that was the weekend that was
I posted a ficlet Sunday/yesterday: The One Where Everyone Needs All The Hugs. (Friends. Chandler Bing/Monica Geller, ensemble mentioned.)
It was drafted after I saw the prompt ‘any, any, everyone needs a hug' and edited the next day. I’ve been marathoning mid-series Friends over the past few weekends. It’s great lockdown viewing for me, shot through with nostalgia, because that’s around the era that I got into the show, so I have a massive Monica/Chandler soft spot. They’re all a very huggy bunch, so the idea of their not being able to hug when they were in and out of each other’s apartments or sharing a sofa at Central Perk all the time…
That’s the second fandom from the nineties I’ve written something for for the first time this year.
Belgravia - episode 5
The loopiest of loopholes was found! So, the fake priest really was a priest AND a soldier. John’s face!!! Presumably Bellasis was on the up and up and I must cease being snide about him. Of course, Sophia could never accuse him of fake marrying her and he could never explain himself because Waterloo.
But how will it come out so that the young lovers can have their happy ending and Maria’s mother can shut it?
Meanwhile, Mrs Pope was the best. Charles was lucky to have her as an adoptive mother. Never mind social position, she was smart enough to suss John out and rout him. If she comes to London in time to see the love affair, it’ll be game over John. Never forget he paid off the servants by pawning his mother’s last silver.
Other scenes of note: Oliver still being such a teenager and making a scene at his father’s club. I doubt he’ll have stormed out of the house. I also doubt that his clearly pregnant missus has seduced him for cover, so she’s going to have to face how much of a pickle she’s in soon instead of making like a ‘distracted’ ostrich over her pregnancy.
Another decent scene was Stephen trying to blackmail his sister-in-law over Charles Pope. It went about as well as any realist would have expected. Stephen is not a realist.
However, I do not think Lady Brocklehurst has informed her husband that their son sired a son, so I think that could be an obstacle in her grand plan to acknowledge Charles - I winced for Anne and James and the price they’d have to pay. And this after I almost think the two grandmothers have become friends despite themselves.
The ‘evidence’ against Charles was so flimsy. Oliver would be easier to take seriously if he worked a bit harder at life. And, again, some of that is down to his parents.
Yet another servant showed Ellis up. Hard to feel anything about John Bellasis’s co-conspirators getting feg up with him.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/421759.html.
It was drafted after I saw the prompt ‘any, any, everyone needs a hug' and edited the next day. I’ve been marathoning mid-series Friends over the past few weekends. It’s great lockdown viewing for me, shot through with nostalgia, because that’s around the era that I got into the show, so I have a massive Monica/Chandler soft spot. They’re all a very huggy bunch, so the idea of their not being able to hug when they were in and out of each other’s apartments or sharing a sofa at Central Perk all the time…
That’s the second fandom from the nineties I’ve written something for for the first time this year.
Belgravia - episode 5
The loopiest of loopholes was found! So, the fake priest really was a priest AND a soldier. John’s face!!! Presumably Bellasis was on the up and up and I must cease being snide about him. Of course, Sophia could never accuse him of fake marrying her and he could never explain himself because Waterloo.
But how will it come out so that the young lovers can have their happy ending and Maria’s mother can shut it?
Meanwhile, Mrs Pope was the best. Charles was lucky to have her as an adoptive mother. Never mind social position, she was smart enough to suss John out and rout him. If she comes to London in time to see the love affair, it’ll be game over John. Never forget he paid off the servants by pawning his mother’s last silver.
Other scenes of note: Oliver still being such a teenager and making a scene at his father’s club. I doubt he’ll have stormed out of the house. I also doubt that his clearly pregnant missus has seduced him for cover, so she’s going to have to face how much of a pickle she’s in soon instead of making like a ‘distracted’ ostrich over her pregnancy.
Another decent scene was Stephen trying to blackmail his sister-in-law over Charles Pope. It went about as well as any realist would have expected. Stephen is not a realist.
However, I do not think Lady Brocklehurst has informed her husband that their son sired a son, so I think that could be an obstacle in her grand plan to acknowledge Charles - I winced for Anne and James and the price they’d have to pay. And this after I almost think the two grandmothers have become friends despite themselves.
The ‘evidence’ against Charles was so flimsy. Oliver would be easier to take seriously if he worked a bit harder at life. And, again, some of that is down to his parents.
Yet another servant showed Ellis up. Hard to feel anything about John Bellasis’s co-conspirators getting feg up with him.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/421759.html.