Snowflake Challenge 3: Dinner

[author_by_night]

In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know? 
 

Oh wow, how can I possibly choose one??

 

Maybe Rachel Bloom. She just seems very approachable, and I'd love to talk to her about CXG, her videos before CXG, if she's ever thought about returning to that.  Jane Espenson is another pick. Talk about Buffy, her thoughts on a possible reboot, modern media. 

 

I think JRR Tolkien  would be another interesting pick, if I could go back in time. On one hand, it would be awkward because I never actually got into LOTR. (I'm sorry. I did very much like The Hobbit when I read it in school, although I've heard that's panned by LOTR fans?) On the other hand, that doesn't mean I don't think he was an amazing writer, and I would love to discuss drawing from mythology, creating such a dynamic world, and how much serving during the war informed him. Although he might have been sick of the latter question, I get the impression he always insisted he didn't base it on being in the military. However, I think there is a difference between direct parallels Shakespeare In Love style and simply being informed by the past. A huge difference, actually.

 

Another author I would love to interview would be Jane Austen, but I think I'd actually love to bring her into the future. I'd especially love her thoughts on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved, as well as modern feminism.  I'm not a Jane Austen expert, so I'm not sure how she would respond to any of that. Perhaps someone better versed has input?

 

Bringing it back to television, I'd love to meet Amy Poehler. I want to know how she thinks Leslie would react to Biden being POTUS, and maybe even discuss Parks and Rec in light of current circumstances, which would be much more serious but also interesting.

Comments

[paulamcg]

Perhaps it would be interesting for Tolkien, too, to have a discussion with someone who never got into LotR? Great answers!

[author_by_night]

Good point!

I will say that one of the problems, in my mind, is that he was going for an epic poetry feel. I studied literature in college and had no use for epic poetry. (Except for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. And, interestingly, Beowulf, which most people hate. It just worked for me.) So that right there means I was never the target audience. However, I do understand the motifs he was pulling from, and I think that would be fun to discuss.