#boat media loves this shit bc again chain of command. its often a great demarcator of a public to a private scene | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

isaacathom · 10 months ago

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i love playing with names so much. any story or setting where theres a deliberate use of names and differing terms of address and you can really read into a characters choices and it says so much is the Good Fucking Shit

#examples include all the name shit going on in stuff like The Untamed #bc ive been rewatching a fucking ton of fmvs and basically all of them pull out the one time they both use their full courtesy names #because its a moment that kicks ass. is dramatic. and is MEANINGFUL to the relationship right #bc you can contrast it with the fact that wwx basically never calls him lwj. he gets very familiar very fast #other examples include a lot of sows around Boats and strict hierarchies bc then youve got a chain of command #theres episodes of tng that play with it a bit. id point to Rascals as a really really funny example of name play #bc you get picard in a 10yos body still referring to riker the same way he would as his commanding officer #hence 'hes my number 1 dad' funniest shit. i love that episode #not every ep is consistent on that bc differing writers deploy names differently #but you'll get contrasts where eg riker generally calls people their first names and picard uses surnames #so riker will say 'geordi' and picard will say 'mr laforge'. again not consistently but it does happen #boat media loves this shit bc again chain of command. its often a great demarcator of a public to a private scene #such as in Hornblower where most of the time he is 'Mr Hornblower' but in private scenes hes Horatio #and he doesnt have a Lot of those and its not super consistent but you know it when its happening #i love names. its why i have like 15 of them

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