and I would be the one / to hold you down

[loneraven]

So, up until now, I've been saying that Due South is the television equivalent of a nice cuddly blanket and a mug of dark hot chocolate. It's just... comforting. It's so sweet, and gentle, and not much happens, and they take a break from murder cases to do weird interludes involving ghosts and curling and the geography of Canada, not necessarily at

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[cscottd]

So... Due South...

Is this another show I need to start watching? :)

[loneraven]

*headdesk* Aaaaargh. Maybe. Actually, yes. It's mostly nothing like S&A, and Fraser is a shock after Geoffrey, but hey, Paul Gross is always good, and the show is very good in its own way.

[cscottd]

That's the problem with having such interesting people on my friends list: They're always introducing me to delightful new ways to waste spend my time. ;)

[loneraven]

*grins* I feel very flattered by this. And yes, actually, watch DS! It's great!

[passerida]

Congratulations on passing your driving test! Eeeh, you're all grown up, and stuff. :D

What extenuating circumstances are there for reading the Daily Mail? I will admit that I've read it in the past, because it's the paper my grandparents normally buy, and sometimes when I visit them I like to fuel my liberal ire by reading the comment pages. It works wonders, but you'll know when you've read too much because you'll start coming up with Diana conspiracy theories of your own.

[loneraven]

Thankee! It usually makes me spittingly angry, so I don't read it to save my blood pressure, but in this case, I was stuck in a hospital waiting room with nothing else to read. :)

[loneraven]

Oh dear. *pets* I wish I'd known this before I took my test!

[icepixie]

First of all, congratulations on passing the driver's test! I hear your tests are much, much harder than Tennessee's (I drove around the block. Literally. Around the block. And for this they let me operate two-ton hunks of metal that max out at 120 mph.), so go you on passing it the first try.

Second, welcome to the trauma that is VS. A couple weeks after I watched it, I was pulling a book at the library for a patron named Victoria and about freaked out just from the name. GAH. I was a mess during the actual episodes.

And that show has destroyed more pieces of music I like, dammit. There's a significant chunk of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, of course, and Loreena McKennitt's "Full Circle" is RUINED for me thanks to "Juliet Is Bleeding."

[thiswaltz]

oh, but for me, it *introduced* me to Sarah McLachlan, I went and sought it out because it was so pretty and hearbreaking. And come to think of it, introduced me to Loreena McKennitt as well, with "Prospero's Speech" in the S1 ep "Chinatown"

[icepixie]

I was a hardcore Sarah M. fan from way back--mostly in high school, less so now--and...yeah, it's still kind of hard to listen to "Possession." Ow. Apparently all the music I listened to in the mid to late 90s was made by Canadians, because watching all of dS this year for the first time was, musically speaking, a flashback to high school. If they'd used Alanis Morissette (I'm amusing myself now by imagining how they could work in one of her songs) or the Barenaked Ladies, the flashback would've been complete.

[thiswaltz]

well it's not like the real story behind the inspiration for Possession is any less Ow. But yeah. And the funny thing is I had the dS soundtrack with the SM songs on it before I had any of her CDs so I pictured Melina Kanakaredes until I knew what Sarah looked like XD
Canada produces the best musicians. like Joni Mitchell. And the McGerrigle sisters.

[thiswaltz]

dueSouth is the ultimate 'blanket-and-hot-chocolate' show for me, maybe because i first watched it when I was 12/13 or so and I loved it more than I'd loved any tv show before, except for Voyager which I was also heavily into at the time.

Anyway, yes. Fraser's goodness and rightness and the way cares *so much* about people works so well because he's also such a complex character and I always thought the Victoria episodes showed that off so very well. But so heartrending. I'll never be able to hear SM's "Possesion" whithout thinking of it.

Have you seen all of due South?

And I watched Slings & Arrows recently, or what there is of it up on youtube and somehow managed not to be scarred by it being *fraser* saying those things. Maybe because Geoffry is so entirely *Geoffry* that I forgot about Fraser while watching.

[loneraven]

Yes! Fraser needs episodes like "Victoria's Secret" to make him human and not, you know, inhuman perfection. And he's so bloody vulnerable in these eps - the way he just submits, resignedly, to everything that happens, it kills me. And the bit with the train! Argh.

I have not seen all of Due South! I wish I had. I've seen most of season 1, a handful of season 2, and an even smaller handful of 3/4. I'm getting there. And S&A is utterly fabulous - I think seasons 1 and 2 are up on YouTube, and drop me an email if you need, er, hooking up with 3. *g* Geoffrey, oh, I do love him. And you're right - he is so absolutely his own person, and even writing fic where they meet, the difference between them is palpable. (I mean, I read a review which describes Geoffrey as "Benton Fraser after a three-year bender in Vegas", which sounds right to me. *g*)