TV Show Meme! Day 19!

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To celebrate Independence Day, my mom and I spent the morning watching British TV shows! We are hilariously inappropriate sometimes. Now we're watching The Rockford Files, which beats standing in the sun and barbequing or blowing ourselves up with fireworks hands down, in my opinion.

Day 19 - Best TV show cast

This is a weird prompt. I mean, I am not a casting expert. Sure, sometimes I watch a TV show and I think, "This show would be so much better if Gina Torres was the Doctor instead of Matt Smith." Sometimes I will recast a show with people who are not white, people who are not monogamous, people who are not thin, people who are openly not vanilla, people who are not straight, people who are not cisgendered, people who are not men.

I mean, give me almost any show, and there will be someone I want to recast, some way I'd make the characters different.

But that is what fanfic is for! Praise Viggo for fanfic, y'all. And fanvids. And fan art. And all other kinds of transformative work. Seriously. Not that fandom is perfect (by farrrrrrr, omg!) but a lot of times I find it way more satisfying than (or just exactly as satisfying as) the canon for a show.

Instead, I will do some characters who I think were perfectly cast:

- Battlestar Galactica: Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Farscape: Ben Browder and Claudia Black as John Crichton and Aeryn Sun
- Alias: Gina Torres as Anna Espinosa (ugh, worst screencap ever, I know!)
- Stargate Atlantis: Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex
- Grey's Anatomy: Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang (terrible pictures, but I refuse to watch that show again, even to get a good screencap)
- The West Wing: Mary-Louise Parker as Amy Gardner
- Due South: callum Keith Rennie and Paul Gross as Ray Kowalski and Benton Fraser

I think I've probably only seen two things in my entire life that I've never quibbled with the casting for -- that CBC Anne of Green Gables miniseries and Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight, which is probably one of the worst and yet most enjoyable movies ever made.




Other days...
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death