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

[rhoda_rants]

Good answers!

And honestly, Tolkien fan though I am, The Hobbit is the only book I've reread multiple times. I enjoy LOTR, but it is . . . so much work to get through. So don't feel bad about that.

Jane Austen is a great choice! It would be fascinating to see her reaction to how well received her works still are, and the various interpretations that have happened over the years.

[author_by_night]

I also never connected with the characters in LOTR, so that made it challenging. The only character I liked was Aragorn. He was cool. But I preferred the movies, though even then I still liked Aragorn best. (To be fair, he also made me think of Sirius, and I was pretty obsessed with the Marauders at that point in my life...)

I've heard she didn't really like Pride and Prejudice as much, though I don't remember the source, so it'd be interesting to see her response to that being the best known work. (I can sort of see why, if that's true - I like P&P very much, but it's definitely on the idealistic side, and I can see her being a little put off by that in hindsight.)

[rhoda_rants]

Aragorn truly is fantastic, in any incarnation. I kind of love Sam the best though. It's the cooking thing, I think. The fact that he thought to bring some decent herbs and spices to make their camping meals more palatable is just precious and I totally relate to it.

I didn't know that about Austen! I'd love to hear her thoughts as to why. I've seen other authors have that problem, too--their most popular work is often the one they connected with the least, for whatever reason. Anthony Burgess felt the same about A Clockwork Orange, to go in a completely different direction, but I wonder why that is.