If I read something immediately after watching something unrelated, I tend to have trouble getting the images of the characters I've just watched out of my head. This means that I have caught myself picturing Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Charlie Brooker and Martin Freeman in the role of David Mitchell whilst reading fanfiction. It is bizarre.
I mention this because, having just been watching Phineas and Ferb on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hippyjolteon's recommendation, I began catching up on a fabulous work of Brooker/Mitchell UST and realised that I was envisioning Brooker as Phineas.
Charlie Brooker is not an animated triangle-headed ten-year-old. He's really not.
So, yes, Phineas and Ferb! Thoughts!
- Phineas and Ferb has possibly the most repetitive structure of anything I've ever watched. I worried at first that this might mean it would quickly become boring, but six episodes (twelve half-episode stories) in I'm still having fun. I do occasionally feel as if it's trying a bit too hard to be cool, but that's not a terribly meaningful complaint; what is 'too hard'?
- It is quite frustrating to watch, though, because my favourite characters appear to be Candace and Dr Doofenshmirtz, both of whom are constantly thwarted. I really wanted something good to happen for Doofenshmirtz on his birthday. You could at least have given him a present, Perry!
- I'm fascinated by Doofenshmirtz's relationship with Perry, actually. I always love it when villains and heroes have a hint of something a little warmer than enmity in their relationship; we see it between Sherlock and Moriarty, between Red John and Jane, and here we see it between Perry and Doofenshmirtz. Apparently I am no less fascinated by such a dynamic when the hero a) cannot speak, on account of the fact that he b) is a platypus. (Here is a charmingly daft song about their complicated enmity.)
...would it be wrong to 'ship them? (Yes. Yes, it would.)
- I would rather like to see Holmes and Watson (any incarnation, but the Sherlock version could be particularly fun) investigating Dr Doofenshmirtz. I can't imagine such an investigation would take very long, though.
- I suppose part of the reason I've warmed to Candace (besides the fact that she is voiced by Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay of High School Musical), which is just hilarious) is because she isn't exaggeratedly, invariably malicious in the way in which Vicky of The Fairly OddParents is. She's more of a Squidward figure; she's an antagonist, but she's also a victim, and she definitely has a softer side. I do enjoy The Fairly OddParents, but I was never particularly interested in Vicky, whereas I like Squidward of SpongeBob SquarePants and Candace of Phineas and Ferb enormously. Don't judge! I may watch quite a bit of children's television, but it is good children's television, I swear.
- Perry the Platypus is sort of, erm, hot. You're allowed to judge me for this one.
Speaking of Phineas and Ferb and David Mitchell: would you like to hear David Mitchell voicing a villain in a children's cartoon? If so, here you go! (His character appears at around the 2.30 mark; that link should take you directly there.)
I mention this because, having just been watching Phineas and Ferb on
hippyjolteon's recommendation, I began catching up on a fabulous work of Brooker/Mitchell UST and realised that I was envisioning Brooker as Phineas.Charlie Brooker is not an animated triangle-headed ten-year-old. He's really not.
So, yes, Phineas and Ferb! Thoughts!
- Phineas and Ferb has possibly the most repetitive structure of anything I've ever watched. I worried at first that this might mean it would quickly become boring, but six episodes (twelve half-episode stories) in I'm still having fun. I do occasionally feel as if it's trying a bit too hard to be cool, but that's not a terribly meaningful complaint; what is 'too hard'?
- It is quite frustrating to watch, though, because my favourite characters appear to be Candace and Dr Doofenshmirtz, both of whom are constantly thwarted. I really wanted something good to happen for Doofenshmirtz on his birthday. You could at least have given him a present, Perry!
- I'm fascinated by Doofenshmirtz's relationship with Perry, actually. I always love it when villains and heroes have a hint of something a little warmer than enmity in their relationship; we see it between Sherlock and Moriarty, between Red John and Jane, and here we see it between Perry and Doofenshmirtz. Apparently I am no less fascinated by such a dynamic when the hero a) cannot speak, on account of the fact that he b) is a platypus. (Here is a charmingly daft song about their complicated enmity.)
...would it be wrong to 'ship them? (Yes. Yes, it would.)
- I would rather like to see Holmes and Watson (any incarnation, but the Sherlock version could be particularly fun) investigating Dr Doofenshmirtz. I can't imagine such an investigation would take very long, though.
- I suppose part of the reason I've warmed to Candace (besides the fact that she is voiced by Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay of High School Musical), which is just hilarious) is because she isn't exaggeratedly, invariably malicious in the way in which Vicky of The Fairly OddParents is. She's more of a Squidward figure; she's an antagonist, but she's also a victim, and she definitely has a softer side. I do enjoy The Fairly OddParents, but I was never particularly interested in Vicky, whereas I like Squidward of SpongeBob SquarePants and Candace of Phineas and Ferb enormously. Don't judge! I may watch quite a bit of children's television, but it is good children's television, I swear.
- Perry the Platypus is sort of, erm, hot. You're allowed to judge me for this one.
Speaking of Phineas and Ferb and David Mitchell: would you like to hear David Mitchell voicing a villain in a children's cartoon? If so, here you go! (His character appears at around the 2.30 mark; that link should take you directly there.)
