minor character fandom love

[burntcopper]

Fandom : there's always those characters that make a single/couple of ep appearance that fandom takes to their hearts and loves ridiculously or scars onto their brain (you can normally tell by their regular appearance in fic or icons). And it confuses people who haven't watched the show, because they were expecting this person to have a much bigger role on-screen. Sometimes the fandom love is so big that the producers and writers notice and bring them back.

Torchwood :

PC Andy Davidson
DCI Kathy Swanson
Jubilee Pizza delivery persons (okay, admittedly the boxes are omnipresent in the Hub)

Dr Who :

Lucy Saxon

SGA :

David Parrish
Kavanagh
Jeannie Miller
Miko

BtVS :

Ethan Rayne (became an occasional recurring because the writers/producers liked his effect)
Devon (had, what, five lines total?)

These are just off the top of my head. Feel free to add.

For those who didn't hear, who're tangentially related to comics fandom : Mike Weiringo died on sunday of a heart attack. 44, completely physically fit and... meep. He co-created Impulse with Mark Waid, exceedingly talented, apparently a ridiculously nice guy

Also : This article is somewhat fabulous. The stuff about Genghis Khan's traceable lineage has been floating around for a year or so now, but it's the glee of all the anecdotal stuff of him having loads of descendants (one 13thC historian claimed that he had 20,000 alive in that period) and tribes posturing and claiming that they're descended from him ... and then when they traced the genetics and the area found in and so on it was the only explanation that made *sense*. 8% of the population of central Asia. 1 in 200 men alive today.

And Angkor Wat : bloody massive city, architect of its own demise.

Comments

[mrslant]

Such a proud boast, descent from history's most prolific rapist...

Actually, I smell bullshit. Those with GK's Y chromosome would only be direct male-line descendants - son to son to son to son etc. - there would also be all those descendants with a female somewhere in the line back to the Khan. Since that's 50% of each generation, plus all their descendants, this would have to mean that everyone in the entire world is a descendant of Genghis Khan. Including the Amerindians and the Australian Aborigines.

I suspect a high level of inbreeding in Central Asia is a more likely explanation. ;-)

[aderyn.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Sally Sparrow! Though it is slightly more understandable as she did have a whole episode centred on her, but then so did Elton and I hardly ever see him get fandom love.