Five Fictional Characters meme...
...from caeseria, who gave me the letter P. This is not actually a very popular letter, but I was pleasantly surprised to find enough to provide answers. Comment for a letter of your very own!
1) Phil Esterhaus: Roll Call Sergeant for the first three and a half seasons of Hill Street Blues (which is worth watching if only for the cameos, especially from pre-famous Star Trek personnel, including Brent Spiner (porn director), Jonathan Frakes (coke dealer), and Armin Shimmerman (telephone repairman)). Esterhaus is a tall, imposing middle-aged gentleman who is basically the father of the precinct family. He is basically all class; soft-spoken, with a quietly dry turn of phrase and the ability to dismantle a wooden chair with his fists. He dies in bed with his girlfriend (on five episodes of TOS), who could probably give Jack Harkness a run for his money.
2) Polgara the Sorceress: Yeah, she's basically a BAMF. Polagara is a bit uptight most of the time, but in a fantasy world equivalent to maybe the first century B.C. (excepting the armoured knights), she does pretty much whatever she likes. She's a very intelligent, pragmatic, moral woman, and when the country her duchy belongs to disintegrates, it ends up surviving as its own kingdom. Seriously, she manipulates the populace into dropping serfdom and melodramatic Arthurian sensibilities, adopting her moral code, and electing a king.
3) General Count Piotr Vorkosigan: I'm having a really hard time describing Pitor, because what I like most about him is really just hinted at in the books. He spent his youth in the back country, helping his Emperor repel an off-world invasion with seriously inferior technology. But that's all you get of that story, just little hints and flashes. The books are about his son and daughter-in-law and grandson; by then, Piotr has finally fallen behind the times. I wish there was more written about him when he was a radical; as brilliant and insane as his descendants are, he has to have been quite entertaining in his own right. Plus, the woman who married him would be a story in her own right.
4) Lady Patience: From the Farseer books. She's a good woman, not always strong, but not always weak. A complex and dynamic character, by which I mean eccentric. but she steps up and kicks ass at a couple of crucial junctures.
5) Pazu: Probably only came to mind because I just finished rewatching Ghost in the Shell. He's a member of a covert anti-terrorism squad aaand that's pretty much what we know about him. He gets, like, one episode. But he's such a weird, quiet bastard that at the end of that episode, you're not entirely certain it's the genuine article who gets back into the car. This tickles my fancy for some reason.
1) Phil Esterhaus: Roll Call Sergeant for the first three and a half seasons of Hill Street Blues (which is worth watching if only for the cameos, especially from pre-famous Star Trek personnel, including Brent Spiner (porn director), Jonathan Frakes (coke dealer), and Armin Shimmerman (telephone repairman)). Esterhaus is a tall, imposing middle-aged gentleman who is basically the father of the precinct family. He is basically all class; soft-spoken, with a quietly dry turn of phrase and the ability to dismantle a wooden chair with his fists. He dies in bed with his girlfriend (on five episodes of TOS), who could probably give Jack Harkness a run for his money.
2) Polgara the Sorceress: Yeah, she's basically a BAMF. Polagara is a bit uptight most of the time, but in a fantasy world equivalent to maybe the first century B.C. (excepting the armoured knights), she does pretty much whatever she likes. She's a very intelligent, pragmatic, moral woman, and when the country her duchy belongs to disintegrates, it ends up surviving as its own kingdom. Seriously, she manipulates the populace into dropping serfdom and melodramatic Arthurian sensibilities, adopting her moral code, and electing a king.
3) General Count Piotr Vorkosigan: I'm having a really hard time describing Pitor, because what I like most about him is really just hinted at in the books. He spent his youth in the back country, helping his Emperor repel an off-world invasion with seriously inferior technology. But that's all you get of that story, just little hints and flashes. The books are about his son and daughter-in-law and grandson; by then, Piotr has finally fallen behind the times. I wish there was more written about him when he was a radical; as brilliant and insane as his descendants are, he has to have been quite entertaining in his own right. Plus, the woman who married him would be a story in her own right.
4) Lady Patience: From the Farseer books. She's a good woman, not always strong, but not always weak. A complex and dynamic character, by which I mean eccentric. but she steps up and kicks ass at a couple of crucial junctures.
5) Pazu: Probably only came to mind because I just finished rewatching Ghost in the Shell. He's a member of a covert anti-terrorism squad aaand that's pretty much what we know about him. He gets, like, one episode. But he's such a weird, quiet bastard that at the end of that episode, you're not entirely certain it's the genuine article who gets back into the car. This tickles my fancy for some reason.