Fic: Red Sky in the Morning

[thisbluespirit]

I had a blood test yesterday, so I had to go out and therefore am too tired to anything, but also I thought it was safe to watch the last bit of Forsyte Saga segments that I was watching, but apparently the 1960s Forsyte Saga is never a safe thing to watch, because somehow I have committed fic with my sole bit of remaining brain anyway. (I am failing steadily while i post this, but the fic was ok i think, how does that work?)

In revenge I made it fit possibly more ongoing Bingo and prompt table squares than any other fic I've written.

(I am at least mildly amused that my reaction, creatively, is exactly the same as when I watched it the first time: I wrote the only Fleur/Michael fic in the world and then made Fleur/Jon graphics, and the only difference this time is that I hadn't watched enough of it to do Fleur/Michael so I did Anne/Jon instead. The visuals are pretty with Fleur/Jon, but it's not a ship that ought to sail anywhere, certainly not the second time around.)

Red Sky in the Morning (1316 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Forsyte Saga - All Media Types, The Forsyte Saga (TV 1967)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anne Wilmot Forsyte/Jon Forsyte, Fleur Forsyte/Jon Forsyte, Fleur Forsyte/Michael Mont
Characters: Anne Wilmot Forsyte, Jon Forsyte, Michael Mont
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Angst, Pining, Emotional Hurt, Community: hc_bingo, Whumptober, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Complicated Relationships, Episode: An Afternoon At Ascot, fears of infidelity
Summary: Maybe there’s a terrible storm on its way to tear them all apart, maybe it’ll all blow over before it comes to that. It’s the worst kind of waiting.

Comments

[sovay]

I hadn't realised he did quite so much 50s TV; by the 60s he was steering well clear of it for the most part and only pops up in the odd film serial.

I used the correct filters of the BBC Genome (previously I would look at IMDb and complain!) and especially in 1953–54 it does look difficult to throw a rock at your TV set and not hit Peter Cushing, although I'd give a lot for 1955–56 when he was in The Browning Version and Home at Seven and a play by Peter Ustinov.

It's a film with some frustrations (like the treatment of her sister, played by Jean Kent)

Dammit; I like Jean Kent.

but she's so down to earth and great as Joanna, and it has amazing shots of Sussex farming and scenery. It's also the film where she met John McCallum - and why they called their daughter Joanna!

Aw. Nice.

Btw, Danger UXB turned up super speedily yesterday, much to my surprise because I was expecting something else. I've watched the first ep and enjoyed it a lot so far

I'm so glad!

but it is by John Hawkesworth, who did Upstairs Downstairs and Duchess of Duke Street (and even a surviving ep of The Hidden Truth) - UD and DoDS, probably not very coincidentally are the two things I've previously seen Anthony Andrews in!

That does make sense! I have actually seen Anthony Andrews in remarkably little else, not even the legendary 1981 Brideshead Revisited, but Danger UXB apparently made me fond of him for life.

[thisbluespirit]

lthough I'd give a lot for 1955–56 when he was in The Browning Version and Home at Seven and a play by Peter Ustinov.

Ooh, The Browning Version, yes! XD

And that does look like a lot of Peter Cushing, indeed.

but Danger UXB apparently made me fond of him for life.

I've seen two episodes so far and I can totally understand that already. I think he was only a guest in DoDS, but... a WWI soldier, I think? And I think he married the replacement daughter character in UD.