DE: That'll do, pup.

[bjornwilde]

So, did everyone have a good time yesterday? I know not all of us celebrate the day as Christmas (heh I first wrote that as charactermas), but with most of the world having the day off, it's some sort of fun right?

From aberration :
 We've complained a lot about canons, so this time, what's your favorite part of your characters' canon? (And if you hate one of your character's canon and want to say "NOTHING!!", really, I understand.)

Comments

[bjornwilde]

I love when writers focus on the F4 as a family of explorers. I know saving the world and fighting crime is typically what comics are about but the F4 really are about exploring.

I love when Jessica gets to be a super spy. I love her friendship with Carol Danviers as well.

Oh all the emotional feels Claremont managed when he first introduced Val. Poor girl didn't know up from down and then being rejected by her own mother? Then when Val took on a mind controlled Ben and She-Hulk and needed to be rescued? You got a prime example of why you don't mess with the Invisible Woman or a mother as Susan came to the rescue and accepted Val at the same time.

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel is awesome in its mix of historical characters and mythological.

I loved the spin on the "first class" of X-Men and I laugh at all the lists of everything the X-Men movies got wrong. As a long time comic reader I tend to shrug of continuity error.

I love a lot of the modern takes on Greek and Roman mythology Rick Riordan does, not all of them but a lot of them.

And lastly the Kate Daniels gets so much right with action urban fantasy! Imagine a well researched, post apocalypse World of Darkness game and you're nearly there.

[againsttherules]

The dual meanings of 'first class' is wonderful.

Also: *gives Hank a prod* ;-)

[bjornwilde]

Oh yes! I will get back to this later today and hopefully we can get it wrapped up. =]

[kd7sov]

For Felix's, it's the magic. Not only is it very intuitive, outliers aside (who decided that making a rock hover would be a water-aligned spell?), but you can use it both combatively and to affect the world; indeed, most dungeons have two or three "theme" spells that are required to solve most or all of their puzzles.

For Fluttershy... do I have to narrow it down? It's cute, it's legitimately funny, it's intelligent, it's adorable...

[death_gone_mad]

I love that the game devs are putting some actual serious thought into plotty things now.

[minkhollow]

I won't say Villains By Necessity is perfect by any means, but I love the twist on your standard Quest Fantasy, and that the... protagonists aren't incapable of love or friendship even though they're Bad Guys. (There's also the fact that Blackmail is the best ever.)

Considering my only major problem with Warehouse 13 is the geography fail? That means otherwise they're doing a damn good job. It's a chosen family that hunts down weird shit with a basis in history; what's not to like?

I love the twists on Greek mythology in the Percyverse.

The Disc is just awesome. For Soul Music in particular, I love the unintended consequences of unleashing magic-influenced rock and roll on everyone.

I love the world in the Potterverse, it's just that JKR kinda dropped the ball in the last couple books and everyone could've benefited from a side that wasn't either Genocidal Maniac or Preserve the Status Quo. (Because, to quote another canon entirely, the status... is NOT quo, and not fixing any of the problems that let Voldemort get a toehold in the first place means someone else will do it later. And no, Harry, your scar won't tell them anything about it.)

As for OUaT? The twists on fairy tales are awesome, the ladies with agency are awesome, and RED. RED RED RED.

[sdelmonte]

Star Trek: I love that it reinvented the genre for TV, and that it's classic to this day

Burton Batman: I love that it made a reasonably serious superhero film that was more or less true to the source material. And that it's Burton at his early best.

DC Comics, 1986-2011: Anything could happen, and yet there was still room for a man in a faceless mask with no powers who fought crime in a dying city.

Teen Titans cartoon: The essence of the characters remained true to the source material and yet became a lot more fun and even joyous.

PotC: Intricately plotted, full of adventure and weirdness and wackiness, full of unexpected heart. And Johnny Depp. And Geoffrey Rush.

Marvel Movies: That someone decided to hire good actors for as many parts as possible after decades of hit and miss Marvel films.

[bjornwilde]

Seconding your last point!

All the others are valid as well. BTW it looks like I will be in and out all day, does a slowtimed Ben with latke's thread sound good?

[sdelmonte]

Should be able to tag tonight, since I am at work now.

[agoodmusekickin]

When it's done well the family dynamic of Turtles is hands down my favorite part of any version of their canon.

From the 207 CGI Movie (Starts at 1:30)
Clip the first from the new cartoon
Clip the second from the new cartoon

[agoodmusekickin]

As for the other dolls I play with:

Avatar has some amazing family dynamics too, but I think my favorite part of AtLA and LoK is the world building itself.

