Dimension Jump: The Adventures of Frankie - Saturday

[rustydragonfly]

Friday over here.

This is a bit of a long one so I waffled for a while over the post! In the meantime, the official write up is here! And has been for a while... I'm just being lazy for mine. I also found a write up from another fan that perfectly captures the ahhh how is this happening adrenaline and caffeine fueled madness that is Dimension Jump

Comments

[lost_spook]

Aw, thanks for sharing! It looks like such fun and I'm glad Frankie was a success! I'm v jealous, too - but pleased to be able to read about it all.

Guess I always felt sorry for him! It's some good writing to have a character you alternately want to hug and punch in the face several times in the span of the same scene, but that's him.

I think most people feel that way about Rimmer - the writing and the performance was always pitched perfectly somewhere on that knife-edge between a character you feel sorry for and the awfulness of him. And, as you say, it's very human, even if - thankfully! - most of us aren't at Rimmer's level.

[rustydragonfly]

You should come along sometime. It's awesome fun and while I don't have a lot of experience of cons, this one seems to be very small and friendly. I was afraid of cons because I'd heard a lot of horror stories, but I guess this is one of the good ones. No drama, no nastiness, just lots of people and the show they love.

the writing and the performance was always pitched perfectly somewhere on that knife-edge between a character you feel sorry for and the awfulness of him.

Oh yes. It's a wonderful balancing act, and I can really appreciate the writing effort that went into getting him just on that spot. I'd have tipped too far one way or the other.

I may also have emphasized with him as a teen, embarrassing as it is to admit. Hey, I was the weird kid with the perfectionist dad...

[lost_spook]

Oh, at the moment I've an awful long way to go before I can cope with a con! So it's extra lovely to get to visit one by proxy like this and hear what goes on. One day maybe when I'm well enough! (I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome at the moment and noise, people, travelling and all that would leave me exhausted before I even arrived!) I'd rather like to try Redemption, as several people I know online go to that and it's an odd little one that sounds really nice - it started out as a Blake's 7 con and widened out a bit but they still have some cracky B7 traditions attached. But Dimension Jump also sounds wonderful!

Aww, I think empathising with Rimmer is perfectly natural. He's just... Rimmer. you do. And then he's awful and you sort of don't but you still do. ;-)