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snowgrouse who gave me the letter S
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
1. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, from Doctor Who. The Brig is like the one uniting force of Classic Who fans - I've never yet seen anyone say that they don't like him. Maybe people are just scared to admit it? But for me that's a bit like saying that you don't like the TARDIS (making Nicholas Courtney do the voice for the TARDIS in Zagreus is perhaps the most ingenious thing Big Finish has ever done.) I recently listened to the Web of Fear, the episode where the Brig first appears and it's marvellous: he appears under mysterious and suspicious circumstances and completely rocks the house with calm and competence. What I love most, perhaps, is that Doctor Who was wise enough never to try and change the Brig's fundamental Brig-ness, that they never gave him any fatal flaws or very much of a private life, or heavens forbid, tried to make him grim and gritty.
2. Superman. In many ways, Superman is like the Brig. He's honourable, reliable, strong, conservative, a constant of his fictional universe and as American as the Brig is British. But I only like Superman when he *has* fatal flaws or a complicated private life (beyond super-boring Lois). With Superman, I like the subversion of the myth - portrayals of him that highlight his loneliness, his moral dilemmata, the fact that he's an alien.
3. Mr Spock. One day when I was little, my mother and I were at my grandmother's, where there was always very little to do except take walks and watch TV. And so we watched TV, and Star Trek was on (the movies) and suddenly my mother mutated into a squeeing fangirl about this strange guy with pointy ears and weird eyebrows (who is indeed very awesome and quite hot. Also, there should be more Spock/McCoy). It's a bleeding shame that she doesn't understand my fannishness at all, because if the internet had existed in the Seventies...
4. Sam Tyler, Life on Mars. Speaking of the Seventies. There are occasionally TV characters whose dress sense I find myself wanting to imitate - 1973!Sam is one of them. I love his shirts and that collar-of-shirt-above-leather-jacket style. But it must be Sam's body language and expressions that suddenly made me realise that yep, John Simm is actually sexy. Or that scene of him chained to the bed. Or the one were he runs around in swim trunks, showing off his pretty legs. And his craziness, can't forget that. Craziness in fictional characters is sexy for me at least 60% of the time.
5. Six, from BSG. I love Six. She's my favourite Cylon, and perhaps my favourite BSG character (Though I have love for all of them except Apollo.) The episode of BSG that made me fall in love with her was "Downloaded", which focuses on Caprica!Six and Boomer!Eight. I guess that 70% of my love for Six is sexual attraction, because how can you not think she's hot (it's not only her body, it's her smile and her movements and her confidence)? But she's also the scariest and the most charismatic of the Cylons, imho. It's just that every scene with her in it is interesting, and although the Sixes are all very different from each other, there's a strange core Six-ness that makes her credibly not-human. (The Eights can do "cold machine", but Six is alien in a lively way.) I miss head!Six.
snowgrouse who gave me the letter S1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
1. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, from Doctor Who. The Brig is like the one uniting force of Classic Who fans - I've never yet seen anyone say that they don't like him. Maybe people are just scared to admit it? But for me that's a bit like saying that you don't like the TARDIS (making Nicholas Courtney do the voice for the TARDIS in Zagreus is perhaps the most ingenious thing Big Finish has ever done.) I recently listened to the Web of Fear, the episode where the Brig first appears and it's marvellous: he appears under mysterious and suspicious circumstances and completely rocks the house with calm and competence. What I love most, perhaps, is that Doctor Who was wise enough never to try and change the Brig's fundamental Brig-ness, that they never gave him any fatal flaws or very much of a private life, or heavens forbid, tried to make him grim and gritty.
2. Superman. In many ways, Superman is like the Brig. He's honourable, reliable, strong, conservative, a constant of his fictional universe and as American as the Brig is British. But I only like Superman when he *has* fatal flaws or a complicated private life (beyond super-boring Lois). With Superman, I like the subversion of the myth - portrayals of him that highlight his loneliness, his moral dilemmata, the fact that he's an alien.
3. Mr Spock. One day when I was little, my mother and I were at my grandmother's, where there was always very little to do except take walks and watch TV. And so we watched TV, and Star Trek was on (the movies) and suddenly my mother mutated into a squeeing fangirl about this strange guy with pointy ears and weird eyebrows (who is indeed very awesome and quite hot. Also, there should be more Spock/McCoy). It's a bleeding shame that she doesn't understand my fannishness at all, because if the internet had existed in the Seventies...
4. Sam Tyler, Life on Mars. Speaking of the Seventies. There are occasionally TV characters whose dress sense I find myself wanting to imitate - 1973!Sam is one of them. I love his shirts and that collar-of-shirt-above-leather-jacket style. But it must be Sam's body language and expressions that suddenly made me realise that yep, John Simm is actually sexy. Or that scene of him chained to the bed. Or the one were he runs around in swim trunks, showing off his pretty legs. And his craziness, can't forget that. Craziness in fictional characters is sexy for me at least 60% of the time.
5. Six, from BSG. I love Six. She's my favourite Cylon, and perhaps my favourite BSG character (Though I have love for all of them except Apollo.) The episode of BSG that made me fall in love with her was "Downloaded", which focuses on Caprica!Six and Boomer!Eight. I guess that 70% of my love for Six is sexual attraction, because how can you not think she's hot (it's not only her body, it's her smile and her movements and her confidence)? But she's also the scariest and the most charismatic of the Cylons, imho. It's just that every scene with her in it is interesting, and although the Sixes are all very different from each other, there's a strange core Six-ness that makes her credibly not-human. (The Eights can do "cold machine", but Six is alien in a lively way.) I miss head!Six.
