Arrested Development! And Seeking Xander's "Skeletor"

[liz_marcs]

Arrested Development! Tonight! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

Ahem.

I watch almost no TeeVee. But Friday nights in the summer has turned into TeeVee hell.

FOX is reshowing all of S2. Since someone (we won't mention names), lent S1 Arrested Development to BFF, I am now out my Arrested fix. So FOX has thoughtfully put up two hours of S2 Arrested episodes every Friday night for a pre-fall marathon.

From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m..

Oh, crap!

Opposite SciFi Fridays. *grumbles*

And I want to get some writing done tonight on Water Hold Me Down.

*scream*

I mean, I have the Xander/alternaXander sections down, but I need to work on the Cleveland scenes with Faith and Giles. I've got a real itch to get started on those after suffering from hellish heat all week.

Right. Problem solved:

Tape Arrested from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Switch over to SciFi for Battlestar Galactica at 10 p.m. using a fresh tape (I will not mix Arrested with other shows! No S2 DVDs are available yet!). Then, I continue taping SciFi for the 11 p.m. showing of Stargate: SG-1 and the midnight showing of Stargate: Atlantis.

I can't believe this. I barely watch television, but in one night I've got five hours worth of television I want to watch. *headdesk*

*sigh* I need some Arrested Development icons.

*goes off in search of them*


Xander's Skeletor

bellatemple persists in turning poor Xander into Fanon Fodder. In light of my meta post on Xander's characterization in Water, I was fascinated when she came up with the following question:

Who's Xander's "Skeletor"? She's trying to get some suggestions for the next part of Fanon Fodder. Here's the exact request:

I've decided that Xander needs a nemesis...In looking for said nemesis, I was reminded of a conversation I had back in G-ville, of the sort that the G-ville crowd often had, in regards to the Skeletor concept. It goes like this: "Who is your skeletor?"

For the sake of the debate, a "skeletor" is someone who has the same powers as you do, but uses them for evil...

What I'm looking for is Xander's skeletor. Someone who generally has a similar "power set" to Xander-- wisecracking, observational skills, and people skills, to name a few examples of his "power"--yet uses them for the forces of evil. I've drawn a blank, so far.

Go and comment in the link provided above with your ideas. It mgiht be fun.

Comments

[obsessivemuch.livejournal.com]

*grumbles* I guess they're stealing CBS's idea to re-air Veronica Mars to get more viewers. Bad Fox. Why don't they re-run it on like Monday?

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

omg, Firefly, AD, and BSG all in a row on Friday nights?

someone is trying to make me lapse into a sugarcoma of geek joy glee!

thanks for the headsup!

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

In general, isn't the lack of a "Xander" the problem that most Villain groups have. Xander, at his best, is the guy who puts his ego aside to do the sort of jobs for a team that anybody could do, but that most people take for granted and don't actually do. (Just like, in LA, "Anne" does stuff that anybody - including our Super Heroes could do, but very few people actually do...)

Generally, the Bad Guys don't have one of them. W&H had Gavin, who was sort of a evil version of their Xander in terms of what sort of Evil he would do (and he's very unappreciated) but Gavin was a total wimp and a coward in a way that Xander was clearly not.

So I'm at a loss.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Arrested Development since it's not shown on any of my cable channels here. I am sooo jealous of you being able to watch BSG..stupid Space channel up here isn't going to show season 2 until [gasp] next January! Damn, that sucks. I'm having to avoid so many of my flist's posts so I don't get spoiled. :grumble:

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, there really isn't a Skeletor for Xander... well, not in BtVS. The closest we come is S1/S2 Cordelia. Maybe Lindsey McDonald from Angel?

[huzzlewhat.livejournal.com]

We are spoiled for choice on Friday nights, hmmm?

Xander's Skeletor? I'm going to agree with whoever Anonymous is. Cordelia, before she turned out to be good after all. And Lindsey was exactly who jumped into my head right off the bat. Within BtVS, I suppose an argument could be made for post-chip, pre-soul Spike, who managed to wreak havoc with his mouth and his keen eye for the soft underbelly.

Sci-Friday

[tylerdurden76.livejournal.com]

I'll have to agree, Friday is chock full of goodness now. And don't forget about Numb3rs when it returns in the fall.

And for the first time in YEARS TPTB of SG-1 have me excited about the show again. Of course, it doesn't hurt that I'll watch an episode of CSI:Miami just for Ben Browder.