oh my god, it was so fucking brilliant, i could weep. everything about it. i mean, i know that it was massively fictionalised & dramatised & charicaturised so i'm not watching to get an accurate view of the events surrounding the release of life of brian, but as a fandomly thing, it was the best fucking thing i'd ever seen. i'm just - shipping the fuck out of michael/terry as well as michael/john & i want ALL of the fanfics about this. gonna have to go iplayer it again right now, because oh my god. ♥ ♥ ♥ don't suppose you know somewhere i could download the whole thing so i can have it forever & ever to rewatch?
Darren told me they're going to DVD it as well. Glorious. I hope there are tons of outtakes because Rufus said that they had a ton of fun just randomly breaking into impersonations and I would give my soul to marry Jones the Wife see that
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ahhhh, you genius, thankyou! oh my god, a dvd would make my life. i'm in the middle of watching the original friday night, saturday morning interview on iplayer, but as soon as i'm done watching that, i'm watching holy flying circus again so i can properly squee/enjoy all aspects of it without the awkwardness of slightly holding back when you're watching something with your parents.
it seems odd to criticise the programme for the caricatures, as if they were going for a realistic portrayal but just lapsed into exaggeration, when i'm pretty sure they set out with caricatures in mind from the off. & yes, exactly, it's what you'd get if you'd sat the Pythons down and made them affectionately scribble take-offs of each other on beermats. hence the excessively nice palin, the deliberately contrary cleese, & the spaced-out gilliam. but they didn't utterly rely on the caricatures like they were just doing one giant piss-take. there was a lot of heart to the characters, the humour helped to humanise them, & i came out of watching that with
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Exactly - that's why I said the Pythons writing each other: because there was so much love in it. It was affectionately taking the piss out of all your best mates, in ways you know they'll sulk about petulantly but still laugh at if you keep poking them long enough because they know it's true and know it's meant with love
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Darren told me they're going to DVD it as well. Glorious. I hope there are tons of outtakes because Rufus said that they had a ton of fun just randomly breaking into impersonations and I would give my soul to marry Jones the Wife see that ( ... )
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it seems odd to criticise the programme for the caricatures, as if they were going for a realistic portrayal but just lapsed into exaggeration, when i'm pretty sure they set out with caricatures in mind from the off. & yes, exactly, it's what you'd get if you'd sat the Pythons down and made them affectionately scribble take-offs of each other on beermats. hence the excessively nice palin, the deliberately contrary cleese, & the spaced-out gilliam. but they didn't utterly rely on the caricatures like they were just doing one giant piss-take. there was a lot of heart to the characters, the humour helped to humanise them, & i came out of watching that with ( ... )
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