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Picspam: Peter Davison & Nicola Walker in Jonathan Creek (c1998)

Feb 06, 2011 12:35

(with unexpected naked!Ancelyn, as I promised Clocket).

Naturally, possible spoilers for the S2 episodes Danse Macabre and Mother Redcap under the cut (although I have done my very best not to reveal any of the how/whodunnit aspect, I promise!):

( In which Peter Davison turns up at the door dressed as a vicar and Jonathan wants Maddy to check his underwear... )

nicola walker, jonathan creek, maddy magellan, picspam, caroline quentin, peter davison

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jjpor February 6 2011, 13:31:10 UTC

With the coat and hat in the first pic, he looks like the Reverend Peter Davison, P.I. - roaming the mean streets of the naked city in pursuit of...I don't know, something vicar-related... Or something.

Hmm, 40s private eye clergyman - I'll put that on the big list of slightly odd story ideas. ;D

And, well, Bambera wouldn't let him sit around the house like that, I'm sure.

lost_spook February 6 2011, 20:02:29 UTC

:-) Parishioners? A theological debate? Or an exorcism, or something, maybe...

Aha, a handy list! :-D

No. I was wondering who he was all the way through, until I saw the credits and first a light bulb went off in my head, followed by Ack!!! Aaargh! unexpected naked!Ancelyn! So, naturally I had to share it...

jjpor February 8 2011, 22:54:47 UTC

lol, yeah, that's what he looks like - the much more reasonable British version of The Exorcist! None of that silly Latin chanting and stuff - we'll just discuss it all over a nice cup of tea... ;D ( ... )

lost_spook February 9 2011, 10:40:54 UTC

Yes, I'm sure the spectres will soon see all this melodramatic haunting is just not the thing, and go away, yes? Either that, or he'll set the Monday afternoon Ladies' Meeting on them! (The Monday afternoon Ladies' Meeting is a multi-denominational fixture, and always a tough gig. Few ghosts would survive.) :-D ( ... )

jjpor February 9 2011, 23:05:39 UTC

Yes, yes exactly like that! :D Nothing dramatic, though - just sensible solutions...

The one with the supposed dead alien? Yes, I think I have seen that one, although can't remember... Wasn't it frozen mercury or something, and then it melted, explaining how it "disappeared"? Or am I just making that up? Glad you got a plot bunny, though - hope it progresses well for you. And yeah, Mulder would...not appreciate it at all, I don't think. (Although on the other hand, Mulder does tend more often than not to be right about most things paranormal-related, even when he's very obviously leaping to massive conclusions on the basis of little to no evidence. I mean, even when it seems he's wrong, they always have a little twist at the end that "proves" he was right... ;D So, the annoyance might go both ways...)

I think the thing that sort of makes the notion of unexpected!Naked Ancelyn even more amusing/mind-blowing, however, is the pipe. For some reason, everything seems funnier with pipes... ;D

lost_spook February 10 2011, 09:51:05 UTC

Yes, that was the one!

That's what I said - they'd get on each other's nerves. Although the mundane trumps the supernatural all the time, so Jonathan would win. ;-) Didn't even the X-Files eventually come out with the fact that half the alien stuff really was just a conspiracy to make it seem as though there were aliens when they were covering up dodgy gov't stuff? I lost track of the last few seasons, but I seem to think it had gone quite a bit that way.
(Not anything as advanced as that makes it sound; I just scribbled down a brief cross in my notebook, but I'm still not up to the concentration involved in actually typing up and editing anything at all, that's all. I think soon, though, now.)

The pipe is just... very Jonathan Creek, I think! :-D

jjpor February 11 2011, 21:48:04 UTC

Glad I didn't dream it! ;D

I think there _were_ aliens (more than one faction of aliens?), but... No, I couldn't actually say what actually turned out to be "The Truth", because I'm more or less certain that Chris Carter and co were making it up as they went along. :D I sort of like to think that everything after the first film was some sort of dream of Mulder's or something... But yes, whoever's programme the crossover takes place in should probably win in that sort of scenario - it's only common courtesy ;D

