A Number Of People Have Said I Look Like Harry Potter...

[rionaleonhart]

BY THE WAY, JAMES MARSDEN AND JOHN BARROWMAN ARE THE SAME PERSON. I can't believe I haven't heard anyone suggesting this theory FACT FACT FACT before. THEIR SMILES ARE THE SAME. THEIR LAUGHS ARE THE SAME. IT IS FRIGHTENING.

It is moments like this when I become sad that I know almost nothing about actors, because otherwise I would be able to write... well, I don't know, something. Now that I think about it, The Adventures of John Barrowman and James Marsden (Who Are, By The Way, A Single Entity, So It's Really Just The Adventures Of John Marsden Or Something) doesn't seem quite as thrilling and epic an idea as when it was first conceived. Possibly it would be slightly more thrilling and epic if time-travel were involved. JAMES MARSDEN GOES BACK IN TIME TO MEET HIS PAST SELF AND TELLS SAID PAST SELF THAT NO, OF COURSE HE'S A DIFFERENT PERSON, HIS NAME IS 'JOHN'. The resulting events play out much like the 'Captain Jack Harkness' episode of Torchwood. Genius.

Of course, it wouldn't be a very original fanfic, as that is quite obviously what has happened in real life.

(Other secretly-the-same-people: John Simm and Jonty of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. James Sunderland (what is it about names beginning with 'J'?) and Robert Chase. thebaconfat and squeemu. dracothelizard and Top Gear Dog. Pyramid Head and draegonhawke. FEEL FREE TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR OWN THEORIES.

A few months ago, draegonhawke sent me a letter theorising that Barack Obama may be the Master, on the grounds that he had the smile and that she found herself liking him despite not quite being certain of his policies. As I find myself wanting him to win the US elections despite knowing practically nothing about him, I think I may have to agree.)

Comments

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

:D I think I could listen to you theorise all day. When are you going to start writing for the BBC? I think you'll have a sterling career ahead of you, especially now the road has been paved by Russell T. You could usher in an entirely new era of incredibly cracktastic television.

Barack Obama may be the Master

That is... quite a chilling thought, really...

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

Stephen Fry and James May. I mean, just look at Stephen in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OT-Lx-HOiI).

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

There needs to be time-travel fic where James learns that in the future, he's going to be Stephen Fry.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

See, now I just think that ames and Stephen are just different regenerations of the same Time Lord.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

That works, too.

And different regenerations of the same Time Lord can meet and touch without the usual bad results of touching yourself during time travel.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just the time paradox, but who cares about that?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

As long as they do the sensible thing, don't talk about upcoming events and stick to shagging like horny Time Lords instead the paradox should be a doddle.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

OH....OH GOD YOU'RE RIGHT.

Ok, but now you've made Enchanted just a little bit less special for me, seeing as John Barrowman could have been in that role and wasn't....or, wait, possibly he WAS in that role....I'm so confused.

As for other people who look like other people: you probably saw my post a couple of weeks ago, but it bears repeating. Richard Hammond and Dudley Moore. Like. Twins.

I can hear you laughing at me for thinking Enchanted was special in the first place. Shut up.

[rionaleonhart]

James Marsden was in the role, and so, therefore, was John Barrowman. Because they are the same person. It makes perfect sense!

And your photo-comparison of Hammond and Moore is quite creepy, actually. Good Lord.

Hey, Enchanted was awesome!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

How am I like Top Gear Dog? I JUST FANGIRL HER I DON'T LOOK LIKE HER OR ACT LIKE HER IN ANY WAY. It would like saying that you and Jeremy Clarkson are the same person.

Also, haha, I see you're going down the slippery slope of thinking about actor RPF!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Riona and Jeremy Clarkson could be the same person! You don't know!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Well, I have actually met Riona, and she certainly didn't look like him.

Although it may have been a cunning disguise.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

But that would rely on Jeremy Clarkson doing something difficult without cocking it up.

Er, did she wind up on fire in a hedge at any point? Because if so, she could still be Jeremy Clarkson.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Hmm, not that I noticed. Perhaps she did this after I left!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Okay, did anyone see Riona wind up on fire, in a hedge, or both during the great Top Gear Slash meetup? Because if not, we might have to conclude she is not, in fact, Jeremy Clarkson in a cunning disguise. Jeremy Clarkson can make surprisingly difficult things work (particularly amphibious trucks), but only if they're accompanied by the requisite quantity of disasters.

Also, should I read anything into how Riona's completely failed to deny that she's actually Jeremy Clarkson?

[rionaleonhart]

Well, I did manage to ruin the meetup a bit by making Draco horribly ill.

DID SOMEBODY SAY "CHASE"?

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v401/Lorna_Green/?action=view&current=srslyuguys.png)

By the power of greyskull, I swear that I will never knowingly miss an opportunity to use that macro.

