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mrsronweasley) wrote2003-07-28 01:21 am
mrsronweasley) wrote2003-07-28 01:21 am
QAF - The American Version.
I planned this rant a while ago, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aneli8 and I watched it, but never got around to it, and now that I have time and a day off tomorrow - WOOHOO! SLEEP! - I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
I don't want to upset people that love this show, but I just had to say it...
First, here is what I have been able to gather in terms of comparing the two:
Brian = Stuart
Justin = Nathan, if you squint reaaaaaaally hard
Mikey = Vince
Mikey's Mom = Hazel (doi)
Uncle = oh God, what's his name...mustasche dude, really funny...
Lesbians = Lesbians
Brian's kid = Stuart's kid
Justin's mom = Nathan's mom (sorta)
Emmet = Alexander
Ok. So far so good. Except, Brian, hot as he may have been, continuously made faces like he was in the process of relieving his bladder and failing. He was the 'broody' one, except without the brains that Stuart was so well endowed with. Stuart was actually charming. That's why everybody loved him, even when they hated him. He was completely irresistible, even when being a total prick. He had depth, he had character, hell, he was Irish. He was Stuart Alan Jones, and he was fucking cool. Brian is just...there. He broods. He's the tainted hero. Blah blah blah, ok... I don't know. He just didn't do it for me. Broody characters tend to have quite good brain cells behind their demeanor, a la Darcy. He just…doesn’t do anything BUT brood. We’re supposed to think he’s constantly thinking and angsting, but his further actions suggest otherwise to me.
Mikey. Was adorable. He's a geek and I love him for it. And hey, good for him, he got laid within 24 hours of getting into town. Vince hadn't got any for six months, my baby. So, Mikey we like.
Emmet. Emmet was cute, funny, and funnily enough, actually had character. He didn’t have to work too hard, and he came off great, exactly as he should have been. And, amazingly enough, he seemed to have had more depth than Brian.
Mikey’s mom. She needed to be shot. She was so annoying!! She was supposed to have been ‘the cool mom’, the kind we all wish we had, but you know what? I just wanted to kick her. She had absolutely none of the charisma that Hazel did, and she wasn’t nearly as much fun. Hazel was amazing – caring, smart, witty, fun, a total faghag and you know what? She was hot, too. (She was!) She was cool. Mikey’s mom (I’m sorry, I just don’t remember her name) is simply…annoying. She chews her bubblegum in the way I hate and want to strange for, she tries to be cool, but comes off too serious (if that makes any sense) and she just…she’s a cause, not a mother.
That’s the thing – the characters are there not as characters, but causes. They each have a cause, not a life. They’re cardboard characters, each with his/her own cause and nothing else to make them loveable or real. They’re hopelessly one-dimensional, and they don’t feel real to me. The actors feel like actors, not real people.
The British QAF breathed life. It lived. They were real problems, they lived their lives, they were real. And, this is so important, even at its most serious, the show never took itself too seriously. This one does, and that its biggest failing. It’s a cause, not a show, and while that cause is worthwhile, it isn’t that interesting to watch, and it certainly doesn’t justify the sucky acting, dialogue or the convoluted soap-opera plot.
And they’re missing LoveablePrick!Nathan. That’s sad. He’s fucking Mozart!! Gotta love him.
Wow, I realize this is harsh, but I was just so…disappointed. I’m glad they tried, but I wish they’d done it differently. It just…well, it sucks.
And today was bad until two things happened:
1) I met one of the producers of "Law & Order". (He did the first 4 years.) He'd written my favorite episode ever. I got to shake his hand, and he told me I had made his night. It was fucking brilliant. (He came into the store, and he wore a L&O t-shirt, which is how we started talking...)
"Oh, you're a fan?"
"Yeah, I love it!"
"I worked on it for four years, actually."
"REALLY?!" (I'm thinking: camera-man? He looks all dishevelled and whatnot, could be on the crew...)
"Yeah, I wrote and produced it."
"..."
2) I was going home, and just sat down on the train and was about to continue reading my book, when, from two seats down, someone turns to me and asks: "Excuse me, it's Liz, isn't it?"
Guess who! You guessed it. The change-dropping boy. I laughed. We talked and he's very funny and nice, and we had fun, and he gave me his email address in the end. I think I'll email him. I'll tell him that I am very much spoken for, and I hope that he still wants to hang out, because he's nice and fun and seems pretty normal (he promised me he wasn't stalking me...) And I told Sam, anyway. And I KNOW that nothing will happen, because I don't want it to. So, yeah.
I was amused. Anyone else amused? I laughed all the way home. My mom laughed with me.
