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Thanks everyone for all the questions! Here's the first round of answers:
1. Regina Mills (OUaT)
2. Jenkins (The Librarians)
3. Rumplestiltskin (OUaT)
4. Silver (S&S)
5. Twelfth Doctor (DW)
6. John Seward (1968 Dracula)
7. Death (Discworld)
8. Holly (Red Dwarf)
9. Uljabaan (WtOVPIC)
10. Padme Amidala (SW)
11. Charley Pollard (DW)
12. Jenna Stannis (B7)
13. Lynda Day (PG)
14. Michael (Good Place)
15. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (Cabin Pressure)
ermingarden: Regina and Death team up to catch a greased pig. What result?
LOL. What did that pig do? 0_o Anyway, Regina, being a queen and bit more refined than that, lets Death get on with dealing with the pig. Presumably the Death of Rats is on holiday? If Regina can't get out of helping and can't use her magic, there's a lot of undignified falling over and threats to murder the pig, and if anyone ever mentions this again, they're going to pay for it.
theseatheseatheopensea: Rumple and Uljabaan are flatmates. Who does the washing up?
I'm trying not to say "Belle and the Minions," but you know it would be. That is a devious, manipulative, unscrupulous pair of flatmates! It's lucky Rumple has magic and/or might possibly be reformed, depending.
If it has to be done by hand, then actually, Rumple would probably just take his turn. He can do household tasks okay, even if he prefers to do it by magic or sort-of-abducted princess. What he would not be fine with is a flatmate who never does any of it himself. And trying to get Uljabaan to understand the concept of doing his fair share of the chores is a lost cause, really. He might wipe up one time and think it a great achievement or something, but it would take a loooong time for more improvement than that.
Uljabaan better hope this is a depowered or reformed Rumple, or something very nasty, and probably darkly amusing will happen to one (1) invading alien overlord.
el_staplador: It's sports day! Who wins the sack race, who drops their egg in the egg and spoon race, who gets sunburned, who's the ridiculously overcompetitive parent, who gets tripped up by whom in the running race, and who's serving watery orange squash?
Lynda is canonically barred from the egg and spoon race (after that time she stuffed the egg down someone's mouth for beating her in it when she was four), so she can just report on the outcome in the Junior Gazette. It should at least be a good story.
Uljabaan trips up Jenna in the running race. (He's a cheat. He is very soon a cheat running away from the track and the annoyed space smuggler.)
Holly is occupying a food dispensing machine and dispensing watery orange squash on the sidelines. It's really rubbish orange squash and nobody, least of Holly, is sure about what they're doing there.
Jenkins wins the sack race (he is an immortal knight).
Regina drops her egg in the egg and spoon race, and blames the egg.
I'm not sure who would be the overcompetitive parent. The Doctor, maybe, in a fit of inordinate pride about some of his companions' abilities?
persiflage_1: Holly and Carolyn Knapp-Shappey are trapped in a lift. How does that go?
Holly is trapped in the lift's circuits and operating it, which explains how Carolyn also gets trapped in it, because as Holly says, it's just not the same as a deep space mining vessel. Bound to take her a while to get the hang of things!
There are a lot of threats issued while Holly investigates the problem, until finally Holly works out that she may just have panicked a bit because someone stuck chewing gum between the doors.
It's very, very lucky, that Carolyn is not in any way armed, and that Holly is just a face on a screen in a blonde wig.
[->Somehow I feel this is definitely Hilly Holly in this scenario.]
Silver and Jenna are fake married for A Plot. Do they both make it out alive? Do they actually fall in love?
I don't think actually falling in love is on the cards for an element, but Jenna is a competent space pilot with a mental link to a special space ship. I think they will navigate the Plot and make it out alive and whoever instigated the Plot will be Sorry.
Would I like Death if I met them IRL?
Well... I mean, Discworld Death is hard to dislike, but at the same time, you really, really would not want to meet Death in real life! I don't want you to meet Death!!
So, no, and yes, and no no no no no...
What's Uljabaan's favourite food?
Cake!! I mean, probably? It is, isn't it?
kalium: Charley receives a message stating they're about to inherit a large sum of money, on the condition that they get married in seven days. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey is the only person they can get hold of in that timespan. How does it go?
