rionaleonhart: top gear: the start button on a bugatti veyron. (going down tonight)
Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote 2010-06-09 07:20 pm (UTC)

Brooker asks people to do Screenwipe segments based on how much he wants to befriend/have sex with them.

I'll buy that. I wonder whether he knew Victoria Coren before A History of Corners?

I was a bit surprised by how much this shook the RPF-writing part of me, because I was perfectly able to separate the real-people-with-wives-and-children of Top Gear from the characters about whom I was writing. Then again, Top Gear is essentially about fictional characters. Brooker's public persona is also a construct, but it seems slightly closer to his 'real self', or at least we have more of a sense of Brooker's real self than we did of those of the Top Gear presenters (and most of the fic deals with the slightly more romantic, slightly less aggressive side of Brooker that peeks through the face he puts on, whilst most Top Gear fanfiction when I was in the fandom was about the personae).

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