5) what’s your comfort show?
Answered here 🙂

10) what’s one show you thought you’d love but turned out to really hate?
Oooh erm, hate’s a strong word and wow I’m not really sure. I was excited for Star Trek: Discovery, because everything I heard pre-watching sounded positive but I was cautious because Star Trek: Enterprise had burned me so when Discovery went bad it was almost like I’d been expecting it.

I don’t think I hate any show tbh which is why I’m finding it so difficult to answer. If I decide I don’t like something then I let it go, I don’t think about it, I’m just not interested anymore, and so I forget. Hate implies I still care in some respect and TV is a positive thing in my life, I try and only watch stuff I like so I don’t know, sorry :/

27) which actor do you think deserves an Emmy for their work on TV?
Oooh I could go for the classic and say Lana Parrilla because she really was utterly amazing as Regina. However I’m going to say something else – Zoie Palmer as the Android in Dark Matter.

She’s a robot but she’s a robot which has been upgraded with this empathy mod which allows her to have feelings and free will but doesn’t teach her about them at all. Also in the show there is another upgrade which basically makes her perfectly ‘human’.

So she has to play the shutdown robot with feelings she doesn’t understand and can only really display them through micro-expressions and awkward motions, she has to play the same character but much more ‘normal’ and then in season 3 they had another character – Doctor Shaw – who the android was modelled from, so that was another character completely and so she had to act opposite herself as two different people.

Yeah so in terms of ‘technical challenge’ there’s a lot. However I would argue that she deserves recognition because of the representation she offers. A lot of people see her as a representation of autism. The fact that she has the ability to pass and be normal and rejected it, in favour of being who she is, and that her crew respect and support that – and love her for who she is! it’s enough to make anyone cry.

41) if you could change 1 detail about any show, what would you change and why?
So I have to pick ONE show? and ONE thing? That’s impossible! Erm geez seriously my brain does not know where to begin with that.

Alright erm man I don’t know, erm – Stargate SG1. I’d change how the introduction to season 8 went down. I know Amanda Tapping needed some maternity leave but I really do think that Samantha Carter should have retained command of SG1 and that Mitchell should have been the new rookie. I love the character of Cam Mitchell, don’t hate him, he’s cool, but I don’t like that they basically forgot he wasn’t Jack O’Neill when they were writing (they admit this in episode commentary) and just yeah. I think Carter should have been properly in charge. I think the dynamic would have been better.

Also! Urk ok ONE thing, ONE. I have so many more /headdesk and it’s not like I don’t love stuff because I do, it’s just there are things that I personally would have done differently if I’d been show-runner.

2) if you could have saved one TV show from cancellation, which one would it be?
Tough one because there are choices. Ultimately though no contest tbh

It has to be Dark Matter.

My heart wants to say The Librarians because 10 seasons wouldn’t have been enough (especially as they were only 10 episode seasons!!!) BUT Dark Matter ended on a cliffhanger and while the creator has released some info to explain how the team “got out of that one” it didn’t answer any of the big over-arching questions related to the big plots that would have taken another season or two to answer. What are the Black Ships? What happened with the android insurrection? Come on guys I need to know! :p

3) have you ever quit a show before it finished? why?
A couple yeah. Basically I’ll put up with a lot, if I commit to a show then there’s obviously something I love about it so I’ll work with the material, I’ll come up with headcanons to explain away stuff, I’ll try and make it work. However I do have a limit and some shows have reached it.

Once Upon a Time for instance. I pushed through season 6 out of sheer stubbornness and I regret it to be honest because I saw some things that I can’t unsee. I wanted to give season 7 a try but they did the unforgivable. It’s like Star Trek: Discovery, I actually quit mid-episode of that because once I had confirmation that they really had done it – I was out of there.

5) what’s your comfort show?
You know what it is :p it’s either The Librarians or Leverage, watched a million times and I just don’t care. They are amazing and I love them 🙂

50) what’s one TV cliche you love?
“They are right behind me aren’t they?” – it’s a visual thing because you can see the obliviousness and then the slow realisation. Whereas if you have to explain it in fiction, it loses something hence why it’s a TV cliche and not just a regular cliche.

51) what’s one TV cliche you despise?
This is one is more general cliche to be honest but I hate it when shows twist everything so the men are the heroes and the women need saving. I know that this is because I’m watching “that kind of show” but to be honest – Castle – that show did not start out that way. It started out with Beckett being badass, at least that’s how I remember it. However it felt later on like Beckett became a support act. It was Castle that did the rough stuff in the finales, that was the ‘hero’ with the gun and took care of it. That’s an ABC show, I kinda expect it with all the CBS shows (NCIS, Hawaii 5-0 etc. as it’s chronic with them) but I had thought better of Castle which is why it stung I think.