There's Nowhere To Flee For Your Life

[redbrunja]

Shibboleth is a great word.

Rooks by Sheerwater (download here) is totally an Uchiha Itachi song.

I See Red by Ur Huh Her (download here) is totally a Haruno Sakura song.

I've been meaning to do the last couple fannish5  :

Five characters that replaced departing characters, and whether you considered each a gain or a loss.

1.) Tara. While I think Tara is awesome and I really loved her from the whole 'lesbian on primetime' factor and how nonchalant they were about that relationship, I kinda adored Oz, and personally connected more with the 'cool musician falls for pretty geek girl' storyline than the lesbian witches one. Loss. (...and bellzooks will be burning me at the stake shortly...)

2.) Wesley. While Doyle was possibly the best person for Cordelia, ever, his death was kinda awesome in that it gave her visions which resulted in even more awesome character development from her, and lead to Wesley having a FANTASTIC and realistic character arc. (Seriously, think about who he was introduced as, and who he became.)

3.) Whoever ends up replacing Zach. The cluster fuck that was him being written off the show automatically means that whoever replaces him won't be as awesome. Loss.

4.) Tori. The fact that they didn't do more with Billy was bad, but the fact that they wrote him off in a way that made me hate everyone in that love triangle... is actually par for the course with BSG. Anyway, back to the point, Billy was awesome and Tori is an evil Cylon who killed Cally in order to fuck the Chief. Die, bitch.

5.) Zach. Despite his few cute moments, he was nowhere near as perfect for Lane as Dave (aka, Seth Cohen with a guitar. I mean, freaking Seth Cohen.)

Name your five favorite fanfic tropes. (Assume that these are tropes written well.)

1.) Two characters being ordered to work together on something, and UST leading to RST results.

2.) One character, while sleeping in the same bed as another, cuddles and/or fondles the other in a way they would never do at this point in this fic if they were awake.

3.) Sex making things MORE complicated, not less.

4.) Sex occurring before one or both of the participants is in love/knows they're in love.

5.) The guy falling in love and knowing he's in love before the girl.

Comments

[pyxis-lynx.livejournal.com]

5.) The guy falling in love and knowing he's in love before the girl.

sadly, I can't remember a fanfic that I've read with this in it. hurr.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

If you're interested.....

SilverShine does it twice, in "Duty Before Honor" and "The Window."

Also, so does fandomme, very, very strongly in "Ozai's Vengance" and to a lesser degree in "Stormbenders."

I do it in, "Love Me Dead", "Jester", hint at in in "Never Just A Game" and "Foolish Boys", "Goddamned Subtext", "I’ll Take You Where The Water’s Deep" and "Or Else This Heat Might Turn To Frost."

But yes, I don't think enough people play around with that idea.

Also, in television, there is HIMYM and Buffy which both do that.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Dude, BSG spoilers. I haven't seen season 4 yet. Cally dies? Fuckin' A.

Actually I'm not *really* upset because BSG is far from my favorite show...this is more of a mild grumble. About the only thing left about that show which is entertaining to me is finding out the last cylon and wondering if any of the few characters I like actually make it to the end. (President. Helo. Chief....quite a few people who aren't Kara or Lee or Adama...)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty much everybody's reaction.

BSG is one of the shows that I successfully quit and never regretted. They fracked up too much for me to want to give that show 40 minutes of my life however often it aired.

Re: I swear, I'm using this icon ironically...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the feeling, that they were trying to make Oz unlikable. It just had that classic Whedon irony, that no relationship ends happily. I still miss him, though.

Cordelia is a character who almost grew on me after the fact. Like, after they screwed her character up I'd look back and be like, wow, she was awesome and a really good character back then (more in the sense of providing balance and practicality to shows that really needed it.)

Re: I swear, I'm using this icon ironically...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It truly did. And I think her last episode was them being like, 'well, we kinda fucked this up, and now she has a newborn baby girl so... you're just going to have to live with it.

Re: I swear, I'm using this icon ironically...

[layers-of-snark.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I heard rumours that the writers were pissed with Charisma Carpenter for getting pregnant, and that the entire storyline which related to that came about specifically as the result of that.

However, that is very, very possibly pure speculation.

Re: I swear, I'm using this icon ironically...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, based on what I've heard the writers say, and the fact that her arc was massively fucked LONG before she got knocked up.

Re: I swear, I'm using this icon ironically...

[layers-of-snark.livejournal.com]

True. I think I need to go interview hunting. I have kind of blocked large chunks of Angel from my mind, and don't really feel inclined to sit through most of it again, so I forgot how insanely long all the stuff with Lets Character!Slay Cordy was.

(It would be kind of cool if Charisma turned up in Dollhouse)