sundries: media edition

[rm]

Patty and I have started watching Merlin. It's pretty terrible. It's also pretty inexplicable. The chemistry is amazing and weird (Merlin/Arthur yes, but Guin/Morgana like woah too). Inexplicable is really the only word. I get why people write porn about it, but I don't get why anyone is watching is beyond trying, desperately, to figure out why it exists. Oh, hey, look, random Eve Myles!

Argh, a week without Kings. It's not that good, but it's like nothing else out there and I've found myself missing it.

Doctor Who -- Planet of the Dead -- not the emotional punch I was hoping for. Also, yikes on the Magical Negro front. Jenny and the thief chick should have sex. I wonder what Torchwood was doing while all this shit was going on (other than being glad they weren't in London). Interesting episode structurally for how many other key episodes it referenced (including The Doctor Dances). Loved the "four knocks" premonition thing. Guess that really is John Simm in those blurry frigging photos. Anyway, marchek and I came to the conclusion that the episode was Pitch Black meets The Langoliers

Wacked out dream last night about Australia and raising funds to attend a one week acting/directing course in Sydney that Luhrmann was teaching. Buh? Was set in this weird dream universe version of Sydney and NIDA that I have. But the weirdest part was when I flew down to Sydney just for a day, because I had to (for reasons I can no longer recall), and I was fine dropping $1,500 on the ticket to do it until I realized, after getting there, it was just a one way ticket and I needed $2,322 to get back. bodlon had to come rescue me, and got subjected to one of my long pothos-induced wails about my creative destiny and everything I'm not. Oh! And when I first got to Sydney there was a teenager selling hand-crafted white leather bracelets on the dream!road by the dream!airport and I told her I was broke and wished her good luck. It was the middle of the night and she beamed at me; I had only noticed her because a woman on a cellphone walking towards me had been mean to her. Odd dream that left me oddly out of sorts.

I am finishing work and then heading home I think to write a Jack/Ianto/Andy PWP I just got hit with. Very random.

I see wank coming down the pike in TW fandom (thanks for the heads up redstapler) and wonder of wonders, it's not about me for a fucking change.

Comments

[dr-is-in.livejournal.com]

She has to have extreme amounts of patience and a good sense of humor to cope with it. They are really good together.

I like that the cast and creators of the show are so open and accessible to the fans, but there has to be lines drawn somewhere. On both sides. Fans have to know what reasonable expectations should consist of, and the celebs need to know how to get themselves out of a bad situation and not play into it just to please the fans.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And it's a super hard skill.

The number one thing I wish EVERYONE would get already is that con appearances are performances. They are even for me, and I'm just usually wearing the fan or pro critic/writer hat.

These fucking _stars_ need to get that (some of them are clearly still learning), as do large swathes of the fandom.

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

Oh I do hope it's true (that Gemma and Gareth are engaged). They are so incredibly cute together. I wish them well. God bless Gemma, I'm sure it's hard at cons when there are tons of screaming fangirls. I know if I were in her situation I'd be hard pressed not to smack someone if they got to close or crossed a line.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think one of the things that gets complicated are the lines aren't always where the fans expect. Being an actor is so weird. There's all this stuff you do that's you, but it's not you and the people in your life get that, but the people watching don't always which is usually how stupidity ensues.

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

I agree. You've got the character that these people play that fandom embraces and loves and runs with that. Then you've got the actor (as the person) that fandom also loves. Then there's the actor (play themselves for the fans). And that's where the stupidity can ensue because sometimes fandom forgets the difference between the actor as the person and the actor playing the actor for the fans. I think with the Internet the line gets blurred even more because we can access everything about the character, the actor etc and people forget that there are all separate entities and we don't "own" any of them (as much as we may like to at times)--hence the stupidity.

I do hope that makes sense and I didn't ramble to much.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Perfectly. It's one of those many things on the list of "lectures I wish didn't need giving"

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

Right up there with "a 4-way stop means EVERYBODY STOPS" and "the speed limit isn't just a pretty sign...".

[rm.livejournal.com]

Both of those, oddly applicable to con interactions too!

Heh.

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

LOL! This makes me glad you're around. I've never been to a con (don't know if I'll ever get to one) but it's nice to learn the rules/etiquette (most of it's common sense but some..not so much).