Meme.
It's Friiiiddaaay! *jumps*
Raining very hard in Shanghai, but I'm not going to let that spoil the prospect of an evening at JZ Club tonight, where there is always live jazz and apparently you're allowed to smoke inside again.
But first, a meme:
Leave the name of a character from a fandom you know I'm in, and I will tell you:
* How I FEEEEEL ( Read more... )
Raining very hard in Shanghai, but I'm not going to let that spoil the prospect of an evening at JZ Club tonight, where there is always live jazz and apparently you're allowed to smoke inside again.
But first, a meme:
Leave the name of a character from a fandom you know I'm in, and I will tell you:
* How I FEEEEEL ( Read more... )
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Okay, I remember reading the book maybe 5 years ago, and not being terribly impressed with it. The friendship kind of came out of nowhere, it seemed, and I think my impression of Esca was that he was kind of a lapdog, and not believable as a character. But then, maybe I shouldn't have expected realistic coloniser-colonised relationships in a 50 year old YA novel. So, hats off to Jamie Bell for making me love him so fiercely, but then he has a way of doing that (see: Jumper). If you think of Esca as "the native" in these kinds of period action movies, what's impressive is that he is allowed to be a better and more complex individual than any of the other characters in the movie. Esca is the conscience of the film, and the character responsible for most of its turning points ( ... )
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Oh Cesare. :( Has so much ink ever been spilt on an individual who almost became great, who was so close and yet so far from his goals, who is so much more famous in his failure than his opponents in their success? I became enthralled in Cesare Borgia when I was 14, reading up on Machiavelli for the first time in history class. His cleverness and strength of will, the speed with which he could turn an idea into action, his sense of timing, was brilliant and beguiling. Perhaps knowing that he would end tragically, and still so young, allowed me to admire him despite his reputation for cruelty.
The way he is being portrayed on The Borgias is very sympathetic - perhaps a little too much so, given the history, but I cannot fault the character that Neil Jordan and Francois Arnaud have created. There's a quote from Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones (the book) that goes:
"So many vows ... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for ( ... )
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Cas is probably the only TV depiction of an angelic being that hasn't made me want to throw up my hands, or want to punch in the face. He is hilarious, handsome, believably and endearingly "other", and provides a welcome morally different perspective on everything. He's the only reason I'm still watching Supernatural, and if HBO finds a way to cast Misha Collins in their version of American Gods, I will be eternally grateful.
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
Anna, God, Dean, Joshua, Gabriel.
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
Cas/Balthazar. :D
* My unpopular opinion about this character
I hate seeing Cas become ever more human when the highest exemplar for "human" he has is Dean.
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
Kinda really want to see him question this whole "free will" business, or at least stop seeing it in such dualistic terms. Nothing defines Castiel so much as his capacity to eternally question himself.
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