Glad to hear you're getting there, though. :)

lost_spook February 12 2011, 10:46:39 UTC

I'm really not sure by the end! I stopped watching after Mulder left, and then just watched the last episode to find out what had been going on all those years, but I had no ieda about anything that happened in it at all ( ... )

jjpor February 12 2011, 20:26:43 UTC

Hmm, yeah, you're right about S6, actually. I thought that Bermuda Triangle one was just about the greatest thing ever the first time I saw it... I think the thing was, the "funny" episodes were like great novelties and instant classics back when they were less common, but when it got so that every other episode was a funny one, it kind of diluted it a bit for me (although in the later series, the funny ones were by and large also the good ones, 'tis true). I really liked S5 at the time of first viewing, iirc - Kill Switch and Bad Blood are two of my favourite X-Files episodes of the lot (and whichever one is the one where Scully takes a weekend off to solve some small town's spate of mysterious deaths all by herself). I think the film was...strange in many respects, but probably represents a missed opportunity to wrap up the whole alien conspiracy arc and move on, instead of beating the shaggy dog into the ground as they did in the later series. Yes, the garbage monster! Weren't they, rather hilariously, also pretending to be married ( ... )

lost_spook February 12 2011, 20:34:04 UTC

I have S6 on DVD, you see, because I liked the eps I'd seen but kept missing them on TV. I don't have the others - I borrowed them off someone a while ago, though and rewatched the first 3 series. Maybe S5 would have grown on me again. It seems in my head as if there was an arc of Mulder not believing in things and him and Scully not speaking that went on for weeks, but knowing how things seem when you watch them week by week, it was probably not as gloomy as I recall. :-) (It was a compost monster, I remember now. And, yes, they were and being v grumpy about it ( ... )

jjpor February 14 2011, 21:20:21 UTC

Yeah, it'd help if it wasn't so long since I'd seen so many of the episodes, random cable repeats aside - I've got a lot on VHS, but nothing to play them on, which is as you can imagine a bit of a drawback... So, take any X-Files related opinions I may throw out with a pinch of salt. ;D

Yes, I think S5 was the point where Mulder finally became completely disillusioned in the whole alien-conspiracy thing after being double-crossed one time too many and became a bitter sceptic for a while. Ironically, just as Scully was becoming more open to the whole thing... But I don't think it lasted that long, really. I think S5 also sort of coincided with my own most intense obsession with the programme, so that might colour my opinions of it just a bit...

The plane crash one was great. Called Tempus Fugit, iirc, punnily enough. ;D

That's the thing with those sort of illnesses, though. Just don't try to do too much too soon, and look after yourself, and hopefully you will continue to improve. And yes, post things on LJ! Best wishes, anyway.

lost_spook February 15 2011, 19:08:52 UTC

S2-4 were when I was at uni, watching them with my friends - after that rl interfered a lot. :-)

Thanks.

jjpor February 15 2011, 21:56:06 UTC

I sort of went through stages, really - big fan of the early series, sort of stopped watching it for some reason round S4 (possibly due to uni and distractions contained therein, thinking about it), got heavily back into in S5 and then...kind of trailed off in my enthusiasm as the series itself declined in the later years.

Yeah, rl - can't live with it, can't live without it... ;D

lost_spook February 16 2011, 16:37:04 UTC

Yea, uni in those days - you were lucky to get to see any TV, because most of the time you didn't have much access to a telly! (Ah, doesn't it make you feel all ancient now? :lol:) The X-Files was the only thing I watched all week, because the person who owned a telly in our flat was mad for it, so five of us used to cram into her room once a week, with a law that we had to watch it in the dark. The Non-X-philes leftover did once or twice do silly things like running round to knock of the window / switch *all* the lights off to amuse themselves. If we wanted to watch a video, we needed to rent the vhs player for the night, along with the video... (Or maybe it's just me that's ancient, sorry...) So, yeah S2-4 were the ones I watched that way; S5 I had a hard time catching; it was gloomy, so was rl at the time (even last year can't compete with that year), and by S6 I was where I live now and able to pick things up, but after that, as you say, it all seemed to go down hill pretty quick. But I'm afraid, as always, I fall for the ( ... )

jjpor February 16 2011, 23:01:50 UTC

Aye, and all this here were fields... ;D But yes, I remember the days when somebody's mobile phone going off or if they were daft enough to walk around talking on it, it was a cause for merriment and ridicule and jokes about Yuppies that were probably a decade out of date even in those days (not that I or most of the people I knew even had them in those days)... Truly it was a different age! As for the internet... I think computers still ran on steam! ;D ( ... )

lost_spook February 17 2011, 11:11:27 UTC

Oh, yes, the Groundhog Day; that's a fun one. That's got to be S6 (or possibly S7) as well, hasn't it, because Scully's puzzled by the fact Mulder even has a water bed for it to leak, which came in body-switch episode. And the typewriter one was one of those I mmissed on TV - not a bad reason to get the DVD, after all ( ... )

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