Quotes, quotes, quotes
Jul. 30th, 2007 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakSo, sounds like everyone had a great time at ComicCon, what with the Heroes cast being adorable, season 2 footage being shown, Joss Whedon announcing Ripper and some Iron Man footage making it on screen as well. I'm not jealous, no, not me. Excuse me while I get the green colour out of my face.
There's a great new interview with Tim Minear about Angel (the series), and the king of flashbacks utters some very quotable lines:
About Angel and Darla:
"I always saw them as a combo of George and Martha from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?” and Bonnie and Clyde. Buffy and Angel were so epic because it was so pure but so doomed. Angel and Darla were, for me, epic because it was so corrupt and so doomed."
I used that Albee comparison first, about their final scene in Dear Boy, she says smugly.
About Kate:
"Also she was Mulder and Scully rolled into one, and I never felt like I got enough of a chance to work out my X-Files fetish while I was on that show."
*g*
You know, there's an iron rule true in every fandom about interviews or chats or postings from scriptwriters/producers/novelists. If they say stuff the majority of fans agrees with, it results in much adoration and praise for them being there for the fans via said interviews. If, however, they say something the fans disagree with, it's "shut up", "you don't get a say anymore, canon is finished" and "stop dictating views!" all the way. Incidentally, I'm not immune to that reflex; I remember being quite annoyed about several Ira Behr quotes (and I really like Behr's episodes on DS9, and much of what he did with the show), and I certainly disagreed with Wayne Pygram re: Scorpius and Sikozu. However, it's still a double standard we're all having, and I'm aware of it. Following the publication of Deathly Hallows, JKR did and does the usual thing following a big release, i.e. interviews, and naturally, there was upsetness. Now, what do you want to bet that a lot of those fans who got upset with her pointing out in one interview that Snape being a bully remained as true as his heroism till the end (incidentally, if you don't think the "bully" characterisation is true, read every passage in which Snape as a teacher interacts with Neville Longbottom, who by his third school year is so afraid of him Snape has become his worst fear, overtaking Bellatrix Lestrange wo tortured his parents - and Neville certainly isn't James Potter's son, or has anything to do with the other Marauders), will be delighted and will so adopt as canon what she says about Lily in her most recent chat:
Jaclyn: Did lily ever have feelings back for snape
J.K. Rowling: Yes. She might even have grown to love him romantically (she certainly loved him as a friend) if he had not loved Dark Magic so much, and been drawn to such loathesome people and acts.
More Snape/Lily-relevant quotes:
Nithya: Lily detested mulciber,averyif snape really loved her,why didnt he sacrifice their company for her sake
J.K. Rowling: Well, that is Snape’s tragedy. Given his time over again he would not have become a Death Eater, but like many insecure, vulnerable people (like Wormtail) he craved membership of something big and powerful, something impressive. He wanted Lily and he wanted Mulciber too.
and:
Rachel Nell: Jkr, thank you for such amazing books! I would like to know how come noone seemed to know that lily and snape were friends in school they were obviously meeting for chats, etc didnt james know their past
J.K. Rowling: Thank you for your thank you! Yes, it was known that they were friendly and then stopped being friends. Nothing more than that would be widely known. James always suspected Snape harboured deeper feelings for Lily, which was a factor in James’ behaviour to Snape.
This sounds like a fanfic challenge:
Annie: Does the wizarding world now know that snape was dumbledores man, or do they still think he did a bunk
J.K. Rowling: Harry would ensure that Snape’s heroism was known. Of course, that would not stop Rita Skeeter writing ‘Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?’
So: who writes the Rita obituary and/or biography of Severus Snape?
Oh, and for those of us who dig parallels:
Barbara: I was very disappointed to see harry use crucio and seem to enjoy it his failure to perform that kind of curse in the past has been a credit to his character why the change, and did harry later regret having enjoyed deliberately causing pain
J.K. Rowling: Harry is not, and never has been, a saint. Like Snape, he is flawed and mortal. Harry’s faults are primarily anger and occasional arrogance. On this occasion, he is very angry and acts accordingly.
