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I think the Myers Briggs is mostly nonsense, but I enjoy taking personality tests as B7 characters, and this one is well suited. If you feel the same, I invite you to take the Myers Briggs as a B7 character or two (or look up the descriptions of the types and choose that way) and tell me what you think they'd be. This one is decent: http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

And provides decent descriptions of the types: http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

And this one is quick and dirty, but gave me the same result the longer version did, when I took it as myself:

http://similarminds.com/jung_word_pair.html

My results so far are:

Blake: ENTJ
Avon: ISTJ
Travis: Also ISTJ!
Cally: INFJ (my type)
Tarrant ESTP (my opposite)
Dayna: ESFP
Servalan: ISFP

Jenna is stumping me. I tried taking it as her, but the result I got didn't fit at all. :/

Today's topic is best series opener. I think everyone must agree that that's The Way Back, and not just because of the shock of Tal and Masha Varon getting shot at the end. It's a great episode for establishing the Federation and how it works, with surprising and fresh writing all the way through.

Like aralias, though, despite thinking it's the best series opener, it's probably not my favorite. For that, I'd have to choose "Aftermath," which is sexy and fun (although it's not all fun and games, obviously). It doesn't follow on that well from "Star One," which is disappointing, but it's a great episode for Dayna, Avon, Servalan, and Hal Mellanby (sadly his only one, which is what makes this episode not all fun and games). It's sort of interesting that they seemed to toy with making Avon more heroic in this ep. It doesn't really seem to have been part of a serious, sustained effort to change his character in Series 3, so I wonder what was going on there. Still, I like that about it. I also like that it works as a two-parter with Power Play, which is another favorite episode of mine.

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Today's topic is something that made you think.

( Going to do a list again. These range from silly to less silly... )

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Today's topic is best use of a hoary old trope.

( I've chosen the end of Stardrive, where Avon kills Doctor Plaxton. )


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So, I am officially doing the 30 Days of Any TV Show Meme. Today's topic is "what you wish happened."

JENNA: Maybe some dreams are worth having.
AVON: You don't really believe that.
JENNA: No, but I'd like to.

( Follow the fake cut... )

Hello, flist. I have just made a quick and dirty B/A vid to Icona Pop's "I Don't Care (I Love It)." Do you love Series 4 best? No? Do you love pop music? No? Well, perhaps the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts (or perhaps not...). Anyway, this was just for fun. In case you think Avon is too much of a (90s) bitch in this song, I'm also reposting another vid I made a month or so ago, to Mary Wells' "My Guy," to balance the scales. I don't, however, think that the two vids tell particularly different stories, despite appearances.

"I Don't Care":



"My Guy":

 Life is a bit frenetic right now.  But I am not abandoning the meme!

Day 7: Favorite Clown

My favorite clown at the moment is definitely King Lear's fool.  I find his relationship with Lear both sweet and sad. Somehow, the fool brings out Lear's humanity and his ability to feel for his fellow human beings as he rages in the storm.  I also love the ways in which the fool and Cordelia mirror each other.

Also, I must rail against a production I recently saw in which the fool HANGS HIMSELF.  No. Just. No.  I think one of the most stunningly ambiguous, most deeply moving moments in the play comes when Lear, cradling Cordelia's body, says, "and my poor fool is hanged."  This RUINS IT. /End rant

Day 8: Favorite Comedy

I really have three favorites: Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing. I love them each for different reasons.  Since I have to pick one, though, I'll go with Twelfth Night.  It's fun and quirky and bursting at the seams with romantic love of all kinds. At the same time, though, there's a dark edge that always makes me slightly uncomfortable. Now that I've given this some thought, I realize that my favorite modern comedies are quite similar, tonally: I love Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou.