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I have made a "Your favourite everything , season 1 of Game of Thrones" poll in game_thrones community. I am cross-posting the results so that I can keep track of this.
This is the second poll of this kind, the results of the previous run (created after the episode 5 of the season 1) can be found here.

Sub-poll 1: The character(s) you love the most

There aren't too many surprises in this category. There are few changes in comparison with the previous run, though. Tyrion has moved to the first place, placing Arya as the second. Dany has moved to the third place, placing Jon as the fourth. There is much less love for Jaime : he gave way to Sansa and Robb who share the fifth place.

( The full list )

Character	Place	Number of votes	Percentage of voters (%)
Tyrion Lannister	1	79	58
Arya Stark	2	68	50
Danerys Targaryen	3	55	40

Sub-poll 2: Character you love to hate

Few people asked for clarification of the "love to hate" term. This is the explanation I found scouting the Internets (Wordreference.com), which corresponds with my understanding of the term: "The term was most famously applied to Erich von Stroheim, a German actor of the silent and early sound period, who made a career of playing villainous Prussian noblemen. His portrayals were so strong that the audience would enjoy the feelings of animosity he engendered. Therefore, he was the man you love to hate."

The way I see it - the character you love to hate is the character you hate, but at the same time she/he engenders strong feelings from you and is important to the story. It is not an easy thing to write a bad character that is not cartoonish and will feel real enough to hate strongly. Someone you can channel your pent-up rage towards. My apologies for the late explanation.

There are some major changes in this sub-poll in comparison with the previous run. Joffrey seems to engender the universal hate and loathing, with as much as 67% of the voters naming him as their most hated character.

Also, as far as loathing goes, Petyr Baelish has moved up.

One surprising result for me personally: Catelyn is still hated more than Gregor Clegane, Walder Frey, Alliser Thorne and the rest. Although, looking on the positive side - Catelyn hate decreased from the previous run.

But no-one hates Ned Stark!!!!!

( The full list )

Character	Place	Number of votes	Percentage of voters (%)
Joffrey Baratheon	1	92	67
Cersei Lannister	2	74	54
Petyr Baelish	3	43	31

Sub-poll 3: The best casting

Tyrion is leading - 61% of voters list him are one of their favourite castings!

And YAY! Bronn received three votes (one of them mine)!

( The full list )

Character	Place	Number of votes	Percentage of voters (%)
Tyrion Lannister	1	84	61
Arya Stark	2	65	47
Ned Stark	3	57	42

Sub-poll 4: Your favourite pairing

Shipping! The results are very interesting. I have heard some worrying reports from here and there that large numbers of folks don't like Ned and Cat.

Do not fear! Ned/Cat as OTP triumphs everything! Yes to the great love and partnership! Dany/Drogo came second, although I am personally not very sure about this ship. Sansa/Sandor came third - the story of the Beauty and The Beast will never die!

The honorable mentions go to : Loras/Renly and Arya/Gendry (fourth and fifth).

There is also an amazing number of inventive ships! "Ros/Another Show" is my personal favourite, but there are also many other great ones, like "Jon Snow's hair/The wind".

( The full list )

Ship	Place	Number of votes	Percentage of voters (%)
Ned Stark/Catelyn Stark	1	48	35
Daenerys Targaryen/Khal Drogo	2	43	31
Sansa Stark/Sandor Clegane	3	35	26

Plsease feel free to discuss the results and bond over the shared favourites.

I love numbers and polls. The show is in the middle of the current season, which seems to be a good time for one. There are so many characters in the show that creating a radio buttons or check boxes poll wasn't possible. Please type three (or less) of your favourite characters in each poll, in no particular order. The results of the poll will be published on Sunday, 22nd of May.
Your favourite characters?

Edit: Please note that you need to submit each sub-poll separately!!!!

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PS: I think I am becoming obsessed with the show. This sort of crept up on me, but I am once again finding myself thinking about nothing else but "Game of Thrones".

Spoilers: Episode 5 of the HBO show

Update: the poll is now closed

I have posted Your favourite Asian drama poll a week ago; it had very good response! Thank you very much to everyone who participated - I will collect the data and post the results as promised, on the 8th of June. Please feel free to direct anyone to the poll – the more the merrier!

Quite few posters noted that it seems to be unfair to omit Taiwanese dramas and asked for "your favourite Taiwanese drama" poll. I am so sorry I didn't have a chance to do this earlier!

The poll is open to non-LJ users. If you don't have a LJ user account and want to participate, please leave a comment in this post in the format below and I will include your choices in the poll.

Format for the anonymos comments:
1. My favourite Kdrama: your favourite Kdrama here
2. My favourite Jdrama: you favourite Jdrama here
3. My favourite Twdrama: your favourite Twdrama here

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My admiration for this guy knows no bounds but the latest pictures of him and his blue cardigan makes me worried:



I need your opinion on this. To participate you don't have to be a fan of Bae Yong Joon or even know who he is. The gender of participants is not important too. (But please be kind – I lurve him :D)

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This is something I find almost embarrassing to admit because I am in a small minority – I can't understand a hype surrounding "Pirates of Caribbean". Johnny Depp is definitely one of the most gorgeous blokes that have ever lived and Keira Knightly is a very comely lass. BUT!! I do confess embarrassing fact that when I watched the first film I thought "Hmm? This film is in 250 best films of all times on IMDB?" and when I watched the second film.. I confess I didn’t finish it. This all makes me feel slightly worried..

I must get to the bottom of it and Friday seems to be a good day for a poll!!!

( What do you think about Pirates of Caribbean )

( This is of course an excuse to post a picture of Johnny Depp )

PS2 : If you like/dislike the series I would love to hear why!!!

Update LJ is not working well for me again!! I apologise very much but I will have to answer your comments tomorrow!

Sleep report Finally sleep deprivation due to Asian drama overdose caught up with me yesterday. We had a big “Vision” meeting combined with “Not your Christmas Dinner” lunch for our department yesterday. Somehow it happened that I was made to/volunteered to report our tables’ view on student coaching experience and ideas to the rest of the BIG audience. EEEEE! I was thoroughly embarrassed but my colleagues said that I sounded "very confident". I hope so, but I think they are just trying to be polite. :D
Because I came home early after the meeting I had a chance to put my head down and just switched off for an hour. I could have stayed asleep, but was carried to the church meeting by my dearest dear. And then I again switched off on the way back and stayed switched off until morning. Sleep deprivation is a scary thing. :D I feel a lot better today!!!

Bones. Poll


I have watched two episodes of "Bones" season 1. I am not sure yet because some of the very good people I know love this show so there must be something in, but it seems that into the two episodes span creators managed to fill as much cliches as it was possible:

+ Main heroine (Temperance Brennan by Emily Deschanel) is stroppy but terribly brilliant

+ Heroine’s parents died/disappeared under unclear circumstances

+ The Hero (Special Agent Seeley Booth by David Boreanaz) is burly and has a snarky OTP with the heroine

+ There is an episode involving heroine appearing in the hero’s apartment unexpectedly and him opening the door half-dressed. And of course there is a skanky lawyer lady in that apartment too.

+ There is an episode involving an Arabian terrorist.

+ The Science can solve any crime. (This is actually worrying me – Though admittedly technology and science play more and more role recently, but I think in the recent abundance of shows like CSI the reality of police work, the importance of normal police methods as deduction, observation, collecting of the evidence and interrogation are getting largely underrated and I am getting a little upset for the real Police)

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