Snyder Backstory Poll

[hobgoblinn]

I've decided would be a good night to play with the poll creation thing in live journal. So, tell me, friends, what do you think on these burning questions?



[Poll #940771]

And, for extra credit, is there anything about Snyder that interests/ puzzles you? Share! I've got my own ideas, but I thought it'd be fun to see what other people noticed that I might have missed. (Not to mention, it distracts me from my own work.)

Icon, if it works, is from blueanddollsome. I'm not sure I copied it right.

Good night, all.

Hob

Comments

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

He was soooo a civics teacher--he sort of reminds me of one of mine, actually. I think his first name is Remus. :p

He's divorced. When he was in college, he let go and had fun. Like many short, odd-looking men, he was an attentive lover, and he charmed a pretty, earnest redhead named Lillian. She was in his math class, and he went to a couple of protests (the Vietnam war (is he old enough for that?)) with her. She was charmed by his brilliance and his love for her. They married after graduation, but she was disillusioned when he kept coming home angry from his high school teaching job. He hated the students, and he became obsessed with the rules. She divorced him when he accepted the principal job in Sunnydale, after years of quite misery. She taught writing and poetry in high school, and quit when she published a novel. She wanted to have a baby, and when she wasn't writing, she tutored illiterate adults and wrote articles about ecology and feminism. She started her second novel, and when she began to teach that reading class at the daycare, he couldn't stand it any more, and took the Sunnydale job. They parted, bitter, resigned (him), hopeful (her).

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Oh man-- everybody wants him to be a civics teacher!! Arrgh!

I can see it though. Not sure I can write it, but I sure see it.

Thanks for this great backstory for him, too. I see him more as divorced, too, and bitter about it. Armin Shimmerman is such a fantastic actor, that I picked up a lot of layers with the character. He's not just a cardboard villain-- and there's more emotion than just tingle moments at the thought of getting rid of troublemakers like Summers.

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

I always figured that it was more than just being the high school geek that had scarred him. Things went wrong somewhere, and he found comfort in following a rigid set of rules, and trying to force others to, as well. That never goes well.

The flip side: maybe he was the imaginative math teacher, good at getting his students to think, friendly with them, until something happened; maybe he had a party at his house, someone got into trouble for drinking... ;-)

Also, I can't BELIEVE I typo-ed "quiet." Grrrrr.