My Scott and Jean: The Master List
Mar 30It all started with a simple phrase: “That’s my Scott and Jean.”
Said phrase was uttered by friend-of-Alert-Nerd Dan Faust on that bastion of 140-character social networking, Twitter. And said phrase means, essentially, “That is my geek sacred cow, the one topic I cannot discuss rationally because it makes me too insane/angry/scary-eyed.”
We had a thought: why not challenge a bunch of nerdbloggers to reveal their Scott and Jeans/geek sacred cows for all the world to see? It will either be incredibly fun or result in a bunch of smashed laptops!
Why Scott and Jean as the term’s namesake? Well, given the history and drama behind their coupling, they seem to provoke a good degree of, ahem, passion in a lot of people. Including Sarah.
This post will serve as a master list of all the “What’s Your Scott and Jean?” posts appearing across the web — check back, as it will be updated throughout the day. And if you have a link to share, email sarah AT alertnerd DOT com.
Scotts and Jeans:
Alert Nerd: Our Scott and Jeans
Phoning It In: “Trust Me!”
Geeked: My Scott and Jean
The Book Smugglers: That’s Our Scott and Jean
Fantastic Fangirls: Q & A 22 – What is your “Scott and Jean”?
Faust’s Fantastically Fantasmagoric Forum: My “Scott & Jeanâ€: You Can’t Spell “Dark Knight Detective†Without “Dark†and “Detectiveâ€
Love Dat Joker: Mad Love: My Scott and Jean
Bill Wendel: My Scott and Jean: Stan Lee
The ISS: My “Scott and Jean”: Waid and Wieringo’s Magic Dr. Doom
Confessions of a Retconned Fangirl: My Scott & Jean: Or Leave My Hawks Alone!
The Discriminating Fangirl: What’s Your Geek Sacred Cow?
Ashley Awesome: newsflash: you are an idiot
david brothers @ 4thletter!: My Scott & Jean: Knowing When To Let Go
Jeff Lester @ The Savage Critics: My Scott, Your Jean: Jeff Takes A Quick Look at His Sacred Cows.
Written World: Sir Gawain: Great Knight, or Greatest Knight? Those are your only choices.
The Fount of Useless Information: Geek Apologetics: “My Scott and Jean”
Nothing Challenging or Specific: Are you f*@$ing kidding me, Brett Ratner? My geek sacred cow…
Suicide Aint’ a Viable Career Option: The Geek Sacred Cow aka my Scott and Jean aka Incoherent Ramblings
Reporting on Marvels and Legends: My Scott and Jean
The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul: I’ll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Comic Overload: Barry Allen is F’ING DEAD – DEAL WITH IT
Clay Harrison: My Scott and Jean
Comic By Comic: No Scott & Jean for me
Gaming Angels: Made of Awesome: Dr. Strange
Thunderdog: My “Scott and Jean” Issue: Magneto’s Un-Death
The Nut and the Feisty Weasel: My Scott & Jean: Wasted Story Potential, Part 1
The Nut and the Feisty Weasel: My Scott & Jean: Wasted Story Potential, Part 2
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources (Brian Cronin): My Scott and Jean
Once Upon a Geek: What’s Your Geek Sacred Cow
But Before I Kill You: My Scott and Jean: Aquaman Is Awesome Whether You Like It Or Not
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources (Greg Hatcher): Friday with Scott and Jean and other sacred cows
Club Parnassus: Rant the Second: My “Scott and Jean”
Shea Koshan: My Scott and Jean: Please Fire Mr. Way
Related Rants:
Ampersand Comics: Peter and Mary Jane (Or How I Came To Hate Joe Quesada)
Imaginary Casting
Mar 25
Sifting through some old interviews and such, I came across a little piece I did on Warren Ellis circa his Counter-X Plotmaster days, wherein he briefly touched on the rumored Transmetropolitan flick. Nothing was really cookin’ at the time — there had been, he noted, a dinner with Patrick Stewart, but that was about it. The comment made me wonder if anything had transpired since then, or if anything was, in fact, transpiring RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT.