Well, it could be worse! I mean, Carolyn is permanently in need of cash, so she might just possibly be up for the marriage of convenience on a purely business level, but whether or not they could make it up the aisle before Carolyn decides the money isn't worth it, I don't know. (No offence, Charley. That's just Carolyn.)
romanajo123: Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?
There are a lot of people who'd be very useful indeed. I would not, though, want Death hanging out with me in those circumstances. Or Uljabaan, who'd probably agree with that joke about you just have to outrun your friend, not thelion zombie. Rumple would depend, but Regina, Jenkins and the Doctor would all be excellent people to have around.
I think I'll go for Regina this time. She tends to use fire magic, so she can dispose of the zombies with a minimum of rotting carcases left lying around afterwards.
Rumple, John Seward & Padme are on a road trip. Who sits in the back?
Dr Seward! Can't have him fainting up there in the front. Does Rumple actually drive with his leg when there's no magic? I think he doesn't? But never mind, I'm sure Padme will cope with earth combustion engines! She can fly a spaceship just fine. /hand waves (I mean, at least Dr Seward has a reason to faint, so there's that. Anyway, congrats on choosing three characters who all probably can't drive! What could possibly go wrong?)
Regina & Carolyn Knapp-Shappey must team up to defeat Holly, the new big bad. Will they succeed?
Yes. Holly is notoriously incompetent and would probably forget to enact parts of their plan anyway, although, of course, that in itself can make an actually quite intelligent if rusty computer hard to defeat. But it's hard to imagine that their heart was in it. Their programming was probably hacked. Regina and Carolyn could potentially be a formidable team, but there's going to be a massive sarcasm-off and explosive rows going on. They will probably enjoy the experience, but never ever admit it.
corvidology: Lynda, Twelve and Michael are locked up in a dungeon together. They have to decide amongst themselves who dies, who has to marry Jenkins and who gets to escape.
Look, Jenkins never asked for this! Why are you giving his hand away in marriage like that?
The Doctor gets to escape. That's what the Doctor does. Lynda isn't marrying anyone who's not Spike, thank you. Or, indeed, anyone she didn't ask to marry and who doesn't actually want to marry her. Michael will marry Jenkins, because it's a human thing he hasn't tried, and if someone's got to in order to get out of the dungeon, then why not? I'm sure Jenkins will be happy to promise to lay off any gross stuff and won't be too fazed at the former demon bit. He will, though, be officially, Deeply Unimpressed with whatever magic made this happen to him, and hoping that a bunch of Librarians will turn up to object with all force possible before he makes it down the aisle. But he and Michael meet occasionally for coffee afterwards.
hamsterwoman: Jenkins, Rumple, Twelve, Death, and Charley are taking a class from Lynda. What are they learning, how is Lynda as a teacher, and how does the group presentation they have to put together for the class go?
Well, just as I was about to say, that's a tough crowd, featuring several people who a) usually do the lecturing themselves, b) are immortal/super clever and/or c) are death incarnate, but then again, Lynda doesn't know the meaning of the word failure. She will damn well give the lecture! It will be a great lecture, on how to run a newspaper.
Charley find it very entertaining. Death is a surprisingly apt pupil and takes notes... somehow. They just seem to ... appear on something that maybe isn't paper in front of him? Everybody else finds this weirdly disturbing in ways they can't put into words. The Doctor stays because Lynda reminds him of someone, and also he thought the pink rabbit at the funeral anecdote was great. Jenkins has had to do worse things, and no doubt needs info from Lynda's lecture for Plot Reasons. Rumple just poofs out of there in under a minute, because the Dark One does not attend lectures.
The end presentation features a lot of arguing, though, and does not go well, even after Death takes over, because while he's clear and, again, a surprisingly apt pupil, the auditorium is empty before he's got past two full sentences. All the rest of his team are convinced they could have done it better themselves if everyone else had been more willing to co-operate.
astrogirl: Silver, Holly, and Charley have to spend the night in a haunted house. Do they survive? Do the ghosts survive? Are they traumatized? Unimpressed? Newly possessed of Wisdom from Beyond the Veil? And what does Uljabaan have to gain from putting them up to it?
