Outside of morality, when you have nearly twenty years on your significant other there is plenty of land minds you can trip onto. The religious prude in me went ballistic when I realized this, but after raging in a corner I decided that this is one that should be allowed to play out. Of course there is one other tidbit that needs to be noted: the age difference. Of the four paths, I think this will be the one grounded in the most logic as both Sian and Brandon are fairly logical and level-headed…except around one another. That and he wear a kickass fedora, so God bless his designers for that one. Of all the men on the list, Brandon’s defined by his willingness to shed everything he earned in his career for his own ambitions: whatever the Hell they are. Think about it kids if you are just happy acting or singing or whatever you’re talented at, you wouldn’t stop acting over being recognized for one character. Well, actually outside of that I love Brandon’s character because of what he represents to me and I mentioned it at the start: ambition. Of course its speculation that was only extrapolated due one line, but if I didn’t do that Brandon wouldn’t be my favorite. To build a career off your talents on for those talents to trap you in a box no one will let you escape from? At some point you’d have to question why you’d even bother to begin with and it would seem that is what Brandon’s experiencing. To be frank though, that kind of thing has to screw with people’s minds at least it would with mine. It’s a clever bit of writing to make John Brandon English. You can see that in the late Paul Eddington (and if you heathens haven’t seen Yes Minister yet, get on that), Cillian Murphy, Hugh Laurie, Daniel Day-Lewis and maybe Tom Hiddleston? I dunno the guy has WAY too much fun in that Loki outfit. On top of that, it is an oddly English thing to shy away from fame or recognition for their work. Williams was mostly successful as you can’t watch Insomnia without recognizing the depths of his talents, it would seem that Mr. It’s about proving there is more to Williams, and Brandon by extension, than just one role. It isn’t about shocking the audience or shedding images of past roles. My favorite example is Robin Williams turn from comedy to family drama to villainous sociopath in the underrated Nolan remake Insomnia. That particular issue is actually very common in acting as most actors and actresses hate to be considered one-dimensional. More than likely, Brandon probably figured that would just be the beginning of his career and instead it ended up taking the lion’s share of his talents. While on the surface, he’s had a successful career being the lead actor on a long-running program, you get the feeling he had no intentions of making a career out of said program. One of the things you get early on from this character is that he has become world-weary. Let’s me make my case starting with my favorite male character in the game, and for your long time readers this won’t come as a surprise.įree the prince forever damned…Did someone say something? Oh well.Ī heavy cost has to be paid for ambition and that is best seen with the old dude of the game: John Brandon. But I have drawn the argument out a bit long so I could knock Inuyasha. What we get instead is far more interesting and it brings out the actual theme of this game: the price of talent and fame. That doesn’t happen in Backstage Pass at least not in the demo. It is done to show the audience the spark between said characters caught in said light. Now, do you see what I meant about the whole ‘attractive light’ thing? It is quite literal in romance fiction. THEN we will resume our discussion!Įveryone caught up? Good. Don’t worry you only need to watch about 15 seconds of this.
#BACKSTAGE PASS GAME JOHN SERIES#
But…hm…let me try using a visual aid.Keeping in mind my contention that clichés are clichés regardless of the target audience, and that said clichés makes up the backbone of the bulk of romance-centered fiction, let’s do a test case using a classic anime series that I have yet to kick about: Inuyasha! Hold the cutlery people: this is for science! Now let’s show how this particular series show introduces a love interest to our protagonist.
Don’t get me wrong, none of them are shown to be offensive people.
1 when I talked about Sian being detached from romance? That comes into play hard with the different guys because, except for maybe Matthew, the guys aren’t introduced in an attractive light.