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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2007-11-29 06:30 pm
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Borrowed from [profile] fandom_me and [profile] smithy161

Name a character from one of my fandoms and I'll give you either (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
very hard

B- Simms sucks because he gives megalomaniacs a bad name. He's all flash with no substance. He rules the world and all he can do is turn the Doctor into Dobby the elf? Where's the grand plan? Where's the panache?

and, damn it, he had Jack chained up and didn't take the man's shirt off? (I am shallow)

[identity profile] k-haldane.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well, not that we *saw*. What he did in the course of the entire year is still open to speculation. :-P

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
good point.. but... we wanted to SEE

(It's entirely unfair there's only been two shirtless Jack scenes in all of DW/TW)

[identity profile] k-haldane.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
That's why we have to write the scenes ourselves.

Why do I get the feeling that the character of Jack Harkness wouldn't object to NC-17 fanfictions? (I will make no claims at all as to what JB might think.)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Capt Jack would probably be thrilled that there were so many people who didn't have those 'quaint little categories'

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Like in Serenity, when Mal was shirtless & all we got were clavicles. What's wrong with these people.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
they certainly have NO concept of the fans they are dealing with!

[identity profile] aeron-lanart.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
they certainly have NO concept of the fans they are dealing with!
That's probably not a bad thing. We might scare them... I'm sure RTD does know however, and even if he doesn't I bet JB and GDL do.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Then I beg of him... SHIRTLESS JACK IN '08!!!!

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
& I'd like to see more of Ianto...a *lot* more of Ianto.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
that too. We didn't even get him shirtless in S1. No fair

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
A-pparently. Grumble. They put in all those young women in short skirts & low necklines, & whadda they give *us*? It's discrimination, that's what it is...

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
We did get Rhys's bum, twice I think. NOT REMOTELY fair in my book. *sigh* is asking for a little Captain appreciation such a bad thing?

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
They gave us Jack's bare backside in DW1, this is TW, for cryin' out loud! I mean, they gave us skinny Owen's bare just-about-everything, give us something with a little more substance, already.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
back yes in S1, but not bum, the BBC cut that. *sigh* and what they've shown of Owen? *sigh* why?

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Why, indeed. I can only conclude, given what I've read of the dire food shortages in WWII Britain, that Diane was accustomed to making do with skinny guys.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really mind Owen all that much, but I once saw him described (apologetically) as a rat on a stick, and, well... the description's not far off, especially compared to the other TW men

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Well, Ianto's lean, but he has a sturdier frame; attach a string & a tail to Owen & you could use him for a kite. Jack's like a big, beautiful cavalry horse. (OK, OK, can't help it, Texas girl, we love our horses & our trucks.)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
oooh excellent descriptions. I don't really know horses, but I can see what you mean.

(Btw- have you asked for someone in the Meme yet?)

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, I don't know all that much, but I've been around them (Texas, semi-rural, State Fair...). Now, I have a friend who *really* knows horses!

No, I haven't named a character, come to think of it. How about Toshiko?

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Tosh- D
1- she never really fell in love with Mary as a person, she fell in love with the ideas Mary represented (danger and risk)
2- she never hated her job, but she's hated some of the things she's seen because of her job
3- She never really wanted to open the rift, especially that way. She hadn't really made up her mind either way and got swept up in it all and was horrified when Owen shot Jack
4- Tosh never really wanted Owen. She wanted someone to want HER, but was scared by that desire so set her sights on Owen, knowing it would never happen
5-Tosh was never sorry she went to 1941 with Jack, it was scary, but she learned so much about him and really felt she shared something with him

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
I basically agree, though I think the things with Owen & Mary also had a lot to do with loneliness & insecurity. As for going to 1941 with Jack, he wound up confiding more to Tosh than he did to anyone but possibly John, the man displaced from 1953.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
yep, there was a loneliness aspect to it too, I knew I was forgetting something.

Jack and John Ellis were incredible together. Just *sigh* Barrowman did such a great job at showing how torn Jack was, he truly understood John- where the other man was coming from, how he felt about the past/present/future... and he felt a lot of the same things. that last scene- in the car with the carbon monoxide seeping in- was heartbreaking

[identity profile] eumenidis.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I think it was one of Barrowman's best performances in the series. It's just a pity so many of Barrowman & Ellis's scenes together didn't make into the final cut; oh, well, there is the DVD.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh, the DVD's aren't available here till January, I'm really looking forward to them and if there are more John/Jack scenes? *bonus*

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