Fandom stuff..and Doctor Who's finale
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shadowkat1. So I decided to put up a fandom stocking for the first time ever. I've no idea if it will work. When it goes up...I'll show it. Mainly I want Cyclops fic, but I doubt I'll get any. I gave a lot of fandom options.
Fandoms: BSG, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Star Wars, X-men, MCU, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Killing Eve, Black Panther, Farscape, Hamilton, Kate Daniels Series, Chronicles of Lymond,
'Ships (slash, het, gen, and femslash): Apollo/Starbuck, Doctor River Song/Doctor Who, Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Daredevil/Electra, Eve/Villenelle, Cyclops/Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine, Spangle, Spuffy, Faith/Willow, Crichton/Aeryn, Han/Leia, Han and Luke, Han an Rei, Cyclops and Havok (platonic), Wonder Woman/Batman, Batman and Superman, Loki and Thor, Iron Man and Doctor Strange, Curran/Kate, Barabas/Christopher (Kate Daniels Series), Hugh and Kate (platonic), Julie/Derek (Kate Daniels).
Characters Doctor River Song, Apollo, Starbuck, Aeryn Sun, Buffy, Spike, Willow, Han Solo, Daredevil (Matt Murdoch), Jessica Jones, Eve, Leia, Doctor Who, Lymond, Hamilton, Burr, Crichton, Rory and Amy, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iron Man, Loki, Doctor Strange, Luke, Logan, Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde,
Fic Likes: family issues - siblings, particularly brothers or brother-sister, star-crossed, AU, gender-bender, romance, comedy snippets,back from the dead, amnesia or memory loss, family bonding,
Fic Dislikes: babyfic, marriage fic, mpreg, rape, real person fic, parody, no one being eaten, no heavy torture fic, torture porn, and no Bangle and no Wolverine/Jean pairings.
Anything Extra: *icons -- particularly strong female characters from MCU and/or Killing Eve.
*Christmas greetings or any holiday greetings are welcome.
* fanvids -- specifically Spuffy, Spangle, BSG, Farscape, Killing Eve, Cyclops, Doctor Song/Doctor Who,
We'll see. It's been a tough couple of months. And I'm dreading next week...for reasons I won't go into. Really wish I could just fall madly in love with someone and be whisked away on an all expense paid trip to Hawaii.
2. Watching another James Marsters Q&A...okay listening to it. This is the November 2018 London one or the October, can't remember which. I like them because he really goes into the process of what doing television is like for an actor.
What I found interesting was he does this spiel about what it is actually like to try to kiss someone on screen. He explains it's a glamour. That the better it looks, the faker it is. So the pretty people on magazines -- don't look like that. (I already knew this -- my sis-in-law's best friend is a Hollywood makeup artist. She does the makeup for people prior to their photo shoots, men and women. She made it clear -- they don't really look like that.)
And a kiss is highly choreographed. Because when you are in a scene with another person, you have to get out of their light. Or shadow. So he has no clue what it is really like to kiss the actors he's kissed. Because they don't really, they have to do it like a robot. The first time he kissed Sara (Buffy), he did 14 takes. She kept telling him to stop acting and just act like a robot so they could go home. He finally got it.
Also stated that when you act on tv, you are like a waiter -- all you do is take it from one place to another. Or a piece of celery.
And...I liked this, he said when they were doing Buffy they were working 18-20 hour days, were exhausted at the end of the day, so didn't really know what each other were like until the reunion -- and thought, oh, you are a really cool person. Whedon was a hard task master -- most directors leave the actors alone and let them do their thing -- to get through the material, but Whedon was a control freak who left millions of notes.
Makes it clear that if you want to be a musician/actor or performing artist -- you are going to be poor. It's highly unlikely you will do well. He lucked out -- sort of like going to Vegas. (He's right about that. I know a lot of very good, unemployed professional actors, musicians and artists who gave finally and chose to do something else. Also various family members, myself included.)
Apparently he didn't get to come back to some parts -- because his manager charges a lot for his services. (I think he began to charge higher after Buffy completed it's run.) Said the most painful thing he did was bleach his hair.
