Yuletide Recs, fandoms 4-B

[alixtii]

Neutral Parties, The 4400, Diana & Maia & Nina. Maia and Nina are two of my favorite 4400 characters (not counting Summer's character Tess, of course): Maia the pre-teen with superpowers (she can see the future) and Nina the tough-as-steel superior officer. Here their degree of control over their lives is contrasted nicely with Diana's sensations of being overwhelmed, as the NTAC agent goes about a day in her life, taking her adopted daughter to a birthday party. Firm grasp of the characters and of the more realistic feel of the show.

The Bridal Path, The Addams Family (movieverse), Wednesday/Joel. Wednesday. Wednesday. This captures her, and the feel of the series, perfectly--comedic and dark and will-to-powery all at the same time--and it's Wednesday Addams.

The Longed-For Moment, The History Boys, Dakin/Posner. The author replicates the genius of Bennet's dialogue and the feel of the play without a wrong note, e.g. "I was lying there, and all I could think was I may be a Jew, I may be small, I may be homosexual, and no one from my supervisor to my bedder will let me forget I'm from Sheffield. But at least I'm about to get fucked." This fic is as much fun to read as the play was to watch, and no less intelligent either.

All that is overdue, Arcadia, Hannah & Septimus. I love Thomasina (it didn't hurt that the freshman who played her in the British Drama presentation at Colgate was really hot), and this is a fitting memorial--Septimus and Hannah in the library, divided by time but having something in common nonetheless. Sparse but beautiful prose.

Behavioural Software, The Bourne Identity (movieverse), Nicky(/Jason). Nicky after Treadstone, with Jason always there, watching. Superbly written, and develops her character quite nicely.

Coming Soon. . . recs for fandoms C-Z!

Comments

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

OH, the recs look great! I've bookmarked wednesday Addams and the 4400 and was interested in the Bourne Identity, as I've just re-read the trilogy (Identity, Ultimatum and Supremacy) but I'm not at all familiar with the movieverse. Who is Nicky?

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Nicky is Julia Stiles' character, a government agent who had worked with Jason before his amnesia.

There's a lot of differences between bookverse and movieverse.

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks. I guess I'll give that one a pass, then, as I've never seen the movie and it would probably confuse the hell out of me. I tried to watch the new Battlestar Galactia when it first aired, but it sort of short-circuited my brain, as I was a fan of the original series. I even tried to convince myself that either (a) Dirk Benedict had a daughter, who was also named Starbuck, or (b) Starbuck had a sex-change and was now a girl. It was just too disconcerting to deal with the dissonence of the new characters having the same names as the original characters. I don't know why they didn't just give the new characters NEW names - they could still have been officers on the Galactia! (And then, to top it all off, I happened to catch an episode in which the original Captain Apollo was playing a different character that seemed to be a prisoner! Arrgh!) I guess I'll just have to start completely over with the S1 DVDs.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Well, the movie is simpler and more streamlined than the books, so it's more you have to forget things than remember them; there isn't all that much to Nicky's character to need to be remembered. The one real big difference is that in the movie Jason Bourne really was an assassin, while in the books I believe he was just pretending. (The movies are more will-to-powery than the books, so I actually like them better.)

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

Oh. That actually sounds interesting. I geerally try to avoid movies of books I enjoyed (and re-makes of movies I've loved) but that sounds different enough that I might give it a try. Thanks!

[drifterskip.livejournal.com]

That Addams fic was fantastic.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it? I love Wednesday so much.