My picks of top 25's

As it sometimes happens, I stumble upon some entertainment site's pages of tops. This time, it was ew's "26 best cult tv shows ever" and "25 supernatural women", out of which I made my own picks (with comments):

Out of 26 best cult tv shows ever:

#23 Farscape

Well, next to Stargate Universe, Farscape is the best science fiction show there is. For some reason, I'm not counting the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Farscape then was the first contemporary science fiction show to feature actual alien-looking aliens, great actors and not just effects, but concepts, ways and means that really were science fiction, things that I had never seen before.

#20 Supernatural

/Oh, brother. This show is just for zoning off. And looking at Jensen Ackles. ^_^

#15 RDM's BSG

/The story, the actors, everything. The show is like living under siege, and in it. The reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" is one of the few shows that managed to attain wider cultural significance comparable to the original "Star Trek" and then "Star Trek: The Next Generation". And Tahmoh Penikett ^_^

#13 Twin Peaks

The blockbuster show that was one of the early U.S. tv series shown on Russian television. This was during or after the transition from the Soviet Union. I remember watching it as a kid and not remembering much of it, scary and mysterious as it was.

#12 Firefly

/b/c of Jewel Staite and Adam Baldwin :-9 — Because Jewel Staite was in "Stargate: Atlantis", and because Adam Baldwin is just a very cool actor. If his political views really are as republican as his purported twitter account, then I disagree with these.

# 8 Star Trek: TNG /Well, TNG is TNG.
# 5 The X-Files

/The supershow shown in Estonia (and everywhere else, for that matter). All seasons. Everything.

Now, the bitter part of it is that Stargate Universe was not included :\

Out of 25 supernatural women:
The count includes items in twos and threes, so this explains seventeen pages in total

# 4 Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Sagas;

Cate Blanchett is just so very beautiful.

# 6 The Powerpuff Girls (three of them)

Mighty violent they are.

#14 Max Guevara, Dark Angel (played by Jessica Alba)

Not least violent either.

#16 Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl (two), "Wonder Woman"

The feminism of the days, and just as well the outrageous appearances.

#17 Tangina Barrons, "Poltergeist"

People often watch a movie and then move on. I saw "Poltergeist" only once and on tv many years ago in my old place. Maybe most overlooked from all likes of "strong woman" characters, Tangina Barrons is the kind of woman who 500 years before the nowadays would have been a great witch or even sorceress. Inquisition notwithstanding. This is a lady who's got character, personality and drive, despite her lady-like appearances and then not being in her first or maybe even second youth anymore. One of the few cases where an older lady evokes the kind of strength we see and expect from younger women. Let's add "M" played by Judi Dench from Bond movies and that would be it.

Farscape's Mele-on Grayza not included. The alien-enhanced Chloe Armstrong from Stargate Universe was not included. Her being enhanced should have lasted more, but then what happened was that the change was removed, but there were some good bits left in.