Pimpage with Elke

[applecameron]

She's such a good little pimp. All you have to do is show up. In fact, you don't even have to show up, but I did anyway.

I still have The Sea Hawk to both read and view so I can (possibly...naw, likely) write a story or three for it, for her, but we were talking about the yuletide Zorro story that she got and adored so thoroughly, and elke_tanzer whipped out two VHS tapes of this TV show Zorro from...the late 90's? I'd actually seen part of an episode at some point, I know I recognized the series.

Well, there's this cute young thing devoted mute servant boy and Don Diego de la Vega.

Well, come on. I can definitely see a relationship between them. I could write a nice little angstfic based on...was it the pilot? It was titled "The Legend Begins", and was all superhero-origin stuff in a wounded-hero flashback wrapper).

Very do-able. Easy, even.

We also looked over some Battlestar Galactica media, and I've always had a crush on Edward James Olmos (since Miami Vice), so I'm willing to see it, but I don't know if I can get into fic for it...BG's original cast included someone who was a dead ringer for a relative of mine, and I don't know if I can go within 12 lightyears of that. But we'll see. Or, I'll see. It. At some point. Probably at elke_tanzer's, donchaknow.

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[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I have a copy of BGS2003 on VHS... but it's four hours long.

Also? This is not my fault. (http://www.iespana.es/juandiegobotto/television.htm) Really. And it was 1990 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098957/).

*sheepish grin*

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Hee! He did grow up, at least. (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0098709/HH/0098709/botto_juan_diego_b_03.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Botto,%20Juan%20Diego)

http://epguides.com/Zorro_1990/
http://www.newworldzorro.com/

And... oh, my. It aired on the Family Channel! If I'm going to hell, I probably won't be alone... I haven't read any of this yet, but...

http://www.geocities.com/juandiegobotto/unofficalfelipe.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Movie/5741/stories/jdbfic.htm
http://www.fuuko.com/zorro/fanfic.html

[melodylemming.livejournal.com]

The book and movie called The Sea Hawk are entirely unrelated. No plot similarities, no common characters...they may not even be set in the same time period.

The book isn't one of my favorite Sabatinis, but I prefer it to the movie, which seems to me to be a bunch of Sabatini-plots patched together into a not very smooth whole.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Check the date on the Sea Hawk movie carefully, and consider it in the greater scheme of world events. I believe that it was a message from Hollywood about isolationism and wartime, very political, nearly a propaganda film, I suspect. But I love it anyway, because... mostly naked Errol Flynn, chained to an oar! With extra bonus foofy costume scenes, where he kneels so well in thigh-high boots! Woo!

[melodylemming.livejournal.com]

I see the political message, but the plot frustrates me because of its awkwardness. Errol Flynn in thigh-high boots does, however, make up for a lot of it. And he wouldn't have been right to play the guy in the book.

And that's a technical term...

[applecameron.livejournal.com]

Foofy?

"Foofy?" She indicated the room with a deliberately grandiose sweep of her arm with matching upward sweep of one eyebrow. "You think it's foofy?"

Standing behind her, arms crossed, as if not wanting to admit one tiny molecule of post-post-modernist decor (not to be confused with mordor-ist, a completely different genre of interior decorating) into contact with his being, the rather indifferently tall, indifferently brown, definitely not post-post-modernist man nodded. "Foofy."

[...]

Good lord, suddenly I realized that could be a Buffy/Giles drabble.

Yeah, I know

[applecameron.livejournal.com]

But I still want to see it.

Re: Yeah, I know

[melodylemming.livejournal.com]

Well, of course.

Re: Yeah, I know

[applecameron.livejournal.com]

I'm such a completist. I haven't forgotten that MTV production of "Wuthering Heights", either.

But if I just hold off on that long enough, maybe I'll get hit by a bus and not have to see it! Hooray!

Re: Yeah, I know

[melodylemming.livejournal.com]

I think MTV's Wuthering Heights is much more worth avoiding than The Sea Hawk.