martha Jones.

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Ianto's voice is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I don't want sex with Ianto. I want to hear him read poetry. And then read some more.

I think I'd just want to do phone sex with him.

My Sarah Connor is the one from the TV show, although I melt every time I see Linda Hamilton.

I can't actually see myself with either Gwen or Tosh. They're both amazing women but not my type for some reason. I love Naoko Mori's voice, but it doesn't make me swoon like Gareth's does.

You know, the female Starbuck is pretty hot, but I'm old enough to remember the male Starbuck and I just can't deal with the dichotomy so I don't want either of them.

I forgot Storm. How could I forget Storm?

I wonder if it's the Catherine Tate character (can't remember the name, but it's the teenager she does who says "I ain't bovvered," something-or-other Cooper) that I want, rather than Donna Noble. Although Donna in the previews of S04 is the one that makes me smile...

Martha Jones...damn, EVERYONE wants to do Martha Jones. I wonder of Freema Ageyman ever gets paranoid...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Have to amend my list already... take of Gwen Cooper and add Detective Kathy Swanson. Or, alternately, Jabe.

[liliaeth]

hmm, ten choices...

1. Spike
2. Peter Parker
3. Captain Jack Harkness
4. Scott Summers
5. Methos
6. Ned the Piemaker
7. The Ninth Doctor
8. Derek Reese
9. Pete Wisdom
10.Owen Harper
10.Duncan MacLeod

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Spike

Irresistible.

Peter Parker

Gad, yes. Peter is wonderful.

Your 4 and 5 and 7 and 9: yes, definitely. I don't know your 6 and 8. Your two tens: no, absolutely not.

Now I want to add Peter Wisdom to my list. And Nick Fury. Hmm...

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Mr. Rochester is one of my embarrassing perennials (such a cliché - but at least the source of the cliché!) This goes back to the Orson Welles version being a formative part of my childhood, and I read the book when I was 7. Timothy Dalton is my favourite Rochester (with my favourite Jane), although I still have massive fantasies of an Eccleston Rochester with Florence Hoath (Nancy) as Jane Eyre. Oh, please!?!? Surely I can't be the only one to see that.

Colonel Brandon from Sense & Sensibility has always struck me as a proto-Rochester. Having him played by Alan Rickman in the movie didn't hurt.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Mr. Rochester is one of my embarrassing perennials (such a cliché - but at least the source of the cliché!) This goes back to the Orson Welles version being a formative part of my childhood, and I read the book when I was 7.

I blush to concur, though I didn't find the movie for many years after I read the book - after I'd read the book dozens of times - and I didn't get to it as early as you, I was twelve when I read it the first time. And the second, and the third....

I agree about the Timothy Dalton movie. Who'd have guessed he'd be so perfect? But he was.

I still have massive fantasies of an Eccleston Rochester with Florence Hoath (Nancy) as Jane Eyre. Oh, please!?!?

That would be so wonderful. What gods to we have to propitiate?

Colonel Brandon from Sense & Sensibility has always struck me as a proto-Rochester. Having him played by Alan Rickman in the movie didn't hurt.

I never thought of him that way. How interesting. I must ponder that.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Well, now I have to have a go... what about 5 pairs I wouldn't mind watching in my bed?

1. Jack Harkness & Ianto Jones. Innocence, experience, and a certain amount of wickedness.

2. Jack Harkness & Nine. Although possibly more likely to take place against a wall than in bed!

3. Martha Jones & Tosh. Because they're both pretty, smart, and deserving.

4. Methos & Duncan MacLeod. Because they're a classic.

5. Ten & the Master. In an alternate universe where Jack doesn't have to suffer whatever consequences!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

what about 5 pairs I wouldn't mind watching in my bed?

Oooh. Nice twist.

Jack Harkness & Ianto Jones. Innocence, experience, and a certain amount of wickedness.

My favourite combination.

Jack Harkness & Nine. Although possibly more likely to take place against a wall than in bed!

Or any other place. Every other place. Works for me.

Martha Jones & Tosh. Because they're both pretty, smart, and deserving.

Eeee yes. Finally, someone worthy of Tosh.

Methos & Duncan MacLeod. Because they're a classic.

Like pepper and salt, toast and jam, Superman and Batman.

Ten & the Master. In an alternate universe where Jack doesn't have to suffer whatever consequences!

