On a pictorial note or two...

[selenak]

From New Zealand: Martin Freeman in costume as Bilbo. (With some dwarves and a certain wizard in the background.) I am just aglow in Middle Earth nostalgia.

So they are a film about the Life of Brian controversy now... and nobody mentions who plays George Harrison? (He did only finance the entire film.) Just kidding. Sounds like a good subject, though I imagine tricky for the actors playing the Monty Python ensemble, on account of the originals all being alive and well.

Hilarious x-men fanart featuring Raven and Charles. By the way, one of my favourite new canon details that I haven't mentioned in previous ramblings is that Raven gets to give Charles and Erik their iconic mutant code names. And that she thinks them up (along with her own) when being stuck in a CIA facility with too much time on her hand. Back when we did not have much, if any, canon on movieverse Mystique my favourite fanon about her was the one created by artaxastra in her great stories. And one detail there was that artaxastra's version of young Raven had a soft spot for James Bond films and imagined herself in them, so you can imagine how that detail made me smile in addition to be being cool by itself. Because in a film that is an origin story in so many ways, with Our Heroes all struggling to invent and reinvent themselves and creating each other, I get such a kick out of the fact Raven is the one who creates the code names that become such a part of Charles' and Erik's identities.

Lastly, found and copied on Tumblr: it is a law universally acknowledged that actors playing Charles and Erik must be hot by themselves and even hotter when with each other:



Mind you, if I had to choose, I'd still take the gorgeous septuganarians. (Sorry, James and Michael, but you're not quite there yet. You have youth, they have gravitas.) Luckily, I don't have to. :)

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[andraste]

I, too, love that Raven came up with the codenames, and that Charles' reaction to his was less than gleeful. I knew there was no way he'd name himself Professor X, but his adoptive little sister doing it makes perfect sense *g*.

It is a law universally acknowledged that actors playing Charles and Erik must be hot by themselves and even hotter when with each other

Awwwwwwwwww. (I am amused that both Magnetos have hats. Appropriate!)

Mind you, if I had to choose, I'd still take the gorgeous septuganarians.

I got a very strange look from an RL friend the other day when I said that, adorable as James McAvoy is, I'd still step over him to get to Patrick Stewart. Because: Patrick Stewart!

Luckily, I don't have to. :)

I keep waiting for fandom to start producing time travel stories ...

[selenak]

I knew there was no way he'd name himself Professor X, but his adoptive little sister doing it makes perfect sense *g*.

Indeed it does, and it occurs to me that Hank is probably to blame for the name to be handed over to future X-men to call him by. :) Same with Magneto, of course. Not that Erik wouldn't have been into picking a new name, but Magneto is actually too playful for him, if you think about it. But Raven? It makes so much sense!

Magneto/hat is another OTP.

"Patrick Stewart" is his own argument. So far, James MacAvoy hasn't played in anything where a character kills her husband just so she can have more sex with him. I'm just saying. (BTW, did you hear about the horrible blasphemy of the intended I, Claudius remake?)

Time travel stories: you mean they don't exist already?

[andraste]

Indeed it does, and it occurs to me that Hank is probably to blame for the name to be handed over to future X-men to call him by. :)

I bet Alex and Sean were willing accomplices, but Hank should shoulder the lion's share of the blame *g*. Probably the reason nobody calls him that to his face in three whole films is that he gets the same frown he did when Raven gave him the codename every time he hears it.

But Raven? It makes so much sense!

I love that the idea of shedding your human name is her personal contribution to the mutant rights cause - especially since she calls Raven her slave name in X3. (And I bet Charles gets his own back for the unwanted codename by calling her Raven forever.)

"Patrick Stewart" is his own argument. So far, James MacAvoy hasn't played in anything where a character kills her husband just so she can have more sex with him. I'm just saying.

I used the Sejanus argument! Unfortunately the friend in question had not seen I, Claudius and therefore could not appreciate the allure of Patrick Stewart in a Praetorian Guard uniform.

(BTW, did you hear about the horrible blasphemy of the intended I, Claudius remake?)

Arrrgh! I had not, but I went and looked it up just now. Why must people interfere with perfection? Although, at least it probably won't have Mel Gibson in it, unlike the remake of my other favourite British miniseries. (It got so people were afraid to go into a cinema with me when the posters for Edge of Darkness were up.)

Time travel stories: you mean they don't exist already?

Not that I have seen! I find this very disappointing. I mean, this is the X-Men universe! And you could put Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart and Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy all in the same room!

I have vague ideas of my own in that direction, but we all know how I am at stories that actually need a plot.

[selenak]

Why must people interfere with perfection?

I don't know, and it makes me weep in frustration. Use that budget and those actors for new projects, people, books which haven't been filmed, instead of messing with one of the best tv shows ever.

I mean, this is the X-Men universe! And you could put Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart and Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy all in the same room!


Aside from the hotness, I wonder what young Erik would make of X2 and 3 Magneto, and whether old Charles would feel more embarrassed or envious of the freedom of his young self...

[andraste]

Use that budget and those actors for new projects, people, books which haven't been filmed, instead of messing with one of the best tv shows ever.

There must even be some Roman-themed epic that's never been filmed that they could turn their attention to instead! I mean, the thought of someone else playing Livia, or Augustus ... *shudders*

Aside from the hotness, I wonder what young Erik would make of X2 and 3 Magneto, and whether old Charles would feel more embarrassed or envious of the freedom of his young self...

I suspect that FC!Erik would be simultaneously horrified and fascinated by Trilogy!Erik, and would keep giving him the look he gives Shaw. Meanwhile, Trilogy!Charles would be resisting the temptation to strangle his younger self and mess up the timeline. (And of course he's read enough science fiction that he wouldn't want to tell FC!Charles about all the things that are about to happen to him, and FC!Charles would find that intolerable.)