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waitingman) wrote2008-09-25 04:09 pm
waitingman) wrote2008-09-25 04:09 pm
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Fictitious Friends
A meme... via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aquandrian.
1. Comment on this post and ask for a letter. .. or don't
2. I will give you one... or not
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ... or in my Comments section... or again ~ don't.
Cadfael: As in the books by Ellis Peters/Edith Pargeter/whatever other pen-names she used. Not the TV series with Derek Jacobi ~ unfortunately, because he's the perfect actor for them, but the re-writing/re-wiring of the stories annoyed the purist in me ~ especially when he uses a sword... The man's a MONK & has forsworn arms, you Philistines!!!. Ahem... nice little mysteries wrapped up in mediaeval history & gardening lessons.
Catweazle: One of the shows that broke my childhood brain in the 1970s. A character by turns creepy, comedic & curmudgeonly, but always confused. I can relate... Great theme music too!!
Cat: From Red Dwarf & again, the books, not the TV series. Sure, he's funny in the show, but after a while it's a one-joke character. In the books ('Red Dwarf', 'Better Than Life', 'Last Human' &, to a lesser extent, 'Backwards') he was fleshed out & given an arc, making him a more satisfying creation than the shallow fashion-obsessed cartoon on TV.
Cordelia Chase: From Buffy TVS & Angel the shows... not the books (haven't read any). A character that started out in much the same shallow, one-dimensional way that Cat did, but was played so well & then written for even better, that she became first an anticipated delight, then an indispensable part of both shows. Angel could be said to have 'jumped the shark' when she left.
Charles Beauregard: From Kim Newman/Jack Yeovil/whatever pen-name he's using this week's trilogy* of books set in an alternative literary world where Dracula 'won' in the Stoker novel. 'Anno Dracula', 'The Bloody Red Baron' & 'Dracula Cha Cha Cha' are great fun if you're familiar with other fictional characters from the 3 different ages who make appearances, but also just clever, inventive stories even if you're not. Charles is the Victorian-era spy/operative present in all three books who has a thing for women with sharp tongues & sharper teeth.
*No,lederhosen I'm not counting 'Andy Warhol's Dracula' partly because it was really only a short story, but mostly because it was crap... & CB wasn't in it.
aquandrian.1. Comment on this post and ask for a letter. .. or don't
2. I will give you one... or not
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ... or in my Comments section... or again ~ don't.
Cadfael: As in the books by Ellis Peters/Edith Pargeter/whatever other pen-names she used. Not the TV series with Derek Jacobi ~ unfortunately, because he's the perfect actor for them, but the re-writing/re-wiring of the stories annoyed the purist in me ~ especially when he uses a sword... The man's a MONK & has forsworn arms, you Philistines!!!. Ahem... nice little mysteries wrapped up in mediaeval history & gardening lessons.
Catweazle: One of the shows that broke my childhood brain in the 1970s. A character by turns creepy, comedic & curmudgeonly, but always confused. I can relate... Great theme music too!!
Cat: From Red Dwarf & again, the books, not the TV series. Sure, he's funny in the show, but after a while it's a one-joke character. In the books ('Red Dwarf', 'Better Than Life', 'Last Human' &, to a lesser extent, 'Backwards') he was fleshed out & given an arc, making him a more satisfying creation than the shallow fashion-obsessed cartoon on TV.
Cordelia Chase: From Buffy TVS & Angel the shows... not the books (haven't read any). A character that started out in much the same shallow, one-dimensional way that Cat did, but was played so well & then written for even better, that she became first an anticipated delight, then an indispensable part of both shows. Angel could be said to have 'jumped the shark' when she left.
Charles Beauregard: From Kim Newman/Jack Yeovil/whatever pen-name he's using this week's trilogy* of books set in an alternative literary world where Dracula 'won' in the Stoker novel. 'Anno Dracula', 'The Bloody Red Baron' & 'Dracula Cha Cha Cha' are great fun if you're familiar with other fictional characters from the 3 different ages who make appearances, but also just clever, inventive stories even if you're not. Charles is the Victorian-era spy/operative present in all three books who has a thing for women with sharp tongues & sharper teeth.
*No,
lederhosen I'm not counting 'Andy Warhol's Dracula' partly because it was really only a short story, but mostly because it was crap... & CB wasn't in it.
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Please. Are you telling me it didn't jump the shark when she, oh I don't know, fucked Angel's son?!!!
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And an interesting plot twist device to boot...