>I haven't watched it since the second or third season - it started
>getting a bit too precious - but the first couple of years were gold,
>and since I started working with Laura in UF, I've often had the
>thought that as an adult, she'll be a lot like the show's female
>protagonist. Not in terms of what she does, Temperance Brennan
>is an anthropologist, but in her general demeanor. Brennan's not mean
>to people for its own sake, she simply hasn't got the time or
>inclination for that "lying to be polite" thing. She isn't subtle.
>The really fun thing about her in the early going, though, and another
>trait I think she shares with the adult Laura Kinney, is that she's
>aware of that (unlike your more stereotypical "socially
>hopeless" character type) and not particularly shy about it. If
>someone around her says something the Cool Kids would understand and
>she doesn't, she'll just say, "I don't understand what that means."
>She's honest like a shovel to the back of the head is honest. :) Kinda reminds me of Cmdr. Data and his asking what idioms and whatnot meant. As time went by that became less and less frequent, and Laura's lived a lot longer.
The unabashed honesty reminds me of a comment made in one story about Dantrov. Something to the order of, 'Blackmail doesn't exist on Dantrov. To get them to pay you have to threaten to embarrass them.'
>Except on the rare occasions when they are, in which case
>there's no time wasted farting around with the other half of
>the usual dance either. We haven't seen that? But I'm sure it's
>happened at least once or twice in the years between 2336 and 2411. :)
I don't care what someone's upbringing is like, the hormones -will- overtake her training eventually with that much time. =)
>
>>>She's just
>>>insanely (if you'll pardon the expression) picky. She's a princess,
>>>after all. She has standards.
>>
>>Not that different from Laura, come to think of it, just with less
>>blithely frank lack of appreciation and a lot more aristocratic
>>hauteur.
>
>One important difference is that, when Azula does encounter someone
>who measures up, she's perfectly happy to play the whole game. In
>fact, it probably annoys her a little that skipping half of the steps
>in the dance actually works for Laura; the one time she tried
>it, the guy literally ran away.
*SNRK* Oh, god, I can see it. Like a somewhat creepier version of the scene in Doctor Who where Amy Pond tries desperately to bed the Doctor and he's having none of it, realizing something unnatural is happening.
"The most important thing in the universe is that I get you sorted out right now."
"That's what I've been TRYING to TELL you!"
>
>>Also, I waited a whole day, on purpose, to post a reply. Noone else
>>around here wants to talk about -innuendo- of all things? Wow, tough
>>crowd.
>
>I know, right? That and a whole bonus scene! Nothin'. 'Tis the
>season. It used to be worse, though. When I first started doing this
>stuff, most of my readers were students, and virtually nobody in those
>days had Internet access at home, so when colleges and universities
>were closed, that was it.
>
Well, I did edit that comment to acknowledge it was Christmas and I was working all day. Not exactly busy. So we'll see once people are back from Gran-gran's house or whatever.
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this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed
--mu