Well, obviously, this is another of Uljabaan's experiments to see what humans do under various circumstances, but not one of the better ones (are there better ones?), since at least two of them aren't human. They survive just fine. It's pretty much the day job for Silver, Tuesday for Charley, and Holly will recover all right from any creepiness. If it gets a bit much, they can always just wipe their data and forget it all. Except for these weird creepy messages that sometimes appear on their screen sometimes, which they refuse to believe is a thing because they never notice it.
Michael gets a Twitter account (whether Twitter actually exists in their universe or not). What do they post on it?
But of course Michael gets a twitter! It's such a human-y thing! So much timewasting of time you don't have to waste and mundane annoyances and yet genuine connections between strangers! It takes him a while to get the hang of it, but once he does he gets a niche little following because here's some guy posting about how he got to open a door for someone the other day and do the whole "after you, NO, after YOU!" dance and he seems, like, genuinely excited about it?
In between tweeting about having to queue and how amazing it was, he posts deep philosophy quotes and random retweets and jokes that nobody else understands.
(I laughed a lot at this one, because
astrogirl randomly selected a prompt that sounds exactly like a fic that
astrogirl might have written, and that I now very much wish existed. XD)
Regina gets amnesia and completely forgets who they are and where they belong. They stumble across Lynda Day. How does that go? Does Lynda help them get their memories back? Who does Regina decide they are now?
What, again? Presumably it's another curse, so I'm not sure Lynda is the best help, but she will at least go to every possible limit to get a story, and Regina's seen off this kind of thing at least three times before, so I think they'll get there. Regina will remember! Lynda probably won't get an actually printable story, but she knows how to deal with that sort of crisis by now.
Why and how it happened, nobody knows for certain, but Lynda is probably right in assuming it must have been something to do with Colin.
1. Regina Mills (OUaT)
2. Jenkins (The Librarians)
3. Rumplestiltskin (OUaT)
4. Silver (S&S)
5. Twelfth Doctor (DW)
6. John Seward (1968 Dracula)
7. Death (Discworld)
8. Holly (Red Dwarf)
9. Uljabaan (WtOVPIC)
10. Padme Amidala (SW)
11. Charley Pollard (DW)
12. Jenna Stannis (B7)
13. Lynda Day (PG)
14. Michael (Good Place)
15. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (Cabin Pressure)
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LOL. What did that pig do? 0_o Anyway, Regina, being a queen and bit more refined than that, lets Death get on with dealing with the pig. Presumably the Death of Rats is on holiday? If Regina can't get out of helping and can't use her magic, there's a lot of undignified falling over and threats to murder the pig, and if anyone ever mentions this again, they're going to pay for it.
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I'm trying not to say "Belle and the Minions," but you know it would be. That is a devious, manipulative, unscrupulous pair of flatmates! It's lucky Rumple has magic and/or might possibly be reformed, depending.
If it has to be done by hand, then actually, Rumple would probably just take his turn. He can do household tasks okay, even if he prefers to do it by magic or sort-of-abducted princess. What he would not be fine with is a flatmate who never does any of it himself. And trying to get Uljabaan to understand the concept of doing his fair share of the chores is a lost cause, really. He might wipe up one time and think it a great achievement or something, but it would take a loooong time for more improvement than that.
Uljabaan better hope this is a depowered or reformed Rumple, or something very nasty, and probably darkly amusing will happen to one (1) invading alien overlord.
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Lynda is canonically barred from the egg and spoon race (after that time she stuffed the egg down someone's mouth for beating her in it when she was four), so she can just report on the outcome in the Junior Gazette. It should at least be a good story.
Uljabaan trips up Jenna in the running race. (He's a cheat. He is very soon a cheat running away from the track and the annoyed space smuggler.)
Holly is occupying a food dispensing machine and dispensing watery orange squash on the sidelines. It's really rubbish orange squash and nobody, least of Holly, is sure about what they're doing there.
Jenkins wins the sack race (he is an immortal knight).
