Multifandom stuff, and character meme

[selenak]

Don't you just hate it when certain male relatives, under the pretext of wanting to "improve" your perfectly functioning laptop, manage to wreck it and thus reduce you to having to use other people's computers? Grrr. Argh.

The Quark story is up, beta'd, here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1862238

I got my multiverse2004 assignment, and squeed in delight at one of the three suggestions. The other two are intriguing enough to make me consider writing at least one of them as well.

Lastly, I've been meaning to do this for ages. Gacked from artaxastra: one character the author has written answers the "three most liked and most disliked movies" question. Bear in mind that the character's opinions don't have to be the ones of the author. So, in my case, it had to be Darla (Londo and Quark preferring the entertainment of their own culture).
(In the back of my head, an emotionally unstable nerd speaks up.
Warren: What about me?
Yours Truly: What about you? I wrote the Five Things about you, granted, but that hardly makes me an expert.
Warren: You also cowrote the musical.
Yours Truly: Still not an expert.
Warren: Bet you think I'll say Star Wars, but that's so Andrew's thing. I'm going with Zardoz.
YT: ZARDOZ?!?
Warren: Sean Connery is a god.
YT: Aren't you lucky you died beforeThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got released. Anyway, I'm not listening to you anymore. I'm transcribing Darla's replies.)

Darla's reply

Favourite Movies:

1.) The Hunger. Yes, the depiction of vampires isn't exactly accurate, but then again - a powerful blonde immortal woman, her darling boy and her maddening girl - that's not to love?

2.) Il Gattopardo. Luchino was one of the few mortals I could stand anyway, and I used to visit him every time I was in Italy. I was the one to suggest casting Burt Lancaster, over all the naysayers who claimed an American moviestar could not possibly play a Sicilian aristocrat. Mind you, a little more bloodshed near the end would have been nice, but still, a masterpiece.

3.) Der Blaue Engel. Darling Marlene, before Joe got her on a diet and changed her into the poster child for hollow cheeks. Plump and vibrant and vulgar and deliciously good at dealing out humiliaton to Emil Jannings.

Most Despised Movies:

1.) Hook. I had to watch this when posing as a Catholic school girl. The only reason why Steven Spielberg is still alive today is because I always found better things to do than killing him in revenge.

2.) Apocalypse Now. Or, how to make some perfectly good slaughter boring by endless pseudo-philosophical mumble in between. The only person I took the later from was the Master.

3.) Mrs Miniver. Speaking of whom: in the 40s, Luke had the bright idea of trying to cheer our recently trapped Sire up by bringing down a screen, a film projector and the movie they showed in Sunnydale at the time. The Master had never deigned to watch a movie before. You certainly couldn't convince him they were worth his time after this. We all suffered from sirupy indegestion for weeks.

Comments

[kathyh]

Apocalypse Now. Or, how to make some perfectly good slaughter boring by endless pseudo-philosophical mumble in between.

How very true. Darla is obviously a woman after my own heart!

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

The Mrs Miniver one made me spit green tea all over the floor. Well, I couldn't stop laughing and I knew it was coming out no matter what, so I angled my face to avoid the keyboard.

When will I learn not to drink tea while reading Selena's entries?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

As long as the keybord was saved.*g* You're just trying to make me feel guilty!

[wychwood]

Warren: Sean Connery is a god.
YT: Aren't you lucky you died before The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got released. Anyway, I'm not listening to you anymore. I'm transcribing Darla's replies.

Just out of interest - did you not like LXG? I found it enjoyable, if fluffy, and Connery one of the better components, at least...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

LXG: you see, I read the book. And the publicity beforehand, so I knew it had a lot to do with SC's ego that Quatermain got promoted to leader of the League (Mina is in the comics) and changed from a drug-addicted tired old has-been (which by the way he could have gotten some great acting out of - I mean, Connery can be magnificent when he wants to) to yet another variation of Connery's standard film persona. Very dissapointing.

(And let's just not go into all the other crimes against Alan Moore committed in LXG.)

[wychwood]

Ah, fair enough. I hadn't read the book in advance, though I fully intend to get my hands on it in the not-too-distant future, so most of that went over my head.

[kernezelda]

I just read the Quark story, and enjoyed it very much.
His observations and sharp insight were delightful. Quark is in many cases, the other half of Odo's outside perspective on humanity.

They both participate in Federation society, but while Odo desires to connect, Quark is content to observe and understand. He has his place in the universe, and doesn't need to adopt an alien culture.

The conversation with Jadzia was touching, as was the moment with Nog. Quark will do everything for family, but he's a traditional Ferengi (for the most part), and his relatives' oddness notwithstanding, he is just as interested in securing a good Ferengi future as ensuring their current bodily health.

The moments of humor and angst sprinkled amongst the clear-eyed observations were lovely.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the lovely and thoughtful feedback. Yes, Quark and Odo are sides of the same coin in this regard. Though Odo gets far more fanfiction.*g*

Quark and his family: methinks that while we all love the great bond between Ben and Jake Sisko and find the fact they prove it's possible to have a functional family and be a Trek regular refreshing, the family dynamics of the Keldar clan provide more fodder for angst-and-humor fanfic...