The Rose's Grove

Gacked from razycrandomgirl: the 12 characters meme. I love this game!

Choose twelve characters from your fandoms, then answer the questions under the link. Do not look at the questions beforehand.

1. Mal (Firefly)
2. Inara (Firefly)
3. Ivanova (Babylon 5)
4. Garak (DS9)
5. Mulder (X-Files)
6. Remus (HP)
7. Zoe (Firefly)
8. Methos (Highlander)
9. Snape (HP)
10. Londo (Babylon 5, for no real reason)
11. Bashir (DS9)
12. Elphaba (Wicked)

( And the Questions! )

Cat = whiney obnoxious bastard. I sooo need to refill the squirt guns and keep one by my bed.

Other than that, I've been awake for an hour and have accomplished nothing except eating an apple, reading fic, reading a little bit more of Fantasy Girls, and getting annoyed over things that happened in a sci-fi series that's been defunct for... six years, probably almost to the day. Go me.

Had a really fun night last night, out with ryunohi, wanderingbeyond and the work people, and then out with part of the usual crew to celebrate coramegan's survival of year 2 of med school. Much alcohol and nachos, much coffee, much strawberry shortcake, and very much silliness all around. Today, I get to write a paper for The Class I hate. And a paper for The Class I Love, too, but that one won't take nearly as long. Which is sad. Fortunately I have all weekend. Unfortunately, this is a really busy weekend. And I'm being attacked by out-of-date plotbunnies. *Sighs*

A question for those of you who actually watched DS9, back in 'the day': I'm curious - what pairings did you like? Which pairings did you dislike? Which ones did you feel were totally smashed onto the series by the producer/writers in a way that made you want to gag? Not that I'm biased and totally thought they did that kind of shit way too much, mind you. Not at all.

While I'm on the subject, here's a little essay found while picture-hunting the other day, contemplating the complete abandonment of Garak and Bashir's friendship in the later seasons of DS9, something that drove me practically up the wall at the time and hasn't failed to irritate me any time I think about the series since. You don't just drop an interaction like that! Bad writers. And the two-second "gee, I guess this is goodbye" at the end of the series doesn't count, damn it. And not just because I was sitting on the couch practically screaming at them to just kiss and get it over with. One quibble about the article - personally, I would argue that Berman/Piller didn't actually have Garak's sexuality within their "artistic perview" after the first episode. They left it to interpretation, the actor interpreted (whoooo boy, did he ever) and any amount of asking him to tone it down that they may or may not have done really couldn't change the fact of that first conversation.

(Regarding the end of the article, though - was I the only person to whom it had absolutely never occurred that there might be sexual tension going on between Seven and Janeway? Admittedly, that show lost my attention there toward the end, but... nope, definitely never caught that vibe. Seven/Doctor, yes, but Seven/Janeway? o_O)

Fandoms never leave. They just go into remission.

Spent the day with Dad, yesterday, as planned - we went to the Conservatory to ogle the pretty plants, and then to the mall for lunch and me trying to return something. Still failed to return said thing, because neither that store nor the one in U Village had my size in what I want. *Sighs* Oh well. I've got store credit, and I can just keep trying.

After that, theladyfeylene and I finally got out to see "The Phantom of the Opera" in movie form! It was visually spectacular, musically quite good, and from an acting stand-point, a hell of a lot more impressive than I would ever have expected. ( The specific review - gushing, spoilers, and my attempts to play acting/directing coach within. )

I also remembered, yesterday, just how much it changes one's impressions of someone to actually draw them. The attention that must be payed to properly recreate a person's features brings out things you've never consciously noticed before - I think it should be a required activity for all actors, because it makes you notice exactly what a person is doing with their face that gives off the impressions it does. How I went twelve years (TWELVE! More than half my life!) without fully noticing that Andrew Robison (as Garak, at least, but I think in most of his performances, as well) has the peculiar habit of always holding his eyes more open than most people on a daily basis, I will never know. It totally changed the picture I was working on to realize that and then, when I explained this to my roommates, I demonstrated... and immediately realized why. There's a sudden feeling of greater attention, greater awareness, and a sort of... constant vigilance and curiosity, like he's trying to take in everything around him, all the time.

And now I'm very glad I'm alone in my room, because I'm sitting here pulling my backbone straight, opening my eyes rather wide, and generally putting on my best impression of his physicality for that role. Damn, I miss this stuff. I love how the physicality bleeds almost immediately into emotional changes, how quickly you can alter what your body thinks by how you hold it.

The cat is crying. I'd better figure out what he wants, and then get going with reading.