Regina drops her egg in the egg and spoon race, and blames the egg.
I'm not sure who would be the overcompetitive parent. The Doctor, maybe, in a fit of inordinate pride about some of his companions' abilities?
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Holly is trapped in the lift's circuits and operating it, which explains how Carolyn also gets trapped in it, because as Holly says, it's just not the same as a deep space mining vessel. Bound to take her a while to get the hang of things!
There are a lot of threats issued while Holly investigates the problem, until finally Holly works out that she may just have panicked a bit because someone stuck chewing gum between the doors.
It's very, very lucky, that Carolyn is not in any way armed, and that Holly is just a face on a screen in a blonde wig.
[->Somehow I feel this is definitely Hilly Holly in this scenario.]
Silver and Jenna are fake married for A Plot. Do they both make it out alive? Do they actually fall in love?
I don't think actually falling in love is on the cards for an element, but Jenna is a competent space pilot with a mental link to a special space ship. I think they will navigate the Plot and make it out alive and whoever instigated the Plot will be Sorry.
Would I like Death if I met them IRL?
Well... I mean, Discworld Death is hard to dislike, but at the same time, you really, really would not want to meet Death in real life! I don't want you to meet Death!!
So, no, and yes, and no no no no no...
What's Uljabaan's favourite food?
Cake!! I mean, probably? It is, isn't it?
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Well, it could be worse! I mean, Carolyn is permanently in need of cash, so she might just possibly be up for the marriage of convenience on a purely business level, but whether or not they could make it up the aisle before Carolyn decides the money isn't worth it, I don't know. (No offence, Charley. That's just Carolyn.)
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There are a lot of people who'd be very useful indeed. I would not, though, want Death hanging out with me in those circumstances. Or Uljabaan, who'd probably agree with that joke about you just have to outrun your friend, not the
I think I'll go for Regina this time. She tends to use fire magic, so she can dispose of the zombies with a minimum of rotting carcases left lying around afterwards.
Rumple, John Seward & Padme are on a road trip. Who sits in the back?
Dr Seward! Can't have him fainting up there in the front. Does Rumple actually drive with his leg when there's no magic? I think he doesn't? But never mind, I'm sure Padme will cope with earth combustion engines! She can fly a spaceship just fine. /hand waves (I mean, at least Dr Seward has a reason to faint, so there's that. Anyway, congrats on choosing three characters who all probably can't drive! What could possibly go wrong?)
Regina & Carolyn Knapp-Shappey must team up to defeat Holly, the new big bad. Will they succeed?
Yes. Holly is notoriously incompetent and would probably forget to enact parts of their plan anyway, although, of course, that in itself can make an actually quite intelligent if rusty computer hard to defeat. But it's hard to imagine that their heart was in it. Their programming was probably hacked. Regina and Carolyn could potentially be a formidable team, but there's going to be a massive sarcasm-off and explosive rows going on. They will probably enjoy the experience, but never ever admit it.
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Look, Jenkins never asked for this! Why are you giving his hand away in marriage like that?
The Doctor gets to escape. That's what the Doctor does. Lynda isn't marrying anyone who's not Spike, thank you. Or, indeed, anyone she didn't ask to marry and who doesn't actually want to marry her. Michael will marry Jenkins, because it's a human thing he hasn't tried, and if someone's got to in order to get out of the dungeon, then why not? I'm sure Jenkins will be happy to promise to lay off any gross stuff and won't be too fazed at the former demon bit. He will, though, be officially, Deeply Unimpressed with whatever magic made this happen to him, and hoping that a bunch of Librarians will turn up to object with all force possible before he makes it down the aisle. But he and Michael meet occasionally for coffee afterwards.
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Well, just as I was about to say, that's a tough crowd, featuring several people who a) usually do the lecturing themselves, b) are immortal/super clever and/or c) are death incarnate, but then again, Lynda doesn't know the meaning of the word failure. She will damn well give the lecture! It will be a great lecture, on how to run a newspaper.
