I don't know if you folks are aware of this but some wonderful person (who is probably going to have their youtube account banned before long) posted the first episode of Clocking Off, the only one with John Simm ( Read more... )

Title: Attack
Rating: Blue Cortina for mentioned schmexy-times
Word Count: 957
Notes: This has been lingering ever since the 2.06 watchalong- completely forgot about it. If anyone objects to their name being used, I am very happy to take it down and re-post, just say.
Summary: "By who, Tyler? Who the bloody 'ell would bother attackin' this little ( Read more... )

Title: Waiting for Sam
Rating: Green Cortina (pretty mild for this fandom, anyway)
Word Count: 1,480
Notes: Needed to write. This happened. Cello, your Sam!whump is coming along, just very slowly- sorry! (Oh, and this is sort of for talkingtothesky, just because she's so awesome.)
Summary: Gene waits in Sam's flat.

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( Musings and angst. )

For Loz, who wanted this, with love. Happy Anniversary!

(And I do believe it's still May 1st in American Samoa ;-)


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margo_kim mentioned recently that she finds some moments in Life on Mars almost painfully embarrassing. And it got me to thinking.

Poor Sam really is a fish out of water in 1973. He often finds himself in humiliating situations, even actively mocked by the people around him. And he's far from the only person in Life on Mars to be mortified in this way... ( Read more... )

(Link here-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/downloads/scripts/life_on_mars_ep_1.pdf)
And oh, how I wish they'd kept Phyllis' introductory scene in.

Sweaty, dizzy and disorientated, SAM staggers into the tatty,
poorly lit reception. No security swipe here. A road safety
poster on the wall - squirrel with thumbs up. Tufty Says
Follow The Code.
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I've recently been rewatching the two series, and just realised something... Episode 2, when Sam is having his eletrical attack in the hospital and the lights go, he screams for help... And then he screams for Gene. I didn't quite believe it, so I checked the subtitles and they confirm it ( Read more... )

Just watched the series finale for approximately the eighth time, and I'm hankering after any fic that deals with the Tyler/Williams plotline. Because that was one thread that came totally out of left-field, raised about a hundred fascinating questions, and then just- sort of died away. Doesn't matter whether the author addresses it through the ( Read more... )

This may be rather self-indulgent, but having discovered Wordle I've spent the evening converting my sixteen episode reviews into word clouds. If you fancy looking at them, they're at my journal. If the mods feel this is too frivolous, act appropriately.

Watching 1.01 for the millionthbillionth time this morning (a Mars a day helps me work, rest and slash) I wondered whether the scene where Sam first arrives in 1973 CID is evidence of Chris/Ray right at the very start of things and also the root of Ray's dislike of Sam. We later learn that Ray wanted the DI post for himself, but he wants Chris even ( Read more... )