Invisible Man Photo Essay Part 2: A Completely Shallow Look At Darien Fawkes

[sisabet]

Continuing in the same vein as Post 1 -- here be I-Man photos and thoughts.

Part 1 is here.


Now it is time to talk about Darien Fawkes as he is the title character - The Invisible Man. And there is so much we could cover: Why is he invisible? What is Quicksilver Madness? Why would the government pick a convicted felon to make a super-powered agent? Why is he wearing those pants?

For now though - let us focus on the shallow. Never fear, eventually I'll get around to the deep and abiding pain. I will always get around to the deep and abiding pain. It is my nature. As is a healthy appreciation for da pretty.


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First of all - he really really likes to put flashlights in his mouth.






I mean - sure - he says he is a professional thief. Whatever. I am just saying - not judging or drawing any conclusions other than: Dude loves having a maglite in his mouth. I didn't even have to look for these clips - they are everywhere.






Also - Not afraid of color. I mean - check it out: Red Pants. And he actually pulls them off.








Moving right along: Darien has never met a mirror where he didn't stop to check himself out.







Speaking of this character trait - I am about to share with you the first moment I had of brain explosion while sitting in tzikeh's living room. This is by far not the only moment of brain explosion I have had in tzikeh's home - merely the first:

Darien stops to check himself out post-shower. So, far - there is nothing unusual here.






And then. And then - he, he - he busts into a... he raps. And he has obviously been working on this - this was NO freestyle!



My name is Darien Fawkes, they call me furious D and I'm the coolest secret agent that you never did see.
The man turn me invisible, now I be mis'rable, you mess with my hair and I'm bound to get physical.
Now I was locked down, and looking at life, four walls and a guy named butch for a wife.
When my brother undercover said that we could help each other if his mother of a brother would go under the knife.
Hole in my head, a gland in my brain, a needle in my vein, 'fore I go insane.
That's the curse of quicksilver, the stuff that bends light.
I get closer to madness the more I step outta sight.


Actually - this explains his story better than I ever could. But let me try.


Darien was never what you would call a high achiever






He was headed to prison for life on a third strike felony offense in California when his genius brother, Kevin, intervened:




Kevin: Why the hell didn't you call me?

Darien: Yeah and said what, 'Hey bro, what's happening man, I haven't talked to you in a couple of years could you come down and bust me out?'

Kevin: Beats hearing it over America Online

Darien: I'm on the web?

Kevin: Darien.

Darien: Wait a minute, I mean come on, you've been hogging the press since we were twelve. Don't I get a shot?

Kevin: No.

Darien: [fake hurt] No, what I -- I'm, I'm not good enough?

Kevin: You're not guilty enough.

Darien: Okay, Kev -- If I did do the crime, do you think I can do the time?

Kevin: Not where they're sending you.




So Long Story Short - Kevin (working for a top-secret Classified Project) puts this Invisible Making Gland in Darien's head (more on the pseudo-science involved in the next Darien Section -- Sex and The Invisible Man) and things end badly.






Very Very Badly





Man. This is really sad.






Oh look - first guy Darien kills.







So, even without me going into all of Darien's issues and problems - you can see that the boy has reason to sometimes be depressed. How can you tell when Darien is depressed? His hair looks like this:







Depressed!Darien Hair frightens the Eberts.






You know what I forgot to include? Darien in shorts. He wears shorts all of the time. When was the last time one of your leading men wore shorts? Huh? Obviously, I need to go home and screencap him in shorts cause that really just sums up who he is a person. That and his ACLU t-shirt. I wonder if I have him in the shorts and the t-shirt?


Next Up: The Hobbesian Interlude!

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I cannot even tell you how much I'm enjoying your photoplays.

EBERTS!

[timba.livejournal.com]

*delurks*

thank you. No one else I know has the Darien Fawkes love.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Arthur!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*ahem* Excuse my fannish crossover moment. I can never look at Kevin without picturing him as his character in The Tick. (Oh, Liz, I think you would like The Tick. Did you watch the live action show? Only nine episodes! I have the DVD!) He plays a priest on Joan of Arcadia and whenever Joan's mom goes to him in crisis I keep expecting him to reveal his moth suit and vow to save the day. Instead he referred her to a tattooed, surfing ex-nun who's kinda hot. That's sort of a super power, I suppose.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I love The Tick in all his forms. Sigh.

Yes - Darien's brother is Arthur and they are so cute and adorable and, and, and then ARTHUR DIES HORRIBLY!!!

And I might have a cat. I have found a home for said Cat-On-My-Deck if she is not lost, but until then I need to check the neighborhood thoroughly for a potential previous owners and I can't leave her outside - it just is getting too cold, except I have a dog and she is a full grown cat and my apartment is wee and weak.

But I think if I put a latch on the french doors and then put the love seat in front of latched doors, I can sufficiently guarantee that Sid cannnot get into the front room and Yoshi Yuri Jinglepants the Third (working name in progress as The Boy keeps changing what I call Mr/Ms Jinglepants) cannot get out of the front room and peace may yet still reign in my home. Now all I need is a latch and a litterbox and perhaps a toy?

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Can't the future potential home foster her until it is determined whether she is lost or not? And, yes, you need a litterbox, with litter in it. You could probably get by with a temporary litter box using a large, sturdy box lid or an appropriately sized plastic storage bin or Rubbermaid dishpan. You don't need to buy a toy. How about shoelaces or a tinfoil ball? YYJ III will love the elegant simplicity of your creative solutions. Oh, also? You could buy a *small* bag of cat food. Or see if you can borrow some from a sympathetic neighbor.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I have seen disposible litterboxes for sale at the pet store. So I think one of those will get me thru til Sunday. And I would have L go ahead and take the kitty, but I need to get pictures and flyers made up first and I plan on canvassing tomorrow. Might as well keep her with me (::repeats mantra of not getting attached) just in case I find her home (doubtful though as the lost cat I knew about in the neighborhood turned out to not be her and she has been outside continuously for at least a week and is now injured with a small cut on her face). And until I can do a complete canvas of her injuries, etc (and find out if she really is a she or if she's a man, baby!) I don't want to move her around or upset her. Also - I don't know the condition of her teeth so I am feeding her canned food until that can be determined.

