Tough love characters
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ladybug_archiveIn the morning I tinkered around with Baa Baa Black Sheep (a.k.a. Black Sheep Squadron), a WWII-era series. I wasn't quite sure what to make of it at first, although I absolutely adored a scene where General Moore talks with the main character Pappy and ends up yelling his name in frustration, just like Tony always does with Kolchak.
I watched straight through that episode until it decided to start buffering. It was all together in one chunk and the website didn't seem to know what to make of it, either. Once it started buffering I got impatient and skipped around to other parts. It continued to buffer.
By that point I didn't have enough time to watch a full episode, so I switched to one in several parts and skipped around a bit in it to see if it was one I'd like to watch in full later. And that episode, #4, made me decide I loved the show and that I'd definitely be giving it another chance.
Why? Because the plot involved the main character, Pappy, going missing in action. It flipped back and forth between his adventures and how the rest of the unit was dealing with him being missing. And they were not handling it well. They were neglecting their duties, refusing missions, and lying around getting drunk. This went on for a while.
And General Moore finally had enough. After he was informed of the problem by the colonel, he went to bawl them out. They were letting him down, they were letting Pappy down, and they were disgusting him. He had this whole big rant and I was eating it up. I loved it. It really helped them, too. After that they started getting their act together.
In real life General Moore would probably scare the heck out of me. But in fiction, when I can sit back and just watch, I highly admire his actions. I've always tended to do that. Sephiroth, whom I'm loved writing for in both Final Fantasy 7 and Kingdom Hearts, is much the same. He's stern, he's tough, and he will be as blunt and harsh as he has to be to get things done. I adore writing scenes where he chews someone out who really needs to be chewed out. I've also done that with Alister, definitely in RPs and I think in stories, too.
I think the reason for my admiration is that I wish I were more that way. It's the same reason (well, one of them) that I like Autor so much. But also, it's the same philosophy I fully believe in. When people are depending on you you can't just keep lying around as the unit was doing in the episode. You have to get up and keep going, even if you want to break down. I've had to put that into practice in real life before and I hope I'll always be able to do so. And I'm of course not saying you should never have a time to break down/cry/grieve/whatever, just that sometimes there truly isn't a time.
So, hats off to General Moore (played beautifully by Simon Oakland, if you haven't already figured that one out).
I watched straight through that episode until it decided to start buffering. It was all together in one chunk and the website didn't seem to know what to make of it, either. Once it started buffering I got impatient and skipped around to other parts. It continued to buffer.
By that point I didn't have enough time to watch a full episode, so I switched to one in several parts and skipped around a bit in it to see if it was one I'd like to watch in full later. And that episode, #4, made me decide I loved the show and that I'd definitely be giving it another chance.
Why? Because the plot involved the main character, Pappy, going missing in action. It flipped back and forth between his adventures and how the rest of the unit was dealing with him being missing. And they were not handling it well. They were neglecting their duties, refusing missions, and lying around getting drunk. This went on for a while.
And General Moore finally had enough. After he was informed of the problem by the colonel, he went to bawl them out. They were letting him down, they were letting Pappy down, and they were disgusting him. He had this whole big rant and I was eating it up. I loved it. It really helped them, too. After that they started getting their act together.
In real life General Moore would probably scare the heck out of me. But in fiction, when I can sit back and just watch, I highly admire his actions. I've always tended to do that. Sephiroth, whom I'm loved writing for in both Final Fantasy 7 and Kingdom Hearts, is much the same. He's stern, he's tough, and he will be as blunt and harsh as he has to be to get things done. I adore writing scenes where he chews someone out who really needs to be chewed out. I've also done that with Alister, definitely in RPs and I think in stories, too.
I think the reason for my admiration is that I wish I were more that way. It's the same reason (well, one of them) that I like Autor so much. But also, it's the same philosophy I fully believe in. When people are depending on you you can't just keep lying around as the unit was doing in the episode. You have to get up and keep going, even if you want to break down. I've had to put that into practice in real life before and I hope I'll always be able to do so. And I'm of course not saying you should never have a time to break down/cry/grieve/whatever, just that sometimes there truly isn't a time.
So, hats off to General Moore (played beautifully by Simon Oakland, if you haven't already figured that one out).
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Date: 2011-05-06 06:37 am (UTC)In any case, Simon Oakland has indeed joined a small number of actors whom I want to follow from role to role. There aren't many I love to that extent! Some I would be interested in seeing in other roles, but I don't have the time to actively seek them out.
Awesome! They are neat characters, from what I've seen.
Gentle and sensitive guys are wonderful too. I'm definitely with you on melting if there's scenes with adorable interaction between them and kids or animals. And breaking down and crying is very powerful. I love the times when David Duchovny (Mulder on The X-Files) has done that in his roles. I really don't particularly like the romantic comedy Return to Me, but there's a heartbreaking scene in that where David's character's wife has just died and he breaks down crying. And I do so love that scene.
Ha, maybe you should see that Big Valley episode The Secret. The scenes between Simon's character and the kid playing his son are just so adorable.
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Date: 2011-05-06 03:36 pm (UTC)And I know what you mean about tough love characters. Yeah, your version of Seph was like that, now that I remember.
There are times when Hogan will drop his laid-back persona--and then you *know* that someone's in for it. I love those moments.
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Date: 2011-05-07 06:34 am (UTC)We don't get to see a great deal of sane Sephiroth in Crisis Core and other canon media, but definitely enough to support that take on him. I think most people write him that way.
I bet anything I'd love them too. Although at the same time I'd be scared to death for whoever he would unleash his wrath on. Ha!
Tough Love
Date: 2011-05-07 01:50 am (UTC)That show sounds pretty good.. Do you think I'd like it??
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Date: 2011-05-07 01:54 am (UTC)I don't know. I guess it depends on if you like military/war shows? There's a lot of unity among the main characters; you'd probably like that at any rate. And you'd probably find someone to crush on; there's a lot of good-looking men.
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Date: 2011-05-07 05:22 pm (UTC)And that character definitely sounds like Sephiroth. I agree, I admire the types that can stick up for themselves and be tough and assertive like that, since I'm certainly terrible at doing so. XD;
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Date: 2011-05-07 05:50 pm (UTC)Yesss. They're awesome.