various rambles
Vids I've thought about making, most of them while I was doing the dishes right now and half of them making no sense whatsoever:
Dean Winchester to "Don't Fence Me In" with Ella Fitzgerald.
Multi-fandom death scenes to "We Will All Go Together When We Go" with Tom Lehrer.
Captain Jack or multi-fandom to "A Bear in a Lady's Boudoir" with Cliff Edwards.
Aragorn/various to "Fairy Story" with the Brobdingnagian Bards.
Ike McSwain to "Catch the Moon" with Stefan Andersson.
House/someone to "Goodness Gracious Me" with Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren.
Wolfram & Hart to "Lawyers in Love" with Jackson Browne.
...whew! And that's not even counting the Lynda Day "Head Over Heels" vid, which I've definitely decided I'm gonna make now. (And who cares if vidding her to my email addy is overidentifying? It fits her better than me anyway.)
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Speaking of which, I've now converted all Press Gang seasons except the first one (in progress) and have to resist the urge to put more eps up. Considering that most comments I got before were from people who already owned the DVDs, and that the only two people who downloaded the first ep seem to have no urge to get more, it seems unlikely that I'd be able to convert anyone to this show.
Still, I see the wonderful eps, and I can't help going "Oh! I have to show them this!" about things like The Last Word, which has the newsroom in a gun siege. (Suspense! Angst! Inappropriate humour! Lynda bitching at everyone up to and including the gun man! Spike being a total woobie! Colin being brave while still being a weirdo! Frazz proving once again that he's smarter than he pretends to be! Lines like "A gun makes you a man." "I think you've got your biology a little confused there." "Absolutely. It's a car.")
Or Bad News, which has Spike and Lynda quarrelling on live TV and Colin taking merchandise to a new level. ("Sex and violence - I love children's television." "Maybe if this show didn't think of its audience as a backwards three year old with the attention span of a goldfish I wouldn't currently be attempting conversation with an unconvincing domestic pet and a prat on wheels! Good morning!")
Or "Love and War" which isn't just a breakpoint in the Spike/Lynda relationship and has Spike as a total woobie, but has him as a total woobie with daddy issues, which I know several people on my flist are into.
Or "A Quarter to Midnight", which has Lynda stuck in an air-tight vault over the weekend, and me hyperventilating every time I watch it.
Or "There Are Crocodiles", which is kind of creepy and one of the best Lynda eps ever. ("Okay - it's like this. There's a tribe living by a river, and in the river there are crocodiles. The tribe has one particular piece of wisdom passed down through the generations. It goes like this: if you happen to meet a crocodile, don't stick your head in its mouth. Every now and then - and who knows the reason - people ignore this advice. Which is sad. Because they die. But very stupid because they were warned. They had a choice. The moral of this story is - you can't afford to be stupid. There are crocodiles.")
*sigh*
But you're not interested, are you?
It occurs to me that trying to convert anyone to anything in October may be doomed to failure. Perhaps I'd be better off doing this over Christmas, or summer even. What do you say? Would you give the show a chance if it wasn't currently high season for TV shows?
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As for my own new TV habits, I'm a season and a half through House, and my enthusiasm is fading a bit. This show is not meant for binge-watching. Every ep is basically the same thing with minor variations. One ep a day is about all I can manage - even two is stretching it.
Also, I'm starting to feel kind of sorry for Cameron on a non-diegetic level. (Which isn't quite the same as feeling sorry for the actress.) For one thing, playing the goodie is a thankless job on any show. I'm with Göran Everdahl on this one - the goodie is necessary for most soaps and other shows, but s/he's no fun to watch. The straight man, except more so.
Playing the goodie on a show where the main draw is Hugh Laurie hurling verbal abuse at everyone - well, the portion of the audience who'd enjoy both types of characters can't be all that big. She'd have a much better chance on Seventh Heaven.
At least Wilson (*stabbing him through the heart*) will have the slashers on his side.
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My fic is now in the middle of the big show-down, which means that the case file part of it will hopefully be done soon. There'll still be some scenes after that, but it might come in smaller than 15,000 words and definitely smaller than 20,000.
How long it will take me depends rather on how tired I will be. Yesterday I worked eleven hours and wasn't home at all between seven AM and eleven PM...