Hee! I'm trying to work on seeing them as sexy - given the canon, I'd really, really like to. I will continue to concentrate. Hmm. (Picture me with my fingers to my temples, like Saturn Girl.)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Of yours I don't even know if Dani Rees is even male or female I am so in the dark and I don't know who 4 is either.
And - total heresy of me I know - Ten wouldn't even be allowed into my bedroom in the first place, I'm such a Nine girl through and through :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't even know if Dani Rees is even male or female I am so in the dark

Dani Rees is a female cop in the TV show Life. Heres (http://sarahshahi.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/screencaps-of-dani-reese-sarah-shahi-from-life-season-1-episode-10-dig-a-hole-fill-it-up-part-1/) are a few pictures of her from the show.

Francis Crawford of Lymond is the hero of a series of six novels by Dorothy Dunnett called The Game of Kings, Queen's Play, The Disorderly Knights, Pawn in Frankincese, The Ringed Castle, and Checkmate - a 16th century adventurer.

Ten wouldn't even be allowed into my bedroom in the first place, I'm such a Nine girl through and through

I prefer Nine in every conceivable way. I can't explain it, but Ten is in my psyche, like it or not. I think I'd eradicate him if I could, but he's there, with a mischievous smile and a dangerous look.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Well...

1. Eden
2. Nicholas de Fleury
3. Lymond
4. Mr. Darcy
5. Hamlet
6. Klaus
7. Soames
8. Scarlet Pimpernel / Sir Percy
9. Legolas
10. Spike

This was difficult as I realized most of my favorite characters in stories / movies are actually historical.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Eden

But of course. You really, really must introduce me one day.

2 to 6 and 8 - 10: Oooh, yes to all.

Who is Soames?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And P.S.: I'm particularly happy that you mentioned Spike.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Right now? This instant?

1. Ianto Jones.
2. Ninth Doctor.
3. Captain Jack Harkness.

(The above three may be separately or in combination.)

4. Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. (Books and Martin Shaw version only. Offers of marriage cheerfully entertained.)


And that's all. I'm just not that easy. ;-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

(The above three may be separately or in combination.)

Good way to start. No argument there.

Books and Martin Shaw version only.

Mmmm.

And that's all. I'm just not that easy. ;-)

What virtue. What restraint.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Interesting choices here...

Whom I wouldn't pick:

Hamlet: I wouldn't merely repudiate Hamlet, I would do it with great force. In fact, I would have already high-tailed it to the next country, and destroyed that letter to the English King. That man was toxic -- and IMHO not even vaguely sexy. But YMMV.

Captain Jack Harkness: I'm obviously a minority here, but I don't find Capt. Jack sexy at all. A great guy to have a long chat with, sure, and a good person to watch your back, but he just doesn't inspire me with any desire to roll him in the hay. Just not my type. Ditto the remainder of the Torchwood team.

So, ten fictional characters I wouldn't kick out of bed:

* Lymond
* Niccolo (Nicholas de Fleury)
* Lord Peter Wimsey
* Inspector Jericho (as portrayed by Robert Lindsay)
* Const. Benton Fraser
* Inspector Ian Rutledge (from the mystery series by Charles Todd)
* Scaramouche
* Sacha Arloff (from The Troika Belle by Ira J. Morris)
* Sir Anthony Fanshawe (from Georgette Heyer's The Masqueraders) (or maybe Max Ravenscar (Faro's Daughter), or Jack Staple (The Toll-Gate), or Miles Caverleigh (Black Sheep), or Edward Carlyon (The Reluctant Widow))

and finally, my favourite, whom almost none of you would have heard of:
* George Sherrill (aka Sherry) from the book Greensleeves by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I should point out that a number of these men were noted for being enjoyable bed partners, and Making An Effort to be so.

Hmmm... I seem to have completely left out all characters from SF/fantasy books. Yup, that's an oversight. There definitely should be a Vorkosigan, but I can't decide between Aral and Miles.

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

I'm obviously a minority here, but I don't find Capt. Jack sexy at all.

You don't know me but.....

