I'm going to break up the answers into separate comments, and they may not all get done tonight (this has been a frightfully busy week).
MacGyver
a. He's me, basically. Or I'm him. Something like that. The inventive stuff, the adventurousness, the fear of heights, even the hair and the mannerisms... I sort of write by acting, if that makes any sense, so I couldn't not write for a role that tailor-made for me!
b. The self-deprecating humor. I can get pretty cranky at Mac when the writers take him too seriously, because it's like "ooh he has superhuman powers and thus life is easy" or something *rolls eyes*, but when he's being all goofy and tongue-in-cheek it's impossible to hate him.
Also the hands. ;-)
c. Definitely the pomposity in some of the later eps. It really, really doesn't fit him. And the "girlfriend in every port" thing can get boring.
d. Mac is really hard for me to write. I have his voice down pretty well, but getting the content to be the right blend of naive earnestness and irreverent humor is darn near impossible for me anymore.
e. Well, Velocizompire Apocalypse is the only time I've written him, isn't it? But you seem to think that worked pretty well, anyway. *shrugs*
f. I'm still planning to do that MacGyver/MFU crossover - I have most of a plot. Maybe once I move out I'll actually be able to write it!
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Date: 2010-08-15 11:29 pm (UTC)MacGyver
a. He's me, basically. Or I'm him. Something like that. The inventive stuff, the adventurousness, the fear of heights, even the hair and the mannerisms... I sort of write by acting, if that makes any sense, so I couldn't not write for a role that tailor-made for me!
b. The self-deprecating humor. I can get pretty cranky at Mac when the writers take him too seriously, because it's like "ooh he has superhuman powers and thus life is easy" or something *rolls eyes*, but when he's being all goofy and tongue-in-cheek it's impossible to hate him.
Also the hands. ;-)
c. Definitely the pomposity in some of the later eps. It really, really doesn't fit him. And the "girlfriend in every port" thing can get boring.
d. Mac is really hard for me to write. I have his voice down pretty well, but getting the content to be the right blend of naive earnestness and irreverent humor is darn near impossible for me anymore.
e. Well, Velocizompire Apocalypse is the only time I've written him, isn't it? But you seem to think that worked pretty well, anyway. *shrugs*
f. I'm still planning to do that MacGyver/MFU crossover - I have most of a plot. Maybe once I move out I'll actually be able to write it!