everybody wants to change the world

[aria]

Now that I am doing an idle Lex-Luthor-bits-of-Smallville watch, and unsurprisingly shipping Clark/Lex like burning, I have had the same conversation with a handful of friends. It goes something like this:

ME. And I love Lex! Oh my god, I love Lex! But Clark is, uh ...
FRIEND. Boring?
ME. Yeah! And this is becoming a pattern. Like, okay, take Highlander --
FRIEND. You love Methos, but Duncan is boring?
ME. ...Yes. Or Star Tr --
FRIEND. You love Spock and Kirk is boring!
ME. You are a mind-reader!

...although I have had this conversation with three separate friends, so in this case it's probably just that my friends know me. Anyway, it led me to imagine what would happen if I just eliminated the things that are boring, which incidentally leaves me with the mental image of Methos, Spock, and Lex Luthor in a room together. I am a little worried they would clean up nice and then take over the goddamn world.

Of course, then my brain took "What could possibly be more awesome than Methos, Spock, and Lex Luthor in a room together??" as a challenge, and I hereby submit for consideration the notion of Nyota Uhura, Kara Thrace, Zoe Washburne, Susan Ivanova, and Cordelia Naismith going on space adventures together. That is what is more awesome.

Comments

[myalexandria]

but you don't find Fraser boring, do you?

[skipthedemon]

This is exactly what I was going to post.

I feel much the same way as Aria, and I don't find Fraser boring. I'm not exactly sure WHY.

[aria]

I think it is because I find Fraser snippy and snarky and awkward and layered, which are also things that I find wildly attractive in Methos and Spock and Lex! Fraser the pretty hero boy is a SNEAKY FACADE, you see.

[skipthedemon]

Good point. He's the best of both worlds, in many ways.

[killabeez]

As a Kirk, Duncan, and uh... well, not Clark from Smallville, but Superman fan in general, I submit that Fraser is a lot more like Spock or Methos than he is like any of the "hero" types. Which probably explains why I'm more of a Ray fan... :D

[aria]

I am fascinated by this! Now I want to know what you find great about Kirk, Duncan, and Superman! (To be fair, I am wildly generalizing when I say they are boring; I am bewildered by my growing fondness for Kirk, Clark is kind of adorkable, and the more Duncan I see the more I genuinely love him. They're just not comparable levels of fascinating.)

Fraser is more like Spock or Methos than he is like hero types, though! But I don't think Ray is very good at being a hero type either, and depending on my mood or the time of day, I can't decide if I love Fraser or Ray more. (By which I mean Ray Kowalski; Ray Vecchio is also dear to my heart, but I find him slightly less fascinating than Fraser or Kowalski.)

[aria]

Not at all! I actually almost included that in the post, actually, because at first glance it's a break in the pattern, but ... Fraser is snippy and snarky and awkward and layered, and since those are the things that I find attractive in the guys I listed up there as being interesting to me, Fraser crosses the Pretty Hero divide and becomes fascinating to me. :D

[feverbeats]

I ENDORSE THIS COMMENT. It is called Aria-is-wrong.

[aria]

And see, despite the fact that YOU are wrong, I still love you and am therefore using my Vecchio icon, because you have weird taste and like him best.

[themeletor]

to be fair, clark is and has been and always will be a big dumb alien.

lex gets a lot less interesting when he is monolithically evil instead of delightfully morally ambiguous and/or conflicted.

also OMG i want that the-good-ship-badass-women event A LOT. it's pretty much more awesome than EVERYTHING :D :D :D

[themeletor]

(also oh i see your subject line text. i see it~)

[aria]

Aww, Clark IS a big dumb alien! Bless.

I can't even imagine Lex being monolithically evil! Where is the fun in THAT, I ask you. CONFLICTED LEX ALL THE WAY.

Can you imagine all those ladies in space together? It would be the most efficiently-run, snarkiest spaceship EVER. They have the best pilot, the best communications officer, the best gunslinger, and two ladies who are excellent at command and only think they are not also excellent at diplomacy and Getting Shit Done. *_*

(Ahaha my subject line! FFF I CAN'T GET THAT SONG OUT OF MY HEEEEAD.)