According to good ol’ occasionally unreliable Wikipedia and interviews linked therein, the Stewart version never came to fruition, but Ellis and Darick Robertson do like the idea of Tim Roth in the role. I must say, Roth certainly has the snarl down pat, and look! He’s even wearing little Spider Jerusalem-esque shades in his IMDb profile picture. That said, I can’t help but cling to the idea of Stewart playing the part, even though he’s aged out of it. Is it the unmatchable baldness? The amazing head shape? The fact that something in me just wants to see Picard get fucking nasty?
Well, whatever. Here are a few other imaginary castings that have gotten stuck in my brain lately.
BSG Tipsy Liveblog
Mar 20
Two glasses of Chardonnay. Half a sleeve of Thin Mints. Here we go.
SPOILERS, btw.
Generation X: I Have Questions
Mar 19
Still going through ye olde long boxes. Still discovering treasures large and small. Still wondering why I have three completely random issues from that one Vision and Scarlet Witch 12-part maxi-series. Shouldn’t I have, say, 1, 2 and 3, if any? I have 3, 9 and 12. What was my thought process? Why these three issues? If I never read them, do they even exist? So many philosophical quandaries must be endured when sifting through old comics!
That’s not really what I want to talk about, though. Last night, I re-read Brian Wood’s short-ish run on Generation X (#63-75). I’ve always had generally positive feelings about this run — it’s not perfect and it never really had a chance to go very far, but I think Wood captures certain essential aspects of the characters’ voices, some of which weren’t even there ’til he came onboard. Wood initially took over as part of Warren Ellis’ Counter-X Plotmastering, and I recall this being a particularly refreshing change since the issues of Generation X leading up to it are…well, they’re kind of dreadful. To be clear, I’m not talking about early Generation X, but the shaky middle era circa ’98-’99, which concluded with a storyline wherein Monet goes to boarding school and — in a fashion more Scooby Doo than Buffy — slays vampires. Zoinks, you guys!
Wood’s run is tougher and less hijinks-y, but somehow still manages to find time for Jubilee and Chamber to argue over who is more disgusting via a multi-panel debate that encompasses laundry, boxer shorts and toilet-flushing. I appreciate stuff like that.
And yet, as I was reading through last night…so many questions. So many “heys” and “buts” and “ehs?” Some of these are thanks to time and perspective and some are just examples of the mind-prickling minutiae that keeps me up at night. Still, if you have ANSWERS…please do provide!
Calling All Geekblogs: What's Your Scott and Jean?
Mar 17
The Alert Nerd brain trust is pleased to announce a very special Mega-Blog Crossover Event…and YOU can be part of it!
No, not you, Guy Skulking Around the Back Issue Bins in Full Rorschach Regalia. You kind of scare us. For the rest of you geekbloggers, here are the details.
The Date: March 30
The Theme: What’s Your Scott and Jean?
The Background: Such an awesome theme could only have been birthed on Twitter. Simply put, when someone says “that’s my Scott and Jean,” it essentially means “that’s my geek sacred cow.” It’s the issue/coupling/whatever that you pretty much can’t discuss because you are too passionate about it and it makes you too crazy. You might hear perfectly reasonable arguments against said coupling/issue/whatever, but you cannot process them. It’s like That One Thing. It could be something like “Scott Summers and Jean Grey are supposed to be together and that is just how it is.” Or maybe “the new Battlestar Galactica does not exist for me because it is not the old Battlestar Galactica.” Or “The only correct portrayals of Batman are the ones that contain X, Y, and Z.” You get the idea. It’s your nerd mental block.
The Participants: (thus far) Alert Nerd, Fantastic Fangirls, Faust’s Fantastically Fantasmagoric Forum, Geeked…maybe YOU?
Here’s what you do: on March 30 (which, incidentally, is the date that the issue of X-Men featuring Jean and Scott’s wedding debuted), write up a blog post delving into the question What’s Your Scott and Jean? Send your link to sarah AT alertnerd DOT com. We will add you to our master blog post and you can link back to said post. It will be delightful for all involved.
Either that, or it will just cause a bunch of new arguments! Hurrah!
