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Questions Post #10
-Why did they fuck with Spike and Angel's ages so much? Were they really just not paying attention to what had come before, or were there reasons all the dates got switched around?
-Ok, is it completely OFF to think Spike might like musicals? There's that "76 trombone" line, and he's seen Les Mis in order to tell Angel it's not all that. Any other proof?
-Can Angel ice skate? Don't you think when he asked Buffy to ice skate in What's My Line Part 1 he meant to skate himself? Can David Boreanaz ice skate? How come there's not more cheesy ice!fic? I...I wrote a fic in which Angel says he's going to teach Connor to skate. It was an accident!
-How do you you prefer chapters to be doled out in long fics? Do you want 'em short, so you can zip through 'em? Do you want them just as long as it takes, to cover a scene or get to the point, whether it's 2 pages or 20? Or do you like them long?
-How about the posting of long fics? I've learned from experience a bunch of people stay away from WIPs, but what if *ahem* someone had a really long *finished* fic--would you still want them to post a chapter at a time? How have other people handled this in the past?
-I know writers are whores and always like in depth fb. But as an fb-er do you ever feel slightly uncomfortable leaving extremely long fb? What if the writer replies to your fb, and you want to reply back, does it feel weird having a long conversation in the fb thread of the story? What if the conversation has veered into meta/squee/something not fb, do you ever feel like the writer might not want to talk about it there because it's in the fb thread?
-Picture Anya in your head really quick. Did you think of her as bright blonde/dirty blonde/honey-light-brunette/dark brunette? Short or midlength hair? Curly or straight?
-Is there any change in Anya's soul/conscience/sense of morality/etc when she turns from a demon to a human, and vice versa?
-Has anyone ever done any meta/had an explanation for why Anya liked Wishverse? In "The Wish", she says it's both "wonderful" and "exciting". Of course there's that difficulty establishing her soul/conscience etc as a demon, and also they weren't very careful with Anya as a character there because they didn't know/weren't sure she'd play such a big role later. But later she does talk about enjoying doing awful things to men, but she doesn't at all seem to be a personality that enjoys chaos.
-So. Anya's power source, that necklace. In "The Wish", does she give it to Cordelia? But later, she's wearing it, and Giles has to take it off of her in order to smash it? Is anyone else confused by this?
-What do birds say to each other?
-Am I the only one who likes fake food? Extremely processed food, where you know you can't pronounce a single ingredient? Just me and Xander? Anyone?
-Did you see X3? Did you like it?
-When people write of zee fantasy land nothing recognizable AU, why oh why don't they just write of zee original fic? Srsly.
P.S. When making Angel into a merman or fairy or Renaissance princess, please keep in mind that David Boreanaz has huge ass motherfuckin shoulders. When God made that man's shoulders, he was actually making a door. Then he thought, how about a head on this door? And so he built a head, and said to himself, "Father, Son, Holy Ghost, that is one motherfucking pretty head!" So he added pretty hands and pretty hips and pretty calves to match, but he forgot and left the door part of the shoulders, and to this day that is why David Boreanaz has trouble fitting through doors. And also why when you give him wee slender sloping downward shoulders when you make him into a horsie or blacksmith or bird-man, the baby Jesus motherfuckin cries.
PPS. He also made a pretty pretty neck. I love that neck.
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Because the writers only have a week to write a filmable script and would rather spend a couple hours tweaking the plot and dialog than spend the same amount of time trying to remember the specifics of an offhand line written a year ago, which is why the numbers end up close but not quite right; I can't speak to later eps, but Angel's was only four years off in "The Prodigal" (set in 1753, in previous canon would have been 1757), Spike's was six or seven years off (turned in 1880, if he had been 126 in "the Initiative" it would've been 1873/4 - I usually just pretend he counts human years as well, and said that he was 146), as I tend to attribute the statement that he was "barely 200" in "School Hard" to the Watcher's Council assuming that the Chinese Slayer was killed by a vampire much older than 20.
Hmm... that may have been more illustration than that point needed...
-Ok, is it completely OFF to think Spike might like musicals?
This is the man who, at his evillest, considered Love Boat to be one of the reasons the world should be saved (or he did in the script, I don't know if it made the final cut). Of course he likes musicals.
I was going to answer way more of these, but I got distracted by the Suns vs. Mavs game, and now it's bedtime. Maybe tomorrow.
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If they were living in the 19th c., I'd buy it. They had searchable databases; it would've taken two seconds, yo.
This is the man who, at his evillest, considered Love Boat to be one of the reasons the world should be saved (or he did in the script, I don't know if it made the final cut).
Well, he did quote a song as reason for the world to be saved in Becoming Part 2 ("goodbye Picadilly/farewell Leicester [bloody] Square")
And heh. The questions are long, easily distractablefrom. I don't care that that's not a word.
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Point, but a lot of writers don't really realize how popular their own work is, so although they probably should have just Googled it, I can see why they wouldn't. Also, one thing I've learned from excessive DVD-commentary-watching, is that oftentimes the writers don't remember even what season some of the minor events happen, let alone what episode, so checking the old scripts would take a bloody long time (what I was really getting at with the above comment). And the age discrepancies are so small (well, for century+ aged heroes) that a rushed, math-deficient head writer (A.K.A. Joss) wouldn't even notice (it actually took me a while to notice Angel's was off).
"goodbye Picadilly/farewell Leicester [bloody] Square"
I'd actually forgotten that. I think the Love Boat reference was in the script, right after dog racing and right before the Happy Meals on legs, so it's in every official "quote" and I can't recall if it was actually said by JM.
The questions are long, easily distractablefrom.
It's not the questions' fault! It's my two favorite basketball teams playing each other in the Western conference finals' fault!