Comments | alixtii: Yuletide Recs, fandoms 4-B

alixtii

Yuletide Recs, fandoms 4-B

Dec 25, 2006 09:04

Neutral Parties, The 4400, Diana & Maia & Nina. Maia and Nina are two of my favorite 4400 characters (not counting Summer's character Tess, of course): Maia the pre-teen with superpowers (she can see the future) and Nina the tough-as-steel superior officer. Here their degree of control over their lives is contrasted nicely with Diana's sensations ( Read more... )

rec, arcadia, the 4400, yuletide

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spikendru December 25 2006, 20:38:56 UTC

OH, the recs look great! I've bookmarked wednesday Addams and the 4400 and was interested in the Bourne Identity, as I've just re-read the trilogy (Identity, Ultimatum and Supremacy) but I'm not at all familiar with the movieverse. Who is Nicky?

alixtii December 26 2006, 14:59:09 UTC

Nicky is Julia Stiles' character, a government agent who had worked with Jason before his amnesia.

There's a lot of differences between bookverse and movieverse.

spikendru December 26 2006, 17:51:38 UTC

Oh, thanks. I guess I'll give that one a pass, then, as I've never seen the movie and it would probably confuse the hell out of me. I tried to watch the new Battlestar Galactia when it first aired, but it sort of short-circuited my brain, as I was a fan of the original series. I even tried to convince myself that either (a) Dirk Benedict had a daughter, who was also named Starbuck, or (b) Starbuck had a sex-change and was now a girl. It was just too disconcerting to deal with the dissonence of the new characters having the same names as the original characters. I don't know why they didn't just give the new characters NEW names - they could still have been officers on the Galactia! (And then, to top it all off, I happened to catch an episode in which the original Captain Apollo was playing a different character that seemed to be a prisoner! Arrgh!) I guess I'll just have to start completely over with the S1 DVDs.

alixtii December 30 2006, 23:01:35 UTC

Well, the movie is simpler and more streamlined than the books, so it's more you have to forget things than remember them; there isn't all that much to Nicky's character to need to be remembered. The one real big difference is that in the movie Jason Bourne really was an assassin, while in the books I believe he was just pretending. (The movies are more will-to-powery than the books, so I actually like them better.)

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drifterskip December 26 2006, 08:00:50 UTC

That Addams fic was fantastic.

alixtii December 26 2006, 14:54:40 UTC

Wasn't it? I love Wednesday so much.