Character Love Meme

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Name a character, and I will tell you in no less than 100 words why I love that character.

Fandoms you may question me on are: Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI (Vegas), Firefly/Serenity, Harry Potter, Jane Austen (any of the books/adaptions), The Lord of the Rings, The Mummy/Mummy Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek (Original), Star Trek (TNG), Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1

Of course, you could also ask about any of the other fandoms I've written for or admitted to watching, but I can't guarantee being able to come up with a love-paragraph about any given main character for every one of them. =)

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Gil Grisom

Captain Jack Sparrow

Gil (CSI) & Jack (PotC)

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Gil Grissom (CSI Vegas)

In many ways, Gil-- and Sara, too-- remind me a lot of myself and the friends I was closest to in college. He's brilliant, but has difficulty interacting with other people; he's a bit of a geek about his hobbies; he's very private about his own fears; he's well-read; he's dedicated to his job. He strikes sparks off of other dominant personalities, but doesn't back down even an inch unless something more important requires it. And he has a vast loyalty to his team and a desire to protect them despite the fact that he has trouble expressing that to them sometimes. My favorite recent arc for him, that I can recall, was in Grave Danger when Nick had been kidnapped. It brought some of that possessiveness out in him, and resulted in the team being brought back together, too.

Captain Jack Sparrow (PotC)

Jack Sparrow is-- as you very well know!-- not my favorite character in Pirates of the Caribbean. Will Turner, as I've already expounded to you at length, holds that place in my heart. Still, I do like Jack, very much.

I think I actually like him better after the second movie, even though it shows him in a much poorer light than did the first, and am very curious to see how they'll portray him in the third. To me, Jack is a man with some kind of privilege and education in his upbringing, who fell afoul of the authorities and rather than letting it break him went flamboyantly off in pursuit of his own happiness. Aside from the loss of his Pearl for ten years, that's pretty much what he seems to have done over his entire career as a pirate-- and for the most part, he was successful. Ms. Swann has certainly admired the freedom apparent in that kind of lifestyle, which he seems to have embodied for her. But there are consequences for that kind of selfishness, which, after much wibbling around trying to escape it, he finally does own up to at the end of Movie 2: Elizabeth's actions, IMHO, while important to the progression of her character arc, were completely unnecessary for Jack's. He came back to face the consequences of his actions as stubbornly as ever he'd tried to flee them, and went into the maw of night like the best sort of hero: valiant and brave to the end.

Re: Gil (CSI) & Jack (PotC)

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He came back to face the consequences of his actions as stubbornly as ever he'd tried to flee them, and went into the maw of night like the best sort of hero: valiant and brave to the end.

You're right about that. I hadn't thought about it like that but it was true. He probably would have stayed anyway, but Elizabeth just insured it.

I know most of your opinions, I just like to give you a public forum to air them. *grin*