Charley find it very entertaining. Death is a surprisingly apt pupil and takes notes... somehow. They just seem to ... appear on something that maybe isn't paper in front of him? Everybody else finds this weirdly disturbing in ways they can't put into words. The Doctor stays because Lynda reminds him of someone, and also he thought the pink rabbit at the funeral anecdote was great. Jenkins has had to do worse things, and no doubt needs info from Lynda's lecture for Plot Reasons. Rumple just poofs out of there in under a minute, because the Dark One does not attend lectures.
The end presentation features a lot of arguing, though, and does not go well, even after Death takes over, because while he's clear and, again, a surprisingly apt pupil, the auditorium is empty before he's got past two full sentences. All the rest of his team are convinced they could have done it better themselves if everyone else had been more willing to co-operate.
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Well, obviously, this is another of Uljabaan's experiments to see what humans do under various circumstances, but not one of the better ones (are there better ones?), since at least two of them aren't human. They survive just fine. It's pretty much the day job for Silver, Tuesday for Charley, and Holly will recover all right from any creepiness. If it gets a bit much, they can always just wipe their data and forget it all. Except for these weird creepy messages that sometimes appear on their screen sometimes, which they refuse to believe is a thing because they never notice it.
Michael gets a Twitter account (whether Twitter actually exists in their universe or not). What do they post on it?
But of course Michael gets a twitter! It's such a human-y thing! So much timewasting of time you don't have to waste and mundane annoyances and yet genuine connections between strangers! It takes him a while to get the hang of it, but once he does he gets a niche little following because here's some guy posting about how he got to open a door for someone the other day and do the whole "after you, NO, after YOU!" dance and he seems, like, genuinely excited about it?
In between tweeting about having to queue and how amazing it was, he posts deep philosophy quotes and random retweets and jokes that nobody else understands.
(I laughed a lot at this one, because
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Regina gets amnesia and completely forgets who they are and where they belong. They stumble across Lynda Day. How does that go? Does Lynda help them get their memories back? Who does Regina decide they are now?
What, again? Presumably it's another curse, so I'm not sure Lynda is the best help, but she will at least go to every possible limit to get a story, and Regina's seen off this kind of thing at least three times before, so I think they'll get there. Regina will remember! Lynda probably won't get an actually printable story, but she knows how to deal with that sort of crisis by now.
Why and how it happened, nobody knows for certain, but Lynda is probably right in assuming it must have been something to do with Colin.
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Date: 29 Mar 2022 07:55 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I would want to run into Death unexpectedly under any circumstances in rl, no matter how much I like him the books, lol.
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Date: 29 Mar 2022 07:57 pm (UTC)And honestly, I love upending questions! 😜
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Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:21 pm (UTC)Holly is the drink dispenser! Because of course she is~
I need to finish Welcome to Our Village.. but yeah, putting Rumple with the weird alien; I think it's best if Belle does the laundry
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 04:59 pm (UTC)BUt I am very much here for WtOVPIC crossovers, as you know.
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Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:43 pm (UTC)Woah. Given Silver was my favorite part of S&S and Jenna is my favorite part of B7 I'm half tempted to write that x-over. I can practically hear Jenna grumbling about Silver not knowing something, and him giving his protest that he's just a technician not a field element.
It's pretty much the day job for Silver, Tuesday for Charley, and Holly will recover all right from any creepiness.
I would be far more worried for the ghosts safety than theirs.
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 09:28 am (UTC)I would be far more worried for the ghosts safety than theirs.
Absolutely! I love when people kind of defeat their own question by the characters they have accidentally selected.
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 09:25 pm (UTC)If I give in, should I post a link here, or just be sure I mention you when I post it in my journal?
I was amused because I did once write Steel/Jenna for a random prompt thing, so I'd kind of been there, done that for real, but with a different element.
I was surprised when I finished S&S to discover that while I'd watched it for David McCallum it was actually Silver I liked best. You may remember I mentioned having been happy to see Silver in "Blake" when I watched it the first time. Actually, remembering that, a B7/S&S x-over might be a way to approach a fix-it fic for everything that bugs me in B7 too. Could be post series finale for both shows. Might help explain Silver needing to work with Jenna that closely. It's definitely very actively rolling around in my brain as you can see.
Absolutely! I love when people kind of defeat their own question by the characters they have accidentally selected.
