Resistance was futile until Data whupped your ass....
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And from innocentsmith:
1. If you could pick any film producer to make a movie out of any book/old TV show/whatever you chose, who would it be, and what would you have them make?
2. What would your Time Lord name be?
3. Did you have a favorite place to play/hide/spend time in as a kid?
4. Which fictional universe would you most like to visit, and is that different from the 'verse you'd most like to live in?
5. Number one OTP of all time?
1. If you could pick any film producer to make a movie out of any book/old TV show/whatever you chose, who would it be, and what would you have them make?
I'd like someone to do a proper film version of The Avengers (the one they did in the 90s absolutely does not count), but I'm not sure who would be up to the task. Someone who's good with Very English Films.
Or...
Susan Downey producing American Gods. Because not only is she pretty damn cool, but if she produced it Robert Downey Jr. would likely be in it, and it just occurred to me that he could make an amazingly smooth and terrifying Mr. Wednesday. Not that I think anyone could ever adequately put that book to film. XD
2. What would your Time Lord name be?
I'm assuming you mean "The ..." Not the other name, which would probably be something like Veshanarusordinarotunlificanloramunda. Or something. O_o Hm. It's funny, because Time Lord names have a tendency to sound pompous or completely goofy no matter what you do. The Doctor kind of managed the only name we have in canon that doesn't come off that way (unless you take the Master's read on it, in which case, pomposity abounds). And so many names that could work are too long. They need to be snappy. So...
The Minstrel. Yeah, that should do.
3. Did you have a favorite place to play/hide/spend time in as a kid?
Lesse. When I lived in Hoboken there was a twisty willow tree at the playground that I climbed all over. Then in Hawaii, I had a favorite palm tree with a broken branch that I swung on (which they cut off eventually, and I was very unhappy about it), and our little shabby community of townhouses were on top of a steep, high hill, so I liked to climb down the hill a little too far under the foliage because it felt oh so dangerous. It kind of was; there was a forest of banana trees surrounding the hill and they were pretty easy to get lost in if you made it down that far.
And then in Oak Park... this is going to sound ridiculous. The laundry room in the basement of our apartment building. It was dusty and awful down there, but there was a small library of books that tenants didn't want anymore, a huge box of records, a sofa, armchair, lamp and table from the 60s and a broken jukebox. My friends and I went down there all the time. I now recall that we created something called "The Batman Stuntshow" which mainly involved us jumping off the washers and dryers into the rolling laundry baskets. My friend Olivia was Catwoman (she always had to be all the girls in everything we played, which I never really noticed at the time), I was Batman and my friend Jessie, who was three years younger than me, had to be Robin.
4. Which fictional universe would you most like to visit, and is that different from the 'verse you'd most like to live in?
Well, I figure I'd want to live in the Doctor Who universe because the longer you're there, the more chance you'd have of running into the Doctor? Yes, no, maybe? That would be my hope. Then I could jump onto the TARDIS and make a nuisance of myself. That would be fantastic. If not, live in the Potter-verse, but only if I got to be a witch.
So for the visit... I'm trying to think of a universe that would be fun all on its own, without the help of its respective characters. Which is why so many universe don't cut it, particularly the superhero ones and verses in the past (JS&MN-verse without Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell? Austen-verse if you weren't staying with the Bennetts or Emma?) Maybe BSG-verse before the cylons 'sploded the colonies? No, you know if I'm perfectly honest, it has to be Star Wars verse. I've wanted to since I was about 9 years old. And I wouldn't be there long enough to do something stupid, like get it into my head to become a Jedi. Or a bounty hunter. Both would probably end badly.
5. Number one OTP of all time?
That's hard. I seem to like my OTPs pretty epic. Super friends/lovers who can DO ANYTHING AS LONG AS THEY'RE TOGETHER!!!! For some reason, in my head, I define an ultimate OTP as two people who should really just be with each other and no one else. In that case, I wouldn't say something like Doctor/Rose - or even Doctor/Master, ha - because I think it so important (and frankly, realistic) that the Doctor be able to fall in love over and over. (at the same time, would I want to say Doctor/Rose? Yes. It makes me feel bad in an 'oh hell, I'm an annoying 15-year-old girl' sort of way. It's a personal relation thing that I realize absolutely stems from the fact that Kelsey and I each have an identification with one of the pair. And we do like our happy dynamic duos. *cough*seeourRPing*cough*)
And then some OTPs that I love really wouldn't be in my number one slot because I have all sorts of alternate versions of their universe in my head. Which is particularly true of slash and non-canon pairings. I adore Crowley/Aziraphale and Holmes/Watson and any combination of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, but I don't always think of them as their pairings. Sometimes they're just friends (inordinately close friends, but you know, sometimes people really are). And I like to be able to think both, and write both and enjoy stories about both, so making them my OTP To End All OTPs sort of causes a weird stop-gap in my brain.
Which I guess is why, if pressed, I'd say John and Aeryn from Farscape. Because for all their dysfunction and everything they put each other through, that entire show was in so many ways just about them. Every relationship they had before seemed like a building block to get to each other. Every horrible adventure was an excuse to push their limits. They grew up a lot and endured a lot of pain at each other's hands. And in the end, they still had to be together. Which is pretty damn epic, considering the insanity that was that show. They're definitely the only pair I can think of where, if were to come across a serious Aeryn/Crais story, I'd throw something at the screen and shout "NNNOOOOOOOOOOO! You CAN'T! John and Aeryn are 4EVOR! You're a MEANYFACE!"
