The Fannish Five, questions from 4you_blue_jway
If you want questions, reply to this post and I’ll give you five new ones.
1.) Favorite episode or serial of Doctor Who (new or classic) ever and why?
Of course she starts with the hard one!
In the new series, I think it’s got to be “Family of Blood” — I love the possessed scarecrows. John Smith is heartbreaking and wonderful. There are a few moments that certainly could have been managed better, but I love the Doctor’s motivations in this one, and I think that last two minutes make the entire episode.
2.) What book (or play or something that’s not a movie) do you think should be made into a movie?
Any of China Mieville’s books would make fairly epic movies, I think. If I had to pick one, I’d say The Scar; it’s got a strong female lead, there are seriously interesting monsters, and it’s set in a floating city!
3.) If you could only listen to ten songs as the only music you heard for a year, what would they be?
“She Has No Strings” Dirty Three
“Tigresa” Caetano Veloso
“When The Man Comes Around” Johnny Cash
“Dig, Lazarus, Dig” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Temptation” Tom Waits
“Your Own Personal Jesus” Depeche Mode
“Big Wheel” Tori Amos
“Raphael” Coco Rosie
“Duvet” Boå (Lain OST)
“Kaneda” Yamashiro Shoji (Akira OST)
4.) What’s your favorite thing about rp-ing as Three? (or just talk about what you think about rp-ing in general)
Three is just great fun. What I love most about him is that he’s so very child-like — also childish, on occasion. He’s charming, witty, an intolerable flirt, but he’s got depth, too, he’s arrogant, impatient, and prone to mistakes.
I typically play villains, either because I’m very good at it, or because no one else is willing to play the really loathsome ones, which are the ones I always end up with. The realization I came to very quickly is that if you are going to play or write a villain effectively, you have to act as if they were heroes — because internally, they are.
No one ever believes themselves to be evil, not truly, and no one is evil just for the sake of being evil — they are generally attempting to do something, that, were they on the other side, might well be perceived as good. This is especially true for your intelligent villain, but even complete psychopaths have internally valid motivations.
5.) If you could send everyone in the world (or universe if you prefer) a message, what would you say?
Take a deep breath and try to be a bit more accepting of one another. If you’re in the middle of a disagreement, whatever it may be about, it probably isn’t worth fighting over, and it definitely isn’t worth killing one another.
