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Feb. 27th, 2006 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212Whew. It's been a long few days. Or actually, it's been an I feel sick few days. I didn't even make it into church yesterday. (I felt kind of guilty, so I put on some church music during the time I would have been in church.)
Good news though, I am finally feeling better. Pressure isn't building in my sinuses every time I bend over, and I can breath at night.
And Mom made shortbread today, at my suggestion. Or, as it actually went, she mentioned making cookies, and I went "ooh, shortbread sounds good" and thus it was.
We're starting to work on what to do with classes at Wright State, but I'll need to talk to someone about what transfers.
And I'll be babysitting tonight, as a last minute thing for an old family friend.
I was on a site earlier that was comparing the fanfic version of Qui-Gon to the movie version. (Star Wars, in case you don't have a clue who I'm talking about) I actually thought they missed out on something when they were doing their quiz. They were noting that in fanfic Qui-Gon comes across as more introspective and angsty. Which is true. But they were attributing it all to the demands of the stories that most fanficcers write, without considering something. Namely, the Jedi Apprentice books by Jude Watson. Aside from the movie, it's our only canon about Qui-Gon's character, and he does very often read as introspective and angsty in those books. Many times, fanficcers use those books for more information about him, while people who watch the movies don't consider the EU canon. It just stuck in my brain.
Good news though, I am finally feeling better. Pressure isn't building in my sinuses every time I bend over, and I can breath at night.
And Mom made shortbread today, at my suggestion. Or, as it actually went, she mentioned making cookies, and I went "ooh, shortbread sounds good" and thus it was.
We're starting to work on what to do with classes at Wright State, but I'll need to talk to someone about what transfers.
And I'll be babysitting tonight, as a last minute thing for an old family friend.
I was on a site earlier that was comparing the fanfic version of Qui-Gon to the movie version. (Star Wars, in case you don't have a clue who I'm talking about) I actually thought they missed out on something when they were doing their quiz. They were noting that in fanfic Qui-Gon comes across as more introspective and angsty. Which is true. But they were attributing it all to the demands of the stories that most fanficcers write, without considering something. Namely, the Jedi Apprentice books by Jude Watson. Aside from the movie, it's our only canon about Qui-Gon's character, and he does very often read as introspective and angsty in those books. Many times, fanficcers use those books for more information about him, while people who watch the movies don't consider the EU canon. It just stuck in my brain.
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Date: 2006-02-28 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 05:02 pm (UTC)Jude Watson wanted to really explore Qui-Gon before he died, so when Obi-Wan was sixteen, Qui-Gon falls in love with Tahl, right before she dies. He spends approximately one full book obsessed with finding her killer, and almost goes to the dark side when he catches up with him.
Then he spends part of the next book brooding over her death while Obi-Wan scurries around actually trying to fulfill their assignment.
Now, fanfic authors definitely do take it to far more of an extreme than even Jude Watson does, but there is at least a basis for their portrayal of him as brooding.