Something a JVJ said to me recently made want to compare the size of the different Rue Plumet gates in different productions. I chose the last scene when it's used (I wanted to see how they put it back in storage) but then I realised the way I'd seen it acted in 1987, and as it's done in London now, is very different to how they did it in Germany ( Read more... )

I've been having some interesting conversations with fans and actors about Les Mis. Realised, due to this, the comparative staging meta is going to be a thing - let's start from the beginning. My handwriting is not as decent as when I was writing essays at Manchester Poly! Now I'm back studying this I can take notes on the computer rather than ( Read more... )

As some people might realise, for article writing, I've fallen back down the rabbit hole of Theatre Fandom. With the aid of YouTube providing live recorded videos and bit of genning up I've learnt a lot that I didn't know about Les Miserables.

The performances I'm using are from:

London, Palace Theatre 1987
Duisburgh, Germany 1999
Berlin, Germany 2004
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What you have to realise is that, when I talk about a ‘stage’ upon which the rooftop duet in “The Reichenbach Fall” is performed, I am quite serious in what I say. The whole layout of the roof, with the way our protagonists move about, the music played and specific buildings in the skyline are taken in and out of shot, are, as Sherlock will later ( Read more... )

Aderyn, who normally writes exquisite poetic short fanfiction stories wrote a lovely piece of poetic meta-analysis talking about “A bullet flown from Hope to Magnussen singing I killed for you ( Read more... )

All my location hunting posts for Sherlock can be found here and are grouped by Series and Episode.  Meta-analysis posts are listed at the end.

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A while back aderyn8 asked me to write meta for her on The Reichenbach Fall. I am sticking it here as a place holder as the total immersion in Media Studies and A Study in Pink carries on apace and I may not have a chance to do anything with it for a while.

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A central holding place for links to the meta I wrote for the stargate LJ community redial_the_gate

At One with the Oneness (Maternal Instinct - 03x20)
Part One
Part Two

Funeral Meta  (Forever in A Day 03x10)

Geeks and Glasses, Allergies and Asthma (The First Ones 04x08)

SG1 go Undercover (Beneath the Surface 04x10)

The Passion of Isis and Osiris (The Curse ( Read more... )

I'm having a second day sofa surfing as I'm sitting here waiting for a miracle and results of the antibiotic the nice Nurse Practitioner at Yarmouth Walk-in-Centre gave me for my nasty cough. I thought I was about to pull a Benedict Cumberbatch, but no, that hacking was all-too familiar had to be a secondary infection and Bronchitis not Pneumonia. ( Read more... )

I think I have to agree now.

A quick check this morning found my ongoing Sherlock locations musings have turned up twice; once on Tumblr and once on a Sherlock forum discussing Reichenbach theories. I like this one in particular as someone says; 'That dude has wayyy to much time on his hands. He'll be a blithering mess by the time the new series ( Read more... )