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shadowkat1. I am rapidly becoming an obsessed Once Upon a Time fan. Although I'm not sure I can stomach another fandom. Not up to the shipping wars and fan fights - neither have the time, energy or stomach for them. Feel much the same way about the crazy Game of Thrones fandom. Will stay safe and sound with my pals on lj, thank you very much. One crazy fandom per lifetime is enough for me.
Just re-watched the pilot of ONCE and was surprised at the tiny details. The closeup on her driver's license - Massachusttes plates. And the closeup on Gold's store. Wonderfully meaty episode upon re-watch, saw all sorts of new things - such as how important stories are - how they create who we are. Henry has turned himself and his biological Mom into heroes through his book, while his adoptive Mom is the evil Queen. And his shrink is Jimney Cricket. And he retreats to a wooden castle in a playground from the White Fortress that is his current home.
And his biological Mom's superpower is I can tell if anyone is lying to me. Plus her job? Finding deadbeat husbands/fathers and bringing them in after they've skipped bail. Which if you have seen Talhassee and Manhattan - has an interesting resonance.
The shows that I become obsessed with hit my story kinks. They don't have to be well written to do this. It's how they tell the tale and how they hit the kinks that matters.
2.Book Meme Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Since I'll most likely skip tomorrow, will do the book meme from heck today again.
This is hard. I don't generally re-read books and tend to forget a lot of them. The books of my youth that I adored such as Dune and The Hobbit - I'm somewhat ambivalent about now. Same with CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. Then there was The Anne McCaffrey Dragon Rider series - adored those, not so much now. Would never re-read them.
Or better yet...Anne Rice's Vampire Lestate Series - I loved those books and now have no idea what I saw in them. All the other books I've mentioned - I understand why I fell in love with them, and I can see myself re-reading at some point. But what I ever saw in Anne Rice, I've no clue.
I was in my 20s, between undergrad and law school, working at a dead end retail job. (So if you are currently in your 20s working dead end retail job and depressed? It's temporary and there's hope. I got out, so can you. And there was no internet back then. So I was worse off than you are. Although everything's relative I suppose.) At any rate - I got obsessed with Anne Rice's vampire books - started with Interview with a Vampire, then made it all the way to The Body Thief before I gave up. I did pick up the graphic novel versions - yes, I was that obsessed. And eventually saw the truly horrid Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film adaptation of the first book, and then the later, weirdly surreal adaptation of the third, Queen of the Damned - which was in some respects my favorite of the series at that time.
Now I look back at the series and books and think - what were you thinking? They are so overwritten and melodramatic and whiny. But they fit my mood and I adored them at the time.
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
3.Day 15 - Favorite female character
Aeryn Sun in Farscape - small surprise here. She's the female version of the Spike character.
A character who hides behind bravado. Who is not what she seems. And has an amazing arc.
She's also a subversion of traditional gender roles. She is a pilot, a fighter, a lover, a friend, and finally a mother. And she never really compromises herself - not completely, she changes and grows, but she doesn't give up who she is.
I adored her. I loved her outfits. Black leather and red. I loved the fact that she disliked to wear dresses or skirts and preferred pants. That she was a kick-ass fighter. And tough as nails. I fell in love with John Crichton when she fell in love with him.
And I liked her moral dilemmas...and her struggles. Aeryn Sun is one of those characters who jumped out of the box, who you wanted to play with in your head. And amongst the few I considered writing fanfic on. The only other female character I liked was possibly Buffy, and only in the latter seasons of that series. Aeryn I loved all the way through Farscape.
Here's a couple of vids of Aeryn...to explain my love:
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
Just re-watched the pilot of ONCE and was surprised at the tiny details. The closeup on her driver's license - Massachusttes plates. And the closeup on Gold's store. Wonderfully meaty episode upon re-watch, saw all sorts of new things - such as how important stories are - how they create who we are. Henry has turned himself and his biological Mom into heroes through his book, while his adoptive Mom is the evil Queen. And his shrink is Jimney Cricket. And he retreats to a wooden castle in a playground from the White Fortress that is his current home.
And his biological Mom's superpower is I can tell if anyone is lying to me. Plus her job? Finding deadbeat husbands/fathers and bringing them in after they've skipped bail. Which if you have seen Talhassee and Manhattan - has an interesting resonance.
The shows that I become obsessed with hit my story kinks. They don't have to be well written to do this. It's how they tell the tale and how they hit the kinks that matters.
2.Book Meme Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Since I'll most likely skip tomorrow, will do the book meme from heck today again.
This is hard. I don't generally re-read books and tend to forget a lot of them. The books of my youth that I adored such as Dune and The Hobbit - I'm somewhat ambivalent about now. Same with CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. Then there was The Anne McCaffrey Dragon Rider series - adored those, not so much now. Would never re-read them.
Or better yet...Anne Rice's Vampire Lestate Series - I loved those books and now have no idea what I saw in them. All the other books I've mentioned - I understand why I fell in love with them, and I can see myself re-reading at some point. But what I ever saw in Anne Rice, I've no clue.
I was in my 20s, between undergrad and law school, working at a dead end retail job. (So if you are currently in your 20s working dead end retail job and depressed? It's temporary and there's hope. I got out, so can you. And there was no internet back then. So I was worse off than you are. Although everything's relative I suppose.) At any rate - I got obsessed with Anne Rice's vampire books - started with Interview with a Vampire, then made it all the way to The Body Thief before I gave up. I did pick up the graphic novel versions - yes, I was that obsessed. And eventually saw the truly horrid Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film adaptation of the first book, and then the later, weirdly surreal adaptation of the third, Queen of the Damned - which was in some respects my favorite of the series at that time.
Now I look back at the series and books and think - what were you thinking? They are so overwritten and melodramatic and whiny. But they fit my mood and I adored them at the time.
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time
3.Day 15 - Favorite female character
Aeryn Sun in Farscape - small surprise here. She's the female version of the Spike character.
A character who hides behind bravado. Who is not what she seems. And has an amazing arc.
She's also a subversion of traditional gender roles. She is a pilot, a fighter, a lover, a friend, and finally a mother. And she never really compromises herself - not completely, she changes and grows, but she doesn't give up who she is.
I adored her. I loved her outfits. Black leather and red. I loved the fact that she disliked to wear dresses or skirts and preferred pants. That she was a kick-ass fighter. And tough as nails. I fell in love with John Crichton when she fell in love with him.
And I liked her moral dilemmas...and her struggles. Aeryn Sun is one of those characters who jumped out of the box, who you wanted to play with in your head. And amongst the few I considered writing fanfic on. The only other female character I liked was possibly Buffy, and only in the latter seasons of that series. Aeryn I loved all the way through Farscape.
Here's a couple of vids of Aeryn...to explain my love:
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.
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Date: 2013-02-25 12:52 am (UTC)