I'd wonder more about how the ghosts fared if the B7/S&S bunny wasn't taking up so much of my brain. ;-)
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Date: 31 Mar 2022 12:01 pm (UTC)Oh, probably as well to link me if you really do! Although, I'm sure I'd spot it - I do usually read my flist and I have an S&S AO3 feed as well. But, yes, just in case I'm really ill and not keeping up. XD
(I mean, you can tell by now that I have no problem with people like Silver best. <3)
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Date: 31 Mar 2022 08:47 pm (UTC)I will then. Not beyond a working title and a scene yet, but having both it's past just a bunny stage. The working title is "Wheels Within Wheels."
Although, I'm sure I'd spot it - I do usually read my flist and I have an S&S AO3 feed as well. But, yes, just in case I'm really ill and not keeping up. XD
Heh, I appreciate the reminder to post it on AO3 as well as my DW when it's grown. ;-)
I mean, you can tell by now that I have no problem with people like Silver best. <3
Yep. It'll be a bit because I'll want to rewatch one or two episodes with Silver in them to be sure I have his voice right. I didn't fall hard for S&S like I did B7 so I've only watched it once, and a while ago. I'll take a break from my B7 re-watch for it.
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Date: 29 Mar 2022 09:33 pm (UTC)I think I'm amused by how all of the questions I asked turned out, too. I don't know that I want to write the Michael Twitter fic, but I definitely want to read it! That sounds utterly adorable.
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 09:34 am (UTC)I think I'm amused by how all of the questions I asked turned out, too. I don't know that I want to write the Michael Twitter fic, but I definitely want to read it! That sounds utterly adorable.
You cursed Regina again!! And that Michael one was so accidentally delightful, it was amazing. We probably just need to both hijack someone who knows twitter and persuade them it must be done. (Hmm. Maybe it has been done...?)
Also, if I returned the favour, what do you think Servalan's twitter would look like? lol.
I honestly think my list turned out well this time, but I suspect that that is only because I know everybody on my list and on yours the questions skewed heavily to the ones I didn't know this time. (Shocking! Should not be allowed! ;-p)
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 04:35 pm (UTC)Also, if I returned the favour, what do you think Servalan's twitter would look like? lol.
Full of manipulative propaganda, probably. :)
I honestly think my list turned out well this time, but I suspect that that is only because I know everybody on my list and on yours the questions skewed heavily to the ones I didn't know this time. (Shocking! Should not be allowed! ;-p)
LOL. I will say, probably yours appealed to me particularly because I did know most of the characters, and even some of the ones I didn't know still managed to be amusing. Like, whoever this alien invader who won't do his own laundry is, I am entertained by him already.
I will admit that I tend to make my lists very much for my own amusement. I am no doubt the only person on my flist who appreciates some of the results, but that still means I get to chuckle happily to myself about, say, Toriel getting information out of Dean Winchester by offering him pie. And I will take such pleasures where I can get them. :)
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Date: 1 Apr 2022 08:45 pm (UTC)Some fashion as well, though! Probably with the implied hint that they should send her a copy of it pronto or else...
Like, whoever this alien invader who won't do his own laundry is, I am entertained by him already.
Aww. He is definitely an entertaining alien invader! WtOVPIC is so your sort of thing & there's barely any of it, so I would be a right nuisance to you about it, BUT it's another BBC Radio sitcom, and I know audio is not your thing usually. (Although that does at least mean if you ever did want to make an exception for one tiny village getting invaded by aliens, it's very available; just google "welcome to our village please invade carefully" & internet archive and it's there at least four times.)
I will admit that I tend to make my lists very much for my own amusement.
Well, that is the main point of the meme!! I always put at least one James Maxwell on my lists and I don't think anyone but me appreciates that particularly (and it gets very weird when I have him as Henry VII. I remembered in time that I regret that frequently as a life choice.)
I liked this time how you managed to get us to do a lot of shipping your current OTP, though. Very impressive! XD
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Date: 1 Apr 2022 10:41 pm (UTC)Ooh, yes, definitely!
