Fangirl catharsis

[calliope85]

Okay, so, recently? I have been fangirling too many things. I can always tell when this happens because my brain seems to be full of lemonade (not the nice still cloudy lemonade, the frothy cheap lemonade that tastes ever so faintly of soap) and fizzes inconveniently when I'm supposed to be working. As a more or less direct result of this I haven't

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[parrot_knight]

Nicholas Young's post-Tomorrow People career has involved being a public relations adviser to Saddam Hussein. He would reportedly regard being a poster boy for the Young Conservatives as dangerously left wing.

[calliope85]

Frankly, this does not surprise me in the least. *sighs*

[parrot_knight]

I'd love to catch up with The Tomorrow People at some point. I caught the last few series at first broadcast. The first episode I saw was the last of the spaceship story Jon Watkins wrote - the last of the John-Elizabeth-Mike season - which was intriguing, but was then replaced on ITV by The Paper Lads, a slice of badly cooked Tyneside stottie cake from Tyne Tees, with which the latter franchise holder were obsessed. The theme music became Tyne Tees's standard background music for unscheduled intervals in transmission, to the extent that I suspected them of deliberately engineering temporary faults so that the song could be played on a loop.

Anyway, my Tomorrow People era was really John-Mike-Hsui Tai/John-Elizabeth-Mike-Hsui Tai-Andrew. Hitler's Last Secret and The Living Skins were the most memorable stories, though even at seven or eight I think I had a feeling the series couldn't quite get a handle on late 1970s youth culture.

[calliope85]

The number of stories in the latter seasons which seem to revolve around alien threats manifesting in pop music or teenage fashions does rather suggest a desperation to appear to be 'in touch' with their audience. I can't wait for the story when the Tomorrow People are attacked by alien shellsuits

[childofatlantis]

... that lemonade metaphor is PERFECT. That is My Brain On Transformers. *headdesk*

[sebastienne]

I like that metaphor. Fizzing is definitely a good description of what I have been doing recently.

(Ahh, futuristic dystopian sci-fi. You have of course seen Logan's Run and Soylent Green?)

[calliope85]

I have never seen either Logan's Run or Soylent Green; nor have I read any Asimov or Heinlein, or indeed really any classic sci-fi at all. I am secretly a Bad Sci-Fi Fan; I just do a good impression of knowing things ^_^

[sebastienne]

I'm almost certain that you would love Logan's Run. B7 reminds me of nothing more forcefully, right down to the costumes and 70s-future-dystopia. One day, in the mythical future-time where I Know How It All Ends, I shall show it to you.

[calliope85]

Your icon reminds me - this is the book I mentioned a while back with detective!Wilde. It seems that there's a new one due out next month - I think I shall try to read the first one before then, if I can pick up a cheap copy somewhere.

Sixth Past Doctor Adventures

[crouchinglynx]

I never kept up with the previous Doctor novels as much as the "current" ones - particular authors would keep going back to their favourite TARDIS crew with the result that a three novel character arc would have months between installments, and I was reading out of order anyway.

The Virgin NA "Burning Heart" was a memorable Sixth, though - Dave Stone takes spin-off favourites the Adjudicators and turns them into Judge Dredd. I think it's the kind of black comedy that "Vengeance on Varos" /wanted/ to be.

Re: Sixth Past Doctor Adventures

[calliope85]

Is Burning Heart amongst your boxes of books? If so, might I read it (with due care and consideration, of course)?

Re: Sixth Past Doctor Adventures

[crouchinglynx]

It is, and you may. It's one of the few I've read more than once, so it probably already bears some of my own mucky fingerprints.