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Feb. 7th, 2024 11:01 am
selenak: (Not from Nottingham by Calapine)
[community profile] festivids , for someone like me who can't vid but loves watching, is a joyful occasion every year, and here are some of my favourites this year:


Around the World in 80 Days

I loved the 2021 miniseries, not least for the mixture of joy, angst, silliness, suspense and presenting me with a genuine OT3; the narrative treats not only each of its three main characters but also their relationships with each other as important, it's not a case of two of them only caring for the third but not for each other, and each of the relationships is different, with every character bringing something different to the overall story as well. *chef's kiss* The two vids, one more intense and one more lighthearted, capture this beautifully:

Tightrope

I'm gonna be (40 000 Miles)


For all Mankind:

An abundance of riches re: one of my new shows! (Now if someone would also vid Foundation....)

Daughters: a great portrait of the women in seasons 1-3. (The other vids all include s4 footage as well.)

Bad Reputation: an ode to Molly Cobb, of course.

I carried this for years: Margo and her legacy. I loved the other Margo vid as well, but this one is my fave, pinging so many of my favourite things abouto Margo's storyline.

Think: Danielle Poole being great in a very different and equally compelling way from Molly.


Robin and Marian

Out with a Bang: A Marian character study. If you don't know the movie, it's from the 1970s, script by James Goldman, aka the same bloke who wrote The Lion in Winter, starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as the aged lovers reunited one more time, and very aware of their mortality. Goldman had the great idea of making Marian the nun of the Robin Hood legends who does the spoilery thing, and then showing us why.


Wheel of Time

Velodrome: White Tower politics and an ensemble portrait of the Aes Sedai and their relationships, both political and personall, with each other. Superb.

best friend: Moraine and Lan, bff. Funny and true at the same time.

Put on a Show Wherein Lanfear enjoys being fabulously evl in a way that reminds me of Servalan in ye olde Blake's 7 days.
selenak: Made by <lj user="shadadukal"> (James Bond)
First, spotted while surfing around, a meme:

Who is your Doctor? Don't have a single one. It definitely isn't my first, because the first Doctor I ever saw was Tom Baker, whom younger me did not take to at all. Later, I became in varying degrees fond of most regenerations (still not keen on Four, though, but he has the majority of fandom to love him best, he doesn't need me). Which of them I prefer above the rest really depends on a) the mood I'm in and b) the medium (because, say, Six is so ill served on tv, and he certainly isn't a favourite there, but on audio Colin Baker rules, and so these days when I think of the Sixth Doctor I think of him in his audio incarnation).

Who is your Doctor's companion? Donna Noble. With close runner ups Ace and Jo for Old Who and Evelyn Smythe from the audios, but really, DONNA.

Who is your Batman? Michael Keaton. Though Christian Bale in "Batman Begins" is my Bruce Wayne. It's just that too much of the Nolan films ultimately ticks me off that has to do with the Batman worship.

Who is your Cat Woman? Anne Hathaway, wowing all naysayers and by far the best thing in the awful third Nolan movie.

Who is your Sherlock Holmes? Jeremy Brett, no question about it. If I'm limited to more recent incarnations, it's Johnny Lee Miller.

Who is your fictional female federal agent? (eg, Dana Scully, Audrey Parker, Olivia Dunham, etc) : Oh, how I loved Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs. Then Hannibal happened. While I like all the tv ladies named as examples, I have to change agencies to answer the question for ongoing love, because: Sydney Bristow. Who is one of those characters who aren't my favourites, nor are they the ones immediately winning me over, but they are firm secondary loves and my affection never waves. And much as I have issues with the fifth Alias season on behalf of my favourites, I thought it did well with Sydney herself and gave her a good send-off. Encapsulated in the moment when Irina says you can't be a mother and a good spy, and Sydney replies "watch me".

If we also include comics, and again, branch out in agencies, then it's Agent Abigail Brand of SWORD.

Who is your Robin Hood? The fox one from the Disney movie. I imprinted on him! Runner-up: Sean Connery in Robin and Marian for autumnal grace and wit. (Well,the script is by James "Lion in Winter" Goldman.)

Who is your Maid Marian/Marion? Audrey Hepburn in Robin and Marian, definitely. See above, re: autumnal grace and wit.

