How Stupid Do You Think I Think You Are?

[rionaleonhart]

Richard Dawkins is such a bastard. I found myself becoming insanely angry barely a minute into The Enemies of Reason, and it only kept mounting. I am by no means a religious person, but he makes me wish I were a faith healer Creationist just so I wouldn't have to share any of my beliefs with him.

In other news, something that happened just now:

(RIONA is waiting for her rather misshapen attempt at brownies to cool in the kitchen. The younger of her brothers, FRED, walks in.)
FRED: Can I play your ukulele?
RIONA: (half-glances at him out of the corner of her eye) Yeah, all right.
(FRED whacks the ukulele against the table.)
RIONA: (YELPS)
RIONA: What--
'UKULELE': (is actually a piece of thin wood, carefully painted to look like RIONA's ukulele)
RIONA: ...
RIONA: ...
RIONA: That seems like a lot of trouble to go to in order to give me a heart attack.

In other other news, I, er, may sort of already have a few sentences of Alex/Jess scribbled down in one of my many notebooks. I cannot believe I'm writing The Real Hustle fanfiction. I'm usually able to resist for at least a month after a horribly inappropriate fanfic idea occurs to me! This one hasn't even taken three days!

Comments

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

*twirls evil moustache*

[rionaleonhart]

If you see any clips that could be remotely construed to hint at Alex/Paul, please let me know! Because at the moment it's only really working in my head as a sort of amiable love triangle focused around Jess (that part is easy; everyone fancies Jess. I fancy Jess), and a trio would be more fun!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

That was a more cunning way to drag me into The Real Hustle, I'll give you that :p

[rionaleonhart]

Blast, you've seen through my cunning plan. Should I give up any hope of extracting fanfiction from you, then?

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Well, not for The Real Hustle, not for now, anyway.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

I'm confused as to your lack of inclusion of the dancing dolls scam (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xqR4ajoi2eA). There's banter.

"It certainly isn't magic, and it doesn't do anything if you put these things in the fridge."

"Well, it makes them cold."

"..." "It'd make you cold, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah."

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

And when they're reprogramming the till (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2auIMYu1D6w).

"Please call again."

"Please don't call the police."

[rionaleonhart]

Yes! I love that! They really should show the banter more often.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

That's kinda the problem; it's hard to get character development when the segments are that short, and most of the script is narration. Even when the characters are the ones speaking, a lot of the time, they're addressing the audience and not each other.

[rionaleonhart]

That's very true, and it's really giving me trouble; how are we supposed to know how they'd behave naturally when they're playing a part most of the time? Argh. IF YOU COULD BE ALEXIS CONRAN INSTEAD OF IAN STEELE SOME OF THE TIME, THAT MIGHT BE NICE.

(There's a bit of Alex speaking as himself on the subject of cheques here; it's still speaking to the camera, admittedly, but it's a little longer than most of the not-'in-character' segments. ALSO IT IS SLIGHTLY ALARMING.)

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

I almost read that as Alex speaks on himself and the subject of changes, meaning "speaks as how it affects him to adopt this persona so often," and for providing me with a link to that I'd have to have kissed you.

[rionaleonhart]

Augh! I am now devastatingly upset that this clip doesn't exist!

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

Clearly something needs to be done.