Interests meme and fanfic links

[selenak]

LJ Interests meme results

1. american gothic:
   A wonderful show that lasted exactly one season. Intense, well-written, well-played, and still not out on DVD (though I hear it finally will be, in October).
2. babylon 5:
   Simply put, it changed sci-fi and fantasy tv. Without B5 and its five-year-long arc (and many subarcs), all the later shows who tried and sometimes managed to execute longer arcs would not have been possible. It's the show you need to have watched from the start, unforgiving for later viewers because of its fantastic continuity, and more than a decade after it got broadcast, it still has the best fall and redemption story I've ever seen on tv (detailing the "fall" part just as much as the redemption part, which most others don't), with the most tragic character ever, one Londo Mollari.
3. farscape:
   In many ways the opposite of Babylon 5. Wild anarchy in motion. There is continuity, true, but you always have the nagging suspicion it got improvised on the spur of the moment (for the most part, but not always, this works). But the very wildness of FS makes it so compelling. That and the humour, black leather, and broken, crazy characters.
4. film:
   From the silent days to the present, they fascinate me. Both the films themselves and the process involved in creating them - scripts, casting, directing. DVD commentaries and documentaries were made for me.
5. harry potter:
   Clever word play and world building, characters who actually change as they grow up, and a fascinating backstory revealed bit by bit. Sign me up for book 7.
6. history:
   My passion. I find it endlessly fascinating and will never get enough of it.
7. joss whedon:
   No, he's not perfect. No creator is. But he has a knack for creating interesting characters (and for writing characters who already existed in an interesting way, see his run of Astonishing X-Men, he can write dialogue like no-one's business, and I love the three shows he gave us. Also? He's a fanboy in the best and most endearing way.
8. orson welles:
   He who made (relatively) few but fascinating movies, of which I do not like Citizen Kane best, neither the martyr for independent films nor the self-indulgent slob partisans have proclaimed him as: an immensely compelling director and, if he wanted to be, actor. Who had the best.voice. ever.
9. star trek:
   My earliest fandom. Nostalgic feelings for TOS aside, I probably love DS9 and TNG best, for different reasons. One of these days, I'll write a rant why it annoys me that it has become a cliché today to praise a show by saying it is "the anti-Star Trek".
10. travel:
    I do a lot of it, and gladly so. Living out of a suitcase for months is no problem for me, as long as I get so see new places (or revisit ones I'm fond of). Landscapes or cities are equally fascinating.

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This week's prompt over at alias500 is crossovers, and one which I absolutely adore is with "Hellblazer" Now I can't get the image of John Constantine in the Alias'verse out of my head. Comics!Constantine, mind. I still haven't brought myself to watch the film, not so much because of Keanu issues (though yes, he's about the opposite of what one imagines an actor playing JC to be) but because of the Americanization (he's a quintessential English character) and because I hear that in this film, he prays. Which is just wrong on every possible level.

Back to crossovers: my own effort was Alias/Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Or, as I like to call it, Geeks Unite!

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I'll write a rant why it annoys me that it has become a cliché today to praise a show by saying it is "the anti-Star Trek".

Ooh, I look forward to that rant.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It will come. The last SFX I read got me in the mood again by including Star Trek bashing in each and everyone of their BSG reviews. Most stupid was "it's impossible to believe Ron Moore learned his craft on Star Trek, because there, everyhing was in harmony, and nobody ever disobeyed orders" etc. etc. etc., which isn't even true for TNG (Worf killing Duras against Picard's orders was actually being made a bigger deal of than Dax disobeying Sisko to go off to kill the Albino), and means whoever reviewed can't have watched DS9 at all.

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Me too! Being the anti-Star Trek is praise? Since when?

[wychwood]

I still haven't brought myself to watch the film, not so much because of Keanu issues (though yes, he's about the opposite of what one imagines an actor playing JC to be) but because of the Americanization (he's a quintessential English character) and because I hear that in this film, he prays. Which is just wrong on every possible level.

Good grief. *Praying*?

...

Excuse me while my brain melts.

I'd also been avoiding the film, because I couldn't see any way in which it was going to be a good thing. Particularly with Keanu. But praying??!? I mean, really. Have they ever *read* any Hellblazer?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!!!!