Well, it has been a while!
HELLO PALS. How are you?
I actually have something fannish to blog about! That's exciting, isn't it.
I went to the Horrible Histories Season 5 Premiere at the BFI, and it was spectacular. I had so much fun. Some stuff about it and general reflections under the cut!
This was my second fannish BFI screening event, as I also went to the Merlin Season 2 premiere a few years ago. At the Merlin one, the audience was at least 60% squeeing fangirls so I was wondering if this one would be the same, but there were loads more actual children with their parents this time around. I did get to speak to a few other adults - I briefly chatted with a couple who were teachers who were there without any kids - but for the most part it was much less pervy than the Merlin one.
I'm not saying it wasn't pervy, though.
Anyway, I went with three friends; we are all pals with each other via twitter, so there was lots of excitable twitter leadup. We met near the South Bank around half twelve and decided to go for a drink at the BFI so as to save time. I went to collect the tickets, then saw that members of the cast were signing autographs near the ticket office and RAN FASTER THAN I HAVE EVER RUN BEFORE to alert my friends. I was trembling and saying things like, "Baynton. Baynton is here. I can't. Help" and they laughed at me.
Anyway I decided to try and queue for autographs. I didn't get the chance to meet Larry Rickard, who is my absolute favourite and I love him, but I did get to meet Mat Baynton!
As you can see he was pretty fucking excited to get to hang with me.
We didn't get much of a chance to chat, which was good, because I would probably have licked him or something and it all would have gone horribly wrong.
However, I did get a proper chance to chat with Martha Howe-Douglas! I felt rather bad for her, since the boys who were signing (that is, Mat, Larry and Jim) were swamped, and she only had a few people, I guess because she isn't oestrogen brigade bait. Anyway, I took my opportunity and went over to ger her autograph, and told her that my name is also Martha, and we had a short conversation about how it's not often you meet another one, and how it's a bit like being in a special club. XD She was really friendly and nice. :3
Anyway, then we all went into the screening. There were two episodes shown, with the Q+A in between. I was about to say I'll avoid spoilers but to be honest, the only people I can think of that might read this post were also there, so I don't think I need to be too careful. But just in case:
Spoilers start here
There were two songs, one in each episode. The first was about Rosa Parks and was done in the style of Aretha Franklin, which I thought was clever. (The show often does songs about historical figures in the style of a musician or genre that is fitting - like Cleopatra in the style of Lady Gaga, or the Georgian Navy song in the style of various football singles.) It was actually a really moving song - unusual as the songs are usually just very funny - and got a huge round of applause.
The song in the second episode, I don't even know how it went, because it was about Vikings and it was in the style of Simon and Garfunkel and the laughter was uproarious and it was beautiful.
There was also a parody of Twilight, about Lord Byron being essentially a pretentious goth; "The Only Way Is Hertfordshire", a pisstake of The Only Way Is Essex but about Victorian ladies; a trailer for a film called "Weekdays Assemble", about Norse gods; and a Sherlock parody about a crimefighter who used to pay criminals to commit robberies, "solve" the robberies, then pay the criminals from his fee. This last one was brilliant - it has the thing that Sherlock has of words floating around the detective's head as he figures stuff out, but the words were things like "Oh no", "Busted" "Run away". XD
Spoilers end here
The Q+A was interesting too, although most of the questions were, understandably, asked by children, and therefore were mostly along the lines of "What's your favourite character", "What's your favourite costume", "What's your favourite sketch", which was a little meh, especially as the answers were the same for each of those questions. :/ There were a couple of good moments, and the hosts did let a couple of adults ask questions too which led to more interesting discussion (e.g. someone asked about how the show tries to include representation of women's history and black history, because obviously history tends to have been written by and about white men, and the answer to that was a little more interesting).
General impressions: Simon Farnaby is really funny. Mat Baynton's small child is really cute. Everyone is excellent and clever. THIS CAST OMG. Also THIS PRODUCTION TEAM OMG.
In conclusion: A+
Also another thing that was excellent: after it was all over, we decided to go for a few drinks in the BFI bar. We noticed a lot of people milling about in posh frocks and tuxedos. We pondered upon why this might be.
Then we saw Peter fucking Capaldi sitting a couple of tables over. I managed to take a sneaky picture of him by snapping one of my friend (here scribbled out as she doesn't like the picture of herself):
We spent rather a lot of time foaming at the collective mouth. We contemplated stealing the straw from his drink once he left, but decided against it as that would have been massively creepy. (⊙‿⊙✿)
Anyway, we eventually left the BFI and realised that the fucking TV BAFTAs were going on about two doors down and that's why there were loads of tuxedos and general celebrity types around.
IN ACTUAL CONCLUSION: AN EXCELLENT DAY.
