Lit Literature member interviews

A fellow Cat fan - so glad. You're right, she gets no love. And the show did not help her here - AT ALL.

I also have a soft spot for Cersei, despite her obvious descent into crazy town. And I adore Jaime and Brienne, preferably together.

Anyway, not that it matters, but I wholeheartedly endorse your list.

 

it does actually!! seriously it's great seeing someone else who loves Catelyn and is sympathetic toward Cersei, I dunno I'm not usually the type to care all that much about this sort of thing but it really does bother me a bit how disliked those two characters are online even among female fans. Especially Cersei. :/

And YES the show was awful to Cat, right from the start when they had her object to Ned going south as the Hand... ughhhhhh I was so pissed and then it just continued to get worse and she got basically shunted off to the side in favor of ~Robb~ which who cares about Robb he is not even a secondary character. And then I just recently saw on YouTube a scene from season 3 (I stopped watching after season 2) this absolutely appalling scene where Cat tells not!Jeyne about how she feels just awful for how mean she was to Jon.

Just, ugh.

(Also yes Jaime/Brienne are the best thing.)

 

I have had this very conversation before. Particularly the part about how the show threw Cat aside (a POV character, ffs) in favor of propping Robb. Ugh indeed.

eta. Jello really needs to show up for his interview before I really sidetrack this thread.

 

He leaves me no choice.

1. Tell us about your username, why you chose it, what it means, etc. And what is the best way to address you?

I was walking home from my volunteer work at the soup kitchen one night, and a soft voice called to me from the darkness.

"You, there!" it called. "Dost thou speaketh for liberty?"

"Nay", said I. "I speaketh for order. Liberty is a sedative for fools. The only true freedom is that which we seize for ourselves."

Out of the darkness emerged a man, cloaked head to toe in black. What I could see of his face suggested frailty beyond his years, but what I saw in his eyes spoke of power...unlimited power.

"Excellent. Excellent. I have great need of one such as you." He raised a yellowed, liver-spotted hand to me. "Take these."

I reached out, and from his shriveled palm I withdrew a pair of epaulets, golden as the fires of Sol itself.

I knew, then, what fate had wanted of me all these years. My life, my eternal loyalty, was now his.

"And what shall we call you?" he asked, though something in his voice told me he already knew the answer. I thought back on my evening; on the crude meals I'd been serving thankless, impoverished urchins for the past three hours.

"Jello", I said to him.

2. Where are you originally from? Are you currently living there, or did you move elsewhere?

Jello is in all things, yet he calls no place his true home. In the whimper of a child, he is there. In the life that fades from your enemy's eyes as your thumbs close his trachea, he is there. In the final, bankrupted murmur of a long-forgotten supernova...he is there.

 

You want to know more about my good friend Jello? Just take everything I stand for and assume the opposite.

And, while he would probably kill me for saying this, I happen to know that as a youth he was an Ackbar fan.

--Adm. Nick

 

Of course, humble as you are, in time you promoted yourself to Grandadmiral Jello.

 

Mr. Jello,

Your username reminds me of an ancient Australian marketing jingle for Aeroplane Jelly:

http://alldownunder.com/australian-music-songs/aeroplane-jelly-song.htm



However, I can imagine it spoken by Palpatine in the Imperial sense, tone-poem dry style:

I've got a song that won't take very long,
Quite a good sort of note if I strike it . . .
It is something we eat, and I think it's quite sweet,
And I know you are going to like it.
I like Tie-Fighter Jelly
Tie-Fighter Jelly for me.
I like it for dinner, I like it for tea,
A little each day is a good recipe,
The quality's high as the name will imply,
And it's made from pure fruits, one more good reason why
I like Tie-Fighter Jelly
Tie-Fighter Jelly for me.

 

Indeed! I'll be posting from this account for the interviews, just as I dislike using my main account on public terminals.

Of course, getting used to strange keyboards is an adventure in itself...

I first heard about it on AIM and Lit -- virtually the same time. My first reaction was disbelief, but friends on facebook had linked to the official Disney press release so I knew that it was official. I had a strongly negative reaction at the beginnin, but within an hour or a few hours, it had tempered into mild curiosity and even some excitement at the notion that George Lucas would no longer be permitted to tamper with SW. A lot of my annoyances over the past few years -- although far from all of them -- can be traced to his doing.

