odds and ends
A few last answers to a couple of memes, plus a picture that makes me happy.
For the "three things about a character's sexuality" meme, kiwisue asked for Bodie and Doyle from the Professionals.
Bodie (The Professionals)
1) He's had sex with more men than women, probably. Not that he keeps count (he can't count that high, someone once said), but quite a few years of his life were spent on ships and in mercenary companies.
2) He used to believe all that guff about being a man. What men had to do, or what they couldn't do and still be men. But he was a kid then. Since then he's known some tough men who took it up the arse, who never fucked women, who loved other men more than any fat, lazy, stupid, queer-hating stockbroker ever loved his sagging wife. One man in particular, who taught Bodie how to win a knife fight and how to fuck so the other person likes it too. He loved Bodie, and Bodie loved him back but didn't realize 'til he was dead. That's when Bodie grew up. And all the stockbrokers ought to be sent off into the bush until they grow up too.
3) Danger doesn't turn him on. Not at the time. It's afterwards that his whole body lights up with the joy of still being in one piece. He needs it then, badly, and hardly ever gets it because there's the scene to secure, prisoners to question, and bloody Cowley with his bloody eagle eye waiting for a report.
Doyle (The Professionals)
1) He's never understood why some people--women, mostly--only want to have sex in the dark. It's not half as good if you can't see the other person.
2) When he and Bodie started up their little game of sharing a girl (or, if there were two girls, screwing them in the same room, even swopping if the girls didn't mind) he knew exactly what was going on. But he thought Bodie didn't, and Bodie thought he didn't, and they got a bit stuck in the pattern. It took a long time to get the girls out from between them. They still share a girl now and then, but it's just fun, not a substitute for something else.
3) If it wasn't a security risk, he'd love to set up a camera and film himself and Bodie having sex. Maybe even make copies to sell. Christ, what could be more exciting than people paying to see you at it? And getting excited themselves, looking at you and wanking, wishing they could have something as good. (Yeah, Bodie's legendary modesty is probably contagious.)
For the "top 5" meme, stunt_muppet asked for my top five TV episodes.
Top Five Television Episodes
I'll interpret "episode" to mean "story," so it can encompass Classic Who stories that extend over more than one episode.
5) "Eclipse" (due South). This has probably the best dialogue in dS, which is saying a lot. It establishes the Ray K.-Fraser relationship, showing us how it's going to be different (and closer) than the Ray V.-Fraser relationship, plus it has great one-off characters. And Fraser quotes Francis Bacon.
4) "The Way Back" (Blake's 7). This is a weird choice in a way, both because this (first) episode is unlike all the rest of the show and because it lacks my favorite character, Avon. But the worldbuilding is compelling and the tone is exquisitely grim. One of the great virtues of B7 (and other old British shows) was that it took its time--this whole episode is devoted to showing us Blake's world and backstory, plus setting up what will come next. As a result, there's a richness that a lot of modern shows, in a hurry to get to the action, lack.
3) "Blink" (New Who). There's not enough non-linear storytelling in Who; this episode is a great example of what could be done with it.
2) "The Mind Robber" (Classic Who). Pure cracktastic brilliance. It was the first classic Who story that I watched, and not really the best place to start (I shamefacedly confess that I couldn't tell the two Jamies apart), but I loved it anyway and it got me hooked on the Second Doctor.
1) "Restless" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Visually beautiful, smart and thoughtful without being pompous, and full of wonderful character moments, not to mention quotable as hell. It's like everything that's great about the Buffyverse, distilled.
And now, the photo of great joy.
Anybody know when this was taken? Simon had a guest spot on Who, but that was a Ninth Doctor episode. It must be some kind of event because Simon's all dressed up (and looking HOT).
In any case, it fills me with almost perfect fannish glee. It lacks only Nick Frost to be a gleeful epitome.
*****
For the "three things about a character's sexuality" meme, kiwisue asked for Bodie and Doyle from the Professionals.
Bodie (The Professionals)
1) He's had sex with more men than women, probably. Not that he keeps count (he can't count that high, someone once said), but quite a few years of his life were spent on ships and in mercenary companies.
2) He used to believe all that guff about being a man. What men had to do, or what they couldn't do and still be men. But he was a kid then. Since then he's known some tough men who took it up the arse, who never fucked women, who loved other men more than any fat, lazy, stupid, queer-hating stockbroker ever loved his sagging wife. One man in particular, who taught Bodie how to win a knife fight and how to fuck so the other person likes it too. He loved Bodie, and Bodie loved him back but didn't realize 'til he was dead. That's when Bodie grew up. And all the stockbrokers ought to be sent off into the bush until they grow up too.
3) Danger doesn't turn him on. Not at the time. It's afterwards that his whole body lights up with the joy of still being in one piece. He needs it then, badly, and hardly ever gets it because there's the scene to secure, prisoners to question, and bloody Cowley with his bloody eagle eye waiting for a report.
Doyle (The Professionals)
1) He's never understood why some people--women, mostly--only want to have sex in the dark. It's not half as good if you can't see the other person.
2) When he and Bodie started up their little game of sharing a girl (or, if there were two girls, screwing them in the same room, even swopping if the girls didn't mind) he knew exactly what was going on. But he thought Bodie didn't, and Bodie thought he didn't, and they got a bit stuck in the pattern. It took a long time to get the girls out from between them. They still share a girl now and then, but it's just fun, not a substitute for something else.
3) If it wasn't a security risk, he'd love to set up a camera and film himself and Bodie having sex. Maybe even make copies to sell. Christ, what could be more exciting than people paying to see you at it? And getting excited themselves, looking at you and wanking, wishing they could have something as good. (Yeah, Bodie's legendary modesty is probably contagious.)
For the "top 5" meme, stunt_muppet asked for my top five TV episodes.
Top Five Television Episodes
I'll interpret "episode" to mean "story," so it can encompass Classic Who stories that extend over more than one episode.
5) "Eclipse" (due South). This has probably the best dialogue in dS, which is saying a lot. It establishes the Ray K.-Fraser relationship, showing us how it's going to be different (and closer) than the Ray V.-Fraser relationship, plus it has great one-off characters. And Fraser quotes Francis Bacon.
4) "The Way Back" (Blake's 7). This is a weird choice in a way, both because this (first) episode is unlike all the rest of the show and because it lacks my favorite character, Avon. But the worldbuilding is compelling and the tone is exquisitely grim. One of the great virtues of B7 (and other old British shows) was that it took its time--this whole episode is devoted to showing us Blake's world and backstory, plus setting up what will come next. As a result, there's a richness that a lot of modern shows, in a hurry to get to the action, lack.
3) "Blink" (New Who). There's not enough non-linear storytelling in Who; this episode is a great example of what could be done with it.
2) "The Mind Robber" (Classic Who). Pure cracktastic brilliance. It was the first classic Who story that I watched, and not really the best place to start (I shamefacedly confess that I couldn't tell the two Jamies apart), but I loved it anyway and it got me hooked on the Second Doctor.
1) "Restless" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Visually beautiful, smart and thoughtful without being pompous, and full of wonderful character moments, not to mention quotable as hell. It's like everything that's great about the Buffyverse, distilled.
And now, the photo of great joy.
Anybody know when this was taken? Simon had a guest spot on Who, but that was a Ninth Doctor episode. It must be some kind of event because Simon's all dressed up (and looking HOT).
In any case, it fills me with almost perfect fannish glee. It lacks only Nick Frost to be a gleeful epitome.
*****