The entire chat transcript is here.
There's a great new interview with Tim Minear about Angel (the series), and the king of flashbacks utters some very quotable lines:
About Angel and Darla:
"I always saw them as a combo of George and Martha from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?” and Bonnie and Clyde. Buffy and Angel were so epic because it was so pure but so doomed. Angel and Darla were, for me, epic because it was so corrupt and so doomed."
I used that Albee comparison first, about their final scene in Dear Boy, she says smugly.
About Kate:
"Also she was Mulder and Scully rolled into one, and I never felt like I got enough of a chance to work out my X-Files fetish while I was on that show."
*g*
You know, there's an iron rule true in every fandom about interviews or chats or postings from scriptwriters/producers/novelists. If they say stuff the majority of fans agrees with, it results in much adoration and praise for them being there for the fans via said interviews. If, however, they say something the fans disagree with, it's "shut up", "you don't get a say anymore, canon is finished" and "stop dictating views!" all the way. Incidentally, I'm not immune to that reflex; I remember being quite annoyed about several Ira Behr quotes (and I really like Behr's episodes on DS9, and much of what he did with the show), and I certainly disagreed with Wayne Pygram re: Scorpius and Sikozu. However, it's still a double standard we're all having, and I'm aware of it. Following the publication of Deathly Hallows, JKR did and does the usual thing following a big release, i.e. interviews, and naturally, there was upsetness. Now, what do you want to bet that a lot of those fans who got upset with her pointing out in one interview that Snape being a bully remained as true as his heroism till the end (incidentally, if you don't think the "bully" characterisation is true, read every passage in which Snape as a teacher interacts with Neville Longbottom, who by his third school year is so afraid of him Snape has become his worst fear, overtaking Bellatrix Lestrange wo tortured his parents - and Neville certainly isn't James Potter's son, or has anything to do with the other Marauders), will be delighted and will so adopt as canon what she says about Lily in her most recent chat:
Jaclyn: Did lily ever have feelings back for snape
J.K. Rowling: Yes. She might even have grown to love him romantically (she certainly loved him as a friend) if he had not loved Dark Magic so much, and been drawn to such loathesome people and acts.
More Snape/Lily-relevant quotes:
Nithya: Lily detested mulciber,averyif snape really loved her,why didnt he sacrifice their company for her sake
J.K. Rowling: Well, that is Snape’s tragedy. Given his time over again he would not have become a Death Eater, but like many insecure, vulnerable people (like Wormtail) he craved membership of something big and powerful, something impressive. He wanted Lily and he wanted Mulciber too.
and:
Rachel Nell: Jkr, thank you for such amazing books! I would like to know how come noone seemed to know that lily and snape were friends in school they were obviously meeting for chats, etc didnt james know their past
J.K. Rowling: Thank you for your thank you! Yes, it was known that they were friendly and then stopped being friends. Nothing more than that would be widely known. James always suspected Snape harboured deeper feelings for Lily, which was a factor in James’ behaviour to Snape.
This sounds like a fanfic challenge:
Annie: Does the wizarding world now know that snape was dumbledores man, or do they still think he did a bunk
J.K. Rowling: Harry would ensure that Snape’s heroism was known. Of course, that would not stop Rita Skeeter writing ‘Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?’
So: who writes the Rita obituary and/or biography of Severus Snape?
Oh, and for those of us who dig parallels:
Barbara: I was very disappointed to see harry use crucio and seem to enjoy it his failure to perform that kind of curse in the past has been a credit to his character why the change, and did harry later regret having enjoyed deliberately causing pain
J.K. Rowling: Harry is not, and never has been, a saint. Like Snape, he is flawed and mortal. Harry’s faults are primarily anger and occasional arrogance. On this occasion, he is very angry and acts accordingly.
The entire chat transcript is here.
