Greetings, webness, and Faramir redux
Feb. 27th, 2003 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyAve to everyone who's put me on their Friends list recently, and Ave to everyone I've put on mine.
Am entranced today by the sheer webness of LJ; found purely by accident people of whom I've never heard who have recced my defense of Jackson's Faramir post.
(Which, btw, needs a caveat, as I discovered in answering![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heres_luck's critique of what I'd said. I'm going to edit the original Faramir post to stick it in, but I'm also going to put it here, because I feel like it needs to be said.
My rhetoric in making this argument outstripped my actual feelings. I really like book-Faramir; he's a good person, and it is a relief to find somebody in Gondor with their head on straight. When I said I find Faramir uninteresting in the book, I think I was speaking a little more from a writer-type perspective than I realized at the time. Book-Faramir is static; he gets wounded and grieves and all the rest of it, but at the end of RotK he's still very much the same person he was when Frodo and Sam meet him in TTT. So no matter how wonderful a character he is, there's this level for me on which he's just boring. This is not the only level on which to think about Faramir, and I apologize for framing my argument as if it were. Mea maxima culpa. So the thing that won me over to Jackson's version is the fact that he's clearly dynamic. That's what I love.
Am entranced today by the sheer webness of LJ; found purely by accident people of whom I've never heard who have recced my defense of Jackson's Faramir post.
(Which, btw, needs a caveat, as I discovered in answering
heres_luck's critique of what I'd said. I'm going to edit the original Faramir post to stick it in, but I'm also going to put it here, because I feel like it needs to be said.My rhetoric in making this argument outstripped my actual feelings. I really like book-Faramir; he's a good person, and it is a relief to find somebody in Gondor with their head on straight. When I said I find Faramir uninteresting in the book, I think I was speaking a little more from a writer-type perspective than I realized at the time. Book-Faramir is static; he gets wounded and grieves and all the rest of it, but at the end of RotK he's still very much the same person he was when Frodo and Sam meet him in TTT. So no matter how wonderful a character he is, there's this level for me on which he's just boring. This is not the only level on which to think about Faramir, and I apologize for framing my argument as if it were. Mea maxima culpa. So the thing that won me over to Jackson's version is the fact that he's clearly dynamic. That's what I love.