Reposted from my Dreamwidth
I actually have something fannish to blog about! That's exciting, isn't it.
I went to the Horrible Histories Season 5 Premiere at the BFI, and it was spectacular. I had so much fun. Some stuff about it and general reflections under the cut!
This was my second fannish BFI screening event, as I also went to the Merlin Season 2 premiere a few years ago. At the Merlin one, the audience was at least 60% squeeing fangirls so I was wondering if this one would be the same, but there were loads more actual children with their parents this time around. I did get to speak to a few other adults - I briefly chatted with a couple who were teachers who were there without any kids - but for the most part it was much less pervy than the Merlin one.
I'm not saying it wasn't pervy, though.
Anyway, I went with three friends; we are all pals with each other via twitter, so there was lots of excitable twitter leadup. We met near the South Bank around half twelve and decided to go for a drink at the BFI so as to save time. I went to collect the tickets, then saw that members of the cast were signing autographs near the ticket office and RAN FASTER THAN I HAVE EVER RUN BEFORE to alert my friends. I was trembling and saying things like, "Baynton. Baynton is here. I can't. Help" and they laughed at me.
Anyway I decided to try and queue for autographs. I didn't get the chance to meet Larry Rickard, who is my absolute favourite and I love him, but I did get to meet Mat Baynton!
As you can see he was pretty fucking excited to get to hang with me.
We didn't get much of a chance to chat, which was good, because I would probably have licked him or something and it all would have gone horribly wrong.
However, I did get a proper chance to chat with Martha Howe-Douglas! I felt rather bad for her, since the boys who were signing (that is, Mat, Larry and Jim) were swamped, and she only had a few people, I guess because she isn't oestrogen brigade bait. Anyway, I took my opportunity and went over to ger her autograph, and told her that my name is also Martha, and we had a short conversation about how it's not often you meet another one, and how it's a bit like being in a special club. XD She was really friendly and nice. :3
Anyway, then we all went into the screening. There were two episodes shown, with the Q+A in between. I was about to say I'll avoid spoilers but to be honest, the only people I can think of that might read this post were also there, so I don't think I need to be too careful. But just in case:
Spoilers start here
There were two songs, one in each episode. The first was about Rosa Parks and was done in the style of Aretha Franklin, which I thought was clever. (The show often does songs about historical figures in the style of a musician or genre that is fitting - like Cleopatra in the style of Lady Gaga, or the Georgian Navy song in the style of various football singles.) It was actually a really moving song - unusual as the songs are usually just very funny - and got a huge round of applause.
The song in the second episode, I don't even know how it went, because it was about Vikings and it was in the style of Simon and Garfunkel and the laughter was uproarious and it was beautiful.
There was also a parody of Twilight, about Lord Byron being essentially a pretentious goth; "The Only Way Is Hertfordshire", a pisstake of The Only Way Is Essex but about Victorian ladies; a trailer for a film called "Weekdays Assemble", about Norse gods; and a Sherlock parody about a crimefighter who used to pay criminals to commit robberies, "solve" the robberies, then pay the criminals from his fee. This last one was brilliant - it has the thing that Sherlock has of words floating around the detective's head as he figures stuff out, but the words were things like "Oh no", "Busted" "Run away". XD
Spoilers end here
The Q+A was interesting too, although most of the questions were, understandably, asked by children, and therefore were mostly along the lines of "What's your favourite character", "What's your favourite costume", "What's your favourite sketch", which was a little meh, especially as the answers were the same for each of those questions. :/ There were a couple of good moments, and the hosts did let a couple of adults ask questions too which led to more interesting discussion (e.g. someone asked about how the show tries to include representation of women's history and black history, because obviously history tends to have been written by and about white men, and the answer to that was a little more interesting).
General impressions: Simon Farnaby is really funny. Mat Baynton's small child is really cute. Everyone is excellent and clever. THIS CAST OMG. Also THIS PRODUCTION TEAM OMG.
In conclusion: A+
Also another thing that was excellent: after it was all over, we decided to go for a few drinks in the BFI bar. We noticed a lot of people milling about in posh frocks and tuxedos. We pondered upon why this might be.
Then we saw Peter fucking Capaldi sitting a couple of tables over. I managed to take a sneaky picture of him by snapping one of my friend (here scribbled out as she doesn't like the picture of herself):
We spent rather a lot of time foaming at the collective mouth. We contemplated stealing the straw from his drink once he left, but decided against it as that would have been massively creepy. (⊙‿⊙✿)
Anyway, we eventually left the BFI and realised that the fucking TV BAFTAs were going on about two doors down and that's why there were loads of tuxedos and general celebrity types around.
IN ACTUAL CONCLUSION: AN EXCELLENT DAY.
Reposted from my Dreamwidth