Mr . Selfridge thoughts

[jedi_of_urth]

So the B5 rewatch has gotten delayed, because I kind of fell over into a Mr. Selfridge hole for the last couple weeks. I have very quickly marathoned the whole series and I have a few things to say.

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[metanewsmods]

May we link this on metanews? We also post on DreamWidth and Tumblr.

We haven't had anything about Mr Selfridge before, so we're particularly interested.

[jedi_of_urth]

I'm not sure this is anything like my best written review, but if you want then sure.

[jelazakazone]

I haven't watched most of S3 yet, but I just wanted to thank you for putting some meta out about Mr Selfridge. I'm really loving the show. I watched the first 2 seasons of Downtown Abbey, but gave up just before the finale of S2. At first I thought MS was going to be like DA, but I've been happily pleased that it hasn't.

I am looking forward to watching the rest of S3, whenever that might be.

[jedi_of_urth]

It seems logical to compare the two shows (or maybe that's just the Up Yours, Downstairs! coverage of both that makes it unavoidable for me, it's what got me to give MS a chance to start with), but they really are quite different. I do think that if someone likes one they'd be smart to give the other a chance, and since they're both good I think they should be more even numbers between the fandoms than there are now. But I'm definitely glad to now someone else out there is watching MS, it's a pretty good story.

I kind of think I might write up more thoughts on the series, I still have more thoughts and it wouldn't take me nearly so long to review it episode by episode as my current project does, but I find myself more inclined to try and write fic than get into the meta for the moment. And it's not like the fic writing is going all that well.