>_> Ahem.
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
And from innocentsmith:
1. If you could pick any film producer to make a movie out of any book/old TV show/whatever you chose, who would it be, and what would you have them make?
2. What would your Time Lord name be?
3. Did you have a favorite place to play/hide/spend time in as a kid?
4. Which fictional universe would you most like to visit, and is that different from the 'verse you'd most like to live in?
5. Number one OTP of all time?
1. If you could pick any film producer to make a movie out of any book/old TV show/whatever you chose, who would it be, and what would you have them make?
I'd like someone to do a proper film version of The Avengers (the one they did in the 90s absolutely does not count), but I'm not sure who would be up to the task. Someone who's good with Very English Films.
Or...
Susan Downey producing American Gods. Because not only is she pretty damn cool, but if she produced it Robert Downey Jr. would likely be in it, and it just occurred to me that he could make an amazingly smooth and terrifying Mr. Wednesday. Not that I think anyone could ever adequately put that book to film. XD
2. What would your Time Lord name be?
I'm assuming you mean "The ..." Not the other name, which would probably be something like Veshanarusordinarotunlificanloramunda. Or something. O_o Hm. It's funny, because Time Lord names have a tendency to sound pompous or completely goofy no matter what you do. The Doctor kind of managed the only name we have in canon that doesn't come off that way (unless you take the Master's read on it, in which case, pomposity abounds). And so many names that could work are too long. They need to be snappy. So...
The Minstrel. Yeah, that should do.
3. Did you have a favorite place to play/hide/spend time in as a kid?
Lesse. When I lived in Hoboken there was a twisty willow tree at the playground that I climbed all over. Then in Hawaii, I had a favorite palm tree with a broken branch that I swung on (which they cut off eventually, and I was very unhappy about it), and our little shabby community of townhouses were on top of a steep, high hill, so I liked to climb down the hill a little too far under the foliage because it felt oh so dangerous. It kind of was; there was a forest of banana trees surrounding the hill and they were pretty easy to get lost in if you made it down that far.
And then in Oak Park... this is going to sound ridiculous. The laundry room in the basement of our apartment building. It was dusty and awful down there, but there was a small library of books that tenants didn't want anymore, a huge box of records, a sofa, armchair, lamp and table from the 60s and a broken jukebox. My friends and I went down there all the time. I now recall that we created something called "The Batman Stuntshow" which mainly involved us jumping off the washers and dryers into the rolling laundry baskets. My friend Olivia was Catwoman (she always had to be all the girls in everything we played, which I never really noticed at the time), I was Batman and my friend Jessie, who was three years younger than me, had to be Robin.
4. Which fictional universe would you most like to visit, and is that different from the 'verse you'd most like to live in?
Well, I figure I'd want to live in the Doctor Who universe because the longer you're there, the more chance you'd have of running into the Doctor? Yes, no, maybe? That would be my hope. Then I could jump onto the TARDIS and make a nuisance of myself. That would be fantastic. If not, live in the Potter-verse, but only if I got to be a witch.
So for the visit... I'm trying to think of a universe that would be fun all on its own, without the help of its respective characters. Which is why so many universe don't cut it, particularly the superhero ones and verses in the past (JS&MN-verse without Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell? Austen-verse if you weren't staying with the Bennetts or Emma?) Maybe BSG-verse before the cylons 'sploded the colonies? No, you know if I'm perfectly honest, it has to be Star Wars verse. I've wanted to since I was about 9 years old. And I wouldn't be there long enough to do something stupid, like get it into my head to become a Jedi. Or a bounty hunter. Both would probably end badly.
5. Number one OTP of all time?
That's hard. I seem to like my OTPs pretty epic. Super friends/lovers who can DO ANYTHING AS LONG AS THEY'RE TOGETHER!!!! For some reason, in my head, I define an ultimate OTP as two people who should really just be with each other and no one else. In that case, I wouldn't say something like Doctor/Rose - or even Doctor/Master, ha - because I think it so important (and frankly, realistic) that the Doctor be able to fall in love over and over. (at the same time, would I want to say Doctor/Rose? Yes. It makes me feel bad in an 'oh hell, I'm an annoying 15-year-old girl' sort of way. It's a personal relation thing that I realize absolutely stems from the fact that Kelsey and I each have an identification with one of the pair. And we do like our happy dynamic duos. *cough*seeourRPing*cough*)
And then some OTPs that I love really wouldn't be in my number one slot because I have all sorts of alternate versions of their universe in my head. Which is particularly true of slash and non-canon pairings. I adore Crowley/Aziraphale and Holmes/Watson and any combination of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, but I don't always think of them as their pairings. Sometimes they're just friends (inordinately close friends, but you know, sometimes people really are). And I like to be able to think both, and write both and enjoy stories about both, so making them my OTP To End All OTPs sort of causes a weird stop-gap in my brain.
Which I guess is why, if pressed, I'd say John and Aeryn from Farscape. Because for all their dysfunction and everything they put each other through, that entire show was in so many ways just about them. Every relationship they had before seemed like a building block to get to each other. Every horrible adventure was an excuse to push their limits. They grew up a lot and endured a lot of pain at each other's hands. And in the end, they still had to be together. Which is pretty damn epic, considering the insanity that was that show. They're definitely the only pair I can think of where, if were to come across a serious Aeryn/Crais story, I'd throw something at the screen and shout "NNNOOOOOOOOOOO! You CAN'T! John and Aeryn are 4EVOR! You're a MEANYFACE!"
>_> Ahem.