Random randomness

[wiseheart]

Cos I'm on sick leave, although the sickness has passed, and feel like babbling a bit, yo!

The telly - or why I might end up spend my hard-earned cash on shows that I cannot watch, even though everyone says they're rubbish.

I heard really, really bad things about Starz' Camelot. So I googled a bit, and what I saw confirmed my worst fears. Come on, guys, WTF, Arthur a girl??? Okay, I know he technically isn't a girl, but he looks like one. Imagining him having sex with the actual girls on the show is... off-putting, to say the least. No offence against anyone, but if I wanna watch femslash, the least I could demand would be that both participants be real girls, right? At least Bradley James looks like a knight who would be capable of raising his sword without collapsing under its weight.

But... the show stars Eva Green as Morgan, and she looks absolutely stunning. I could never warm up to Katie McGrath's Morgana, so perhaps I should give "Camelot" a chance, after all. Plus, it has Sean Pertwee, with whom I've been in selfless love ever since I saw him as Hugh Beringar. And Clive Standen! *flails* Granted, I only saw him in Dr. Who, where he had a total of about three seconds of screen time, but I'm so totally fangirling him. Embarrassing, really, considering that I could be his mother. Ah, well. I might even buy some random Robin Hood episodes to watch him. I'm shallow that way. I like me some ruggedly handsome men from time to time.


Procrastinating - or the pain of too many choices after finishing a story.

Now that I've finally gotten "Eye Witness" out of my hair (not that anybody but artemis10002000 would give a rat's arse about my Torchwood fic), I've taken a good hard look of my unfinished WIPs - and blanched. There are too many, in too many different fandoms!

My best candidates to be finished in the foreseeable future would be "Vox Angelica" in the Cadfael fandom, "Brothers-in-Arms" (also in the Cadfael fandom) and "A Visitor from Avalon", my Merlin-Torchwood crossover. Consequently, what have I done all day? Background work on "Sea-Flower", a pre-Ring-War Tolkienfic taking place in Umbar.

Yeah, right. That's me, doing the least logical thing. But at least I've figured out how to include the bull games and cast some of the characters. Not surprisingly, Princess Ivriniel will be played by Eva Green and Lord Caliondo of Umbar will be played by Clive Standen. What? I told you I'm shallow! And I need my visuals. I'm seriously considering having Colin Morgan play the Dark Elf assassin, but I'm not sure I can pull that one out. Although he'd be creepy. Oh, and the malicious Haradric slave girl is played by Indira Varma.


Baking - yep, I did some of that, too!

Not much; we won't dare eating anything with cream in the next few days, so I made some Ischler and a small lamb out of almond biscuit. And I hung up the decorated eggshells in the living room. Mum is pleased with the results, so I'm pleased, too.


Other than that, I'm lazing around and wishing I had people I could discuss silly fannish things with. But you can't have everything.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Gandalf doesn't share much information with Denethor. I can quite see why Denethor responds with distrust.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It may indeed be a very reasonable response on Denethor's part, but I love Gandalf and that trumps reason in my heart.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm extremely fond of both characters, though I tend to defend Denethor more often because book-Gandalf never needs defending (except from fantasy-hating idiots). I'd love to write cuddle Denethor fic but my muse doesn't run to that kind of thing.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Fair enough! I can certainly see resons to like Denethor, though as I said he hasn't quite won a place in my heart. That is probably at least partly because there are so many other characters to love in the book though.

And no book-Gandalf really doesn't need defending, does he? I think one of my chief complaints about the first film was how we didn't get the build-up of Gandalf's character: this made his failure to turn up when he promised less scary and his loss in Moria less devastating, which I think really weakened the story.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

As I've said elsewhere in this sprawling epic, Fellowship is by far my favourite film. The main structural problem it has, IMO, is the removal of the long gap between the Party and Frodo's departure, which means that the threat of Mordor feels weaker, Frodo is far too immature (which Wiseheart pointed out as one of her major gripes), and also that Gandalf isn't properly established. I do wish they'd stuck with JRRT's timeline.

Having listened to some of the commentaries, I think the writing team didn't really get to grips with how Tolkien's story worked until a long way down the writing process -- so the casting had already been done years back, which just gave them the completely the wrong casting for Frodo. (Not that I object to the talented Elijah Wood, but he was far too young for Frodo. He might have made a great Pippin.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, indeedly, he'd make a most adorable Pippin!