Okay. I was watching my favourite show CBC's Intelligence, a show about spies and gangsters set in Vancouver's drug trade. Well, it looks like a gang war is brewing between the local Vancouver boys and some interlopers from Los Angeles. The first shot was fired in tonight's episode, the drive by murder of a biker gang underboss named Duncan.
That's my name. Now I know it's not unusual to see a show with a fictional character with the same first name as you.
However, my name's not that common, especially in Hollywood, so I've only seen it about 6 times that I can recall.
Plus 4/6 times, the character named Duncan is killed.
In fact, the only 2 times I've seen a character named Duncan not get killed was in cartoons, namely the horse Furious D in the Simpsons (Hence the name) and He-Man's sidekick Man At Arms. The character of Duncan Idaho in the Dune books gets killed off on a regular basis! They just keep cloning him, killing him, and cloning him again.
He's SF's equivalent of Wile E. Coyote.
So I would like the striking writers to make one pledge before any deal is struck. Let a few more Duncans escape the cold grip of fictional death.
Sure death scenes are great for the actors. But too many of them with the same name are a tad unsettling, especially when you have that uncommon name.
Maybe let him get the girl once in a while too.
And don't just do it for me.
Man At Arms is starting to get paranoid as well.
That's my name. Now I know it's not unusual to see a show with a fictional character with the same first name as you.
However, my name's not that common, especially in Hollywood, so I've only seen it about 6 times that I can recall.
Plus 4/6 times, the character named Duncan is killed.
In fact, the only 2 times I've seen a character named Duncan not get killed was in cartoons, namely the horse Furious D in the Simpsons (Hence the name) and He-Man's sidekick Man At Arms. The character of Duncan Idaho in the Dune books gets killed off on a regular basis! They just keep cloning him, killing him, and cloning him again.
He's SF's equivalent of Wile E. Coyote.
So I would like the striking writers to make one pledge before any deal is struck. Let a few more Duncans escape the cold grip of fictional death.
Sure death scenes are great for the actors. But too many of them with the same name are a tad unsettling, especially when you have that uncommon name.
Maybe let him get the girl once in a while too.
And don't just do it for me.
Man At Arms is starting to get paranoid as well.
Doesn't he look worried?
Duncan McLeod? Highlander (TV Series)?
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He was killed frequently. He just had the good fortune of getting back up afterwards.
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