[beccaelizabeth]

Nyota Uhura, Kara Thrace, Zoe Washburne, Susan Ivanova, and Cordelia Naismith

... *has happy brain melt* ...

That would be a proper working team with different roles and responsibilities. Needs a tech though. Toshiko Sato is from a much lower tech level but I'm sure she'd catch up.

[aria]

Oof, yeah, the ship might crash. Maybe we can bring Kaylee along too, and she can bring Tosh up to speed? (Omg, Kaylee/Toshiko! I WOULD SHIP IT.)

[beccaelizabeth]

OMG they'd be so cute together and like actually good for each other and stuff. Tosh would have a girlfriend who didn't try and kill anyone and Kaylee would have a girlfriend who brings her food and shiny broken things.

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

...somehow I am entirely unsurprised by your mad love for Lex.

Also, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Well, BOTH of your newsletters. "Nyota Uhura, Kara Thrace, Zoe Washburne, Susan Ivanova, and Cordelia Naismith going on space adventures together" and "Methos, Spock, and Lex Luthor in a room together" are HAPPY THOUGHTS.

[aria]

Ahaha, I know, right? I mean, I sort of knew going in that I'd only be watching it for Lex, but then he was wonderful and lived up to my expectations of him! (I should ... probably find healthier fictional types. Oh well.)

The thing about the "awesome ladies go on space adventures" thing is that I want ALL THE LADIES to go on space adventures! Like, I should clearly also be inviting along Gaila and Roslin and Dee and Kaylee and Delenn! At the very least! I really am tempted to make a list of spacefaring women and write the story of them all on board a ship together, though. It would be amazing.

I am not sure exactly what Methos, Spock, and Lex would actually do, though! I just keep picturing them being very polite and serious while brimming with unholy glee inside. Perhaps they would talk about brilliant scientific inventions? And history? And things?

[sophia-sol.livejournal.com]

I need to start by saying that your icon is adorable. They're just so happy!

(healthier fictional types? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS? That wouldn't be nearly as fun, or as cathartic!)

ALL THE LADIES obviously need to go on space adventures together. You should definitely write that story. Except that then I feel sad for the non-spacefaring ladies that don't get to come on this grand adventure, who would ALSO be amazing!

Methos, Spock and Lex: Well, I'm rather a big fan of the "clean up nice and take over the goddamn world" you suggest in the post proper! But I do not in fact know how they would get there.

[nextian]

Oh my god, Smallville, Aria? Seriously? I had like ten bucks that you'd do X-Files next.

[aria]

Haha, shut up. Anyway, I don't have any particular interest in the X-Files! And in my personal character calculus, Lex > Mulder, so there's that.

(Just never, ever let me watch the goddamn Sentinel. That is all I ask.)

[nextian]

No, no, hon, it's Krycek who's Lex. Mulder's the boring one and Scully's the Uhura. Anyway I can't make you that promise, your TV selection criteria CLEARLY ONLY CONSIST OF "IS THERE A VOLUME OF SLASH ABOUT IT CONSTITUTING THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF SEVERAL SMALL COUNTRIES" and the Sentinel DEFINITELY QUALIFIES.

[nextian]

Also omg why do you have a particular interest in Smallville ahhh oh my god judging you so much

[skipthedemon]

Scully is where it's at. I think she may have been my first girl crush.

[yasaman]

*wide innocent eyes* Whyever would you not want to watch the Sentinel? You're missing out on so much! You should see it, if only for the fannish history factor. Also, then you could read the fic, which is glorious. (I will tactfully not specify exactly what I mean by glorious, but goddamn, if you think Highlander fic is deliciously old school, WAIT TIL YOU READ SENTINEL FIC.) I, uh, happen to have the first few episodes, if you're curious.

[gehayi]

I can see Zoe and Cordelia as a couple fairly easily, actually. Maybe they could add Starbuck and make it a quasi-military threesome.