Father Brown (Father
Brown): The
Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Father Brown can't leave a
mystery alone and is deeply invested in both his faith and in doing what is
right in order to help people. The Sparrow,
in the way it weaves together questions about faith and humanity with the
mystery of what happened on a Jesuit-run first contact mission to another
planet, should be irresistible to him.
John Crichton (Farscape): The Princess Bride,
William Goldman
Crichton comes slowly unhinged
over the course of Farscape, but never (permanently) descends fully
into madness. He learns to embrace the absurdity of his situations, often with
good humor, and thus he should feel right at home with the tongue-in-cheek,
postmodern adventure story of The Princess Bride.
Phryne Fisher (Miss
Fisher's Murder Mysteries): Ms. Marvel, G.
Willow Wilson
Phryne has no time for your
prejudice, whatever its form, and she hasn't met a sticky situation she
wouldn't jump into headfirst. I think she would follow the adventures of Kamala
Khan and her transformation into Ms. Marvel with delight.
Hercule Poirot (Agatha
Christie's Poirot): Copenhagen, Michael
Frayn
Frayn's play about Niels Bohr,
Werner Heisenberg, quantum mechanics, and war is so delightfully thinky without
ever losing sight of the human cost of all the questions it brings up that I
think Poirot would find himself and his little grey cells, perhaps
surprisingly, enraptured by it.
Oliver Queen (Arrow): The Lord of the Rings,
J.R.R. Tolkien
So many of the big things LotR
is *about* seem like they would resonate pretty strongly with Oliver and maybe,
maaaaybe help him hold on to the slivers of hope he sometimes manages to find.
The concept of "the long defeat," Gandalf's counsel against despair,
and the Scouring of the Shire all seem like bits that would be heartbreakingly
relevant to Oliver Queen.
Who are your favorite TV
characters, and what would you tell them to read?
