Monday, February 25, 2008
Favorites in Science Fiction
Alright, so, in the same vein as this post, I'm doing another "favorites" list. This time, it's in science fiction. Same format as last time. Major note: please do not include characters from comic books/comic book movies (I will make an exception for Heroes. That's another post in the near future.
Alright, time to get started...
Edit: After some thought, I changed my number 5 entry.
1.) Anakin Solo (Star Wars Expanded Universe): The son of Han Solo and Leia Organa-Skywalker-Solo (say that one 5 times fast). While he's not in as many books as some characters, I always did find him interesting, and find myself appreciating and identifying more with several of his traits. First is his innate connection with technology (though perhaps more of a math guy than I am), as well as being an awesome Jedi. He ends up in many ways redeeming the name of his grandfather, albeit in his own tragic way. Overall, and excellent character, who should have seen more books (and thus "screen time" and growth).
2.)Hiro Nakamure (Heroes): Seriously, other than being Japanese, this guy is scarily close to me. I'd totally be doing the same thing he is (roughly) if I got superpowers (though I might try different things than he did with his. He totally made "Yatta!" a cool phrase. Also, his possible future self has a long coat, and a cool sword. You can't beat that. Oh, and a soul patch/ponytail combo. That one's more debatable.
3.)Malcom Reynolds (Firefly): While a less obvious choice at first, anyone who knows how...stubborn I can be can start to see the reason. I've always enjoyed Mal's simple, direct personality; the only major splitting point is his hostility to God and faith. But as for his approach to problems...I'll leave that to your judgment.
4.)Cleric John Preston (Equilibrium): the first role I saw Christian Bale in, and the one that convinced me to see other films starring him. Preston also shows us that, yes, guns and kung fu can exist side-by-side, helping the good guys to keep kicking but. Also, provides an excellent scene showing just how scary an emotionless character can be.
5.)Vincent Valentine(FinalFantasyVII): While not from a strictly science fiction source, I think the setting leans more towards that than fantasy. At any rate, there's a couple major things that I like. First, his general image/motif/operating method is one I enjoy. While characters who mix it up face to face are well and good, frankly, I identify more with the ones who put distance between themselves and their foes. Also, I think he's probably one of the more mature and level-headed characters, at least from what I've seen of the series, again something I like and prefer in a character.
That's it for now. My last planned post in this "series" will be, as implied above, on comic book characters. I'll try to do that after I've seen all the responses from this post.
Return Desk (1)
Alright, time to get started...
Edit: After some thought, I changed my number 5 entry.
1.) Anakin Solo (Star Wars Expanded Universe): The son of Han Solo and Leia Organa-Skywalker-Solo (say that one 5 times fast). While he's not in as many books as some characters, I always did find him interesting, and find myself appreciating and identifying more with several of his traits. First is his innate connection with technology (though perhaps more of a math guy than I am), as well as being an awesome Jedi. He ends up in many ways redeeming the name of his grandfather, albeit in his own tragic way. Overall, and excellent character, who should have seen more books (and thus "screen time" and growth).
2.)Hiro Nakamure (Heroes): Seriously, other than being Japanese, this guy is scarily close to me. I'd totally be doing the same thing he is (roughly) if I got superpowers (though I might try different things than he did with his. He totally made "Yatta!" a cool phrase. Also, his possible future self has a long coat, and a cool sword. You can't beat that. Oh, and a soul patch/ponytail combo. That one's more debatable.
3.)Malcom Reynolds (Firefly): While a less obvious choice at first, anyone who knows how...stubborn I can be can start to see the reason. I've always enjoyed Mal's simple, direct personality; the only major splitting point is his hostility to God and faith. But as for his approach to problems...I'll leave that to your judgment.
4.)Cleric John Preston (Equilibrium): the first role I saw Christian Bale in, and the one that convinced me to see other films starring him. Preston also shows us that, yes, guns and kung fu can exist side-by-side, helping the good guys to keep kicking but. Also, provides an excellent scene showing just how scary an emotionless character can be.
5.)Vincent Valentine(FinalFantasyVII): While not from a strictly science fiction source, I think the setting leans more towards that than fantasy. At any rate, there's a couple major things that I like. First, his general image/motif/operating method is one I enjoy. While characters who mix it up face to face are well and good, frankly, I identify more with the ones who put distance between themselves and their foes. Also, I think he's probably one of the more mature and level-headed characters, at least from what I've seen of the series, again something I like and prefer in a character.
That's it for now. My last planned post in this "series" will be, as implied above, on comic book characters. I'll try to do that after I've seen all the responses from this post.
1 Comments:
Ah, Anakin Solo. It pissed me off so much that they did away with his character . . . and just because they thought it was confusing to have 2 characters named Anakin in the Star Wars universe. Gah! Somebody knows nothing about the concept of "fans." Oh, and Mal would totally have rated a mention from me somehow if you hadn't taken him. So I took the character he ripped off instead. ;)
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