the character I least understand Tricky. One of the things I really like about the series is how she makes so many of the characters understandable, even an out-and-out psychopath like Mary Whittaker has an un-psychopathic motivation up to a point - she's given up her career to care for her elderly relative, and she's going to be left seriously vulnerable if she doesn't get the promised inheritance. Of the main characters, pretty much all of their motivations are well-drawn. I might not be like Parker, but it is very clear where he comes from and what sort of person he is.
Oh wait, Uncle Paul. Uncle Paul is incomprehensible on every front.
interactions I enjoyed the most Peter/Bunter and Peter/Harriet. Peter and anyone he likes, really. I do enjoy him when he's in his affectionate teasing mode with people he's really fond of.
the character who scares me the most I definitely wouldn't like to be on the wrong side of Mary Whittaker. But I wouldn't really like to be on the wrong side of Peter, either. A man who will cheat at cards to achieve justice is a man with no limits.
the character who is mostly like me I probably want Harriet to be like me more than she actually is.
hottest looks character Bunter. Had there been a series 15 years ago he should definitely have been played by Colin Firth. His photography is probably a cover for making money as a male studio model.
one thing I dislike about my fave character Harriet Vane can be a bit of judgmental cow at times. But then so am I.
one thing I like about my hated character It's really, really hard to come up with a redeeming feature for Helen! I suppose she does do her duty herself as well as expect it of other people, and is as unhappy because of convention as she expects others to be, and she loves her children even though she and her husband aren't the world's greatest parents.
a quote or scene that haunts me Interwar murder and sad people offers a choice of these. I do love the last chapter of Busman's Honeymoon, of which I saved the last pages for two hours so I didn't read them on a train. And Peter's suggestion to Mr Tallboy, Go home now, and don't look behind you. But I shall go for Harriet towards the end of Gaudy Night, on the evening the Poltergeist plans to attack Miss de Vine, putting on the dog collar and looking at herself in the mirror. The whole sequence has a kind of heavy atmosphere of late spring when it is probably going to rain really hard, but hasn't yet, and that sideways kind of yellow light, and a general sense of waiting for things to break, and Harriet looks at herself and sees the head of someone who has been guillotined, "the dark band cut it off from the body like the stroke of the headsman's steel."
a death that left me indifferent I'm not going to weep for Dr Penberthy as a person. But there are surprisingly few deaths in Sayers. By and large she doesn't do the cascade of murders. Her murderers bump off one person for a specific reason, and with the exception of the aforementioned MW are smart enough to realise that killing more people is unlikely to help their situation (the MMA drugs gang doesn't count, that's business).
a character I wish died but didn’t I could argue that one death isn't enough for Philip Boyes.
my ship that never sailed There is a tragic lack of Bunter/Saint-George in canon.
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Date: 2017-04-25 07:06 am (UTC)Tricky. One of the things I really like about the series is how she makes so many of the characters understandable, even an out-and-out psychopath like Mary Whittaker has an un-psychopathic motivation up to a point - she's given up her career to care for her elderly relative, and she's going to be left seriously vulnerable if she doesn't get the promised inheritance. Of the main characters, pretty much all of their motivations are well-drawn. I might not be like Parker, but it is very clear where he comes from and what sort of person he is.
Oh wait, Uncle Paul. Uncle Paul is incomprehensible on every front.
interactions I enjoyed the most
Peter/Bunter and Peter/Harriet. Peter and anyone he likes, really. I do enjoy him when he's in his affectionate teasing mode with people he's really fond of.
the character who scares me the most
I definitely wouldn't like to be on the wrong side of Mary Whittaker. But I wouldn't really like to be on the wrong side of Peter, either. A man who will cheat at cards to achieve justice is a man with no limits.
the character who is mostly like me
I probably want Harriet to be like me more than she actually is.
hottest looks character
Bunter. Had there been a series 15 years ago he should definitely have been played by Colin Firth. His photography is probably a cover for making money as a male studio model.
one thing I dislike about my fave character
Harriet Vane can be a bit of judgmental cow at times. But then so am I.
one thing I like about my hated character
It's really, really hard to come up with a redeeming feature for Helen! I suppose she does do her duty herself as well as expect it of other people, and is as unhappy because of convention as she expects others to be, and she loves her children even though she and her husband aren't the world's greatest parents.
a quote or scene that haunts me
Interwar murder and sad people offers a choice of these. I do love the last chapter of Busman's Honeymoon, of which I saved the last pages for two hours so I didn't read them on a train. And Peter's suggestion to Mr Tallboy, Go home now, and don't look behind you. But I shall go for Harriet towards the end of Gaudy Night, on the evening the Poltergeist plans to attack Miss de Vine, putting on the dog collar and looking at herself in the mirror. The whole sequence has a kind of heavy atmosphere of late spring when it is probably going to rain really hard, but hasn't yet, and that sideways kind of yellow light, and a general sense of waiting for things to break, and Harriet looks at herself and sees the head of someone who has been guillotined, "the dark band cut it off from the body like the stroke of the headsman's steel."
a death that left me indifferent
I'm not going to weep for Dr Penberthy as a person. But there are surprisingly few deaths in Sayers. By and large she doesn't do the cascade of murders. Her murderers bump off one person for a specific reason, and with the exception of the aforementioned MW are smart enough to realise that killing more people is unlikely to help their situation (the MMA drugs gang doesn't count, that's business).
a character I wish died but didn’t
I could argue that one death isn't enough for Philip Boyes.
my ship that never sailed
There is a tragic lack of Bunter/Saint-George in canon.