Fanstravaganza two, day 3!

Are you enjoying yourself yet? Armitageworld just gets better and better, I think, with all kinds of neat contributions on the topic of Mr. Armitage. If you’re starting to wonder whether you’ve seen everything, check out CDoart’s really practical index to the fanstRAvaganza posts to make sure. At this blog, you can vote on my poll (which Porter trousers?) from Day One till the end of the event next Monday — one attempt per person, or comment on the informative interview given to this blogger by fitzg. Thanks to Nat and Traxy for their organizational efforts. And don’t forget to keep visiting the blogs of the participating bloggers:

An RA Viewer’s Perspective (Mulubinba)

The Spooks Fan Blog (Skully)

The Squeee! (Traxy)

Avalon’s Blog (Avalon)

Phylly’s Faves (Phylly)

RA Frenzy (Frenz)

The Richard Armitage Fan Blog – (Nat)

From the Quill Tip (Sarah)

CDoart: Richard Armitage & History & Spooks (CDoart)

Nevermind, Mr. Armitage (pi)

Mesmered’s Blog (Prue)

White Rose Writings (Musa)

Confessions of a Watcher (Judiang)

Richard Armitage Fan Videos & Graphics (bccmee)

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Guy of Gisborne (Richard Armitage), dead at the end of Robin Hood 3.13. Source: Richard Armitage Net

It’s true that it’s a hazard, if you are a fan of television drama, that the characters and the actors you love may meet with an end you find them less than deserving of. This problem has occurred frequently in Richard Armitage’s career.

A not-very-cool ending for Captain Ian Macalwain (Richard Armitage) in Ultimate Force 2.6. Source: Richard Armitage Net

OK, the series can’t go on forever. And yet — we wish for something better for the characters he plays. It’s agonizing to watch them get killed over and over and over again.

Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) looks down over the edge of the building that (the viewer presumes) Lucas North / John Bateman has just plummeted to his death from in Spooks 9.8. My cap.

And NO, it’s not consoling not to have had to watch Lucas’s death, or that we didn’t see it on screen. It was still really, really disturbing.

If you have a history of Armitage watching, the possibilities that are now pending are a bit terrifying. We’ve got this man …

After the showdown at the mud house on the Lashkar Gah highway, John Porter (Richard Armitage) drives away to (we hope) safety, in Strike Back 1.6. My cap.

… left on screen with the voice-over: “projected intentions: may be headed for Iran.”

Porter drives toward Iran in Strike Back 1.6. My cap.

Things are really not looking good. Aside from the many unpleasant demises Armitage characters have suffered on television screens, we have the added problem that he’s filming a major feature film, and is likely to be present in very few episodes of the second series of Strike Back, which is going to star an entirely different actor! Servetus senses unpleasantness about to happen, and she feels like Porter has already suffered enough!

So I decided to take action. When we want to prevent impending violence against ourselves or our immediate relatives in the U.S. we file for an injunction called a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the person threatening the violence. I assume this is the same in Britain, so I’ve decided to file for an injunction in the UK civil court system to prevent any further violence to the person of John Porter as played by Richard Armitage. I actually know how to do this in the U.S., as I jobbed as a paralegal for awhile, but it took me awhile to find the British form, which is much less complicated than the one for the state of TX — which has twenty-seven pages of forms and instructions. (I’d file the order in Texas, but I figure it would be pointless.) The British application is only a page long. I got a bit stymied when trying to figure out where to file — I assume this is a civil claim to be filed in County Court, but Her Majesty’s court finder website wouldn’t load for me. In the end I decided to fly by the seat of my pants and file in West London County Court, figuring they’d forward the form to the correct court in such an important case! After all, since it potentially involves the death penalty for an important tv character, there are definition implications for the Human Rights Act 1998, right?

I’m almost done filling out the form:

But now I need your help. In the U.S., requests for TRO tend to be more successful the more detailed they are. I need your help filling out the blank section in the middle of the page (near [4]) where we describe what the writers are forbidden to do to Porter.

In other words, how do you NOT want Porter / Armitage to be written out of Strike Back? Please hurry with your answers. I’m sure the scripts are already near their final form — we’ve not got any time to lose!

~ by Servetus on March 16, 2011.