I know audio is not your thing usually
Whether or not audio is my thing can be highly variable, really. It may actually work better for me in comedy than in drama. I think my biggest issue with dramatic radio plays is that when characters start describing everything they're seeing and doing, it tramples all over my suspension of disbelief and I just can't take it seriously, but, man, I could listen to fun snappy dialog all day. Which is why I did really, really enjoy cabin Cabin Pressure. Given that you didn't steer me wrong on that one, maybe I will give this one a shot sometime. Assuming it's available to download, rather than being something I have to stream.
I liked this time how you managed to get us to do a lot of shipping your current OTP, though. Very impressive! XD
All right, that I will admit I deliberately picked numbers I expected to come up more for. Not for the first time or the first OTP, either. The results where better than I could have anticipated though. (I mean, aww, one of them got cast as the person sabotaging the other's date with someone else! And probably not in a creepy way. :))
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 09:36 am (UTC)LOL, you are very sneaky indeed! I see next time, I shall have to pick numbers very carefully. Although, by the time next time comes around, I'll never remember... XD *impressed*
maybe I will give this one a shot sometime. Assuming it's available to download, rather than being something I have to stream.
Yeah, I mean, audio is a bit complicated for me, but I'm not so bothered by that particular aspect, as long as it's not really egregious and clunky (or at least, if it is, I better be getting something worthwhile in return!). I'm going to say that with the BBC, whether drama or comedy, they are much, much less likely to have that as a problem. They've been doing audio for 100 years and they're good at it, and by and large, they know how to get around that. (A lot of BBC full cast stuff incorporates a narrator in some way, and it generally seems to work really well.)
The thing that I find the biggest problem so far (apart from things that are just bad generally!) is the laughter from the studio audience! OBv I have now listened to at least 4 radio sitcoms, so I managed to get through it, but every time I haven't listened to one in a while I get blindsided by ita ll over again! (And it's very unfair of me: I know they have real studio audiences and everything! XD)
That said, WtOVPIC is actually by a BF author, although one who was definite the one who should have been picked out by the BBC to also do a quirky SF radio sitcom (I ran to find it when Pers said it was Eddie Robson). So, I can't say that it's 100% free of that, only that I found genuinely funny and sweet quirky satire. Basically, aliens invade one tiny village as a spearhead to an ensuing invasion that is delayed due to budget cuts, leaving Uljabaan, his force field, minions and super-computer in charge of a village that has been totally cut off from the world, vs. Katrina Lyons, the sole member of the resistance, aided by Lucy, the only teenager in the village, and sort of helped and hindered by the rest of the village who mostly just want to live in peace under their new overlords.
So, all that said (which reminds me, I do need to make a post about my radio adventures before I forget everything), if you want to try it, you can download (legally) off-air recordings at the Internet Archive, eg. here: https://archive.org/details/WelcomeToOurVillagePleaseInvadeCarefullyS00E01
(I find the Pilot a little uneven, but after that it goes off at a fairly even and v entertaining level for the remainder of the series. Uljabaan does change actor between S1 & 2, though! I like them both a lot in different ways, but the change is audible!! I would have coped better with a warning, so you get to have one, just in case.)
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 04:14 pm (UTC)Hee! I will say, I didn't expect those characters to come up together quite that often, so that was a nice bonus for me, anyway. It's nice when sneaky manipulations pay off! Just ask the mysteriously absent Servalan, right? :)
Yeah, I mean, audio is a bit complicated for me, but I'm not so bothered by that particular aspect, as long as it's not really egregious and clunky (or at least, if it is, I better be getting something worthwhile in return!). I'm going to say that with the BBC, whether drama or comedy, they are much, much less likely to have that as a problem.
I seem to be ridiculously sensitive to it. To the extent where it's a bit annoying, honestly. It seems to very seriously mar my ability to enjoy a lot of Big Finish stuff everyone else seems to love. Ah, well.
I will say that I was very pleased by how much Cabin Pressure did not annoy me on that point. The dialog was so wonderfully well-written that it always worked no matter what it was doing, and the few times where they kind of did use that gimmick, I think it was used for deliberate comic effect. The studio audience laughter did bother me on that one, though, although I at least managed to get used to it eventually.
if you want to try it, you can download (legally) off-air recordings at the Internet Archive
Thanks! I think I will give it a try at some point, although I make no promises about when.
