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Oct. 18th, 2006 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI really don't understand stories that start off by trying to make Giles un-Giles. Especially ones where it's all "wow, he looks younger!" I mean, given the amount of time he spends all beat up and/or wearing tweed, I can buy a certain amount of "looks better" could improve the story. Tweed looks scritchy. Nice leather obviously an improvement. And nothing being actually broken at the time is always yaay. But starting off being all "he changed his hair and now he looks about thirty!" or "there was a body swap and the temporary owner spent all his time working out and now he looks younger and like a bodybuilder"... Why?
I mean it isn't like there's a shortage of thirty year olds in the world. Or for that matter a surplus of stories about Giles when he was thirty. But suddenly shaving a couple of decades off his appearance... Why?
Also, he is not a bodybuilder. He's a martial artist. Some 'actor' people aside, they don't usually look like body builders. Giles does running, and fighting, and would therefore basically end up looking like a guy that runs and fights and doesn't much care if he looks all... calendar guy. And I don't think making him all anatomy drawing muscles is actually an improvement.
He's got a body for getting around in, not standing there being looked at. He's cuddly, and yet kick arse. I like that.
I also like his glasses. I don't think he looks better with them off. He looks un-Gilesy with them off. Some of the frames are better than others, but I like Giles in glasses. Also, if he wanders around without them, I get uncomfortable from sympathy fuzzy.
Yes, I know I'm slightly strange.
But anyways, arranging so he doesn't need glasses, not so much fun.
And any of these changes reduce his distinctiveness. I mean a 50 year old guy with glasses is in shorter supply as an action hero than a 30 year old body builder type. Distinctiveness, yaay.
... Yeah, I'm, er, not reading Great Expectations stuff right now.
I read a whole bunch.
Next I could read the introduction in the book, or a few more pages in one of the other books.
I think I'll have something to eat and see if I still feel like going back to sleep. Back to sleep and studying aren't so much mixy.
And I have to get up at 0645 tomorrow anyway.
I mean it isn't like there's a shortage of thirty year olds in the world. Or for that matter a surplus of stories about Giles when he was thirty. But suddenly shaving a couple of decades off his appearance... Why?
Also, he is not a bodybuilder. He's a martial artist. Some 'actor' people aside, they don't usually look like body builders. Giles does running, and fighting, and would therefore basically end up looking like a guy that runs and fights and doesn't much care if he looks all... calendar guy. And I don't think making him all anatomy drawing muscles is actually an improvement.
He's got a body for getting around in, not standing there being looked at. He's cuddly, and yet kick arse. I like that.
I also like his glasses. I don't think he looks better with them off. He looks un-Gilesy with them off. Some of the frames are better than others, but I like Giles in glasses. Also, if he wanders around without them, I get uncomfortable from sympathy fuzzy.
Yes, I know I'm slightly strange.
But anyways, arranging so he doesn't need glasses, not so much fun.
And any of these changes reduce his distinctiveness. I mean a 50 year old guy with glasses is in shorter supply as an action hero than a 30 year old body builder type. Distinctiveness, yaay.
... Yeah, I'm, er, not reading Great Expectations stuff right now.
I read a whole bunch.
Next I could read the introduction in the book, or a few more pages in one of the other books.
I think I'll have something to eat and see if I still feel like going back to sleep. Back to sleep and studying aren't so much mixy.
And I have to get up at 0645 tomorrow anyway.