I can see why he was popular with the cast and crew on Buffy during S4 -- he would stay and act his bit off screen -- so the other actors had something to act against. Often when they film close-ups or scenes, they film one actor, then the other one. Which is why it was possible to film say the Giles and Buffy scene in the graveyard during LMPTM, with ASH in one location and SMG in another. Or on different days. Actors don't have to both be present when they are filming a scene. Television really is a smoke and mirrors game.
He said on Buffy, they made the sets smaller to make SMG look bigger, so he looked really tall on Buffy. But on Smallville, he was so short, they had to but him on a runner when he was walking with Tom W. who played Superman. He kept falling off the runner. He's not a big man -- about five foot six if that. I know I saw him in person, on stage once, and I thought...whoa, this guy is tiny. But I already knew about that trick -- one of my actor friends informed me that sets are really tiny. And the smaller you are -- the better.
My take? Here's the thing about cameras and mirrors -- they lie. What you see is an illusion, it's not real. Once you figure that out...life is a bit easier to take.
3. Doctor Who Finale
I have to admit I found most of this season rather slow and difficult to get into or follow. I'm not emotionally invested in anyone, really. Sort of like YAZ, but don't know a lot about her. Graham also is fun. But outside of that...meh.
I want to like Jodi Whittacker's Doctor, but frankly she irritates me in the same way that Matt Smith did at the beginning, until he grew on me, and David Capadali. Too frenetic and crazy energy all over the place. I want to tell her to chill.
This episode was okay. It's clear that the writer's were hammering home the theme of solving problems without violence and restraining from doing any lasting harm or killing anyone.
I'll write more later. When it's not 12 midnight and time for me to go to bed, or long past it.
Fandoms: BSG, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Star Wars, X-men, MCU, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Killing Eve, Black Panther, Farscape, Hamilton, Kate Daniels Series, Chronicles of Lymond,
'Ships (slash, het, gen, and femslash): Apollo/Starbuck, Doctor River Song/Doctor Who, Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Daredevil/Electra, Eve/Villenelle, Cyclops/Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine, Spangle, Spuffy, Faith/Willow, Crichton/Aeryn, Han/Leia, Han and Luke, Han an Rei, Cyclops and Havok (platonic), Wonder Woman/Batman, Batman and Superman, Loki and Thor, Iron Man and Doctor Strange, Curran/Kate, Barabas/Christopher (Kate Daniels Series), Hugh and Kate (platonic), Julie/Derek (Kate Daniels).
Characters Doctor River Song, Apollo, Starbuck, Aeryn Sun, Buffy, Spike, Willow, Han Solo, Daredevil (Matt Murdoch), Jessica Jones, Eve, Leia, Doctor Who, Lymond, Hamilton, Burr, Crichton, Rory and Amy, Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iron Man, Loki, Doctor Strange, Luke, Logan, Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde,
Fic Likes: family issues - siblings, particularly brothers or brother-sister, star-crossed, AU, gender-bender, romance, comedy snippets,back from the dead, amnesia or memory loss, family bonding,
Fic Dislikes: babyfic, marriage fic, mpreg, rape, real person fic, parody, no one being eaten, no heavy torture fic, torture porn, and no Bangle and no Wolverine/Jean pairings.
Anything Extra: *icons -- particularly strong female characters from MCU and/or Killing Eve.
*Christmas greetings or any holiday greetings are welcome.
* fanvids -- specifically Spuffy, Spangle, BSG, Farscape, Killing Eve, Cyclops, Doctor Song/Doctor Who,
We'll see. It's been a tough couple of months. And I'm dreading next week...for reasons I won't go into. Really wish I could just fall madly in love with someone and be whisked away on an all expense paid trip to Hawaii.
2. Watching another James Marsters Q&A...okay listening to it. This is the November 2018 London one or the October, can't remember which. I like them because he really goes into the process of what doing television is like for an actor.
What I found interesting was he does this spiel about what it is actually like to try to kiss someone on screen. He explains it's a glamour. That the better it looks, the faker it is. So the pretty people on magazines -- don't look like that. (I already knew this -- my sis-in-law's best friend is a Hollywood makeup artist. She does the makeup for people prior to their photo shoots, men and women. She made it clear -- they don't really look like that.)
And a kiss is highly choreographed. Because when you are in a scene with another person, you have to get out of their light. Or shadow. So he has no clue what it is really like to kiss the actors he's kissed. Because they don't really, they have to do it like a robot. The first time he kissed Sara (Buffy), he did 14 takes. She kept telling him to stop acting and just act like a robot so they could go home. He finally got it.
