Snowflake Challenge #5
Jan. 9th, 2021 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pronkerIn your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm especially fond of a mysterious past that expands way out of reason. For instance, the movie Airplane! includes Ted Stryker's backstory of being a pilot in what war, exactly? World War II comes across strongly as the most logical candidate, most illogically. That would place Ted fighting in a war occurring before he was born! The planes shown in flashbacks aren't even in the Vietnam era. *sigh* I just love that movie.
Another canon, that of the Penguins of Madagascar, portrays Skipper's past in landmines of dialogue scattered throughout the TV show (the films, not so much). For instance, he spent eight years in the jungles of México doing who knows what (commandoing with a rebel movement? infiltrating a rebel movement? Peace Corps volunteer?) and an unknown time in Atlantis, the Eighth Continent somewhere in the South Atlantic. These examples don't even take into account the various ghastly missions on which two of his soldiers, Manfredi and Johnson, met gruesome demises,except for their Day Spa deaths, "what a relaxing way to go!" enthuses Private related in a way that tailors them into Skipper's Lesson of the Week. So, indeterminate age of a character and mysterious past get me every time.
Fandom is my happy place.
I'm especially fond of a mysterious past that expands way out of reason. For instance, the movie Airplane! includes Ted Stryker's backstory of being a pilot in what war, exactly? World War II comes across strongly as the most logical candidate, most illogically. That would place Ted fighting in a war occurring before he was born! The planes shown in flashbacks aren't even in the Vietnam era. *sigh* I just love that movie.
Another canon, that of the Penguins of Madagascar, portrays Skipper's past in landmines of dialogue scattered throughout the TV show (the films, not so much). For instance, he spent eight years in the jungles of México doing who knows what (commandoing with a rebel movement? infiltrating a rebel movement? Peace Corps volunteer?) and an unknown time in Atlantis, the Eighth Continent somewhere in the South Atlantic. These examples don't even take into account the various ghastly missions on which two of his soldiers, Manfredi and Johnson, met gruesome demises,
Fandom is my happy place.
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Date: 2021-01-09 04:34 pm (UTC)I loved Airplane, it's been ages since I've seen it but I really enjoyed watching it.
As for The Penguins, well, their characters are just inspired aren't they and his backstory is just so fascinating, you never know what else is going to crop up. When I love a character I always want to know more, and it does frustrate me when they allude to something but never explain or go back to give more details! Thank goodness for fan fiction, lol.
Thank you for sharing.
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Date: 2021-01-09 05:20 pm (UTC)You're right, fanfiction solves problems right and left. I just thought of another example, that of Star Wars: A New Hope when Obi-Wan mentions Clone Wars offhandedly; canon picked up that option with enthusiasm some decades later ... and we have astoundingly good new canon to ogle. :)
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