Writer's Block: Casting couch

[redfiona99]

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So very tempted to say Michelle Rodriguez. Although if anyone could think of someone more fitting, they should feel free to chime in, because the only other possible I can think of is whatshername that plays Tonks. Whoever it is must be able to do stunts, there will be fencing in this film.

The problem is I don't look that much like anyone else, except my father's side of the family, and normally if people are looking for a comparison, they go Pacific Island rugby player, not actresses. It's not like anyone else in my family looks like anyone else. I'm guessing Julie Walters for my Mum. Terribly stuck for who to cast as my Grandma.

Friends in RL are just as difficult to cast. Probably one of Crabbe or Goyle for one housemate, and the boy Potter for one of the others. The third housemate and his girlfriend, I have no idea for at all.

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Discussing films, I am very tempted to take part in http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday . I mean, the 24th should be an interesting day, lots of scenery, so I could give it a go.

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I decided to do the TV meme. Then I will do the film meme, and then I shall do the Shakespeare meme. I may well also do the Dr. Who meme going round. And when I have finished all of those, it will be doomsday ;)

TV meme:

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled

I am going to be boring. I am going to give the same answer I always give. Because damn it, Brimstone should never have been cancelled. My opinion is being reinforced because I'm rewatching it, slowly, at the minute. I've got as far as the second episode and the thing I'm loving at the minute is you've got the bad guy giving it 'I am doing this for love, and you understand that because your crimes were out of love too. Our loves are similar.' And normally, you'd have the good guy repudate that going 'no, my love is pure, and yours is sick and wrong and twisted'. But, because this show knows what it's about the good guy accepts this and says yes, and accepts that his crime was wrong.

The thing of right and wrong, and the fact that the writers have done their homework on the mythology behind their pantheon (unlike many, many other shows) are what I love. Because most shows, your good guy kills the guy that raped his wife, and this is presented as a positive thing, where as this goes with, understandable but not just and therefore wrong in the eyes of God.

Then there's the fact that these people actually resemble people, not random soundbites (why no, I'm never not going to stop being bitter about Reaper).

I am also v. annoyed that we never got to find out how the devil was going to go back on his deal. Because you knew he would, and you knew that he'd make it so it was Zeke's fault, but gah! I want details.




Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[evilgmbethy.livejournal.com]

I think Twig has told me good things about Brimstone. It sounds interesting. I might need to check it out.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

It's interesting, and definitely worth a watch. Annoyingly, the only way you can get hold of it is through downloads, because this is one show I'd be willing to pay HBO prices for.

[evilgmbethy.livejournal.com]

ugh, I hate that. I would so love to buy Journeyman on DVD but it looks like it's never going to happen.

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

YES YES WATCH BRIMSTONE. BUT AFTER YOU'VE SEEN PROFIT, BECAUSE YOU SHOULD WATCH PROFIT FIRST. BUT YES. BRIMSTONE. Like, I don't think it's OMFG BRILLIANT, in terms that it was very much a network show, but within that structure, they did some interesting things with regards to mythology and morality.

[evilgmbethy.livejournal.com]

lol okay I will

as soon as I can think of TV that isn't Seeker, it's at the top of my list

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

Brimstone is definitely in my top five list of shows that shouldn't have been cancelled. If I weren't still burning from Legend of the Seeker, I'd probably would've answered that for the meme.

And yes, I love the acknowledgment that Zeke's love wasn't OMG PURE. No, his crime was indeed a crime. As much as it was motivated by love, it was equally motivated by rage and vengeance.