Oz stuff
In my illiterate-ness (ooh - another word that is what it says!), I am ignoring the book meme and instead, reposting the meme I did for oz_interaction, because I skipped an answer and I wanted to edit/expound on some others.
1. Favorite Oz Episode and why?
Probably CLaK, for the perfect ending. A real gift given everything that came before and after.
2. Favorite Oz Character and why?
Keller, because even after watching every episode innumerable times each, even knowing how it started and how it ended, and everything that TF tried to do to ruin him, I still get a thrill whenever Keller appears on the screen.
3. Favorite line from Oz?
I can't keep this to just one:
Fuck you, ya fuck.
Back Here. Or in heaven.
Careful where you stick your dick - that baby's lethal.
Also, I like Toby's response to Judge Lima in "Losing Your Appeal:"
You say you're haunted by what you did? Well, so am I. If you came here for me to forgive you, you've come to the wrong man. He ceased to exist the day Kathy Rockwell did. And you're not gonna get any more peace out of him than I do out of her.
That was a nice bit of writing from TF, I think. I also have to say, even though it's off-topic, that I've always hated the scene where Beecher uses the c-word a hundred times. I know he's evolving/devolving from the person he was but I just never bough Beecher using that word, in that way, so many times.
I also like Beecher's "I love the law" speech to Said.
4. Celebrity Death Match: Ryan O’Reily vs. Chris Keller. Who would win and why?
Fatal leap notwithstanding, I'd never bet against Keller.
5. How did you discover Oz and when?
Flipping through the channels one day and watched Beecher get taken in by Schillinger. By the time it got to the branding, I could not believe what I was seeing.
6. What character would you least like to meet in a dark alley?
Howell
7. What character do you love to hate?
Howell.
8. Favorite Oz puppet?
McManus.
9. Best looking ass? Cock? Face? Whole Package?
Keller. Keller. Keller. And Rebadow. Kidding - it's a Keller sweep for me.
10. Celebrity Death Match: Vern Schillinger vs. Claire Howell. Who would win and why?
Howell - hands and balls down.
11. Least Favorite storyline?
Man - just one? Since Keller-becomes-a-serial-killer was never really a story, just an annoying, added-on mutation, I'll go with Keller-betrays-Toby.
Non-Keller: tie between the aging drug and Clayton Hughes. Oh, and Stella!
12. Most gross out moment?
Blood? Tie between Alvarez blinding Rivera and Toby using his nails on Metzger.
Shit? Tie between Alvarez smearing the wall and Toby layig it on Vern.
13. Who was your favorite background character? (example, the guy with the “nice shirt” that Beecher flirted with when he was being the Tart of Oz)
The Irish dude hanging around the O'Reilys, and who, I think, was Keller's podmate at one point.
14. What cast member would you most like to meet. And if you have met one, give us a favorite memory.
Definitely Meloni, though I doubt I'd be able to manage anything coherent or memorable to say.
15. Even if you aren’t a huge Beecher and Keller fan, you gotta admire those boys locking lips. Which b/k kiss is your favorite and why?
Either NYE or the series of kisses in Sonata de Oz, because we never really got to see them make out.
16. Celebrity Death Match: Tobias Beecher vs. Kareem Said. Who would win and why?
Beecher, because Tom Fontana would never let him lose.
17. What character’s death pissed you off the most and why?
Keller's, because it went against everything we knew about the character. A very bad end to a very bad season. Literal and figurative character assassination.
18. Pretend they’re doing another musical episode. What song would you like sung, who’s singing it and why that song.
How about Keller singing "I Don't Know How To Love Him." (I had it as a B/K duet, but after listening to it about 100 times, I'm back to thinking Keller should do it solo.)
19. Favorite Season?
I used to think it was S2 or S3, but reading other comments, I think S4 might be the winner - it had double the episodes, even if Keller wasn't in enough of them. It had CLaK. It had the Ryan/Keller fandango. And the Said/Adebisi tango. Plus my favorite Keller kiss - the Barlog work bench mauling.
20. Celebrity Death Match: Sister Pete vs. Father Ray. (Ok, I’m kidding about that one.) Suggest an Oz topic to be discussed on this list.
Easy - Sr. Pete. She'd promise to help him and then stab him in the back :)
Topic?
What would have happened if Toby had completely abandoned Chris once he left Oz? (Aside from Keller perhaps/maybe probably not getting his death sentence overturned).