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vaznettiYou'll be pleased to know that I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fillyjonk is here in New York with me, and we are alternating between packing and indulging in nostalgia. I tried to explain Alias to her and realized that I've got to replot the current section of the hiatusfic I'm working on--I think I've backed myself into a corner, and it's very frustrating. I also think I need a beta reader who understands Jack Bristow. Or wants to understand him, anyway.
But I did find time to answergryphonrhi's five questions. Read on for Highlander, X-Files, and my current obsession.
Would you have still gotten into Highlander if you weren't a classics major, do you think?
Oh, sure. I liked the show before the old man turned up, you know. The dippy flashbacks just made it that much more enjoyable. I really liked the movie, too ("Heh. What kept you?"). I think knowing too much about ancient history has kept me out of Hercules and Xena fandoms--I can watch the shows and enjoy them, but I can't immerse myself in that universe. It makes my brain itch.
Now, would I have really gotten into Highlander if I hadn't read Dorothy Dunnett? It's possible that if I had not said "Oh my goodness! It's Jerott Blyth!" and been right the first time I lay eyes on Duncan McLeod, I would have continued to flip the channels (/pimping of Dunnett).
Favorite season(s) of X-Files and why?
Probably Season Four--the mytharc was complex, but not too complex, and I'm a sucker for the cancer arc. I love watching what it does to Scully, Mulder and Skinner. There are things about Season Five that I like better (the Krycek episodes in particular), but I already have the sense that the mytharc is spinning out of control there, and Mulder and Scully are starting to grate on my last nerve in some of those episodes. So I'll go for Season 4 as the one where I find the leads the most tolerable.
Same for Highlander?
Oh dear. I'm bad with Highlander seasons--I tend to conflate them. But you know, the one where Methos is introduced for real, although I could have lived without the whole Zoroastrian demon thing at the season end. It was the end of that season, wasn't it? Up to that season, I was pretty much just watching for the eye candy. But I thought that with the introduction of Methos the show developed some more complexity, as Duncan begins to consider whether or not his urge to get involved and fix things is really the best plan (which is what I think is going on with the "Champion" storyline, much though I mocked it, and with the Methos storyline, because Methos claims that don't get involved" is his watchword, although his actions belie that. But the Horsemen episodes suggest that lazy uninvolvement may be a good lifestyle choice on Methos' part.)
Same for Buffy?
Season Three. I love the build-up the the graduation. There are also a whole lot of excellent episodes only tangentially related to the arc, like Band Candy and The Zeppo. I love the Mayor, and Faith. This is the season in which my love for Xander really took off, although Willow started to irritate me. It has Principal Snyder, and Cordelia and her complicated best, and Wesley (and you know, we all should have realized, when Wesley turned up all geeky in those funny suits and hairgel, that he would one day become an ambiguously evil sex god...), and at the end of the season the students all unite and fight back. It's the season which, I think, encapsulates everything I love about the show. Plus, in the end they blow up the school.
What pairing and/or fandom would you most like to pimp to what writers?
::laughs:: Isn't it obvious? I want everyone I know to start writing Alias fic. I want Ladonna to write me some Krycek/Sark, because it would be hot and not sad--if I wrote it it would be tragic. And Sark is pretty, dangerous and uncaring in a way which ought to appeal to her. I wantjennyo to write more Jack and Irina, or more Angel/Alias crossover goodness. I would love to see spican write a Sark/Sydney piece, but I accept that that will never happen. kellykeil might, though. Someday. Oh, who am I kidding? I don't think she even watches the show. I want kristenk2 to write about Emily and Arvin--did Emily ever think she had a normal life? I want deslea to explain this Rambaldi stuff in big words. I want pauraque and muridae_x to write character-driven pieces.
I am doomed to remain largely unsatisfied. Luckily, I've found some extremely good writers who are already in Alias fandom. I ought to go poke them for fics.
From you, though, I just want Connor/Krycek. Relieved? And hey, I'd be honored to be involved in any small way with such a noble enterprise as the resurrection of FitzCairn.
For some reason, I'm having a terrible time thinking up questions for you.
Off to do another box. Or maybe a suitcase. The UPS men are coming tomorrow to take the books etc.
fillyjonk is here in New York with me, and we are alternating between packing and indulging in nostalgia. I tried to explain Alias to her and realized that I've got to replot the current section of the hiatusfic I'm working on--I think I've backed myself into a corner, and it's very frustrating. I also think I need a beta reader who understands Jack Bristow. Or wants to understand him, anyway.But I did find time to answer
gryphonrhi's five questions. Read on for Highlander, X-Files, and my current obsession.Would you have still gotten into Highlander if you weren't a classics major, do you think?
