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[fajrdrako]

I got this from _medley_: Letter meme

1. Comment on this post.
   
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.

So:

1. Magneto, Master of Magnetism from X-Men comics. Magneto was the villain in the very first issue of X-Men - one of the greatest anti-heroes of Marvel comics: a mutant who suffered in a concentration camp in his childhood because of his powers, who wants to ensure that mutants need not suffer again under the control of Homo Sapiens. He has been both hero and villian, and White King of the Hellfire Club (not to mention ruler of Genosha). I loved the period when he was Headmaster of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in New Mutants. I've written both Magneto/Gambit slash and Magneto/Cannonball slash.
   
   It does no harm that one of my favourite actors has played him in movies - Sir Ian McKellen. They're promising another movie called X-Men Origins: Magneto, but nothing much seems to be done on it yet. I'm not holding my breath.
   
   
2. Martha Jones, the Doctor's companion in the 2007 series of Doctor Who. Smart, beautiful, romantic and sharp, Martha was just about the perfect action heroine. Now she's Doctor Martha Jones in both Doctor Who and Torchwood, and I hope we see more of her.
   
   
3. Methos, the oldest living man, born c. five thousand years ago and going strong, from the TV series Highlander. One of the best TV characters ever; and his meeting with Duncan MacLeod in the episode "Methos" was one of the best scenes in the series. I always wanted to see more of Methos. Much more. So much story to tell... He was Death of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; he married 68 times, but all his wives were mortal; and though he refused to admit to being a hero, he showed over and over that he was one. He had a great talent for avoiding danger and keeping himself alive.
   
   
4. From the gone-but-not-forgotten TV show Firefly: Mal Reynolds, captain of "Serenity", a man who fought for the Browncoats in the war against the Alliance, and lost. ("May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
   
   
5. Miles Vorkosigan, in the SF novels of Lois McMaster Bujold. Son of a powerful aristocrat on the planet Barrayar, he is a youth with military ambitions, an ingenious midget on speed, a 'hyperactive git' who might be the salvation of his planet. He combines wisdom and recklessness, his life built on forward momentum, or perhaps desperate gambles. The mind was the first and final battleground, the stuff in between was just noise.

Comments

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

Interesting Meme. I've heard of all bar #5.
Letter me please!

[atheneunknown.livejournal.com]

Pick a letter, any letter.

Minus x because thats just really not fair lol.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

For x you'd be stuck with Professor X and who else? Xas, if you've read The Vintner's Luck. Not much else.

I'll give you N.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll give you O.

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Go on then - I'll play *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You get a big shiny R.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Sharing the Magneto, Martha, and Mal love here, and so many people have mentioned the Vorkosigan novels to me that I'm beginning to think I'm missing out on something really good. *moves them up giant list of Stuff I Want to Read Someday*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Love your Martha icon.

Yes, the Vorkosigan novels are excellent, though they go through different styles and levels of impact. But it's one of those series where if I say "this book wasn't as good as the others" someone else will stand up and say, "it's the best of the lot!" My favourite character is Aral Vorkosigan, Miles' father, but it's Miles who is the protagonist of almost all the novels, and Miles who goes a step beyond what one would normally look for in a hero to something really remarkable.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Oh Methos....I miss that character. Peter Wingfield was perfect in that role and I don't think he's ever had a better one. The long lean body, the big nose, the snark, the tight jeans....happy sigh.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I miss Methos too. We should have had more of him, and for longer!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Thank you! Freema has a gorgeous smile.

But it's one of those series where if I say "this book wasn't as good as the others" someone else will stand up and say, "it's the best of the lot!"

Isn't it funny how that works? We're all reading slightly different books, I suppose.

I sense a library raid in the near future...

[kiltfriction.livejournal.com]

Mal is the best cap'n ever. Love him to bits :)

It's so weird I found out who Methos was just a few days before this. Found a pic of him and made the flist identify him. Am now debating watching Highlander just for this man. What's he like in comparison with the allegedly bloody awful series?

Watched a wee clip on youtube, he seemed alright but was distracted by the other guy's laughable attempt at acting. I think the guy was Duncan, it was like rigor mortis had set in on his face...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Mal is the best cap'n ever. Love him to bits :)

Mal is wonderful! I'm not sure who I'd call the best Captain.... I have a whole list of favourite captains, from Captain Sir Edward Pellew to Captain Jack Harkness and Captain Cairo Azarcon - love 'em all.

I found out who Methos was just a few days before this.

What a wonderful discovery!

Am now debating watching Highlander just for this man. What's he like in comparison with the allegedly bloody awful series?

It wasn't a bloody awful series. Even at its worse... now, its sequel, Raven, that was bloody awful. But I liked Highlander from the beginning - liked the premise, liked Duncan Macleod, liked the villains, most of them. It played to a lot of my kinks: scenes in Paris and in Canada, scenes of history, lots of swordplay. I didn't like Richie except in a couple of episodes, but he could have been far worse. I loved the early episodes with Amanda. I loved the first season, way before we even meet Methos. Some of those episodes were superb. After we met Methos.... well. I was so disappointed whenever Methos didn't appear that it was, for me, the Methos show.

Which is okay.

You could at least watch the episodes Methos is in. The first one is called (appropriately) "Methos". It's in third season. The best is "Chivalry", not much later.

Methos remains one of my favourite characters of all time.

Avoid the movies.

[kiltfriction.livejournal.com]

Avoid the movies. .

Thanks for the tip :D

I shall have a look and see if I can find any episodes online somewhere, this guy has quite captured my imagination. That plus sword kink. If the two appear in the same scene, dear lord I might just have to make sure no one else is around when I watch that...

Mal is wonderful! I'm not sure who I'd call the best Captain....

Well you see, as much as I find Jack drop dead gorgeous, he's a bit of a wanker. Don't get me wrong screwed up Jack/Ianto I love to death - and recussitation and kink and death again - but he's not a nice man.

But that's probably gonna get us into an inconsistant characterisation/lack of Head Writer problem discussion...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

this guy has quite captured my imagination. That plus sword kink.

Me too. Big time.

I have no problems with Captain Jack Harkness. None at all!

And, yeah, inconsistent characterization.... so annoying. Captain Mal Reynolds was, on the whole, much better written.