The Middleman knows exactly what it is, and has far too much fun being that.

[mnt_donnie]

HE HAD ME BY THE FACE, MIKEY

[souffle_girlek]

Doctor Who: I like that despite the inherent whackiness, it deals with real things and doesn't become 'we are space people with space problems!'

NightWatch: It may be a common Russian perspective, but I like the view of Light/Dark =/= Good/Evil, and how that view re-defines the fight between the sides.

Hunger Games: ... So, I think this is a brilliant story... that would have achieved the brilliance promised if it'd been either written from a different perspective or by a different author. By the middle of the second book Katniss drives me up the wall. There is some fanfiction out on AO3 that puts it in Haymitch's and Peeta's POV, which works a lot better.

LotR - I'll be honest, outside of LotR proper and the Hobbit? I find Tolkien's stuff a little dry. But it's so thorough, this man can world-build like none other, and it makes sense how he put it together.

Ashes to Ashes - The same reason I love so much of British drama - the juxtaposition of Very Serious Themes and utter crack. American TV writers haven't figured out how to do this yet, really. They almost got there with Grey's Anatomy, but that's long since turned to over-wrought angst.

Star Trek - I love how real they let the characters be (which is why I think Enterprise failed) - Bones is honestly cranky as hell and sometimes more than a little nervous about the unknown and mouths off without a whole lot of regard to regs, Spock has reasons behind his attitude (beyond I am vulcan and have ears la!) that don't change with the situation, Chekov is the most willful stubborn prideful man you've ever met, and Sulu's loony (Sulu drives the Enterprise like it has some fuzzy dice, when he brings the ship around, all the bridge is falling down....) It's just awesome.

[gavin62truck]

What I love most about "Rescue Me" is its roots in reality, the humor, the camaraderie among the firefighters. It's un-PC and no holds barred and the emotional whiplash is often unbearable, but I have honestly never cried or laughed so much and so hard at any other show. It's been over a year since the series ended, yet it pleases me so much that people are still discovering how great it is.

(If any of you have seen NBC's "Chicago Fire," Denis Leary has endorsed my idea that Tommy Gavin should make a cameo appearance just to punch every character in the face. Just sayin'.)

[souffle_girlek]

(*cackles* Amen, preach it, hallelujah, I'd pay good money to watch.)

[jjprobert]

For Erik and Alfred, my two film pups, it's seeing the characters (even the film OCs like Erik) come to life with wonderful acting and dialogue.

For Max and Jack, I think it's a section in the second book, titled 'Jack West Jr and the Philosophers Stone" Yes, I have no doubt the riff is very deliberate, but it's so different, and it gets the best out of all the characters involved.
Alternatively, the fight at the Pyramids at the end of the first book. Because Reasons.

For Bean, my favourite scene is the one where, after rescuing a bunch of strategists, he presents his little force to Peter Wiggin, Hegemon. The speech he makes, and the arrangements he makes to make sure it's news are a great little touch. And then, when the cameras have stopped rolling, they get to have a conversation. A wonderful, multi-layered, nuanced conversation about the state of the world as these two young geniuses see it. (I really want to use genii, (checks wiktionary) yay, I can, in this spelling). Also, Bean gets a bit more of an insight into Politics and how respect is earned and lost.

[inlovewithwords]

OUaT: the premise is just cool.

Smallville: Lois herself. I probably wouldn't have continued with and loved the series as I do if not for her. Callum Blue as Zod also rocked my socks off--totally shameless. And just that it is so many kinds of fail and terrible, and somehow I love it anyway. also tom welling is gorgeous

Codex Alera: A take on the general Arthur/lost-heir plot (one of my favorites) set in the dumping ground of the Bermuda Triangle, inhabited by a lost Roman Legion wielding Pokemon (aka a fantastic elemental magic system, my favorite kind), almost-humans with a legitimately different culture and bonded to animals such as giant badgers and pterodactyls, eldritch-abomination-summoning warrior giant wolfmen who also sport a legitimate culture and mindset, and yeti, who are led in a fight against a Zerg invasion by a hero who works on legit charisma and cleverness and diplomacy and whose eventual reign name translates approximately to Lord Super-Wolverine the Great. Sorry, did you need anything more?

[bjornwilde]

Codex Alera:...

I think I need to pick up book 2. \o/

[inlovewithwords]

Yes. You do.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Seconded. I really enjoyed the Codex Alera.