Also stated that when you act on tv, you are like a waiter -- all you do is take it from one place to another. Or a piece of celery.
And...I liked this, he said when they were doing Buffy they were working 18-20 hour days, were exhausted at the end of the day, so didn't really know what each other were like until the reunion -- and thought, oh, you are a really cool person. Whedon was a hard task master -- most directors leave the actors alone and let them do their thing -- to get through the material, but Whedon was a control freak who left millions of notes.
Makes it clear that if you want to be a musician/actor or performing artist -- you are going to be poor. It's highly unlikely you will do well. He lucked out -- sort of like going to Vegas. (He's right about that. I know a lot of very good, unemployed professional actors, musicians and artists who gave finally and chose to do something else. Also various family members, myself included.)
Apparently he didn't get to come back to some parts -- because his manager charges a lot for his services. (I think he began to charge higher after Buffy completed it's run.) Said the most painful thing he did was bleach his hair.
I can see why he was popular with the cast and crew on Buffy during S4 -- he would stay and act his bit off screen -- so the other actors had something to act against. Often when they film close-ups or scenes, they film one actor, then the other one. Which is why it was possible to film say the Giles and Buffy scene in the graveyard during LMPTM, with ASH in one location and SMG in another. Or on different days. Actors don't have to both be present when they are filming a scene. Television really is a smoke and mirrors game.
He said on Buffy, they made the sets smaller to make SMG look bigger, so he looked really tall on Buffy. But on Smallville, he was so short, they had to but him on a runner when he was walking with Tom W. who played Superman. He kept falling off the runner. He's not a big man -- about five foot six if that. I know I saw him in person, on stage once, and I thought...whoa, this guy is tiny. But I already knew about that trick -- one of my actor friends informed me that sets are really tiny. And the smaller you are -- the better.
My take? Here's the thing about cameras and mirrors -- they lie. What you see is an illusion, it's not real. Once you figure that out...life is a bit easier to take.
3. Doctor Who Finale
I have to admit I found most of this season rather slow and difficult to get into or follow. I'm not emotionally invested in anyone, really. Sort of like YAZ, but don't know a lot about her. Graham also is fun. But outside of that...meh.
I want to like Jodi Whittacker's Doctor, but frankly she irritates me in the same way that Matt Smith did at the beginning, until he grew on me, and David Capadali. Too frenetic and crazy energy all over the place. I want to tell her to chill.
This episode was okay. It's clear that the writer's were hammering home the theme of solving problems without violence and restraining from doing any lasting harm or killing anyone.
I'll write more later. When it's not 12 midnight and time for me to go to bed, or long past it.
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Date: 2018-12-17 08:22 pm (UTC)I doubt it was the only thing he sold though -- autographs, photos, also the London Q&A may have been for a lot more than that.
In any event, we don't know how much SPN offered and what they consider expensive. SPN is cheap show on a cheap network, with a low budget. All their money is in the leads. So a typical guest gig is maybe $1000 for a week's work of filming, think 12-18 hour days, and obnoxious stars who play pranks. We also don't know how much he typically makes at the cons. That information is contractual and negotiated. Nor do we know the arrangement between him and his manager.
I think it's impossible to understand that situation fully without a lot more information, and honestly? It's none of our business what jobs actors take or don't or why. There could be a lot of factors -- that have zip to do with money, which he really can't convey.
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Date: 2018-12-17 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-18 01:16 am (UTC)Honestly? You couldn't pay me enough to be network television actor -- it sounds like pure hell. You have to put up with over-paid adolescents and bad writing. (I watched that episode he was in of SPN, it was horribly written and directed.) No, the people with the power in television are the show-runners and producers.
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Date: 2018-12-18 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-18 05:56 pm (UTC)Yeah, I mean ..if you listen to what he says...the pattern behind the subtext is interesting. His best experience was on PS I Love You -- where he was surprised by how professional everyone was. On Buffy - he has story after story of how highly unprofessional the cast and crew were. It's the one consistent thread through the Q&A's. They whined. They over-worked the cast and crew. There was no room to improvise or move. He was constantly worried about his job. It was not a safe work place. Nor, was SPN. Nor Torchwood apparently.
I can see why he's learned to charge a lot for his services. And has turned down roles.