#im convinced it was so rushed and badly done bc they already knew they'd been cancelled

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For the character meme - any two characters from the Hour, and any two from Indian Summers.

ooh thank you! I’ve already done Bel, so I’ll do Hector and Freddie

Hector:

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life  (listen...I love my trash son Hector)hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (he’s a slytherin who could have been a gryffindor. Freddie is a gryffindor who could have been a slytherin. It makes for a very interesting dynamic)best quality: he tries, bless him. sometimes not very well, but like...he does try. Can be a pretty good friend if he’s not getting drunk or trying to get in your pants or having petty arguments with people.worst quality: his smarminess and just like. flirting with other women who aren’t his wife like a binch.ship them with: sort of marnie in the last two episodes of s2? They have kind of a reconciliation and it’s sort of adorable? But there definitely needs to be a lot more work on that for me to properly ship it.brotp them with: BEL IN S2 OH MY GOD (I’ve literally never brotp’d anything so hard tbh). Also Freddie. I love my news triumvirate fam.needs to stay away from: fucking Laurie Stern. He’s a straight up bastard and Hector does eventually realise that but it takes so long because he guilts him by saying that he saved Hector’s life.misc. thoughts: MY TRASH SON. He’s awful but he tries so hard and I love him. Also like...Straight Ally(tm). Not a good one but...he’s definitely pretty chill with people being gay he just...doesn’t really get what it’s like bc he is Straight White Privileged Man(tm)

Freddie Lyon

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (like I said, a gryffindor that could have been a slytherin. He can be manipulative as fuck, he’s suuuper ambitious (especially when he comes back from America, but he’s also hella brave in a way that’s just natural to him, and truth and justice matter more to him than any kind of personal gain)best quality: His tenacity/stubborness when it comes to important stuff, whether that’s The Hour, a news story, Bel, anything. He will. not. let. it. drop.worst quality: His callousness. He says things he knows will hurt people, unnecessarily - he doesn’t necessarily do it to be cruel - it’s part of the ‘truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth’, but there is that vindictive part there, which lashes out when he’s hurt (particularly at Bel). What’s that Taylor Swift lyric? ‘Casually cruel in the name of being honest’ - that’s Freddie to a T.ship them with: BEL ROWLEY THEY ARE SOULMATESbrotp them with: Hector, Lix, Kiki actually they were super cute awkward pals in like, the last episode.needs to stay away from: Cilenti and Norman and Trevor, *shudders*misc. thoughts: RIDICULOUS BOY, cares more about the truth than he does his own safety, the sweetest and also the meanest, most stubborn asshole you will ever meet, one of the best characters you’ll ever watch on television, this is me recommending the hour to you for Freddie Lyon if for nothing else, he is honestly an absolute TREASURE of a character.

Indian Summers

I’m gonna do my two baes (and get annoyed about how they got fucked up by the writers in s2)

Sooni Dalal (MY DAUGHTER. MY PRINCESS. SHE IS EVERYTHING. AHEM.)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more gryffindor character HONESTLY)best quality: her willingness to fight for what’s rightworst quality: how uncompromising she is in her ideals and how to achieve them. sometimes that’s admirable, but it’s not always possible, and it tends to lead to her butting heads with people she loves. Sometimes that’s necessary, but sometimes it’s not.ship them with: IAN AND IM STILL SO MAD ABOUT THAT WHOLE THINGbrotp them with: Aafrin (and Shamshad). This is honestly the most realistic sibling relationship I’ve seen on TV and I love them all.needs to stay away from: That terrorist guy who stabbed hermisc. thoughts: UNCOMPROMISING IDEALISTIC REVOLUTIONARY PRINCESS OF MY HEART. Also the most beautiful girl in the world. But mostly she just kicks ass and takes names and won’t back down and is smart as fuck and I just want the best for her. I hope she gets to be a lawyer and live her life (and I hope she and her muslim husband survive partition like...I get that that was an interesting direction to go in but it’s also scary as fuck)

Ian McLeod (MY SMALL SCOTTISH SON)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: he’ll do what’s right, no matter what the consequences/if it’s socially unacceptableworst quality: his hotheadedness (which is increased tenfold when he’s drunk) ship them with: Sooni! (I actually kind of saw them both as aroace, who would be bros for life and eventually marry for convenience, but I knew we probs wouldn’t get that from the show and like. They were so setting it up for us to ship them. What the fuck show.)brotp them with: Sooni again (as above), Alice (remember that time he runs away with what he thinks are Ramu Sood’s ashes and Alice comes across him and he’s like ‘idk where im going but join me if you wanna’ and she’s like ‘yeah sure why not’? that was cute as shit) and actually sort of Mr Khan, because I liked that he went to him after Sooni rejected his proposal to like. talk it out or whatever (until he found out she’d accepted his proposal, and then went total asshole on them both. ugh, ian, why)needs to stay away from: FUCKING STELLA OH MY GOD. I didn’t watch the last 2 or 3 episodes but apparently they get back together/have sex again and like. I can’t. Ian. Please. Love yourself.misc. thoughts: ACTUAL cinnamon roll (soaked in booze), honest and good to a fault, confused petulant rhino but not here for any of that British bullshit, tries so hard but doesn’t succeed, WHY WAS THE WHOLE PROPOSAL/GETTING REJECTED/GETTING MAD AT SOONI/GETTING DRUNK/SLEEPING WITH STELLA AGAIN PLOTLINE IMPOSED UPON US? IT MADE IT SO CRAP. WHY THE FUCK.