Weddings...

[fajrdrako]

From the fannish5: List the five best fictional weddings.

First of all, I don't much like wedding stories. It's not something that pushes any of my buttons on any level, least of all my sense of romance. But it wasn't hard to think of five wedding stories that I loved:

1. Fantastic Four Annual #3: The Wedding of Sue and Reed, back in 1965. That's from back when superheroes in comics just didn't get married (unless it was a hoax to fool Lois Lane). I loved the story - Doctor Doom attacked, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby even turned up, and there were lots of good jokes - or at least, jokes that seemed good to me as a kid. And if I recall correctly, that is also the comic that had a cross-section diagram of the Baxter Building, so we could see where all the rooms were. Very cool.
   
   
2. Four Weddings and a Funeral. Funny, it's the funeral I remember best.
   
   
3. A much more recent movie, Mamma Mia!, which I loved. A movie in which I could thoroughly enjoy the wedding - not a lot of pomp and circumstance, but people dancing and having fun.
   
   
4. The wedding in The Sound of Music. Not my favourite scene in that movie, by any means; in fact, I recall thinking of it when I was a kid as 'the boring bit', along with "Climb Every Mountain", my least favourite song in that show. (Then as now.) But the movie is one of my favourites ever, and the wedding scene itself is love.
   
   
5. The wedding of Gwen and Rhys in the Torchwood episode "Something Borrowed". It isn't my favourite Torchwood episode by any means, but it's fun, and has a few surprises, and I like the relationship stuff in it. I'd give it extra points for having a nice sexy alien villain, but Torchwood in general has had some very attractive villains, so it doesn't even stand out for that - just an enjoyable episode about a wedding.

I might add a special tip of the hat to Charlotte Bronte, who described the wedding of Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester with the famous simple line, "Reader, I married him." Come to think of it, their previous aborted wedding is probably my favourite wedding in literature!

"The marriage can not go on; I declare the existence of an impediment." ...Mr. Rochester moved slightly, as if an earthquake had rolled under his feet: taking a firmer footing, and not turning his head or eyes, he said, "Proceed."

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

admit it. You want a copy of the Encyclopedia Barrayarnica, just like the rest of us [g].

I certainly do! Along with the Complete Wikipedia of Barrayar and the Secret Diaries of Aral Vorkosigan.

I do admit to especially wanting to know what Ivan's reward for that job well done was, but not necessarily to have him fall in love.

Cool.

I think he'd make a great anti-hero...

And I agree.

I'm not sure what I want for Ivan, but it isn't something easy and it isn't necessarily a happy ending.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

the Secret Diaries of Aral Vorkosigan

Somehow I have a really hard time imagining Aral keeping diaries, secret or otherwise [g].

I'm not sure what I want for Ivan, but it isn't something easy and it isn't necessarily a happy ending.

Oh, I want him to have a happy ending, or at least a hopeful one. Not a bad one. Not necessarily a romantic one. But I really don't like unhappy endings.

And with Lois as his author, he stands about as much chance of "easy" as any of her other characters, thank goodness.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I want the Complete Wikipedia of the Nexus, not just Barrayar [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Me too.