As for my hopes -- honestly, the survival of the EU is probably foremost among them. Like Nick, I have some sense of excitement over a fresh start (and particularly, the fall of the Empire depicted properly instead of the nigh-nonsensical mess we have now) but here's the problem: we'd be jetisonning all of these decades of universe-building lore on the mere hope that it could be better, without any basis for having the slightest certainty. That's not a risk I'm willing to take: so even *if* I were willing to value a good, fresh start over the EU we've grown to love, I don't think it's a gamble worth taking.


Anything else? I don't know, I have fairly low expectations. So long as they don't make a hash of continuity, that'd be great. If we do see the Solo kids on screen, I'd hope they casted them properly. If they ruin Jaina, I will never forgive them. Along those same lines: I hope they do what the NJO and post-NJO failed to do, and put the emphasis on the next generation, where it belongs. No more Big Three saving the day please: give them the role that Kenobi and Yoda had in the OT.


That's it, really. Nothing elaborate or fanciful. I just want the EU to survive, and I want the story to be better than the post-NJO. Oh, and I'd like for it to actually be Star Wars and not that drek we got called the Prequel Trilogy.

I don't understand the question. There are things other than Star Wars?


Oh, all right. I suppose foremost would be history -- particularly the history of great men, great deeds, and great civilizations. Antiquity is replete with those, but you can find those in modern times too -- and the term "great men" includes women, for scholarship on the influence of women on the world stage is at its infancy given that the primary sources tend not to bother with their voices and roles (and when they do feature, it's thoroughly colored with bias and even fear-mongering: is it a coincidence that every powerful woman in antiquity was basically described as a whore? That's an easy way of knocking them down a peg, when unable to deny their influence or role in history).

I also have an interest in the arts and poetry: preferably classical or neoclassical, though I branch out from time to time. I have little patience with contemporary art or confessional poetry, or any other form of narcissististic, formless waste of time and energy. People's creativity can express itself in different ways, but some ways just aren't for me. There are always exceptions though: I do enjoy *talking* with said artists about their work, as I think a lot is gained from discourse with them that is difficult to glean from staring at some postmodernist thing and attempting to come up with one's own meaning for it (what a silly exercise!).

I enjoy good movies and television. Genres include: epic (of course), period, drama, comedy, and occasionally romance although I prefer it to be part of a well-developed story instead of central to it.

I also enjoy video games, but I suspect it's a fairly common interest so I won't belabor the point there.

I enjoy traveling a great deal, and have been to six of the seven continents and all five oceans. I also enjoy politics, although not on the petty, local scale: I enjoy it for the same reason I enjoy traveling or history, so I prefer high politics and international politics.

That's all I can think of, for now. This is a bit of a sparse reply, but I've been traveling all day. I may think of more later.

 

Hey Jello, what would say your biggest fears and weaknesses are?

 

Jello's first reaction to the Disney news.

 

The answer for both is poor people.

 

He must mean the original version of the destruction of Alderaan:
Vader: Hey Tarkin, you can't destroy planets without first asking permission of our glorious leader Emperor Palpatine!
Tarkin: Right! I forgot. The Empire is here to bring order, not destruction! All hail His Imperial Majesty!
Mon Monthma: Not so fast! I'll blow up Alderaan to get more support for my terrorist organization!
Tarkin: What? Stop her! I can't run fast enough in these slippers!
Mon Monthma: Too late! Buahhahhaa I'm evil!

 

@Jello: I remember having a picture-book for Star Wars shortly after the movie came out, and it included the cut scene with Biggs. Until I saw the movie again, I thought my memory of the movie was wrong because there was proof and everything that the scene happened.

 

Phone Jello is my favorite Jello.

 

Well, that's the thing - I didn't, but there was the photo of Biggs and Luke talking and everything, plus a little summary of their talk. At the time, I had no way to see the movie again, so I assumed that I had just forgotten or something.

 

YAY! I was on holiday and I came back to Trip and Jello interviews! THIS MADE ME HAPPY. I just thought you should all know.