And I finally found where all the At Swims are. They're on a table, in fact, with the new paperback fiction books. Now I know where to point people. This is most excellent.
Boy, am I in need of a day off. But it's still good, even when it sucks. Because, at the end of the day, I walk out and feel like I've accomplished something, and that feels damn good after all.
But, oh, how I needed to talk to you today! I need your shoulder to weep on, I feel so lost! Alexander, how could you! Tell me a time and I WILL call. Because this is just so wrong. So, so wrong.
And I owe emails, which I will answer tomorrow, like a good girl. Why?
Because I have a day off! Woohoo!
aneli8 and I watched it, but never got around to it, and now that I have time and a day off tomorrow - WOOHOO! SLEEP! - I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I don't want to upset people that love this show, but I just had to say it...
First, here is what I have been able to gather in terms of comparing the two:
Brian = Stuart
Justin = Nathan, if you squint reaaaaaaally hard
Mikey = Vince
Mikey's Mom = Hazel (doi)
Uncle = oh God, what's his name...mustasche dude, really funny...
Lesbians = Lesbians
Brian's kid = Stuart's kid
Justin's mom = Nathan's mom (sorta)
Emmet = Alexander
Ok. So far so good. Except, Brian, hot as he may have been, continuously made faces like he was in the process of relieving his bladder and failing. He was the 'broody' one, except without the brains that Stuart was so well endowed with. Stuart was actually charming. That's why everybody loved him, even when they hated him. He was completely irresistible, even when being a total prick. He had depth, he had character, hell, he was Irish. He was Stuart Alan Jones, and he was fucking cool. Brian is just...there. He broods. He's the tainted hero. Blah blah blah, ok... I don't know. He just didn't do it for me. Broody characters tend to have quite good brain cells behind their demeanor, a la Darcy. He just…doesn’t do anything BUT brood. We’re supposed to think he’s constantly thinking and angsting, but his further actions suggest otherwise to me.
Mikey. Was adorable. He's a geek and I love him for it. And hey, good for him, he got laid within 24 hours of getting into town. Vince hadn't got any for six months, my baby. So, Mikey we like.
Emmet. Emmet was cute, funny, and funnily enough, actually had character. He didn’t have to work too hard, and he came off great, exactly as he should have been. And, amazingly enough, he seemed to have had more depth than Brian.
Mikey’s mom. She needed to be shot. She was so annoying!! She was supposed to have been ‘the cool mom’, the kind we all wish we had, but you know what? I just wanted to kick her. She had absolutely none of the charisma that Hazel did, and she wasn’t nearly as much fun. Hazel was amazing – caring, smart, witty, fun, a total faghag and you know what? She was hot, too. (She was!) She was cool. Mikey’s mom (I’m sorry, I just don’t remember her name) is simply…annoying. She chews her bubblegum in the way I hate and want to strange for, she tries to be cool, but comes off too serious (if that makes any sense) and she just…she’s a cause, not a mother.
That’s the thing – the characters are there not as characters, but causes. They each have a cause, not a life. They’re cardboard characters, each with his/her own cause and nothing else to make them loveable or real. They’re hopelessly one-dimensional, and they don’t feel real to me. The actors feel like actors, not real people.
The British QAF breathed life. It lived. They were real problems, they lived their lives, they were real. And, this is so important, even at its most serious, the show never took itself too seriously. This one does, and that its biggest failing. It’s a cause, not a show, and while that cause is worthwhile, it isn’t that interesting to watch, and it certainly doesn’t justify the sucky acting, dialogue or the convoluted soap-opera plot.
And they’re missing LoveablePrick!Nathan. That’s sad. He’s fucking Mozart!! Gotta love him.
Wow, I realize this is harsh, but I was just so…disappointed. I’m glad they tried, but I wish they’d done it differently. It just…well, it sucks.
And today was bad until two things happened:
1) I met one of the producers of "Law & Order". (He did the first 4 years.) He'd written my favorite episode ever. I got to shake his hand, and he told me I had made his night. It was fucking brilliant. (He came into the store, and he wore a L&O t-shirt, which is how we started talking...)
"Oh, you're a fan?"
"Yeah, I love it!"
"I worked on it for four years, actually."
"REALLY?!" (I'm thinking: camera-man? He looks all dishevelled and whatnot, could be on the crew...)
"Yeah, I wrote and produced it."
"..."
2) I was going home, and just sat down on the train and was about to continue reading my book, when, from two seats down, someone turns to me and asks: "Excuse me, it's Liz, isn't it?"
