15 Character Meme Answers (Part 1)

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Answers to the 15-character meme.
Sorry for the delay, some of the later ones have me stumped. Still I shall start posting.

1. Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who)
2. Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
3. Servalan (Blake's 7)
4. Methos (Highlander)
5. Miss Parker (The Pretender)
6. Bra'tac (Stargate SG-1)
7. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Doctor Who)
8. Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
9. Miles Naismith Vorkosigan (Vorkosigan series)
10. Romana II (Doctor Who)
11. Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
12. Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
13. Blair Sandburg (The Sentinel)
14. Larry Fleinhardt (Numb3rs)
15. Temperance Brennan (Bones)


astrogirl's questions:

The Ninth Doctor, Miss Parker, and Miles Naismith Vorkosigan are competing against each other on a game show. What's the game, and who wins?

The three of them are kidnapped by aliens and dumped on an arena planet (with lots of floating alien cameras) and told that the males are supposed to fight to the death for the privilege of mating with the female. They are all rather annoyed by this, and none of them intend to cooperate with the aliens. However, they're not that good at cooperating with each other either. Miss Parker shoots down one of the cameras, and the Doctor calls her a "stupid ape", disarms her with Venusian Akido and throws the gun away. He then proceeds to build a gadget from the bits of the alien camera. In the meantime, Miles is full of admiration for Miss Parker (he always falls for tall warrior women) and turns on the charm. She calls him a deformed runt and similar names, and goes looking for her gun. She finds it in the bottom of a ravine, and curses the fact that she doesn't have any minions to fetch it for her. She gets down to it eventually, but her nails are broken, her stockings are ruined, her shoes have cracked, and she's covered with dirt and mud. Unfortunately for her, the gun landed in the creek at the bottom of the ravine, and doesn't work any more. In an even worse temper, she climbs back out of the ravine. In the meantime, Miles has jiggered one of the cameras to work two-way, and he's playing mind-games with chatting to the alien camera operator. Meanwhile, the Doctor has brought down another of the cameras and is adding more bits to his gizmo. The Doctor uses the gizmo to find the location of the nearest transmat (which the aliens used to transport them down to the planet). The Doctor calls the others to him, knocking down the nearest cameras first, and they get on the transmat, which transports them to the control-centre satellite. Miles says "follow me" and leads them to the spot where his alien cameraman friend is, but Miss Parker immediately knocks the alien out, and Miles and Miss Parker argue about it. In the meantime, the Doctor jiggers the controls to send a signal to the Shadow Proclamation, because the arena planet is an illegal operation. Then the alarms start clanging and the three of them have a long corridor-chase scene, in which Miles is having difficulty keeping up. Miss Parker declares she's desperate for a smoke, and grouses about not having a working gun. She decides to deliberately fall behind and attack one of the guards so that she can steal his ray-gun. She succeeds in doing this, but firing a ray-gun isn't like firing a pistol, since there's no recoil, and the laser energy travels in a straight line instead of being affected by gravity like a bullet would be. So Miss Parker's aim is terrible, but she keeps shooting at the guards anyway. When the Judoon arrive, she starts shooting at them too, but fortunately she misses, and the Doctor disarms her again. However the Judoon slap her with a fine for using a gun without a licence. The Doctor finds the TARDIS, which is fortunately on the satellite too, and he whisks Miles and Miss Parker away, and returns them to their proper places and times.

Severus Snape writes their autobiography. What is it called? How truthful is it? And what kind of review does Larry Fleinhardt give it?

The original title was "The Fall of Tom Riddle" but the publishers changed it to "My Life As A Spy". It is less of an autobiography than an incisive analysis of Voldemort's methods, Dumbledore's methods, the weaknesses and strengths of both the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix, as individuals and as a group. It was compiled by Hermione Granger from documents such as Snape's journals and his reports to Dumbledore. It is published posthumously.

Another biography was written by Harry Potter about Snape's early life, and based largely on the memories which Snape had given him. This wasn't an autobiography, of course. It sold much better than Hermione's offering.

Both biographies leave out a lot, but they are truthful as far as both Harry and Hermione know.

As for what Larry thinks of them, as a physicist I doubt he would have read them. If he had read them, he would consider them fiction, of course. I really don't know enough about Larry's taste in fiction to be able to figure out what he would think of them.

If a genie granted Spike three wishes, what would they be? Would any of them backfire?

Season 6 Spike would wish that his chip was out, that he had a soul, and that Buffy loved him. The wishes backfire in a spectacular fashion, because the genie wasn't really a genie after all, but a demon intent on causing mayhem.


cheyinka's question:

Abby Sciuto and Miles Naismith Vorkosigan are being pursued by Donna Noble. Why is Donna pursuing them? (Why are they together?)

They are together because they have been zapped through a rift in space-time onto an alien planet. Donna is pursuing them to bring them to the TARDIS so that the Doctor can take them home, but they mistake her intent, which is why they're running away. Her hollering "Oi!" at them doesn't help.


jaxomsride's questions:

Miss Parker and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart meet on a blind date. Is the attraction instant or is it going to be a very awkward night?

The Brigadier is a gentleman, and Miss Parker is no lady. The only way they might hit it off is if she helps him fight off an unexpected alien invasion which was using the restaurant as a front. Even then, it's not likely; he's old-fashioned enough not to want to consider a woman as a comrade-at-arms. As for Miss Parker, she might appreciate that he's considerate and polite, but there probably wouldn't be any sparkage.

Spike, Bra'tac and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart are regressed to children. Does Miles Naismith Vorkosigan find a solution or are they stuck with babysitting duties?

Miles is not stuck with babysitting duties, because he delegates them to minions either Vorkosigan armsmen or Dendarii soldiers depending on whether he's at home or with the Dendarii fleet at the time. It is, of course, a Cetagandan plot which he foils with a combination of luck, fast talking, chutzpah and psychological insight, but not before he's been captured, inadvertently rescued a political prisoner while escaping in his underwear through the air ducts, been arrested for treason (again), broken his wrist, and driven a superior officer to apoplexy.

Servalan and Donna Noble are stuck in a lift. What happens?

Donna gives an angry monologue on their situation, interspersed with an occasional yell for help along the lines of "Oi! People are trapped here! Are any of you morons paying attention?". Servalan fumes silently. She considers yelling for help beneath her, and Donna's making enough noise for both of them anyway.

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I would pay to see those three people on a game show, of the alien arena or any other variety. :)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that and I think that the first one, even though of its three characters I am only familiar with the Doctor, is a work of genius.

he's old-fashioned enough not to want to consider a woman as a comrade-at-arms

Which makes me wonder how he reacted when told that his successor at UNIT would be Colonel Bambera. :)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Miles has been very busy here.;¬D
Your summation of the "regressed to children" is almost canon.