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valiha ([personal profile] valiha) wrote2007-12-29 07:09 am

My three favorites

I don't believe you guys ever saw this wallpaper, right?



It's something I made in honor of my three favorite shows: the Magnificent Seven, the Invisible Man and Star Trek in all of its various incarnations.

My reasons for loving Mag7 are many and various, and also connected to my dad and our shared love for westerns. I love the charaters and the way all of them are there for each other, inspite of their differences, and how they start changing because of each other (even though Ezra fights changing the hardest of them all), and how their friendship tuns into being a family  I love the way the actors portray them, and I think they were perfect for the roles.  And finally, it was the last show my dad and I watched together before I moved to another city, looking for work. 

Invisible Man was such a cool, weird, witty show, with great characters and a wonderfull twist on the old "man can become invisible" premise, that it's just unbelievable that it was cancelled after only two seasons (still, it has more episodes that Mag7).  The two main characters start out as complete opposites, and during the course of the show become as close as brothers.  There's no way to explain this show, you simply have to watch to believe how good it was.  

I'm not even going to try to explain Star Trek.  First of all, it's too darn big, and second, it's a show a grew up with, and the message of humanity finally uniting is just as strong today as it was when it was first made. 

In the end, I have a couple of questions for you: 

- what are your three favorites, and why do you like them? Is it a character that drew your attention, or the stories, or maybe a favorite actor? 

Let me know!

[identity profile] gemspegasus.livejournal.com 2008-01-05 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Broke this into two parts, Aida, because the reply was getting too long. But I have to agree with you about Star Trek too for the reasons you mentioned. One other reason I enjoyed ST is how former enemies(Klingons and humans, Marquis and Starfleet banded together)united and worked together. The chemistry between the casts was also terrific and I enjoyed that a lot. You also got my muse going, what if Buck and Will Riker where in Starfleet Academy at the same time? Or Ezra had been in Tom Paris's situation? Stop hopping around plot bunnies, go join the others in pen and let me finish here.
Okay, my third favorite is the Sentinel which is a series about a Police detective with enhanced senses which had been dormant but came online five years prior when he had been a special ops captain on a mission in Peru. Jim Ellison neeeds help with his enhanced senses and turns to Blair Sandburg, anthropology student who has researched 'sentinels' with enhanced senses and becomes Ellison's "guide."
The chemistry between the two leads had me hooked from the first episode.

Sorry, Aida didn't mean to ramble and hope you can make sense of it.

Hope your mom is doing well with her health, sending lots of positive, healing energy to her, you and your other loved ones.

take care,
hugs
Angela