Who is your Bond? Daniel Craig from his first outing onwards. Judi Dench is, of course, my M. But not until Craig came along did she have a Bond worthy of her. *verily, my Brosnan dislike runs deep*

Who is your fictional female assassin? (eg, Natasha Romanov, various incarnations of Nikita, etc): Natasha. Especially in her MCU incarnation. Tied with Mystique (definitely her cinematic incarnation).

And speaking of the X-verse, have another rec:

Running for Cover (3094 words) by RemoCon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Movies), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Peter Maximoff, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Hank McCoy, Alex Summers, Kurt Wagner, Raven | Mystique
Summary:

Peter wasn't really looking for more family.

Aha!

Jan. 3rd, 2013 02:50 pm
selenak: (Guinevere by Reroutedreams)
Much as there are easy markers by which to divide movieverse Avengers fanfiction written after the movie got actually released from the fanfic written before that based onl the other films and the comics (to wit: does Bruce Banner have a personality and a prominent role in the story? Does Natasha have characterisation and dialogue? Is either of them paired up with another Avenger? If so, it's likely to be written post release and based on the film), it's now easy to separate the Hobbit fanfic written pre movie release from that written post movie release. (Hint: if the central pairing is Bilbo/Thorin an/or if Kili and Fili are involved, and/or if Bofur has dialogue and characterisation, it's based on the movie.) Now, given the phenomenon discussed in this post of writers pairing up characters because their actors played roles involved in a popular slash pairing elsewhere, one pre-release pairing that was subsequently crushed by the mighty tide of Bilbo/Thorin was Bilbo/Smaug.

It occured to me that frustrated Sherlockians need not despair, but rather feel inspired. Because the new popularity of Bilbo/Thorin should free the way, on the same general principle that caused pre-release Bilbo/Smaug, for John Watson/Lucas North (Armitage's character in Spooks), which was clearly meant to be. Lucas North spent years in Russian captivity, being tortured and forming a weird relationship with the torturer in chief. (It just occurs to me: he was Nicholas Brody before Brody got invented.) (Except that the answer to "is he or isn't he a terrorist?" was different.) (I think. I haven't watched the last two seasons yet.) He's in the spy business, which offers at least as much excitement as the consulting detective business, and between his imprisonment and several betrayals and losses of comrades occuring thereafter has enough issues to make Sherlock look like the picture of emotional health, only he's an adult. In conclusion: bring on the John Watson/Lucas North!

(I'm only half joking about this.)

Next: Guy of Gisborne/Lord Shaftebury: or, would the Restoration have survived so much smouldering? Comes complete with the Duke of Buckingham discovering he's really a police inspector at heart.

Remix!

May. 23rd, 2010 09:47 pm
selenak: (Winn - nostalgia)
Aaaand it's open. I'm very exited, and of course checked out first which story of mine was remixed, as one does. It was Chosen, my Winn-as-a-girl vignette, and resulted in this:

Will (What her parents taught her Remix)

In which my remixer creates utterly plausible and somewhat disturbing parents for the future Kai of Bajor. Creepily good character stuff.

Before I head off to read all the other fictional goodness, two links that have nothing to do with the Remix ficathon:

The Robin Hood film that could have been, aka the one originally titled Nottingham, from the Sheriff's pov. Now that sounds like a film I'd have gladly paid to watch, something genuinenly original and new in its usage of the old myth. Grrr. Argh. Why, Hollywood, why?

A Noel Clarke interview, very interesting, mostly concerned with his work as a director and scriptwriter; there is a passage about Mickey and Doctor Who as well, further illustrating my theory that most actors see things very differently from the majority of lj writing fandom.

Now, off to the other stories!
selenak: (Henry and Eleanor by Poisoninjest)
You know, I'm game for new interpretation of myths and legends, and generally I like Ridley Scott, plus Cate Blanchett is an awesome actress, but everything I've read so far makes me stay away from the newest Robin Hood movie. Generally, you can offer Robin Hood interpretations in different flavours and I'll take them; joyfully anachronistic (hello, Disney cartoon and Eroll Flynn film, both of whom I love), aiming for the mysticism angle (hello Robin of Sherwood), bittersweet metaphor for aging actors (Robin and Marian) or going for an attempt at a plausible historical setting (Parke Godwin's Sherwood for the win! Best Sheriff ever!). And of course, there's always this:






Yes, I think I'll go with a Q-Pid rewatch instead and rejoice in Ira Steven Behr's (= scriptwriter, later went on to become one of the DS9 head honchos) one liners, Q/Picard UST, Vash/Beverly bonding and Worf not being a merry man. Huzzah!

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