Oh, sure. I liked the show before the old man turned up, you know. The dippy flashbacks just made it that much more enjoyable. I really liked the movie, too ("Heh. What kept you?"). I think knowing too much about ancient history has kept me out of Hercules and Xena fandoms--I can watch the shows and enjoy them, but I can't immerse myself in that universe. It makes my brain itch.
Now, would I have really gotten into Highlander if I hadn't read Dorothy Dunnett? It's possible that if I had not said "Oh my goodness! It's Jerott Blyth!" and been right the first time I lay eyes on Duncan McLeod, I would have continued to flip the channels (/pimping of Dunnett).
Favorite season(s) of X-Files and why?
Probably Season Four--the mytharc was complex, but not too complex, and I'm a sucker for the cancer arc. I love watching what it does to Scully, Mulder and Skinner. There are things about Season Five that I like better (the Krycek episodes in particular), but I already have the sense that the mytharc is spinning out of control there, and Mulder and Scully are starting to grate on my last nerve in some of those episodes. So I'll go for Season 4 as the one where I find the leads the most tolerable.
Same for Highlander?
Oh dear. I'm bad with Highlander seasons--I tend to conflate them. But you know, the one where Methos is introduced for real, although I could have lived without the whole Zoroastrian demon thing at the season end. It was the end of that season, wasn't it? Up to that season, I was pretty much just watching for the eye candy. But I thought that with the introduction of Methos the show developed some more complexity, as Duncan begins to consider whether or not his urge to get involved and fix things is really the best plan (which is what I think is going on with the "Champion" storyline, much though I mocked it, and with the Methos storyline, because Methos claims that don't get involved" is his watchword, although his actions belie that. But the Horsemen episodes suggest that lazy uninvolvement may be a good lifestyle choice on Methos' part.)
Same for Buffy?
Season Three. I love the build-up the the graduation. There are also a whole lot of excellent episodes only tangentially related to the arc, like Band Candy and The Zeppo. I love the Mayor, and Faith. This is the season in which my love for Xander really took off, although Willow started to irritate me. It has Principal Snyder, and Cordelia and her complicated best, and Wesley (and you know, we all should have realized, when Wesley turned up all geeky in those funny suits and hairgel, that he would one day become an ambiguously evil sex god...), and at the end of the season the students all unite and fight back. It's the season which, I think, encapsulates everything I love about the show. Plus, in the end they blow up the school.
What pairing and/or fandom would you most like to pimp to what writers?
::laughs:: Isn't it obvious? I want everyone I know to start writing Alias fic. I want Ladonna to write me some Krycek/Sark, because it would be hot and not sad--if I wrote it it would be tragic. And Sark is pretty, dangerous and uncaring in a way which ought to appeal to her. I want
jennyo to write more Jack and Irina, or more Angel/Alias crossover goodness. I would love to see spican write a Sark/Sydney piece, but I accept that that will never happen. kellykeil might, though. Someday. Oh, who am I kidding? I don't think she even watches the show. I want kristenk2 to write about Emily and Arvin--did Emily ever think she had a normal life? I want deslea to explain this Rambaldi stuff in big words. I want pauraque and muridae_x to write character-driven pieces.I am doomed to remain largely unsatisfied. Luckily, I've found some extremely good writers who are already in Alias fandom. I ought to go poke them for fics.
From you, though, I just want Connor/Krycek. Relieved? And hey, I'd be honored to be involved in any small way with such a noble enterprise as the resurrection of FitzCairn.
For some reason, I'm having a terrible time thinking up questions for you.
Off to do another box. Or maybe a suitcase. The UPS men are coming tomorrow to take the books etc.
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Date: 2003-06-15 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-15 03:18 pm (UTC)Well, either that or it was just a 47 billion to one coincidence that I spent this evening watching the final three episodes of the season.
Seriously though, I love Alias to all its silly little bits and pieces and Rimbaldi artefacts. I just have only the haziest of notions what the overall Rimbaldi plotarc is up to, because of this evil habit Sky One have of moving it about the schedule so I keep missing episodes. :-(
Sark took a while to grow on me. But you've just got to love a guy who's up-front about the fact that his loyalties are flexible. :-)
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Date: 2003-06-15 05:17 pm (UTC)You know, any fic you wanted to write would be fine with me. It doesn't have to be Sarkfic. Really.
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Date: 2003-06-16 06:05 am (UTC)But I missed a lot of continuity-critical stuff in season one - such as Will finding out about Syd's career as a spy, and some of the early hints about Irina still being alive. And any knowledge of the whole feels a little precarious without them. Of course, this little problem will be fixed in September when the season one DVDs get released. :-)
My Krycek muse is very jealous, and insists that if I ever get my butt into gear and write anything, it must be about him. But I think he'd let me moonlight as a reader (or beta reader) of other people's stuff. I'm not sure I have any coherent insights into Jack Bristow's thought processes though. Seems to me that he and his wife were pretty well matched on that front.