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 05:12 pm (UTC)It must be very frustrating! I am also a tiny bit amused, because the irony is that Classic Who does that kind of thing itself more often than I care to admit as a fan... and it doesn't even have the more justifiable excuse of being on audio! (Well, okay, sometimes due to burnination, it is.) (I always wonder: were they that unsure of what the set/SFX people would do? Or what the audience at home could see? Heh.)
Cabin Pressure is genuinely a gem, though. I very much hope it isn't the only exception for you with this kind of thing, but it would be a be perfectly reasonable and good exception if it was. ♥
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 05:19 pm (UTC)Anyway, it's not like I've never enjoyed an audio drama, otherwise. I'm a big fan of Welcome to Night Vale, although they take the useful approach of turning that particular problem into a feature, with a perfectly good in-universe reason for a character to be describing things to the audience directly. But I also listened to the Good Omens radio adaptation a while ago and liked that a lot, too. And I have enjoyed at least some of the Big Finish stuff I've listened to well enough.
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 05:43 pm (UTC)Look at the size of that thing, Doctor! Yep. XD
Aw, if our brains all functioned logically, we'd probably be Cybermen anyway. And it may not be entirely your brain's fault! Big Finish not only (being a new amateur outfit back in the day) took a while to get into the swing of things, but it records its dramas differently to the BBC. At the BBC, they all rehearse and then record in the same room together (mostly), and for sitcoms, they do it in front of a live audience - whereas Big Finish may or may not have everyone present on the same day and puts everyone in separate booths with minimal rehearsal. (I discovered this via the S&S range, because David Collings said in an interview, & having done masses of BBC radio over his career, he found it rather odd. But it explained a lot, because Susannah Harker (as Sapphire) wasn't there on the first one he did, and I'd really noticed in it that her reaction to him was just not right - as if she wasn't properly reacting to him. But they recorded her lines first, and of course, David Collings as Silver is, well, Silver! So, it actually showed, whereas it doesn't usually get to that level.) But it may even be that there's stuff you're unconsciously registering in the difference between the two - not to downplay the primary annoyance, of course!
I haven't listened to the BBC Good Omens, but I've really enjoyed a lot of their book adaptations. I should probably see if can obtain that one as well, maybe in the summer, when I do my main audio-listening!
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 06:35 pm (UTC)I very much recommend the Good Omens adaptation. And I think it and the TV show have very different strengths and complement each other nicely. (E.g. I think the TV show is way more interesting in what it does with Aziraphale and Crowley's characterization, but I think the radio play made me laugh more.)
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Date: 3 Apr 2022 10:00 am (UTC)(I just fought with them a bit, then gave up and plugged my earphones into my tablet and streamed the remainder of S1, but that's not ideal.)
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 01:30 pm (UTC)AHAHA what a character for random chance to pick XD
Studious Death disconcerting everyone with his magical notes is also a super charming mental image!
Michael will marry Jenkins, because it's a human thing he hasn't tried,
Sounds quite plausible, actually! Also, Michael on Twitter!!! This sounds exactly like the sort of thing he'd be yearning to try -- human, silly, and with a lot of potential to be annoying XD I could totally see him gaining a following on Twitter, too, for being an entertaining kind of odd. I'm actually kind of surprised now that Michel on Twitter isn't canon!
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Date: 1 Apr 2022 08:32 pm (UTC)I think that made me laugh the most of any of them when I realised who Pers had managed to land on. XD
Also, Michael on Twitter!!! This sounds exactly like the sort of thing he'd be yearning to try -- human, silly, and with a lot of potential to be annoying XD I could totally see him gaining a following on Twitter, too, for being an entertaining kind of odd. I'm actually kind of surprised now that Michel on Twitter isn't canon!
It's perfect! And there's certainly nothing in canon to say that he doens't have a twitter anyway, so we can all just headcanon it as true as much as we like.
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Date: 30 Mar 2022 02:59 pm (UTC)Would I like Death if I met them IRL? Ha ha ha ha.
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