Lymond's really difficult to cast, I think, because it's hard to decide how pretty he ought to be, and there seems to be a dearth of blond actors out there at the moment. Or at least ones that I've seen. And he has to look young. You're not going to get away with casting someone who's in their thirties.
I knew you were a fellow Lymond lover. Somehow I can usually tell from people's fic styles. Not that it's an obvious influence, just that people who love Lymond tend to see Methos a certain way.
yes, the perennial Lymond Casting Game. He really is difficult; not only young and blonde but able to play a certain hardness. And intelligence, and angst.
I waffle as to how much I love Lymond, since I usually want to shake him violently and point out that he's being an idiot.
Which is one of the problems I see in the Lymond books --it's an unusual version of the idiot plot. In this one, if the hero would stop acting like everyone around him was an idiot, there wouldn't be so damn many problems.
But yeah, I'm a Lymond person. I never really got into any of her other books, superbly researched though they were.
I tried the Niccolo books but couldn't even finish the first.
Yeah, you do have to suspend a certain amount of disbelief to enjoy them. But somehow I don't have a problem with that.
if the hero would stop acting like everyone around him was an idiot, there wouldn't be so damn many problems.
this is the exact problem with portions of the Horsemen episodes - If Methos just would have told Mac what was going down, it would have been much simpler.
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I knew you were a fellow Lymond lover. Somehow I can usually tell from people's fic styles. Not that it's an obvious influence, just that people who love Lymond tend to see Methos a certain way.
yes, the perennial Lymond Casting Game. He really is difficult; not only young and blonde but able to play a certain hardness. And intelligence, and angst.
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Which is one of the problems I see in the Lymond books --it's an unusual version of the idiot plot. In this one, if the hero would stop acting like everyone around him was an idiot, there wouldn't be so damn many problems.
But yeah, I'm a Lymond person. I never really got into any of her other books, superbly researched though they were.
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Yeah, you do have to suspend a certain amount of disbelief to enjoy them. But somehow I don't have a problem with that.
if the hero would stop acting like everyone around him was an idiot, there wouldn't be so damn many problems.
this is the exact problem with portions of the Horsemen episodes - If Methos just would have told Mac what was going down, it would have been much simpler.
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