Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

Check me out with the many birds, one stone thing. This is what happens when one procrastinates long enough. Things converge!

snowflake_challengeDay 7: In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs.

Also super belatedly for cathalin: how about talking about your favorite tropes/situations to put characters into and/or read about your favorite characters being placed in. What are they and why do you think you like them, or just any discussion of favorite tropes.

My absolute favorite thing is when characters are wrong. (A close second is characters being specifically awesome at things. Hey, guess what happens when you have characters with both talents and failings!)

Ideally, I like it when one or more characters are wrong, realize they are wrong, and admit they were wrong, and then fix it, but I'm willing to sacrifice one or more steps in that series. I had a thought this morning in the shower that the relevant analogy might be that it's intellectual hurt/comfort. I don't have any recs handy, but luckily it's pretty easy to find. I might find a few examples when I get to bookmarks in a minute here, but it's not the sort of thing that's as taggable as, say, soulbonding. (Another thing I love!)

These stories don't need to be shippy, although, let's be real, it is frequently shippy, and first-time shippy in particular as people are getting to know each other, but there's absolutely a space for it in established dynamics where one character has an experience or a realization and makes some really bad decisions in response. It means that I am more than usually patient with the trope that if they would just TALK TO EACH OTHER, everything would be fine, so long as they do eventually talk to each other.

Doesn't matter to me why they're wrong, but some options: working within different sets of cultural or societal norms; assumptions, either totally unfounded or based on past personal experience; eavesdropping goes awry; a character who has always had to rely on themselves failing to take advantage of group resources; one of the characters starts out as just a straight up uneducated jerk; one character misguidedly tries to protect another character.

Which is why The Librarians 1x05 ...and the Apple of Discord was not precisely to my taste.

I appreciate what they're doing with Ezekiel, I guess? ( vague spoilers for The Librarians 1x05-1x08 )

The Librarian: various mythical objects as subtitles. Starring Noah Wyle, Jane Curtin, Bob Newhart, a series of hot ladies with a variety of competencies, and cardboard villains with plenty of henchmen.

It's a little a lot White Folks Save the World, and I am pretty sure their technical advisor is Wikipedia, and it's possible that the first movie, which had a fistfight between two ladies, was not in fact a Bechdel pass. I don't think any of the movies passed, actually. There are also a lot of "colorful" locals who help Our Hero on his quest with varying degrees of attempts at cultural accuracy. I spent most of the evening watching the movies. On the one hand, they're fairly terrible.

On the other hand, they're intentionally funny, and well-acted, and I *really* loved Romancing the Stone when I was in high school.

There's a TV show now? I have to come back to it tomorrow, but I'm really hoping it'll be fun and a minimum of fail. In the series, it seems like Christian Kane plays Eliot, only with art instead of cooking, and whatsername who played Pizza Girl is... there, as are a couple other people and John Larroquette.

ETA: wrong redhead. Whoops.