10 Fictional Characters Meme

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After ancastar posted an illustrated version, I couldn't resist. So here is my 10 Fictional Characters I Wouldn't Kick Out of Bed list:


1. Ray Doyle. As if there was ever any doubt he'd make the top of my list. Scrappy, scruffy, good with a gun and absolutely gorgeous.


2. Boromir. He's tragic, doomed, scruffy and has a big sword. And played by Sean Bean. What's not to like.


3. Richard Sharpe. If Bernard Cornwell had set out to write the perfect character for me, Pauline Zed, he could not have done a better job. (Highly competent, scruffy, problem with authority, extremely loyal and, oh yeah, has a big sword. Yes, please!) Not to mention here's that Bean fellow again.


4. Spock. The intelligent, aloof outsider. Always a favourite archetype of mine. And quite possibly my very first crush.


5. Vila Restal. He might be cowardly, alcoholic and venal, but he's also brave, loyal and extremely competent. Vila's a mass of contradictions that I cannot resist.


(I toyed with including my other Blake's 7 fave, Kerr Avon, but as I always told my grad school pals, I want to be Avon, I don't want to do Avon. Still, here's a pic, just because.


6. Illya Kuryakin. In the mold of Spock, intelligent and slightly aloof. Also, highly sarcastic, which I can totally appreciate.


7. Athos. Smart, cynical and extremely good with a sword.


8. Rawhide. Buckaroo Banzai's second in command and the archetypal laconic cowboy. I've followed Clancy Brown's career ever since.


9. Teyla Emmagan. Because none of these lists is complete without a girl crush, and Teyla would be mine. Seriously, just look at her.


10. Diego Alatriste. Competent? Check. Scruffy? Check. Has own sword and knows what to do with it? Check. Loyal? Absolutely. And as a bonus, played by the always delicious Viggo Mortensen.

Comments

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Wished we could have a drink together, Pauline- we certainly seem to like the same types of men! Athos- Oliver Reed was just so brilliant in that movie (and not only there) A short while ago the movies were on TV here agin and I just realized how quick and with what an energy and force he moved in the fighting scenes. When I googled on him I found aout he was severly injured during the filming of it (knife cut to the throat)! I guess he jumped into the knife of some unlucky stand man, before he knew it... Must have been a real wild guy, the man.
It seems to me as if there were links to the four musketeers and LOTR: If you are the Athos girl, you are the Boromir girl, too. Faramir/Aramis, D'artagnon/Aragorn? And Portos? Hm. An interesting linst, thanks for sharing.

Ah and to Nick Cave singing "Wild roses" with Blixa. I always thought it would be fun if two guys would singing it, that they actually have done that, brilliant. I heard some tracks of the hew album and I like it.

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If I ever make it back to Germany, or you make it to Canada, we definitely must have a drink together. (Clearly you have great taste. *g*)

I watched the Musketeer movies every time they were on TV as a kid, and still love them to this day. D'Artagnan may have been the prettiest, but it was always Athos that attracted my interest. His world-weariness and obvious smarts interested me even at age ten. And it was definitely Oliver Reed at the peak of his powers. I'm not surprised to hear he was injured during filming. The fights are extremely dirty, yet another reason I love them. (They fight the way you would fight if your life depended on it.)

Love the LotR comparisons. Hmmm, perhaps Porthos/Gimli? Though Gimli isn't quite enough of a clothes horse.

I haven't heard the new Nick Cave yet, but we'll definitely be getting it ASAP. I'll miss Blixa being in the Bad Seeds, though. He and Nick performing together is a wonderful thing, even minus the Wild Roses duet.