Vid recs, and writer-fan encounters of the classic type

[selenak]

Firstly, more vid recs:

Terminator movies/ Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Land: this one is epic, using the multiple timelines premise from the show and the time loop premise from the movies to fantastic effect, matching footage from both. Sarah, John, the time loop of John's existence, and all the possibilities.

Star Trek:

Swing: this vid is

Comments

[kaffy_r]

I don't even know that much about Goethe (except that Chicagoans habitually mispronounce the street named after him in our city. Not me!) or Schiller, and this made me laugh out loud. Good stuff!

[selenak]

If you want to know more, check out the old post o'mine I linked above. It has some neat quotes. :)

[honorh]

Madame de Stael: I think German verse feels clumsy.
Goethe: I think French verse feels like tapeworm.

*sporfle!* I also know little of Goethe and Schiller except that C.S. Lewis seems to think Werther was a whiny drama queen, and I, too, found this hilarious. Sounds like Madame was the kind of fan we all know and detest.

[selenak]

Werther was a drama queen, but then, so was everyone in the the era, in and out of fiction. Goethe's own attitude towards his first novel and its hero was somewhat like Arthur Conan Doyle's to Sherlock Holmes: it made him popular and was his big bestselling breakthrough as a young man, but became something of a millstone around his neck later because for a few decades more, instead of being associated with the works we now associate with him, he was "the author of Werther" and was asked about the novel. Madame de Stael bringing it up twenty years after the novel was published being a case in point. So did Napoleon, whose encounter with Goethe (a few years post-de Stael) was as much an example of period fanboy-ness as anything and will remind you of Nine and Dickens. A bit of background: a few years after the first publication, Goethe revised The Sorrows of Young Werther in that while the original solely consists of Werther's letters to his friend Wilhelm and one final remark by a narrator, the revised version has several narrative

Han totally shot first.

[shezan]

*DIES*

You just know Napoleon would have been an OT purist

[selenak]

I hoped you might appreciate my summing up of that encounter. :)

[artaxastra]

*laughs head off*

I don't like Germaine de Stael on a gut level, and not just because she had her ups and downs with Napoleon. I can see how the boys would run! *g*

[selenak]

To be fair, Napoleon had a fanboy moment with Goethe himself (see my reply to H. above), though Goethe (who as an observer from afar had always thought Bonaparte was fascinating, though not trustworthy) liked him way better and got into a lot of trouble later when post-Elba AND post-Waterloo, he still insisted on talking well of him. (Really not a popular opinion to have in the German states at that time

[artaxastra]

("I, too, feel after her departure as if I had survived a great illness.")

I see his point!

[shezan]

("She wants to explain, check out and measure everything, and if she can't go somewhere with her torch, it doesn't exist for her.")

Alas, for a Suissesse, she is the godmother of SO MANY FRENCH CRITICS!!!!

[kskitten]

Thanks for the rec, Land was fantastic! I miss my show!!!

[selenak]

So do I!

[pseudo_tsuga]

I love these two posts. Fandom is truly eternal!

[selenak]

Verily. :)