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1. What was the worst movie you've ever seen?
Difficult to pick – but the worst movie I’ve seen at the cinema would have to be The Perfect Storm. I was so bored. I found it to be manipulative – or at least trying to be, but as all the characters wore yellow waterproofs almost all the time, I couldn’t tell which ones were in mortal peril at any one time. I almost fell asleep during it and can remember nothing but water, women in bars and yellowness.
2. Five favorite pairings (gen, slash, het).
Starsky/Hutch (although I love them gen too, there’s so much love there either way)
Sam/Al (again, friends or lovers)
Giles/Xander (adult Xander)
Holmes/Watson
Dean/Castiel (although embrace Dean/Sam and J2 and Dean/John gen/angst)
All my pairings are adult – I don’t like underage slash at all. Not even Weechesters.
3. How do you think "Quantum Leap" should have ended?
Oh, it broke my heart the way it did end. I love the angst and I can totally buy into Sam sacrificing for Al’s happiness, but I can’t bear the thought of Sam out there, leaping alone. I don’t know if I’d like a Happy Ever after either though. Though, if they believed it was all leaping at the behest of a higher power, why shouldn’t Sam get a happy ending? Oh dear. I’m waffling.
Alternate Ending 1:
Sam leaps into himself, days before he stepped into the accelerator for the first time. Al is joyous, telling him that all he has to do is not leap and it will be perfect. Sam is dubious, stating that it’s a paradox and if he hadn’t leapt in the first place he wouldn’t be there to stop himself leaping now, so it won’t work. Al goes ape and begs and chastises and yells, all to no avail. Sam says that if he doesn’t leap, all the people he’s helped will end up suffering and he can’t put his happiness before theirs. He steps inside the accelerator and leaps – but the duplication of Sam being inside Sam as he leaps causes some kind of quantum flooey reaction. It closes the loop, so original Sam goes off to do his deeds, knowing that he will eventually return but older Sam stays inside his body. Al is happy, thinking that it means Sam (any Sam will do) is back and safe, but Sam collapses and tells Al that he realises that this was his chance to ‘never have leaped’, but he did and now he’s stuck in an eternal cycle. He falls into a coma. At first Al is devastated and yells at Gushie. Then Ziggy helps him realise that as Sam is in a loop, they can just wait until he comes round to this stage again and then they can make sure *that time* that Sam doesn’t leap. Al lights a cigar and says something like “what’s another 4 years” and goes off to see Tina. I crossed it out, 'cos I want my second ending so very much more.
Or alternately no 2: The government decide to shut down Project Quantum Leap. Al fights to save it but without avail. The last day, just before the suits go in to turn things off, Al barricades himself in and steps into the accelerator chamber. When the others burst in he is lying, collapsed on the floor, lifeless just like Sam. We see Tina and Verbeena crying as medics wheel two gurneys out – Sam in one, Al in the other, both destined for a life in some medical facility, plugged into life support. The lights go out in Project Quantum leap and we see the card saying Sam and Al never return home. Credits.
Post credits we see Sam is in the weird freaky bar at the end. Seeing his own face in the mirror, surrounded by familiar faces but strangers. He hasn’t seen hologram Al for days. The door opens and Al walks in. Real, no hand control, no hologram. They just look at each other for long speechless moments then hug. A timeless hug. Fade to black.
4. If you weren't doing the job you're doing now, what job would you be doing (not necessarily your dream job, but something you considered a viable option when you were in school)?
In high school I had ideas of being a maths teacher. That went by the by when I forgot how to do math between 5th form and A levels(!). But some kind of teacher would have been an option – and now that my job isn’t 100% secure I have considered Social Work.
5. Five best desserts in the world.
Ooh! Let’s see... Eton Mess, Pavlova, Caramel apple pie, Treacle pudding and finally, chocolate!
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
My questions from
hardboiledbaby1. What was the worst movie you've ever seen?
Difficult to pick – but the worst movie I’ve seen at the cinema would have to be The Perfect Storm. I was so bored. I found it to be manipulative – or at least trying to be, but as all the characters wore yellow waterproofs almost all the time, I couldn’t tell which ones were in mortal peril at any one time. I almost fell asleep during it and can remember nothing but water, women in bars and yellowness.
2. Five favorite pairings (gen, slash, het).
Starsky/Hutch (although I love them gen too, there’s so much love there either way)
Sam/Al (again, friends or lovers)
Giles/Xander (adult Xander)
Holmes/Watson
Dean/Castiel (although embrace Dean/Sam and J2 and Dean/John gen/angst)
All my pairings are adult – I don’t like underage slash at all. Not even Weechesters.
3. How do you think "Quantum Leap" should have ended?
Oh, it broke my heart the way it did end. I love the angst and I can totally buy into Sam sacrificing for Al’s happiness, but I can’t bear the thought of Sam out there, leaping alone. I don’t know if I’d like a Happy Ever after either though. Though, if they believed it was all leaping at the behest of a higher power, why shouldn’t Sam get a happy ending? Oh dear. I’m waffling.