Guess who! You guessed it. The change-dropping boy. I laughed. We talked and he's very funny and nice, and we had fun, and he gave me his email address in the end. I think I'll email him. I'll tell him that I am very much spoken for, and I hope that he still wants to hang out, because he's nice and fun and seems pretty normal (he promised me he wasn't stalking me...) And I told Sam, anyway. And I KNOW that nothing will happen, because I don't want it to. So, yeah.
I was amused. Anyone else amused? I laughed all the way home. My mom laughed with me.
And I finally found where all the At Swims are. They're on a table, in fact, with the new paperback fiction books. Now I know where to point people. This is most excellent.
Boy, am I in need of a day off. But it's still good, even when it sucks. Because, at the end of the day, I walk out and feel like I've accomplished something, and that feels damn good after all.
But, oh, how I needed to talk to you today! I need your shoulder to weep on, I feel so lost! Alexander, how could you! Tell me a time and I WILL call. Because this is just so wrong. So, so wrong.
And I owe emails, which I will answer tomorrow, like a good girl. Why?
Because I have a day off! Woohoo!
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I'll email you back today, though, ok?
I love you very much, too. 40 kisses, huh? I feel damn special. ;) *40 kisses back*
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And yay for L&O guy! Stuff like that rocks. If it goes anything like JON you'll be eating dinner with him soon. Heh
And as for change-dropping guy...coincidence? I think not...
*hugs* Love you pet. xx
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Stuff like that DOES rock, and I somehow don't think he'll be back, but that's ok. :)
Coincidence! It is a coincidence! I refuse to be stalked! I simply won't have it!
*hugs back* I love you, too. I miss you.
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I'm enjoying the way a certain someone is looking at me at work. I don't have to act on it, and I have Sarah, but hey...it nice to be noticed...
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And Michael's mom, well... she's not really supposed to be lovable, or I never thought so. I mean, in so many episodes, you wanna kick her fucking ass. She's horrible...
And, as much as I do love Brian, I will admit Stuart is a better that charecter... and he's Irish. *sigh* But, really, I think Brian gets better... I dunno. Maybe it's cause I saw the American version first though. *sigh*
Also, there weren’t enough episodes of the British version, and the boys are fantastically hotter in the American one. I know that's superficial of me, but what can I say? :D Heh, alright, I'll shut up.
XOxoXO
Dee
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BAH!
Heh.
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And Michael's mom, well... she's not really supposed to be lovable
Really? Ok, that makes more sense, because she seemed like she was modeled after Hazel, and Everybody Loves Hazel, but if that's the case, I'm glad, because she is annoying as all hell (AND she's a bad actress).
Does he Brian get better? That would be nice, because he simply pissed me off. Stuart pissed me off, but I still couldn't help loving him.
It's also that I didn't like the dialogue too much...
And you really think the boys are hotter in the US version? We have different tastes, then. ;) Mmm, Stuart... Mmmm, Nathan... Mmm...everybody...
Heh.
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And, see Nathan and Stuart ARE hot, but I mean like the other random charecters. Like the boys that Brian pulls are hotter than the ones that Stuart pulls, or er... something. I dunno! Heh.
Whatever, any show with hot gay boys is-- in my book-- a great show. :D
XOxoXO
Dee
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AAAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH! PRICELESS! :D
So, yeah. Bye! ;)
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:-P
mwah!
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::Hugs:: What did Alexander just do, dear?
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:P
Well, it isn't what he JUST did, it's just the fact that he's...not with Hephaestion, and for me, that really hurts. More than I realized. Maybe that's PMS talking, I don't know, but even though I knew where it was all going, and I did like Bagoas, but Hephaestion is just... he's just... argh. It upset me more than it should have, but I couldn't stop thinking about it during work and getting even more depressed. Alli told me to keep reading, and promised me it'd be better. But just... *sigh*
BTW, what are your plans for today?
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My plans? Get out of class. Other than that- open to anything :)
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*faints*
*realises this seems completely insane to anyone who's not read 'Making History' by Stephen Fry, so wakes self up*
Um, yeah. Heeeeee, though. :D
I loved your analysis - damn right he's Mozart! he's fucking MOZART! - and find change-dropping dude most amusing. And man, you met the dude who did Law and Order! (I've never seen it myself, but I know I'd be screeching if I met the person who wrote/produced any of my favourite shows :))
And hey, guess what? You have a day off! And I love you! :D
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Well, anyway. Rant off.
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However, Fu, Jahdi and I still plan on watching it, if only for virtue of pointing out Pittsburghian Landmarks ;). ("Oh, I ate there once!", "It's Point Park! Do you suppose we'll get to see somebody go to jail for cruising?")
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