Hurrah! Someone else who thinks Jack would be more interesting to talk to than to shag. I was beginning to think he was too male for me, and considering John Barrowman got his start doing drag, that's just too bizarre for me.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hamlet: I wouldn't merely repudiate Hamlet, I would do it with great force

We've already discussed Hamlet a few times, and we have absolutely totally different notions of the character. To me "Hamlet" is not only Shakespeare's best play, but his sexiest and most interesting character, a Romantic Hero in the same sense as Francics Crawford, with whom he has much in common. (They both have acting talent, wear masks, struggle with Oedipus complexes, and are suicidal. Among other things.)

My second favourite Shakespeare hero is Benedick, who is usually (or always) portrayed as funny-not-sexy, though he is sexy in my imagination.

Benton Fraser seems very unsexy to me. Not sure why. Maybe he is too funny. Maybe I just need to see more episodes of Due South.

I would agree with any of those Heyer heroes, and considered listing one, but they didn't quite make my short list.

I find Aral sexy and Miles not, though I love them both. Cordelia as well. Other sexy heroes in SF: F'Lar of Pern, Lord Regis Rafael Hastur of Darkover (though both of those series seem to have been reclassified as fantasy, despite SF trappings); Captain Cairo Azarcon, my current favourite. Truth is, I don't find most SF very sexy at all, which is one reason I'm not much of an SF fan.

a number of these men were noted for being enjoyable bed partners, and Making An Effort to be so

That Making an Effort is a bit of a problem for me. It shouldn't be an effort. It should come naturally.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I agree with you so much on Hamlet. As I said in a response above, I've always wanted to rewrite it from Gertrude's point of view, because Claudius is the interesting man in that story. I find Hamlet too whiney and passive.

And I also agree with you on Captain Jack - I find him sexy with a very few people - Ninth Doctor, real!Captain Jack, and Gwen...and that's pretty much it - but I wouldn't be interested for myself.

I will say, I'm much more a Ray Vecchio person than a Benton Fraser person, though. :-) It's the eyes, the hands, and the surreptitious tenderness that will always do it for me.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

So many men - so little time. I don't want to choose (whines a lot). I don't know if I'd want to sleep with Lymond. I'd love to listen to his table talk, be entertained at his fetes and watch him and Phillipa raise their children but sleep with him -well, he's a bit too intimidating. I think that I'd prefer Adam who is not only gentle but an artist and lacks Lymonds neurotic edge. I also agree with those who aren't interested in shagging Captain Jack. I've rather talk to him that sleep with him and as there are no shortage of applicants for his bed, I don't think he'd feel the loss. Methos, Alan Rickman in Truly, Madly, Deeply, Naveen Andrews and, I must confess, a growing lust for Owen Harper. He's not my usual type but I do find him sexy. Martin Shaw as Dagliesh, oh yes! And the young Paul Michael Glasser from Starsky and Hutch. I have three more choices so I must give it some intelligent thought.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

he's a bit too intimidating

I've heard a lot of fans say that. I don't find Lymond intimidating in the least. He's... invigorating. He'd be fun. Adam is lovely, but I don't find him sexy. I found Owen Harper sexy for about 4 seconds in "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" and never again - I really usually find him most unattractive, but for just that brief, shining moment I saw him as - something else. Maybe.

Martin Shaw is incredibly sexy in a lot of his roles, but I haven't seen his Dalgliesh. I still swoon at the thought of him as Alan Cade or Chauvelin, or Doyle in the last few episodes of "The Professionals".

[trialia]

Yummy. *grins* Hmm, my ten...

1. Laura Roslin
2. Elizabeth Weir
3. Inara Serra
4. Ziva David
5. Vala Mal Doran
6. Abby Sciuto
7. Caprica Six
8. Faith Lehane
9. Calleigh Duquesne
10. Elizabeth Swann

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ooh - I only know about half your list! Laura Roslin, I don't like, but Inara Serra - she almost made my list. Caprica Six - I find her fascinating, but not so much sexy. Well, sometimes. Depends on the script.

And Elizabeth Swann - oh, yes!

Okay, so I'll research the ones I don't know.

Ziva David - NCIS. Check.

Vala Mal Doran - ah, Claudie Black! Swoon. I watched two episodes of SG1 to see her - yes, forced myself - loved her in the first, hated her in the second, and so gave up.

Abby Sciuto - NCIS.

Faith Lehane - I thought this might be the Faith in Buffy, but I'd never heard her last name. I'm only watching second season now so I've never seen her, but I think Eliza Dushku is gorgeous.

Calleigh Duquesne - CSI Miami. Right.