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And today's icon has nothing to do with the topic, I just haven't used it in a while and wanted to. :-)
Dean Winchester to "Don't Fence Me In" with Ella Fitzgerald.
Multi-fandom death scenes to "We Will All Go Together When We Go" with Tom Lehrer.
Captain Jack or multi-fandom to "A Bear in a Lady's Boudoir" with Cliff Edwards.
Aragorn/various to "Fairy Story" with the Brobdingnagian Bards.
Ike McSwain to "Catch the Moon" with Stefan Andersson.
House/someone to "Goodness Gracious Me" with Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren.
Wolfram & Hart to "Lawyers in Love" with Jackson Browne.
...whew! And that's not even counting the Lynda Day "Head Over Heels" vid, which I've definitely decided I'm gonna make now. (And who cares if vidding her to my email addy is overidentifying? It fits her better than me anyway.)
***
Speaking of which, I've now converted all Press Gang seasons except the first one (in progress) and have to resist the urge to put more eps up. Considering that most comments I got before were from people who already owned the DVDs, and that the only two people who downloaded the first ep seem to have no urge to get more, it seems unlikely that I'd be able to convert anyone to this show.
Still, I see the wonderful eps, and I can't help going "Oh! I have to show them this!" about things like The Last Word, which has the newsroom in a gun siege. (Suspense! Angst! Inappropriate humour! Lynda bitching at everyone up to and including the gun man! Spike being a total woobie! Colin being brave while still being a weirdo! Frazz proving once again that he's smarter than he pretends to be! Lines like "A gun makes you a man." "I think you've got your biology a little confused there." "Absolutely. It's a car.")
Or Bad News, which has Spike and Lynda quarrelling on live TV and Colin taking merchandise to a new level. ("Sex and violence - I love children's television." "Maybe if this show didn't think of its audience as a backwards three year old with the attention span of a goldfish I wouldn't currently be attempting conversation with an unconvincing domestic pet and a prat on wheels! Good morning!")
Or "Love and War" which isn't just a breakpoint in the Spike/Lynda relationship and has Spike as a total woobie, but has him as a total woobie with daddy issues, which I know several people on my flist are into.
Or "A Quarter to Midnight", which has Lynda stuck in an air-tight vault over the weekend, and me hyperventilating every time I watch it.
Or "There Are Crocodiles", which is kind of creepy and one of the best Lynda eps ever. ("Okay - it's like this. There's a tribe living by a river, and in the river there are crocodiles. The tribe has one particular piece of wisdom passed down through the generations. It goes like this: if you happen to meet a crocodile, don't stick your head in its mouth. Every now and then - and who knows the reason - people ignore this advice. Which is sad. Because they die. But very stupid because they were warned. They had a choice. The moral of this story is - you can't afford to be stupid. There are crocodiles.")
*sigh*
But you're not interested, are you?
It occurs to me that trying to convert anyone to anything in October may be doomed to failure. Perhaps I'd be better off doing this over Christmas, or summer even. What do you say? Would you give the show a chance if it wasn't currently high season for TV shows?
***
As for my own new TV habits, I'm a season and a half through House, and my enthusiasm is fading a bit. This show is not meant for binge-watching. Every ep is basically the same thing with minor variations. One ep a day is about all I can manage - even two is stretching it.
Also, I'm starting to feel kind of sorry for Cameron on a non-diegetic level. (Which isn't quite the same as feeling sorry for the actress.) For one thing, playing the goodie is a thankless job on any show. I'm with Göran Everdahl on this one - the goodie is necessary for most soaps and other shows, but s/he's no fun to watch. The straight man, except more so.
Playing the goodie on a show where the main draw is Hugh Laurie hurling verbal abuse at everyone - well, the portion of the audience who'd enjoy both types of characters can't be all that big. She'd have a much better chance on Seventh Heaven.
At least Wilson (*stabbing him through the heart*) will have the slashers on his side.
***
My fic is now in the middle of the big show-down, which means that the case file part of it will hopefully be done soon. There'll still be some scenes after that, but it might come in smaller than 15,000 words and definitely smaller than 20,000.
How long it will take me depends rather on how tired I will be. Yesterday I worked eleven hours and wasn't home at all between seven AM and eleven PM...
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And today's icon has nothing to do with the topic, I just haven't used it in a while and wanted to. :-)