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[selenak]

First, for Buffy and Harry Potter fans: here 's the HP version of Once More, With Feeling. Don't drink anything while you read it. Most hilarious choice, in my opinion: Lockhart and Snape as Willow and Tara. Memory charms, you know...

This put me in an excellent mood. Alas, then I discovered a review of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" movie. Seems some of my worst fears as a reader of the book are confirmed, though it sounds as if it's not completely hopeless. Still, I have big Mina issues.

On the other hand, themoonbar gave us a lovely vignette about Crais and Aeryn during "Into the Lion's Den". As I wrote in my Farscape season 1 review, the relationship between Crais and Aeryn post-Hidden Memory has always been a tad more interesting to me than the one between Aeryn and John, or the one between Crais and John.

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[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

All the hype for the movie and talk of its detractions from the comics have only made me want to read the comics more. (I flipped through the paperback in the store last week. Would probably have bought it if I had had the money.)

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...oh, that's an interesting vignette. I'd have said lovely, too, until the last line.

Read the Paperback!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

By all means, do. Went on about it a bit here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/selenak/10132.html).

Lovely: well, I have a distinct noir idea of loveliness.

Re: Read the Paperback!

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Yes, your post was among those that piqued my interest. Is it just the one paperback that comprises the whole series? Hmm... are there two volumes? (Again, if I had the money, I'd already have one by now.)

Lovely: it's the men-being-heroes-for-women's-love bit that put me off, not the darkness of the vignette, unless by "noir" you mean to refer to genre conventions, femmes fatales leading men to perdition and so on.

Just one paperback...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...the second series (a separate story) isn't finished yet.

Actually, I saw the last sentence as both a twist on said noir cliché and Crais reflecting on J/A, not on his own motives re: Aeryn.

Vignette

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Actually, I saw the last sentence as both a twist on said noir cliché and Crais reflecting on J/A, not on his own motives re: Aeryn.

Hermeneutics! It's the word "men", instead of either Sebacean or Human males. It's too polysemous and yet too specific for this context. Especially considering the issues of racial purity associated with Peacekeepers.

Re: Read the Paperback!

[(Anonymous)]

Lovely: it's the men-being-heroes-for-women's-love bit that put me off, not the darkness of the vignette, unless by "noir" you mean to refer to genre conventions, femmes fatales leading men to perdition and so on.

Hope you don't mind me stepping in here. I completely understand why you'd get that from the vignette (in fact, I seriously considered changing it) but in my mind, it's Crais thinking about John, not himself. I doubt very much that Crais would ever view himself as a hero. And god knows, it irritates me (*coughSpikecough*) when characters are written as redeeming themselves for a woman or a night of good sex.

Re: Read the Paperback!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Good to know I was right about Crais thinking of John, not himself.

The redemption business: depends on the character. It would have irritated me with Crais but didn't with Spike, because a) he always was portrayed as a Fool For Love, and b) the crucial point about his final redemption was that he didn't do it just for Buffy anymore. Hence the "no, you don't" exchange.