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

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.)

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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.

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