"Well now, here we all are. Ike, Mike and Mustard."

[hafital]

I'm going to run out of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang quotes, at this rate.

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Of possible interest to some folks: France OKs three-strikes piracy effort

The French government has given the green light to the controversial "Internet and creation" law, which is designed to control online piracy.

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And fannish5! I never do these, but I liked this one.

Name 5 characters you didn't like at first, but eventually learned to love.


In no particular order:

1. Fanny Price (Mansfield Park, Jane Austen) -- In actually, it wasn't that I initially didn't like Fanny, although she rather embodies that sort of character who you feel you have to like only because she's so "good", but I didn't feel much love for the entire novel because it's the only one of Austen's books where I *doubted* that Fanny and Edmund were meant to be together (I rather think Edmund is a boob), not in the way the couples in her other novels are meant to be together. But, since then, I've truly begun to think it's one of Austen's better work, and come to appreciate Fanny for the tiny, dark, unpleasent bits in her character.

2. Severus Snape (Harry Potter, JKR) -- Abstractly I understood why HP fandom loves Snape so much, but I certainly didn't care for him until his character became complete with the final book. In the novels, Snape is infinitely fractured and broken and stubbornly mean with a bravery born from love that's a little amazing, with whatever redemption he may recieve never occuring in life. I loved that; and it broke my heart.

3. River Song (Doctor Who) -- I'm still trying to process what I feel about River Song, but I loved her for two reasons: 1) for her speech about how the Doctor was not her Doctor and how fucked up that all was, meeting out of time like that, and 2) how she didn't necessarily choose to die for the Doctor, but for their future/past together. She was preserving her past, his future, demanding that he not change one word. It's just... I don't know what that is. I can't decide if it's tragic or amazingly brave. I would really appreciate a change to get to know River more, and also River/Doctor, because it was soooo, just... I don't know! Something!

4. Linus Caldwell (Ocean's 11) -- I'm not sure why I have him here, but truly, I seriously didn't like Linus in the first film, but then by the third film I loved him. *shrug* Rather mirrors my disgruntled affection for Matt Damon. *g* bwah.

5. Tom Paris (Star Trek: Voyager) -- I always liked him, but I never ever thought I'd adore the character as much as I do now, starting off a Chakotay girl. I thought Tom Paris was just another blah character like all the others. I remember rolling my eyes over all of the Paris/Kim stories that kept multiplying liek bunnies. ahahaha. Acutally, I never did get into Paris/Kim all that much, but once I twigged to Chakotay/Paris, then I instantly loved him. heh. Sadly, Voyager was rather a gateway fandom for me; I fell fast and hard, but then never spent a lot of time there before moving off to Highlander, although I still, to this day, love the TV show ST: Voy so so much.

Comments

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Ah, Fanny! I read Mansfield Park and had quite the opposite prejudice, that being the one I'd heard from others about it that it is the done thing to dislike Fanny because she is so good. Instead I became very fond of her as I read it.

On Fanny/Edmund, one of the reasons Mansfield Park is my favourite Austen is because one really isn't sure what couples will end up together. There's a wonderful complexity to the relationships in it.