Alternate Ending 1:
Or alternately no 2: The government decide to shut down Project Quantum Leap. Al fights to save it but without avail. The last day, just before the suits go in to turn things off, Al barricades himself in and steps into the accelerator chamber. When the others burst in he is lying, collapsed on the floor, lifeless just like Sam. We see Tina and Verbeena crying as medics wheel two gurneys out – Sam in one, Al in the other, both destined for a life in some medical facility, plugged into life support. The lights go out in Project Quantum leap and we see the card saying Sam and Al never return home. Credits.
Post credits we see Sam is in the weird freaky bar at the end. Seeing his own face in the mirror, surrounded by familiar faces but strangers. He hasn’t seen hologram Al for days. The door opens and Al walks in. Real, no hand control, no hologram. They just look at each other for long speechless moments then hug. A timeless hug. Fade to black.
4. If you weren't doing the job you're doing now, what job would you be doing (not necessarily your dream job, but something you considered a viable option when you were in school)?
In high school I had ideas of being a maths teacher. That went by the by when I forgot how to do math between 5th form and A levels(!). But some kind of teacher would have been an option – and now that my job isn’t 100% secure I have considered Social Work.
5. Five best desserts in the world.
Ooh! Let’s see... Eton Mess, Pavlova, Caramel apple pie, Treacle pudding and finally, chocolate!
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:27 pm (UTC)Go ahead, make my day!
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:34 pm (UTC)1. Why did you pick your career path?
2. Number 1 on your bucket list/wish list?
3. Favourite 3 books (and why?)
4. Favourite recipe.
5. What are you proudest of?
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 07:39 pm (UTC)1. What was the naughtiest thing you did as a child?
2. If you had to give up either writing or vidding which would you sacrifice?
3. Why do you love rainbows so much, what do they mean to you?
4. Favourite way to destress?
5. Favourite 3 books (and why?)*
*I know this is a repeat question, But I always want to know this question of everybody!
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:53 pm (UTC)>> Hm. LOL the first thing that comes to mind is something I never got caught at. I once snuck into Lady Jane Ann and Sir Lloyd's house when they weren't home, because Jane Ann always had gum for us kids if we asked for it. I really wanted some gum and so I just went and helped myself, even though I knew it was wrong to go and wrong to take without permission. I felt really badly after it, so I think I taught myself my own lesson.
2. If you had to give up either writing or vidding which would you sacrifice?
Oh, kill me now. Um. Hm. My first thought was to say writing, but I truly think I'd get so horribly bored with only vidding after a while, seeing the same same same images over and over, whereas writing can take you *anywhere*. I think I'd give up vidding first.
3. Why do you love rainbows so much, what do they mean to you?
They just kind of...did. I was taught the whole Noah story and thought it was nice, but somewhere in my angsty teenage years, it became a symbol of hope for me - and I love color. So from about sixteen years old and forward, rainbows were my talisman, my symbol, and I didn't know about gay pride for a long time. Now it's rather like I mix the two in a happy way.
4. Favourite way to destress?
Soak in a bath with Loreena McKennitt on the cd player, Lush bubbles, and fanfic. And a candle.
5. Favourite 3 books (and why?)*
Hm. I'll have to go series-wise, I think.
1) Little House. The little girl was named Laura, and my kindergarten teacher gave me the first book. Still means so much to me.
2) Outlander (Cross Stitch in the UK). The thought of being able to go back in time and truly experience what life was like and not just a reproduction of it is a dream of mine. Ah. To really, really see. That Claire is a smart woman and makes the best of her sticky situation once she realizes what has happened to her makes me love her, and I find the novels to be richly written and as if I were really there.
3) Anne of Green Gables. I first read a bit of an Anne story, the part where Marilla accuses her of stealing the amethyst brooch, in a hardback collection of stories and never realized that story was part of a larger story. When I first read AoGG, I was so happy that I'd found *more*. I loved the romance of being an orphan, living in an orphanage, being adopted by people who didn't want her at first and then found herself beloved. It was a balm to my young heart.
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:37 pm (UTC)Homer: I like stories.
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:42 pm (UTC)1. Why do you like Jamie so much in Doctor Who?
2. How long have you been collecting soft toys/cuddlies?
3. Favourite 3 books (and why?)
4. What are you scared of and why?
5. What would your ideal job be and why?
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Date: 2009-11-01 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-01 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-07 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-07 02:43 pm (UTC)1. Where does your interest in Paganism and Tarot come from?
2. What's your dream all options, no obstacles can get in your way job/career?
3. You have a strong sense of self awareness - does it come naturally?
4. Favourite three books and why?
5. What was the 'naughtiest' thing you ever did?
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Date: 2009-11-02 05:22 pm (UTC)I can totally buy into Sam sacrificing for Al’s happiness, but I can’t bear the thought of Sam out there, leaping alone.
Exactly. To this day, "Georgia On My Mind" makes me think of QL, that ep, "M.I.A." was so sad, so I'm glad they came full circle on that, but to leave Sam as they did was awful. It was a cop-out and cheated the fans, I think. I like your ending *much* better. :)
Eton Mess sounds especially scrumptious. Darn, now I'm hungry for dessert, and it's only breakfast time! :)
Thanks for playing, sweetie!