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Apparently I'm feeling talkative tonight. Damn, but it never rains but it pours around here. Sorry about that, ya'll.

Saturday was Hobbit Day. Happy Belated Baggins' Birthday! The lot of us at FGC got together for tea and biscuits (I made very yummy shortbread) and a viewing of Fellowship of the Ring. Even though we all met because of LotR I don't think we'd ever all sat down to watch any of the movies together, so it was very nice. We spent the first half of the movie playing a whacked out 'If the Fellowship was comprised of characters from Supernatural who would they be?' We decided on the following:

Frodo = Sam
Sam = Dean
Merry = Frannie
Pippin = Charlie (FYI, these are two original characters that baylorsr created and while I know you all don't know them just trust me, they're so Merry&Pippin)
Aragorn = John
Gandalf = Pastor Jim
Gimli = Bobby
Legolas = Ash (business up front, party in the back)
Boromir = Hendrickson
Elrond = Ellen

Now you know what I need? An icon of Sam, Dean, and the Impala with the captions, 'Frodo, Sam, and Bill the Pony.'

People keep on talking about all of the new tv they're watching which is cool. I'm afraid no matter how many times people reccommend Chuck or Friday Night Lights I'm never going to actually sit down and watch them. Chuck might have Adam Baldwin and be from Josh Schwartz but the concept annoys me and I'm sure Friday Night Lights is as great a show as people are saying but I just don't have it in me to watch another show about high school adolescent drama.

Speaking of other unpopular fannish opinions. I don't think I like the Doctor very much. It's not that I hate him, far from it, I'm actually rather fond of him. And it's not that I hate the show, I really enjoy the show. There's just something about him that occasionally scrapes me the wrong way. But it's not that I want him to change, it's the annoying things about him that make him an interesting character. I'm just sure that if I ever were a companion on the TARDIS (cause, really, who in her right mind would pass up an opportunity like that?) I'd spend a lot of time wanting to smack him. When I wasn't busy getting caught up in his wonderfully gleeful attitude about the whole traveling in time and space thing.

I think my ambivalence is related to a 4400 conversation baylorsr and I were having last week. In the mutant power-having community there are two dominant voices: Jordan Collier who thinks that everyone should become a mutant even though 50% of the population will die in the process and Shawn Farrell who thinks the risk is too high and everyone should learn how to get along. Collier is frequently represented on the show in imagery that purposefully evokes Christian iconography and his followers regard him with obvious religious fervor. That whole scene just turns me right off.

And the Doctor was interpreted in much the same way in the latest season finale. He was empowered because people believed that he would save them. Are we really supposed to see him as the Lonely God? He's certainly capricious enough to fit right in in any number of pantheons. I would have had serious reservations trusting in some unknown quantity to change my circumstances.

I don't know. But I'm perfectly satisfied with the ambivalent feelings I have about him. After all, he is an ambivalent character with drives and desires that aren't easily comprehensible, nor should they be. So hopefully I won't get my fan membership taken away for liking and not liking an iconic character all at the same time. ;-)

Wow, I used a lot of words to describe something that could've been more easily summed up in a succinct, "Like the guy, would never, ever want to fuck him." I was destined from birth to be a lawyer, wasn't I? *hangs head* ;-)

If I have any more random thoughts tonight I'm sure ya'll will be the first to know.

Comments

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

lol Frannie and Charlie are TOTALLY Merry and Pippin. Except Charlie's a lot dumber than Pip is, poor guy.

I still love you even if you don't really like the Doctor that much.

Ugh. Must go do more reading for class. I'm totally not getting it all done today. Ugh.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

They so totally are!

And, dangit, what did I do with my icon of Merry&Pippin dancing on the table? I really liked that one. Bother.

I feel so bad that my feelings for the Doctor are ambiguous. Like, sometimes I think he's the keenest thing to ever keen cause, well, he's The Doctor, you know and he'll be all "look at my timey-wimey device" and be the adorablest. *sigh* It's almost as if he's above my petty likes and dislikes anyway.

But thank you for loving me in my imperfections. Though that does just leave more of him for you to enjoy for yourself. ;-)