Comparative TV
Nov. 14th, 2008 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieSo I was thinking today about Mulder and Scully versus Brennan and Booth (spurred on by this fanfic, which has B&B discussing such things, and Brennan whining about how Scully gets to carry a gun, and so should she), and I came to a realization. Rather than M&S, or Maddie and David, which would have been my other guess, Brennan and Booth are in fact Fraser and Ray Vecchio with a chick.
No, really! Can't you see it? Brennan and Fraser are like pop culture-n00b soul twins with justice complexes. (I...kind of want crossover shipfic now. Maybe they met while she was at Northwestern?) She's less McGuyverish, though, except for her speciality, where she could leave him in the dust. (Probably. Then again, knowing Fraser, he probably read forensic anthropology textbooks as bedtime reading when he was seven, so who knows.) Booth and Ray V are both the long-suffering down-to-earth cop types who happen to dress in incredibly expensive suits and have family obligations and darkness in their pasts.
I...think this might make Cam Thatcher, aka the power-monger with a heart. Er, does that mean I'll eventually ship her and Brennan? That might be weird.
...Why yes, I am avoiding work on a paper! How did you guess?
Oh dear god I hate this paper please kill me now kthx
BTW, said paper would be why I'm behind on comments. I'll try to catch upover Christmas break next week.
No, really! Can't you see it? Brennan and Fraser are like pop culture-n00b soul twins with justice complexes. (I...kind of want crossover shipfic now. Maybe they met while she was at Northwestern?) She's less McGuyverish, though, except for her speciality, where she could leave him in the dust. (Probably. Then again, knowing Fraser, he probably read forensic anthropology textbooks as bedtime reading when he was seven, so who knows.) Booth and Ray V are both the long-suffering down-to-earth cop types who happen to dress in incredibly expensive suits and have family obligations and darkness in their pasts.
I...think this might make Cam Thatcher, aka the power-monger with a heart. Er, does that mean I'll eventually ship her and Brennan? That might be weird.
...Why yes, I am avoiding work on a paper! How did you guess?
Oh dear god I hate this paper please kill me now kthx
BTW, said paper would be why I'm behind on comments. I'll try to catch up
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Date: 2008-11-14 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-14 09:25 pm (UTC)I guess all flavors of Buddy Cop Show have their similarities, but these do seem more similar than most...
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Date: 2008-11-14 08:51 pm (UTC)(what have you done to my brain???)
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Date: 2008-11-14 09:20 pm (UTC).......
Dude, I had WORK to do this weekend! :)
Oh dear god I hate this paper please kill me now kthx
What's the paper?
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Date: 2008-11-14 09:28 pm (UTC)Heeeee. Hulu.com is your friend. After S1, you have to switch to Netflix.
What's the paper?
A comparison of Washington Irving's "The Spectre Bridegroom" and Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." In five pages or less. I could write a semi-decent paper on the Poe story, but I'm getting NOWHERE putting the two of them together and trying to get it to make sense.
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Date: 2008-11-16 03:09 am (UTC)I'm lucky: none of my professors here seem to care about upper page limits....
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Date: 2008-11-16 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-14 11:06 pm (UTC)Edited for html fail.
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Date: 2008-11-15 05:13 pm (UTC)Hee. I want this crossover so badly I can taste it.
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Date: 2008-11-15 03:04 am (UTC)BWAH! You're so right!
Brennan and Fraser are like pop culture-n00b soul twins with justice complexes.
Awwwwwww! She's so awkward she has to be secretly Canadian!
Then again, knowing Fraser, he probably read forensic anthropology textbooks as bedtime reading when he was seven, so who knows.
Oh, you know his granny mail-ordered him some for Christmas...
Booth and Ray V are both the long-suffering down-to-earth cop types who happen to dress in incredibly expensive suits and have family obligations and darkness in their pasts.
Booth: "Stop licking the evidence RIGHT NOW!"
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Date: 2008-11-15 05:14 pm (UTC)Hee! Maybe Hart Hansen was a fan back in the day?
Awwwwwww! She's so awkward she has to be secretly Canadian!
This. (Is she Canadian in the books? Or is she just an American who spends a lot of time in Quebec?)
Oh, you know his granny mail-ordered him some for Christmas...
Yep.
Booth: "Stop licking the evidence RIGHT NOW!"
*sporfle* I hope she actually does try that some day. It would be hilarious.
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Date: 2008-11-16 03:56 am (UTC)He seems like the type to have good taste.
(Is she Canadian in the books? Or is she just an American who spends a lot of time in Quebec?)
Book!Brennan is (much like certain authors!) originally from North Carolina, grew up partially there, partially in Chicago, and transferred to Quebec in the past five years or so to flee a messy divorce. Oh, the French-Canadian shenanigans!
*sporfle* I hope she actually does try that some day. It would be hilarious.
Inspiring yet another of Booth's you-have-no-social-skills faces!
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Date: 2008-11-16 05:28 am (UTC)Oh, cruel autobiography!
Inspiring yet another of Booth's you-have-no-social-skills faces!
She'd probably try and make him taste whatever it is, too...
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Date: 2008-11-16 07:15 am (UTC)PLZ TO BE NOT MARY-SUEING URSELF ZOMG! Dude. Dude. Could you at least pretend not to be flagrantly committing literary crimes? Her editor just needed to grab her by the shoulders and SHAKE HER.
Re: icon: SO CUTE. I see you've gotten Disc 2? AND WITNESSED THE AWESOME OF THE BEAUTY PAGEANT EP??? It is fabulous. And makes me capslocky.
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Date: 2008-11-16 09:54 pm (UTC)*HEARTS*
I see you've gotten Disc 2? AND WITNESSED THE AWESOME OF THE BEAUTY PAGEANT EP??? It is fabulous. And makes me capslocky.
OH YES. Aside from the whole unebelivability of Brennan running around feeling little girls' spines for scoliosis, anyway. I liked that Brianna actually was a little brat. Plus, you know, everything Angela/Hodgins EVER.
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Date: 2008-12-07 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-07 03:44 am (UTC)(I so want to see Brennan tasting evidence on the show.)