Vid: James Maxwell Tribute

[lost_spook]

I have been a bit AWOL, but for reasons and also now I have a vid! And, all right, so it is a vid of James Maxwell, BUT it is totally a vid containing cute children and animals, paper aeroplanes, stuffed toys, random barometers, wilful destruction of property, Emma Peel kicking ass, vampires, tea and coffee drinking, two Henry VIIs, rocks, Nazis,

Comments

[justice_turtle]

Aww, he is a cutie! Even with terrible fake hair. ;-) I wish your Copper was real and on the show -- Copper and Silver together would be too much adorable to handle. <3

[lost_spook]

Thank you! I have been spending far too much time making this - I have almost stopped seeing the fake hair! (Though I have Thoughts now on whether or not some of it is real hair augmented by fake hair. These are v good reasons not to vid silly things!)

But I glad you liked it, and even more that you liked him in it, as he's given me a lot of entertainment over the last couple of years.

There is actually a scene in Shadow of the Tower with both David Collings and James Maxwell, but unfortunately, it's also the one episode of it that my pc doesn't believe in, so I can't vid it. (David Collings had been causing trouble again and James Maxwell wanted him taken away somewhere he would never see him again.) At least I could vid him with Alfred Burke as a reward at the end. (I am happy to know that he and Alfred Burke seem to have known each other relatively well in rl and indeed, shared an acting mentor, as it turns out. ♥)

Excuse my rambly reply and thanks so much for stopping to watch my odd vid. <3

[swordznsorcery]

You've been busy! I'm surprised at the lack of clips from "Heroes Of The Revolution" though. Is that those Network DVDs refusing to rip properly again?!

[lost_spook]

It's actually easier to do something like this than a vid for a TV series. *waves hands incoherently about why* (It's too early in the morning this morning.) But thank you. :-)

As to Heroes of the Revolution, well, James Maxwell was only in the prequel and you were sadly right about Network continually delaying its release. One day! And then it probably won't rip!

(Actually, Network are kinder to me over James Maxwell than they are over David Collings, or I probably couldn't have made this at all! Only The Hanged Man and Dracula wouldn't rip at all out of the Network things - and randomly Evil of Frankenstein decided to be one of those things that only load the DVD intro.)

[liadtbunny]

I'm impressed with the wide variety of clips you've used! I see James Maxwell's cunning plan to get you to like him via the use of cute kids, animals and toys worked;p I enjoyed viewing the whole of JM being flung into a pool clip & taking revenge on water in 'Frankenstein'(!). And there was plenty of hand action for all - hurrah:) The best bits were from 'Raffles' of course;)

I don't think the gold spacesuits go with anyone's 70's hair though...

[lost_spook]

Thank you! I don't think it was really a cunning plan, because in fact (thanks to the whole Amazon/Raffles conspiracy) the only thing I could get hold of after SotT was Portrait of a Lady and I almost got put off him for life. Except someone sent me EatD & I found Girl on Approval and also accidentally acquired Dracula when in search of David Collings.

I am even more bitter about Amazon keeping the Raffles pilot from me! He's so funny in it, I love it. I might actually like Raffles for more than one episode if it had James Maxwell having that much fun in it every other week. But sadly, it does not and thus I don't. You should get another credit, actually, because you gave me The Avengers, so the Emma Peel bit is also your doing.

Well, at least it's not yet another Victorian facial hair epidemic!

[liadtbunny]

Ah, Maxwell was trying to get back into your good books then?:)

Shh, I don't want to be done for being an old TV pusher;p

Maybe he refused to do any Victoriana without facial hair?

[lost_spook]

I think he tried to hide from me, but failed. I mean, having seen how I behaved to David Collings, obviously... ;-p

You ARE an old TV pusher and I love you very much for it.

I'm beginning to think so. I think he just loved the facial hair. I have the Royal Exchange book and I don't think there are any photos of him in any parts in it where he doesn't have more and more facial hair. Either that, or make up people were really mean to him.

[dimity_blue]

That was fun. I didn't read your list of sources beforehand, so I was surprised to recognise Raffles near the end. What a swizz that he was only in the pilot. Boo!

I also got a bit confused about the b/w then colour Henry VII, but I see from your list there was a one off drama about Henry VII before Shadow of the Tower. Obviously, JM was the only actor the BBC could see as Henry VII so they refused to hire anyone else to play the part. :oD

Thanks for sharing the vid.

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you so much for watching! And, yes, I might like Raffles a lot more if it had James Maxwell in it instead of Victor Carin. (I'm sure Victor Carin is very nice really, but the crime of Not Being James Maxwell at any point when Amazon told me he would be is just hard to get over.)

Ha, everybody who played a Tudor monarch for the BBC had to play it twice, it was the rule! Sorry for the confusion, but it was the BBC's fault, I am just a humble vidder who had no sources between 1968 and 1971. (I should work on that.)

♥

[a_phoenixdragon]

YOU...are awesome! *Beams*

*HUGS*

[lost_spook]

Thanks. :-)