Hornblower party
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fajrdrakoI feel way too busy these days. At the moment, exhausted, but's that's because of fun stuff: I had a bunch of friends over yesterday (the Horatio Hornblower fan crowd) for a video party that went way past my bedtime. These are not slash fans, but they're great people and I had a wonderful time.
We didn't watch Hornblower, though. We've all seen the episodes so recently aired on A&E.
Instead we watched The MTV Music Awards acceptance rant by Gollum and Behind the Cameras from the Extended Edition DVD of The Two Towers, and the Primetime Thursday special on The Return of the King and then, one by one we watched all the extras on the DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean, which Jan had brought over. Then we watched the bloopers and deleted scenes again. Are there any Easter eggs on that one?
Then we watched a British TV show with Jack Davenport called P/O/W/, just the first episode. It really pulled me in, though I didn't think the hero was the brightest character I've ever seen. Maybe just because he resembled me so little in temperament, I found it difficult to relate. Rather like Jerott Blyth in the Dunnett novels: too much loud emotion, too much posturing, too little patience and thought.
It was really a wonderful day and I hope my guests enjoyed themselves even a fraction as much as I did.
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Date: 2003-12-07 07:51 pm (UTC)go here:
http://dvdeastereggs.com/dvd.jsp?dvdid=1235 (haven't checked em yet, myself)
Fave deleted scene: "The kid's a bit of a stick, isn't he?" "You have no idea." LMAO!
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Date: 2003-12-07 08:17 pm (UTC)That was a good deleted scene. I also liked the conversation between Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann on the deck of the Interceptor.
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Date: 2003-12-07 11:38 pm (UTC)::falls clean off chair with shock::
OK he's not always the utterly sharpest tool in a box full of freakish Renaissance Uber-achievers. And yes he's impetuous and unreconstructed (however, for his time, a positive libertarian. Lymond's utter ethno-religious tolerance is frankly highly improbable).
But if you don't give him some kudos for nobility of spirit and that stubborn, determined humanitarianism - in the teeth, indeed, of being knocked over, trodden on and manipulated left right and centre by all the classroom Alphas - I shall pout and sulk for the rest of the week. Shame on you!
Anyway, I like my heroes with sufficent flaws and uncertainties to be closer to me than to the gods. It's hard to shine when you're the only character who is deliberately not dealt the full hand at every round.
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Date: 2003-12-08 08:16 pm (UTC)he's not always the utterly sharpest tool in a box full of freakish Renaissance Uber-achievers
Indeed. It's too his credit that he can generally hold his own in their company.
yes he's impetuous and unreconstructed
That he is.... Sometimes it's a breath of fresh air among the over-intellectualization going on around him, sometimes it's simply annoying - or even charmingly annoying.
Lymond's utter ethno-religious tolerance is frankly highly improbable
So they say, but I'm not so sure. I can think of numerous fairly liberal religious thinkers of the era - is Montaigne close enough? He sometimes makes me think of Boccaccio or Chaucer too, but of course they were much earlier. Lymond's type was not the norm, far from it, and in another decade or so the moderationists like himself were either forced to take sides or ended up dead. Still. They did exist. I think a fair number of people might have wanted to have his sort of attitude but weren't allowed the privilege - and it is, of course, more a 20th century stance than a 16th century approach to life.
if you don't give him some kudos for nobility of spirit and that stubborn, determined humanitarianism
Oh, I do. And I give him credit for caring when he could have turned his back. He pretty much threw his life and prospects away for Lymond's sake - or the sake of Lymond's cause - and I can respect that. It almost makes me forgive him for hitting Lymond over the head with a rock and beating him up when the chips were down.
Naw, I really like Jerott, but I like to pick on him too.
I like my heroes with sufficent flaws and uncertainties to be closer to me than to the gods
Me too; I prefer Lymond's character flaws to Jerott's character flaws, but I do love them both. And doesn't Jerott have some magnificent scenes?