So the plan is to go to pet store and buy more food, disposible litter box and then by hardware store for a latch. Go home and put Sid temporarily in walk in closet (only door I can lock). Invite YYJ III into the house (she has been trying to break in the last few days - should not be difficult) get her settled and nestled in the front room, check her over for inventory (and get a good look at her teeth), lock up front room and release the hound.

Last night I kept getting up to check on her on the deck - I made her a little bed and she was there all night. Luckily the french doors are glass and I will be able to look in on YYJ III as needed tonight.

Also - not get attatched.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I'm loving these photo essays.

[claudia79ad.livejournal.com]

Why isn't the Invisable Man on DVD? I neeeeeeeed that show.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Season 1 is actually available on DVD - but only in region 2. It is in 2 sets and I got mine from the UK Amazon.com -- I feel like I-Man is reason enough to buy a region-free DVD player or to hack one you already own.

Season 2 is not available anywhere on DVD - a fact that has caused me much pain and in fact, many sleepless nights. However - you can get S2 from Bittorrent. I highly recommend this course of action.

[claudia79ad.livejournal.com]

I was told you can break region coding by covering up the numbers just inside the DVD plasic ring in the middle. Haven't had the opportunity to do so, but I-Man might be worth it.

As for season 2, I don't have the memory or a DVD burner. My life is very sad. ;)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well - and here is where the sad me part comes in - S2 on BT is a few mpgs, but mostly a bunch of crappy avi files that do not convert well at all.

It makes the vidder in me cry like the baby Jesus.

[claudia79ad.livejournal.com]

That's awful! I'll try it out, but I hate bad quality files. I get really crabby and it ruins the show for me.

[hologrammatical.livejournal.com]

Wow, this looks madly, intriguingly amusing! Has Invisible Man been around for a long time? Also...does Jonathan Glassner have anything to do with its creation...because I could swear I have a book claiming Invisible Man as one of his projects...but mayhap that's a different Invisble Man...*scratches head*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Glassner appears to have written several episodes of I-Man, including one of the hottest eps of anything eva - Money for Nothing Part II.

And I will post more caps later today -- see, we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of this show, there is Bobby and then there is Bobby & Darien: Teh Cute and then there is OMG!Or "Flowers for Hobbes" and then there is Bobby & Darien: So In Love and then there is Darien Fawkes Part 2: Sex and the Invisible Man and somewhere in all of that I have to tie in the Keeper and the Official (Perhaps a Supporting Cast Other Than Eberts section?) AND I have to pimp the 2 vids that pimped me into watching the show in the first place.

::whew::

[hologrammatical.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, so I'm not making things up after all! Yay! *happily anticipates more screencap analysis shinies* Shiny pictures make the Friday alot less rainy...^^

Vids, you say? *bounces* (Vids also have magical rain-destroying properties...m^^m)

[astolat]

Yay! I want to see photo essays for all of these! More, more!

<3

[thefakeheadline.livejournal.com]

*hearts Darien SO VERY MUCH*

The clothes are especially fun because Vincent Ventresca basically had to bring in his own clothes to wear on the show because their budget was the suck. So he really did walk around all the time in orange pants and a gas station attendant's jacket.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he wrote the rap himself, too. Hee.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

See and this worked out to create this incredible consistency in the character. Darien feels real cause he repeats clothes, he isn't dressed in Armani and he wears a faux leather jacket practically every day that over the course of a year begins to fall apart. And he wears silly T-shirts and shorts and has never ever never owned a pair of black socks.

Bobby - in a different way - is normally fashionly consistent as well. I have a theory that everything he owns is just a few years out of date because he really hasn't shopped for clothes since his divorce. He should probably then just stick to the wifebeater. Or the Tux.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

And Bobby wears shorts in "Going Postal".

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

*happy sigh*

Loving It

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I am loving these photo essays;) Furious D never looked so good.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

*adores you* *adores Darien*

I don't want to say I forgot all about him, but I kind of did. I loved that show. Thanks for reminding me of the love! And making me giggle. and want to pet depressed!Darien's hair.

Yay! Hobbes next! Yay!

[permetaform]

Moving right along: Darien has never met a mirror where he didn't stop to check himself out.

::DIES::

and YAY! gratuitous chest shot!! ::is happy:: =D

[serrico.livejournal.com]

I love these posts. LOVE THEM. The I-Man squee never dies! It just lies dormant, lurking within until someone posts screencaps and brings it out again to wreak havoc and cheerful mayhem.

In that it is like Quicksilver Madness. Happy, happy Quicksilver Madness.

(Curse LJ for taking away my space for I-Man icons! Curse them!)

[bethcarielle.livejournal.com]

I have to ask, what is your screen capping source? If you say the DVDs I'll be extremely jealous.

*pets her well-used tapes*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Yeah - sorry - everything except for "The Importance of Being Eberts" is from the DVDs.

[writteninstars.livejournal.com]

Awwww. I'm remembering the IM love! Now, I'm all nostagic and stuff. I need IM DVDs. You have inspired me...or made me even more of a crazy, tv-addicted person. Take your pick.

[minotaurs.livejournal.com]

Picture #10 - Long Story Short - all I have to say is: NIPPLES!!!!!!!!1!!
Umm. I'm ok. Really.