Multifandom news and a rec

[selenak]

It's good to know that Bryan Fuller's American Gods adaption is still on, and progressing. (Not just because I'm looking forward to the Fuller-meets-Gaiman result, but because I would like a Fuller series I can watch again. Says she who tried and disliked Hannibal, thus gave it up after eight episodes.) Meanwhile, I've just seen a (German) tweet

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[kathyh]

I think the Global iPlayer might be being replaced by something called BBC Store which is a download to own service. Knowing the BBC I doubt if it's ready yet!

If you can check out W1A, supposedly a comedy series, but sometimes more like a documentary, for why I don't think it will be ready yet :)

[selenak]

No more checking for me unless I pay for the dvds instead of paying a monthly fee, she says broodingly. :)

[kathyh]

Not worth you paying for it as it is a bit of an in joke, so probably funnier for me than you.

BBC Store seems to have a YouTube channel but I'm not sure it's really operational yet. It looks as if you have to either buy a pass or pay a small fee for each episode. The BBC probably think they will make more money this way!

[avrelia]

I wouldn't mind a whole series with Marian Halcombe solving crime. Penny Dreadful without all the devil stuff. She can totally recruit other Collins heroines though.

[selenak]

Marian Halcombe leading a posse of other Collins heroines to solve crime would be utter WIN. Lydia Gwilt is the obligatory antiheroine who is a part of the team because she's been such a successful criminal before falling in love with a White Hat.

[avrelia]

Collins has a lot of amazing heroines, hasn't he? And his works mostly haven't been adapted to tv yet, with the exception of Woman in White and Moonstone.

[ibmiller]

That is a great fic - thanks for the recommendation!

[selenak]

You're welcome!

[herself_nyc]

An adaptation of that Mantel novel would be truly awesome. It's the one book of hers I couldn't get through; I read about a third of it and realized I needed to first read a good history of the French Revolution, and then I got bogged down in that right away, and … alas, I don't think I'll ever really know the story of the French Revolution except in little bits, names and images (Marat in his bathtub!).

[shezan]

Read Richard Cobb on the French Revolution; he is SUPERB.

[shezan]

The thing about A Place… is that it is not France, and the characters are not French. They don't sound French, they don't behave like French people; Mirabeau's Provence is about as French as Robert Ludlum's "Corsica" in The Matarese Circle; the angst itself is not French anguish, which is always tinged with practicality and self-regard. It might make good television at that, but it still will not have the texture of the French Revolution, whic we do know through writers like G. Lenotre, etc.