A Recession Just Means I Get to be More Fannish

[meddow]

First of all, quick vid rec: One Girl Revolution by arefadedaway. Why? Because it's got every awesome female character I have ever idolised in this vid (it's got characters from Doctor Who, Stargate, Firefly, PotC, Harry Potter, P&P, Heroes and many, many more), which is a celebration of awesome female characters in general.

First of all, watched the

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[airie_fairy]

I've only ever heard people speak well of the Watchmen comic. Or comics in general, most of the time. I haven't read it myself (Watchmen, not all comics ever). I dunno, maybe I'm surrounded by special kinds of people?

[meddow]

I've never heard a person say anything bad about it, most people I've talked to have never heard of it and so I start to explain and as soon a the words 'graphic novel' escape my mouth, then I get 'the look.' You know how Watchmen made some of the world take graphic novels seriously? Well not my part.

[airie_fairy]

"You know how Watchmen made some of the world take graphic novels seriously? Well not my part."

Ahhh, that's it then.

[ragdoll]

Hee, you've hit so many things that I love in one post that I'm just all giddy here. Obviously, you know I'm big on BSG and it only gets better from the mini-series. I think lack of explosions may be due to budgetary constraints. It gets better, I promise. I don't mind Jamie's accent too much given that it's a lot better than many actors from the UK attempting to be American. I'm still thrown when I hear American actors speaking American on UK shows because they tend to sound fake. Other than John Barrowman, of course. Bamber's accent improves and he actually is basing on his American-born father's. Plus he's so pretty to look at that I don't care what comes out of his mouth. (His sort of mockney on Law & Order: UK this week IS kind of jarring though!)

Tipping the Velvet is gorgeous. I really love Keeley Hawes in it -- and it feeds into my girls-in-boy-drag kink so...yeah. I do need to read the book though.

And I've been a Sandman fan since I first started reading it back in 1990 (somewhere around issue #12) so welcome to the cult

[meddow]

I've been slowly working my way through Neil Gaiman's back catalog for a couple of years now. So far I've read Good Omens, Stardust and 1602. My flatmate's got a copy of Neverwhere, so that's probably going to be next. He is amazing. I hope those persistent rumours of him wanting to write a Doctor Who script one day eventuate.

I'll probably get used to Jamie's accent. I remember when I first started watching House and it taking a few episodes to get over the Prince Regent suddenly having an American accent. And, as you say, the prettiness helps. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to getting to watch the proper series. And your post on the series are one of the major reasons why I've been meaning to check it out.

I loved the girls in drag aspect of Tipping the Velvet as well. It's a bit of a kink of mine too. And well, I've yet to see Keeley Hawes disappoint. She's one of those actresses who deserves to be more known that she is and one I keep an eye out for. It's shame whenever she crops up in movies she tends to play 'the wife

[ragdoll]

I've been slowly working my way through Neil Gaiman's back catalog for a couple of years now. So far I've read Good Omens, Stardust and 1602. My flatmate's got a copy of Neverwhere, so that's probably going to be next. He is amazing. I hope those persistent rumours of him wanting to write a Doctor Who script one day eventuate.

Neverwhere: the book is really good and some day, I'll actually watch the tv series. It took me forever to obtain a copy and I'd heard so many derisive things about it (including from the Man himself) that I was just afraid to watch it. I'm very partial to American Gods and Anansi Boys as well as the kids books. As for the DW script, I really do believe it's in the cards. He's been too damned coy about it this past year, and his backhanded 'denials' have been pretty amusing to read. Of course, Stephen Fry WAS working on a script for s2 (I think) and it never saw the light of day due to a lot of problems so it's still possible we'll never see anything produced that has Neil's name on it. But I'm reasonably sure

[frenchroast]

In fairness to Jamie Bamber, I'm a recent Battlestar Galactica convert, and until I read this post, I thought he *was* American. And...I'm an American. So the accent's really good...flawless, as far as I've noticed, honestly, and I usually catch that kind of thing.

It's kind of sad to know he's been depriving us of a Brit accent this whole time. Brit (and most non-American) accents are hot. It's at least 1/3 of the reason why I love Gaius so.

And I'll be fine with the Watchmen movie so long as it's good and not another atrocity like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was. *shudder* But you're right, it's kind of sad that it's going so mainstream.

[meddow]

If you didn't know Jamie Bamber was British, does that mean you've never seen Hornblower? Because you have to watch Hornblower. Ioan Gruffudd, Jamie Bamber, Paul McGann and Robert Lindsey in 19th century Naval uniforms and there's great plots and acting as well as naval battles and its also the slashiest thing I've ever seen. Mutiny/Retribution is the best for the Hornblower/Kennedy/Bush OT3 as well as bonus Phillip Glenister and David Warner.

The fact it is going mainstream is sad. The novel is absolutely brilliant and one of those things you read and need a few hours after finishing it to recover from, and the fact that nobody I knew besides my flatmate had read it, made it ever the more special.

[frenchroast]

I haven't seen Hornblower--well, correction, I saw part of one episode years ago and wasn't really interested in it. But I may have misjudged it.

Watchmen's special to me, too, though a lot of my friends have actually read it now. It was always kind of special because my friend John introduced me to it. We were kind of sort of together but not and we were all "Laurie and Jon/Lori and John!" And then we planned for years to borrow heavily from it and use it in this superhero RPG we were part of, though we never actually did; we just plotted on how we would.

Plus, it was pretty mind-blowing when I first picked it up back in 2003, given the current world circumstances...