Please return to your business.

[redscharlach.livejournal.com]

I feel that insufficient attention has been given to the theory that Richard Hammond is the product of an unsuccessful attempt to clone David Tennant, only they forgot to put enough mixture in the vat and accidentally got some gerbil hairs mixed up in it instead.

[rionaleonhart]

I think more attention than one might expect has been given to that theory, actually (I'm sure I've read fanfiction in which it turned out that Hammond was a clone of the Doctor), but that does not stop it from being marvellous and true.

Oh, dear, I forgot to mention my theory that Richard Hammond and Anne Hathaway are the same person. Possibly I shall make an entry about opposite-sex counterparts at some point in the future.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I did a drabble tag thing where Richard Hammond was what happened when they tried cloning the Doctor, and it went wrong.

[redscharlach.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha, I have just remembered a piece of fuel for the Barrowman = Marsden argument: was this John Barrowman's secret audition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLNzHl1Rj5U) for Enchanted? I think the public should be told...

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

That was GENIUS.

Also, surely John Barrowman as the Prince would've flirted with Patrick Dempsey's character. I feel this is a possibility which must be explored.

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to ask because I quite genuinely don't know: Anne Hathaway, that actress who was in The Princess Diaries (possibly?), or Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife?

[rionaleonhart]

Anne Hathaway the actress. I looked up one day, saw her on the television and went WHAT THE HELL WHY HAS RICHARD HAMMOND BECOME A WOMAN?

ANNE HATHAWAY?
RICHARD HAMMOND?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Things that need to be fic; Richard Hammond/William Shakespeare. Possibly with a Doctor Who crossover thrown in.

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

...all I can say to that is "yes".

[galaxysong9.livejournal.com]

I have the eerily similar handwriting to James Sunderland. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but I haven't smothered anyone yet, so I'm hoping it's not an omen.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

john simm = jonty, trufax.

also obama = master gives me lolz. but i agree.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

The full theory is much more distressing.

1) He came out of nowhere.

2) He has written at least two books.

3) Everyone loves him, and no one's quite sure why.
3a) I saw him speak. He spoke about... I can't remember, but it was good....

4) He has the smiiiiiile (http://www.nationalclergycouncil.org/images/Barack%20Obama%20Official%20small.jpg).

5) His logo is a simple, hypnotic image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flickr_Obama_Austin_01.jpg).

6) He's psychotically charismatic.

7) His signature (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Barack_Obama_signature.png) is clearly composed of weird Time Lord symbols (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Doctorcallingcard.jpg).

8) He won Iowa (in the caucuses) by a significant margin, which no one seems to have expected. Cult of personality much?
8a) Seriously, in my precinct, he got 231 of the 517 Democrats right off the bat. The next-highest number was 82.
8b) My politically-apathetic friends came out to caucus for him.
8c) Look at his remarks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign%2C_2008#Iowa) upon winning. "In his remarks to his followers that evening, he said 'But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do.' He further noted that 'our time for change has come' and suggested that in the future Americans will look back on the 2008 Iowa caucuses and say, 'this is the moment when it all began.'" LOOK AT THAT. THAT IS THE MASTER SPEAKING.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

(He also has the chuckle.)

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

fffffffffffffffff

i am actually a bit terrified

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

Well, I, for one, welcome our new Gallifreyan overlords....

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

I didn't say I didn't like the idea. ;D

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a fic about this on whofic a while back. Was one of you responsible?

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

To be fair to Senator Obama, he is intelligent, literate, and immensely charismatic. I play the "I can't remember," but bits of the speech I attended did stick in my mind: he was clear on what he could and couldn't do, and he was upfront that there were things he couldn't do. He wouldn't be a perfect president. But he has his ideals in what a lot of people feel are the right places: he spoke on education, healthcare, partisan boundaries, foreign policy, foreign aid, and I remember that I didn't agree with him on every point, but there was enough I did agree with.

And, yeah, a lot of it is stuff everyone says--affordable health care, ending the "war". And I have serious doubts that he'll really manage to get health care for all by the end of the first term, given conditions in the Senate, and all. But what's so staggeringly attractive isn't the policy, it's the attitude. He's fiery, he's humanistic, he's coming out of a tradition that most of our politicians aren't, and he can instill a sense that fixing America isn't a losing battle. And, honestly, at this point, I think a candidate who can make people excited, make people care, might do a lot more good than someone who knows all the Washington tricks.

There's a pretty good speech up here:
http://www.youdecide2008.com/2007/12/08/video-oprahs-entire-speech-for-obama-from-iowa/
if you'd like to check it out. (Though, on my comp, it cuts weirdly into static. It could be in the actual recording. Or, er, it could be Silent Hill saying it needs me for someone.) Or you could look for Obama on YouTube, I suppose.