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mieystrapurore:
She gave me the letter 'J'.
1. Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG1 TV series): small package, big personality. She was a great character - one part solicitude, one part sweet snark, one part sly sense of humour, all parts awesome. I loved that she and Sam were friends, and that her adoption of Cassie made her a mother working in a risky job, but still doing that job.
2. John Sheppard (Stargate Atlantis TV series): a man who drinks tea with strangers to get to know them better, a soldier who would probably have never made it very high on earth, but gets to live a life of meaning in Atlantis. I always felt he was pretty screwed up, which is why I don't ship him with Rodney - I like my ships to have a hope of functionality.
3. JoJo of RainFire pack (Psy-Changeling books): in spite of her really brief cameo in 'Shards of Hope', I really loved how JoJo uses her charm unthinkingly, the fact that she's described as having darker skin (Singh does a good job of writing people of many different colours), and the way she was brought in to teach the Arrow children how to play. Adorbs.
4. James Bond (James Bond movies): I enjoy the movies as a general rule, although I get tired of the repeated refrigeration of the women. Haven't seen Spectre yet, and while I enjoyed Skyfall I was kind of pissed off that they killed M. (Judi Dench 4eva.)
5. Jane Fairfax (Jane Austen's 'Emma'): I always felt that Jane was terribly colourless, poor girl. And then to fall in love with a guy like Frank Churchill who cared about her but largely on his own terms...
That was more difficult than expected.
mieystrapurore:1. Comment on this post with "MEEEEEE!"
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
She gave me the letter 'J'.
1. Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG1 TV series): small package, big personality. She was a great character - one part solicitude, one part sweet snark, one part sly sense of humour, all parts awesome. I loved that she and Sam were friends, and that her adoption of Cassie made her a mother working in a risky job, but still doing that job.
2. John Sheppard (Stargate Atlantis TV series): a man who drinks tea with strangers to get to know them better, a soldier who would probably have never made it very high on earth, but gets to live a life of meaning in Atlantis. I always felt he was pretty screwed up, which is why I don't ship him with Rodney - I like my ships to have a hope of functionality.
3. JoJo of RainFire pack (Psy-Changeling books): in spite of her really brief cameo in 'Shards of Hope', I really loved how JoJo uses her charm unthinkingly, the fact that she's described as having darker skin (Singh does a good job of writing people of many different colours), and the way she was brought in to teach the Arrow children how to play. Adorbs.
4. James Bond (James Bond movies): I enjoy the movies as a general rule, although I get tired of the repeated refrigeration of the women. Haven't seen Spectre yet, and while I enjoyed Skyfall I was kind of pissed off that they killed M. (Judi Dench 4eva.)
5. Jane Fairfax (Jane Austen's 'Emma'): I always felt that Jane was terribly colourless, poor girl. And then to fall in love with a guy like Frank Churchill who cared about her but largely on his own terms...
That was more difficult than expected.
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Jane is intelligent, (not just blessed with natural intelligence, but smart enough to use her abilities - compare Emma who blatantly wastes all hers) passionate, resolute, courageous, committed, insightful about others' feelings, considerate, good to her aged rellies (this is no small virtue!). She's orphaned, impoverished, engaged in a passionate and secret romance, dramatically saved from near-death at sea, ready to break with the man she loves and take up the life of a governess, reconciled dramatically through unexpected death and inheritance... she is in fact the genuine heroine in the wildly romantic novel that Austen could have written with one hand tied behind her back, but chose not to write.
Instead she wrote a story where all the big action happens off-stage, where we are encouraged to take as heroine a self-absorbed, self-satisfied small-town nobody. (My private view is that Emma is a middle-class Lady de Bourgh in the making.) It's a very sardonic novel, I think, where the smug nominal heroine triumphs all the way; it's Austen observing how brutally unfair life is.
Editing to add: MEEEEE?
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Your letter is 'F'.
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