[LMB] OT: Fantasy crushes

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- Margaret Dean <margdean at erols.com> wrote:

> > > Bill Bixby (the world's bravest actor)
> 
> *chuckle*  'Cause time and time again he took roles in ongoing
> series where he must have KNOWN he was going to be upstaged. 
> Think about it.  My Favorite Martian (the Martian), The Courtship
> of Eddie's Father (the kid), The Incredible Hulk (the monster)...

Hmm, good point.  I loved My Favorite Martian: haven't seen it since I was a kid.

> Loved, loved, loved him in The Magician, though.  Anyone else
> remember that?

Never saw it. Always wanted to.

> > I love the way so many of us gravitate to Tolkien heroes. I also have a bit of a pash for
> Fingon.
> 
> I also have this sneaking admiration for Maedhros, who IMO makes
> the best of a bad job.

Yes. Maedhros kind of shares my Fingon-love.  Maedhros was very dramatic.

> > Faramir is a funny case: perhaps the only character whom I love in the movies but not in the
> > books. (Pausing to think if there are others where this is the case.  Yes: Elrond of
> Rivendell.)
> 
> Now, you see, one of the main reasons I didn't even =try= to
> watch Jackson's TWO TOWERS was because of the reported treatment
> of Faramir.

Fair enough, if you loved the book version. I didn't - nothing against him, but he didn't catch my
attention in any way. So when I saw David Wenham's wonderful performance I just simply fell in
love with Faramir for the first time.

> > > Lord Peter Wimsey
> > 
> > One of Lymond's progenitors, literarily speaking.
> 
> Yup.  And their respective mothers, even more so.

So true!

> For some reason he is the one Heyer hero whom I find Dead Sexy,
> though I like an awful lot of them as characters.

I find Lord Damerel very sexy.  And Avon's son, Dominic, Marquis of Vidal. (Am I just naming the
Bad Boys of the Heyer pantheon?  Hmm.  Surely not.)  Avon is definitely Dead Sexy, and he also
reminds me of Lymond, and I would guess, is one of the characters who influenced or inspired
Dorothy Dunnett. But I've never head that confirmed, I don't think. I do know that Dunnett liked
Heyer.

> The Fourth Doctor is the one I've seen most of.  And, again, the
> Voice.

Oh, really?  (Interest perking up.) ...Well. That works for me. And Nine has a great voice, too.

namaste,
Elizabeth