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nineveh_uk) wrote2007-10-07 08:59 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2007-10-07 08:59 pm
Rugby (Union) and fannish thoughts
In the previously-mentioned universe in which Harriet Vane’s detective novels are made into a TV series (hopefully more faithfully than your average Christie adaptation), someone will have to be found to play her detective, Robert Templeton.
[Robert Templeton] was a gentleman of extraordinary scientific skill, combined with almost fabulous muscular development. He had arms like an orang-utan and an ugly but attractive face. She took conjured up his phantom before her in the suit of rather loud plus-fours with which she was accustomed to invest him, and took counsel with him in spirit.
I can now announce that that man is French rugby union player Sebastian Chabal. If this was Harriet’s vision of the archetypal great detective, no wonder it took her a while to reconcile herself to fancying Lord Peter Wimsey, who undoubtedly spent his first two terms at Eton having his head stamped into the mud every time he was forced, white knees trembling, out on to the field.
Still perfecting my Yuletide sign-up plans. Question, if twenty-one people have already volunteered to write Wimsey fanfic, why the hell aren’t they doing it the rest of the time?
[Robert Templeton] was a gentleman of extraordinary scientific skill, combined with almost fabulous muscular development. He had arms like an orang-utan and an ugly but attractive face. She took conjured up his phantom before her in the suit of rather loud plus-fours with which she was accustomed to invest him, and took counsel with him in spirit.
I can now announce that that man is French rugby union player Sebastian Chabal. If this was Harriet’s vision of the archetypal great detective, no wonder it took her a while to reconcile herself to fancying Lord Peter Wimsey, who undoubtedly spent his first two terms at Eton having his head stamped into the mud every time he was forced, white knees trembling, out on to the field.
Still perfecting my Yuletide sign-up plans. Question, if twenty-one people have already volunteered to write Wimsey fanfic, why the hell aren’t they doing it the rest of the time?
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Details of requested and offered fandoms are here (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/get_requested_fandoms.cgi). RPF What Not To Wear, anyone?
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I am slightly stunned by the number of people willing to write A. A Milne. I'm also unimaginably impressed that anyone is willing to write Wheel of Time or A Song Of Ice And Fire - imagine poking fruitlessly through a canon that size when you've forgotten exactly what colour someone's eyes are or whether they get along with their mother-in-law. Though there are probably HP Lexicon-like resources out there on the web.
Having had a look at the RPF lists, I asked
Thinking about it, I probably actually could turn my hand to 14th-century RPF, particularly if it involved Charles of Navarre, but I don't think I'm going to offer as it would just lead to boring heart-searchings about how far back I'm willing to go before my squick about RPF kicks in.
Have you noticed that there are four people offering The Slipper And The Rose?
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I've never really sat down and worked out my RPF feelings. I'm sure that some of my aversion comes not from fanfic, but from the incredible smugness of the TV/film scriptwriters who perpetrate modern RPF in the commercial media.
Have you noticed that there are four people offering The Slipper And The Rose?
I have! The only question is whether my request should be for “Why Can’t I Be Two People” angst fic in which Prince Edward actually suffers from schizophrenia. Answer, definitely not.
I am now kicking myself for not thinking of nominating Calamity Jane, but am delighted that someone is offering Ngaio Marsh. I wonder which characters they've all volunteered for? Must sign up and find out.
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Oh, those things that always have some dreadful impressionist playing the Prime Minister, whoever the Prime Minister happened to be at the time? Barf. I suspect the recent The Tudors comes into the same category considering that the scriptwriter was patting himself on the back in the Radio Times about conflating both Henry VIII's sisters into one princess, though I've recorded it anyway just so that I can see how bad it is.
I wish I'd had a look when I signed up to see exactly who they've got under 'RPF - Misc Actors'. The mind, it boggles.
There are probably people out there who'd be perfectly willing to write 'Why Can't I Be Two People' Edward / Edward, which would at least get round that faint grimace of distaste that Richard Chamberlain always seemed to produce when expected to do a het love scene, poor man.
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That's it exactly. I think part of the issue is that such shows rarely seem to be about a good story that the writer/director really wants to tell, and much more about “ooh, how clever/daring/satirical we are”. The Queen works because it has a story (and perhaps because in a sense the Queen is already a fictional character), and Cambridge Spies and that ilk can work because they can be about Big Themes, but dramatised political gossip is not the same as art.
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*inordinately amused at the thought*