An old fannish5 or two...

Jun 29, 2009 03:00

It's not Friday and it's been a long time since I've done one of these, but it's too delicious to skip. Also, I've been neglecting this thing for a long time and don't want everyone to go away or forget I exist.

Also, it'll be fun to see who recognizes these names and who doesn't.

From fannish5:

Name 5 characters who'd be most pleased if they ever got the opportunity to see what fandom is writing about them. (and the 5 characters who'd be most shocked ;)

I think Sky, Bridge, Sari, Kenta, and Blurr would like how they're written... Kenta purely because he gets actual screentime. Blurr would probably skim the ones where he's slashed with Bumblebee... unless he got to be dominant. He'd never let anyone know he was reading it, though. And, of course, he'd read it all in five seconds flat.

(Why, why did he have to die after only three episodes? Let's have a moment of silence for the coolest Autobot of all time.)

And yeah, I did mean the Animated version. (Not that the only-three-episodes thing wouldn't make that obvious.) Haven't seen much of fandom's portrayal of Armada version, and I really don't care for G1 version... he basically had the fast-talking gimmick but nothing else, so he repeated the same thing over and over, just to remind us that was his gimmick, and seldom added anything. Animated Blurr had the same gimmick, same actor... and actually had something to say. That last thing is what makes all the difference between my least favorite G1 character and my all-time favorite TFA character. Ironically, most people would say those two versions are a lot alike.

Shocked is easy. Harry Potter, Starscream, Orlando Bloom (seriously! Any fanfic about LOTR's production as opposed to the movie itself... man, what I wouldn't give to have been there to see the look on his face the first time he surfed the 'net and found a fanfic about himself - not any of his characters, but him - as a hermaphrodite who impregnates himself. Stuff like this is... not rare. You don't see it happening to whoever played Aragorn.) Davis, and Rika.

Harry and Starscream for the sexual, uh, adventures. Even non-NC-17 stories are the same half the time, the gory details are just taken offscreen. Davis and Rika, on the other hand, are... a bit different.

See, in the show, he could be a jerk early on, but half the time I felt the way the others treated *him* was worse, and waaaay out of proportion against anything he did. Somebody spank Kari, especially. In fanfic, he makes Osama Bin Ladin look like the Easter Bunny and all other aspects of his personality don't exist. Rika, on the other hand... in the show, she's tough, and a fighter, and a professional snarker. She grows over the course of the series and learns to open up and trust more, but she never stops being a fighter... she just learns everyone's not the enemy. In fanfic, she basically cries and whimpers and can barely face getting out of bed in the morning without her prince [insert whoever she's being paired with here] to rescue her. Uh... you did watch the show at least once before you started writing, right? If the show Rika could appear in this world and see her typical fanfic portrayal, I'd feel sorry for those writers. A lot of serious butt-kicking would be administered in short order.

And from earlier, "Name 5 characters you think really need a hug."

Let's see... Jack Bauer, obviously. Tough and awesome as he is, the havoc it's all wreaked on his life... dude. Not to mention the fact that the people he works for have screwed him a few times (let's let him rot in a torture chamber until we get him out because a bad guy wants to see him executed!) and then there's the fact that nobody ever listens to him when it's obvious. I've heard it said that if he was listened to from the beginning, it wouldn't be called 24, but 6. (Or is it 8?)

Then... Daniel Jackson, Peter Parker, Jeri Katou, Chuck Bartowski. (Chuck's life's not quite as screwed as the others, but the kind of things that happen to him episode to episode... well, he and Peter Parker would get along. I say "Poor Chuck!" aloud at least once almost every time.

Unrelated except in that it's also connected to the world of fiction: "Clownhouse" is seriously. Messed. Up.
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