Perfect Casting, part 2

[Snowleopard]

Not Mab but Maeve - the nutty one.

[۞†Grey Warden†۞]

the nutty one sl are you really using that to differentiate the two?

[NeuroHeart]

the nutty one sl are you really using that to differentiate the two?

Lol, ya really. Mab is way nuttier.

[Figging Mint]

Lol, ya really. Mab is way nuttier.

than Maeve?  heh.

by the way, between you and zur en arrh, I'm feeling a bit neuroasthenic.

[NeuroHeart]

than Maeve?  heh.

Um, yes, Mab is nuttier than Maeve. Maeve has a few moments, mostly for the benefit of throwing emotions off, but Mab has completely lost it. Juliet Landau is excellent for quiet insanity and quiet inspiring of terror. For Maeve and her overt, almost play-acted instability, I see the late Brittany Murphy.
Are y'all thinking of Aurora? She was definitely crazy as well.

(Oh, and my name comes from my interest in neuroscience )

[NeuroHeart]

Rrg, double post.

[Figging Mint]

Maeve has a few moments, mostly for the benefit of throwing emotions off, but Mab has completely lost it.

For human-norm values of "lost it" I'd hand that to you without objection.   

For Winter-Queen-normal, I see nothing that indicates Mab is off her rocker as such.   "Wounded" in her power, certainly.   Making extremely unusual moves as far as mortals are concerned, sure.   She could still be acting in completely reasonable fashion for Supreme Faerie Beings.

[NeuroHeart]

For Winter-Queen-normal, I see nothing that indicates Mab is off her rocker as such.

Aside from the fae saying that she's acting odd, and the fact that she's so angry and unstable that her voice can make one's ears bleed.
Maeve does her, as Elaine says, "nympho act," and she dyes her hair and acts a bit wild, but she hasn't shown any signs of actual instability. We saw her kill a mortal, but apparently the fae can be kind of into that; that one isn't unnusual. But once Mab took that athame from Lea... well.
Anyways, I stand by Juliet Landau as my image of Mab. My image of Maeve looks like so:

[Figging Mint]

Aside from the fae saying that she's acting odd,

It is well to remember that Harry is being very actively manipulated in that scene.

and the fact that she's so angry and unstable that her voice can make one's ears bleed.

..which fits with 'wounded' and angry.

Maeve does her, as Elaine says, "nympho act," and she dyes her hair and acts a bit wild, but she hasn't shown any signs of actual instability.

Well, I could argue that the entire "Something Borrowed" episode would be an example of instability...but lets leave that for another thread.

My image of Maeve looks like so:

^This, I can support.

[Griffyn612]

Well if we're just talking about how we see them, as opposed to actual casting...

Mab - Tricia Helfer


Titania - Jeri Ryan


Leah - Klodi Monsoon


Maeve - Barbara Planche model (http://www.myspace.com/barbara_planche/photos/48457171)



Mother Winter (Dench) and Mother Summer (Mirren)


Jenny Greenteeth - Basistka @ deviantart



Gard - Izabella Scorupco


Beckett - Debrah Farentino


Susan - Sofia Pernas


Murphy - Kristen Bell


Molly - Random chick on tumbler's hair + Spencer Locke


Sue - Sue

[Snowleopard]

Some I agree with - some I don't.
The one for Gard - no - she needs to look Nordic and that lady neither looks Nordic nor capable of wielding a battle ax.  Jeri Ryan for Titania - good.  And I love Judi Dench and Helen Mirren as the Mothers.
Kristen Bell - no not as Murphy, sorry.  And the lady for Susan - no, she's too young looking - Susan is a woman.

[Griffyn612]

Some I agree with - some I don't.
The one for Gard - no - she needs to look Nordic and that lady neither looks Nordic nor capable of wielding a battle ax.  Jeri Ryan for Titania - good.  And I love Judi Dench and Helen Mirren as the Mothers.
Kristen Bell - no not as Murphy, sorry.  And the lady for Susan - no, she's too young looking - Susan is a woman.

I always pictured Susan as younger than Harry in the early books, which would put her in her early to mid twenties.  And then when she was bitten, she stopped aging.  Sofia Pernas is 22, so she'd be around the right age for Susan in that scenario.  But I don't know when Susan was born, or how old she was supposed to be.

Kristen Bell in that picture, to me, looks like Murphy, but not anywhere else.  And Izabella Scorupco may not be a Nordic Amazon, but she's actually from Poland and 5'8".  And she was Bond girl, so <3.  In the past I said a young Famke Janssen as Leah, since she's could pull off the red-headed crazy; that would be two Bond girls, plus Dench.

How about this pic of Izabella?  Any better?

other pictures:  http://hairstylesarea.com/tag/izabella-scorupco-haircuts

[Snowleopard]

She looks more Nordic but this is gonna sound odd - too modelesque.
Gard is a descendant of Beowolf - I want to see a warrior who happens to be very striking - I'm afraid, for me, she isn't it.  Oddly enough - Jeri Ryan would be better Gard for me.

[Griffyn612]

She looks more Nordic but this is gonna sound odd - too modelesque.
Gard is a descendant of Beowolf - I want to see a warrior who happens to be very striking - I'm afraid, for me, she isn't it.  Oddly enough - Jeri Ryan would be better Gard for me.

I thought of her as Gard too, but I thought she would make a fitting opposite to Tricia Helfer as Mab.

Here's your Nordic Warrior Princess, then 

[Snowleopard]

Less than brief pause as I 'ralph up' my dinner.
Urgh - I hope you're joking.  That's just wrong and I suspect she
may have had extra help in getting that body.
(I'm not fond of male bodybuilders either for that matter.  They, I'm sorry if I offend, look freakish.)
I prefer the kind of body you get on a swimmer.