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[aria]

Okay, this time Hard Core Logo made me cry at the end. Protip: do not watch just before going to bed, or you will end up laying there staring at the ceiling feeling sad, and not particularly astonishingly the Headstones did not actually work as a cheering-up method. On the other hand this morning I have plans to watch kind of embarrassing amounts of My Life as a Dog, which should do the trick.

The point I'm pretty sure I had before I got sad about HCL is that I am kind of floored that CKR was able to sandwich being Billy in between being Johnny for the surrounding year. Good god. And my other point is that I am endlessly delighted by the massive amounts of love I have for various of his characters, so much so that I really cannot decide who is my favourite. Since it is a weekend and days off mean poll time! I figured this was certainly important enough to take a poll on.

(Ray Kowalski is Sir Not Appearing in This Poll, because I know, and I'd probably choose him too.)

Poll #918

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

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Billy Tallent
3 (23.1%)

Johnny Johansson
2 (15.4%)

Newbie
1 (7.7%)

Duck MacDonald
4 (30.8%)

Leoben
3 (23.1%)

someone else I will specify in comments
0 (0.0%)

If you ticked that last option, by the way, and then your answer turns out to, say, have anything to do with the time he was a vampire with a mutant Pomeranian, I -- well, I'll probably just giggle. But I figure it is perfectly valid to love someone not in that poll the most, even though I'm pretty sure I covered most of the not-a-sociopath options there, and I'm also pretty sure Leoben doesn't even count.

Now I should probably stop dithering and write more of the massive AU, although I would be equally willing to have hilarious conversations about what would happen if various of CKR's characters met one another. (Like, Newbie and Leoben? Particularly hilarious. Okay, stopping now.)

Comments

[omens]

HCL is one of those movies I would really have to psych myself up to see again, despite really liking it. Just, emotional headspace, you know? I saw it when it was new and being marketed as a comedy and was pretty much shocked. Heh. Lately I keep wanting to see it (because you keep talking about it!) so I think I'm just going to have to get tough soon & watch it.

But poll: Duck! I love WW so much, that is also on my rewatch list. It was hard to choose between Duck and Billy, though, even though I don't remember the movie so well, the crossover fic is awesome. ;-)

[aria]

Yeah, HCL is ... I went into it knowing exactly how it ended, which helped massively; I think if it had been presented to me as a comedy I'd have a hard time seeing it again ever. But it is absolutely worth re-watching (multiple times, even; I think I've seen it four times now and every time I notice whole layers of new things) although you probably will have to psych yourself up a bit.

DUCK. Duck was not the first character I'd seen CKR play, but he was the first one I fell in love with and I think he might be secretly my favourite by a very, very slim margin.