1: Fic Recc, 2: Pic Spam

[beccatoria]

1: 68 Wives by hmpf is so lovely. It's a Highlander piece of fan fiction, but please don't be put off if you know nothing about Highlander, because I know nothing about Highlander and it doesn't matter. It's a story about Methos, who rarely appeared in the show, and is the oldest of the surviving immortals. He's been around for 5,000 years and in that time he's been a monster and a hero. He once mentioned that he'd been married 68 times. hmpf provides each wife with a sentence, starting with the most recent girlfriend who died before he had the chance to marry her, and working backwards towards the very first. It's short, it requires no entry level of knowledge beyond what I just wrote, and it's very much worth it. I don't like using words like, "haunting," and "lyrical" because cliche has cheapened their meaning; but I would, if their meanings hadn't been so diluted.

2. While I was looking for pictures for my SW post (below), I might have gotten distracted indulging my horribly schoolgirl crush and stumbled across an awesome picture of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I figured I'd tack it on to the end of that post, but then I thought, no, there are too many pictures and he would get lost in them and he is a very, very pretty man.

Plus this way, hopefully hmpf will notice that I recced her and also notice the picspam and be reminded that SHE STILL HASN'T TOLD ME OF THIS MYTHICAL FILM THAT FEATURES CHIWETEL EJIOFOR AND JOHN SIMM!



This being said distracting pic, btw. OMG.


This one I'm sure I've posted before at some point, but look, he's in a suit.


Hey baby, you YOU doin'?


GUH so earnest!


Damn he looks good in those clothes. GET OUT OF THE FRAME, DON CHEADLE!


Okay, I concede, not the greatest picture of him. But it's set in the SEVENTIES. That instantly makes it a keeper.

There really ought to be more pictures of him. *sigh*

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I don't think there are many actors who would've made the operative in Serenity as understandable, if not actually sympathetic, a character as Ejiofor did. Without a performance as good as his the film, and the Firefly mythos, would've lost a whole layer of meaning (and incidentally retro-actively ruined the character of Book for me).

Have you seen Kinky Boots? What? I had to ask!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434124/

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Oh ABSOLUTELY. The Operative is mega-sexy and desperately interesting but I think with pretty much anyone else in the role he would have been horribly uninteresting.

What do you mean about Book? I presume the suggestion that he used to be an Operative? Since we never...well since they totally dropped the ball on doing anything with the character or giving us any actual answers?

Have you seen Kinky Boots?

No, actually! I'm well aware of it and desperately wanted to go see it in the cinema, but none of my friends did and between one thing and another I missed it. I keep meaning to pick up the dvd but haven't yet, to my shame. It looks really good, though I admit I'm a little less-invested than I could be on account of thinking that while I'll still get to enjoy his performance, it won't be quite as drool-friendly as films where he's playing, say, a non-transsexual male?

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Yes, the implication that Book was once an operative (although, in the story we ended up with, his character was mostly a narrative sleeper waiting for more storytime). If the operative had been a shallow, unsympathetic baddie then it would've retconned Book as a baddie who got good through god, whereas Book was actually a believer who merely switched belief systems without, imo, altering his underlaying personality much at all.

Kinky Boots isn't especially good but it is fun and Lola is surprisingly hot:

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0434124/0040_1528_F.jpg.html