Monday Meditation: Why I Love that Alec Loves His Orange Soda
...or How I Learned to Embrace All of Me
This post by rawles so eloquently and succinctly clarified so many things I've been feeling but hadn't articulated about the discussions surrounding Uhura's characterization in ST:TOS and ST:XI that I felt compelled to add a bit of my own thinking on one of my new fandom favorites: Leverage's Alec Hardison.
( Age of the Geek, baby! )
This post by rawles so eloquently and succinctly clarified so many things I've been feeling but hadn't articulated about the discussions surrounding Uhura's characterization in ST:TOS and ST:XI that I felt compelled to add a bit of my own thinking on one of my new fandom favorites: Leverage's Alec Hardison.
( Age of the Geek, baby! )
Next time: My thoughts on Martha Jones. Really. I've actually written them, although I must warn you that they appear to be inextricably bound up with my thoughts on Rose Tyler. And Mickey Smith. And maybe even Donna Noble.
Given the way Rusty's written all four of those characters, it's actually pretty hard NOT to talk about the other three when talking about Martha Jones.
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The show itself is great fun--four master criminals (grifter, hacker, hitter, thief) led by a "good man" turned criminal mastermind pull elaborate cons to rob the rich and give to the needy/wronged. It's not the most realistic show, but it's got great style, the pacing is good, and the chemistry between the characters is awesome. If you get a chance to catch it in any fashion, I recommend highly.
As for Alec, he's just awesome fun and reminds me, actually, a bit of what Mickey could have been had we not needed to be told how unsuitable he was for Rose. And he's a DW fan (regularly used the names of actors who played the Doctor when constructing aliases for the cons), which makes him even dearer to my heart!
Given the way Rusty's written all four of those characters, it's actually pretty hard NOT to talk about the other three when talking about Martha Jones.This is what I keep discovering; the text compares them to one another/the Doctor ( ... )
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This is what I keep discovering; the text compares them to one another/the Doctor in explicit and implicit ways, so you can't really write about them as solo players. I have to say, actually, that I kind of like that; there's a depth to the new companions that you really didn't get with many of the television older ones.
Times have changed. Nowadays companions come with emotional baggage in the form of families and friends. The vast majority of the classic Who companions are orphans (sometimes they're orphaned to make them travel with the Doctor - which is kinda freaky for a show that's always supposed to have been family-oriented!)
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He's really a fun character; on a recent episode, he was trying to use Star Trek movies as code during one of the cons. Whoever is writing him LOVES to wear the geek-badge!
Times have changed. Nowadays companions come with emotional baggage in the form of families and friends. The vast majority of the classic Who companions are orphans (sometimes they're orphaned to make them travel with the Doctor - which is kinda freaky for a show that's always supposed to have been family-oriented!)
Very true, and I must say that I like it because it's easier to invest in the characters; I think the real thing that's troubling is that the Doctor also has this emotional baggage (understandable with Gallifrey going splodey) and that has led to these overt comparisons among these people that overthrow the old way of relating in some uncomfortable ways.
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And now I've seen him in action? Man I do love him!
And you know what I want to see - right off? A DW/Leverage x-over where Ten and Martha meet Alec, and Ten & Alec geek-out while Martha tries to get them to actually focus on whatever needs sorting... :P
Very true, and I must say that I like it because it's easier to invest in the characters; I think the real thing that's troubling is that the Doctor also has this emotional baggage (understandable with Gallifrey going splodey) and that has led to these overt comparisons among these people that overthrow the old way of relating in some uncomfortable ways.
Yeah...
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So very much to love there--enjoy!
And you know what I want to see - right off? A DW/Leverage x-over where Ten and Martha meet Alec, and Ten & Alec geek-out while Martha tries to get them to actually focus on whatever needs sorting... :P
I'm working on it in my head because it would be quite amusing.
I actually was supposed to write a DW/Leverage crossover for the time during JE, and that one is still rolling around back there somewhere. I don't want to say too much about it because it would spoil the end of S1 for you. I need to get back to work on that.
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I am, thank you! Thank you for getting me into the show. (When will it be safe to read your fic?)
I'm working on it in my head because it would be quite amusing.
I think Martha - who can be geeky herself - would be exasperated (but privately amused) that they're not staying on track. You just know she'd be the 'sensible' one of the three...
I actually was supposed to write a DW/Leverage crossover for the time during JE, and that one is still rolling around back there somewhere. I don't want to say too much about it because it would spoil the end of S1 for you. I need to get back to work on that.
Cool! I'm watching them as fast as I can get hold of them! (I've seen up to 1.04 but I've got 1.05 lined up to watch later...)
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(I can understand getting sucked into L&O:UK!)
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I always saw it as how unsuitable Rose was for him. Mickey loved her and was kind to her and hung in there despite her swannin' off with the Doctor. He fought for her, he was there for her when she came running, and he even still loved her after being accused of her murder for a year.
Mickey was the long-suffering, loyal protector. Rose treated him badly because she was selfish and more interested in what was out there somewhere.
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