Summer Talking Meme #1

Jul 13, 2015 20:49

I've had a few answers for this meme done or semi-done for a while, so it's about time I posted one, and here goes - From femme_slash_fan: Favourite TV shows almost nobody knows about and should watch? (Seriously... I need more stuff)

Shows that nobody else knows about seems to sum up my entire fannish life of late (and always, really), but since femme_slash_fan specified "and ( Read more... )

elizabeth r, 1970s, the power game, public eye, fannish nonsense, adam adamant lives!, peter davison, talking meme, house of eliott, 1960s, flipside of dominick hide, richard iii, 1990s, 1980s, campion, shakespeare, press gang, enemy at the door, meme

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rustydragonfly July 13 2015, 20:25:53 UTC
I keep hearing so many good things about Press Gang. I gotta try it sometime. I vaguely remember it being on when I was a kid, but I did't watch it because I wasn't into school dramas that didn't have monsters in. My loss?

..the comment about coming back in ten years made me scream with laughter, and that's not hyperbole.

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lost_spook July 13 2015, 20:54:08 UTC
♥ Oh, as long as you don't have a Moffat or old telly allergy, you should definitely give it a go. Lynda is such a wonderful character & it's an unexpectedly brilliant teen drama. It isn't technically genre, no, but it is very surreal at the edges, so much so that an alien invasion would be taken in its stride. And probably with just an eye roll and a "What's Colin trying to sell this week? The planet?"

I mean:

Kenny: "I'm visiting my aunt in Sherrington ( ... )

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lost_spook July 14 2015, 17:43:36 UTC
... sorry. I realise now that was a lot of quotes to throw at anybody! /o\

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rustydragonfly July 14 2015, 20:25:33 UTC
Not at all! I'm just a slow responder.

And you may well have convinced me with that.

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lost_spook July 15 2015, 08:20:58 UTC
Oh, one day isn't a slow response! I just got up the next morning & looked guilty at my big block of text reply, and went "... whoops." ;-)

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