Squee-worthy stuff on iPlayer this week :D
Not been posting much this week. Sorry about that. Some mild laptop troubles making it hard to post. Nothing serious, just infuriating. >:| But I'm enduring it because I just had to squee about some things that have been on BBC iPlayer this week.
( The cut can barely contain my fangirly joy. Run-on sentences and capslock abound. )
( The cut can barely contain my fangirly joy. Run-on sentences and capslock abound. )
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"An excellent man of - anarchistic views. :D"
Also, please write that fic, this Inferno crossover (I call it that) that I am writing is getting very depressing.
So Sherlock is good, then? I've been considering watching it, even though SH isn't generally my bag. (I prefer my quaint, silly Miss Marple. I read a few SH stories once and they kind of freaked me out.)
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An Inferno crossover, you say? Sounds interesting! But... yeah, I reckon it'll be pretty grim. I don't really have a fic idea, just a setting and no idea what to do with it, but hopefully something will suggest itself...
Sherlock was very good! Definitely watch it if you get the chance. It can get quite intense at times, but there's enough humour to lighten the mood. :)
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Also, for some "unknown" *cough* reason, every time I think of that scene in the film I hear "the gods stand friendly today that we may, lovers in peace, lead on our days to age" and then When I'm 64 starts playing in my head. :P
Speaking of films that have James Mason in them, have you seen Lolita? I... kind of want to watch it, but I haven't read the book, I just know that it contains HORRORS. D: And I'm scared.
Hm - well, I suppose it all hinges on when I can get the chance, then. :P Dangit, BBC, it's not like I wouldn't live in Britain if I had the chance, why don't you let me watch your online thingies...
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Yeah, I've seen Lolita. It's an excellent film, but oh God, he is toe-curlingly creepy in it. Be prepared to go, "AAAAARGH BRUTUS WHYYYYY?" a lot. I know I did. DDDD: (I've not read the book either, but from what I've heard, Humbert Humbert is even creepier in it than he is in the film. DX)
Argh, can you not get iPlayer outside Britain? That's a bit crap. :/ It's not up any more anyway, but it'll probably be available to download somewhere soon, if it's not already. I think hoc_voluerunt had a link for the first episode at least. You should ask her.
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CANNOT CONTAIN THE SQUEALY JOY!
I love that "This guy, a junkie?" moment. In A Study in Scarlet, Watson makes some comment along the lines of 'he was so energetic sometimes I would've suspected narcotics, except he's not the kind to do that', and then in The Sign of the Four it's revealed that he's a total addict. Which I found super hilarious, because it makes Watson seem so naïve.
I find it inexplicably weird that they call each other by their first names, simply because I'm so acclimatised to "Holmes and Watson" that "Sherlock and John" just sounds way too personal and informal. Not that I mind ( ... )
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Yeah, the first name thing was weird at first, but I think, in this version, it fits more somehow.
Oh God, I loved him floating about in his jammies and dressing gown! XD And when he randomly walks over the coffee table! I liked how he went to the window, watching John - leave, looking all sulky. :D
YES! JOHN'S JUMPERS. HE'S SO CUDDLY, BUT THEN, MARTIN FREEMAN ALWAYS IS.
Yay for a second series! I hope they keep it at ninety minutes; it's just the right length of time to have a good complex mystery and characterisation. I think a series of about six or so would be just right. It's better than three, but it would avoid sacrificing quality for quantity. I don't fancy having to wait a year for the next series, though. :(
>_< That's a hell of a lot to study! Is it a test? Hope you do well!
Heheh. I love fandom collisions. One of the geekiest sources of fun for me and my flatmate. Elizabeth was our best fandom collision, like, ever. Seriously. Everyone's in that ( ... )
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Yeah. Trial HSC exam. So. Much. To learn. It did not go particularly well, nor particularly horrible. A mixture of the two, really. Didn't bring in any sources because my brain cannot hold all that information. Mostly bullshitted my way through Pompeii and Sparta (oh man, I failed the six-marker in Sparta - what the fuck is the Hyakinthia, I thought we weren't going to get asked anything this specific, whyy), but Caesar and the fall of the Republic went... surprisingly well, when you ignore part a) of Caesar (because I know nothing about Caesar's early career/alliances, whyy).
But it went a bit better than expected, and pretty much the whole class was freaking out as much as me. So if we're all screwed, it's not so bad ( ... )
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There's always too much to remember in an exam; you never remember it all. But better than expected is always good, and if most of the class found it horrendous, it definitely means it wasn't just you. They do that sometimes. I've had that a few times, the worst being my Higher Biology paper, which was just plain evil. I think everyone came out of it shaking and crying! In our case, it usually meant that the marking scheme was adjusted to match the paper's difficulty level, but I don't know how it works over there.
*whimpers* B-but... but... Brutus is lovely! (Totally biased by Shakespeare over here, too!) Something similar happened in English when we did JC. Our teacher asked if we thought Brutus was heroic, and so many people said no, it made me sadface. I'm so ridiculously protective of him... (I'm rewatching Rome with my sister, and oh God, even in that he's so tormented and puppy-like and his ( ... )
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