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thisbluespirit1. Big Finish have finally resolved the rights problem with the their Sapphire & Steel audios and are re-releasing them in download format. They're boxsets only, it looks like, which is a nuisance if you were wanting to fill some gaps or pick up a specific one, but they are available again!
They remain some of BF's best audios, whatever else they are, so that's really cool.
One other good thing is that they have helpful content warnings, which is thoughtful, especially as several of them are very dark indeed. (In a perfectly S&S sort of way, but definitely worthy of warnings for people who'd want them.)
2. I've already forgotten what my other things to say were just in the process of typing that up.
Probably only gifs. Have some more wee Jeremy Northam gifs, why not:
This one would work as a reaction gif:
(When your cover is blown because somebody saw one of the plays you were in pre-war. Awkward but flattering, lol.)
Some Julian Glover, because that is the key to success, naturally:
(Still being hung up on Matty. WML is kind to its canon ships in terms of not torpedoing them; less kind in not lining them up to be shot together, which happened to one of them.)
Anyway, these may not look like much, but you should see my source material.
(Somebody reblogged one of these last night! I cunningly put Julian Glover in it, and that did the trick. A Julian Glover person reblogged it and a Jeremy Northam person then saw it. tumblr is very hard work if you're creating posts for obscure things people aren't thinking of looking for but might like if they stumbled over; you don't have comms for that like we did on LJ.)
(I'm overtired, I'm babbling as per.)
They remain some of BF's best audios, whatever else they are, so that's really cool.
One other good thing is that they have helpful content warnings, which is thoughtful, especially as several of them are very dark indeed. (In a perfectly S&S sort of way, but definitely worthy of warnings for people who'd want them.)
2. I've already forgotten what my other things to say were just in the process of typing that up.
Probably only gifs. Have some more wee Jeremy Northam gifs, why not:
This one would work as a reaction gif:
(When your cover is blown because somebody saw one of the plays you were in pre-war. Awkward but flattering, lol.)
Some Julian Glover, because that is the key to success, naturally:
(Still being hung up on Matty. WML is kind to its canon ships in terms of not torpedoing them; less kind in not lining them up to be shot together, which happened to one of them.)
Anyway, these may not look like much, but you should see my source material.
(Somebody reblogged one of these last night! I cunningly put Julian Glover in it, and that did the trick. A Julian Glover person reblogged it and a Jeremy Northam person then saw it. tumblr is very hard work if you're creating posts for obscure things people aren't thinking of looking for but might like if they stumbled over; you don't have comms for that like we did on LJ.)
(I'm overtired, I'm babbling as per.)
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Date: 2024-03-28 09:23 pm (UTC)Thank you; that's great.
I am delighted that Julian Glover is suitable Tumblr bait.
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Date: 2024-03-28 09:42 pm (UTC)XD
I am delighted that Julian Glover is suitable Tumblr bait.
Julian Glover is big in Star Wars Imperial fandom, and the Imperials are dedicated souls, heh.
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Date: 2024-03-28 09:26 pm (UTC)I hope you get some rest! (Not that babbling is ever wrong, but you know what I mean!) <3
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Date: 2024-03-28 10:26 pm (UTC)Good to know I can finally ( * ahem* legitimately) listen to these audios.
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Date: 2024-03-29 03:15 pm (UTC)Good news about S&S. Still not listened to the audios I have:S
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Date: 2024-03-29 05:55 pm (UTC)Good news about S&S. Still not listened to the audios I have:S
Still got that to look forward to, then. ;-)
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Date: 2024-04-02 04:02 pm (UTC)You're welcome!
I've been making a few more of them, but I mainly post them at tumblr, if my Jeremy Northam tag might brighten your day.
Thanks so much! It definitely brightened my day!!
I wasn't so keen on that version of Emma when it came out (I'm kinder to it now!), but I still think he was the best Mr Knightley!
I understand. My mother, god rest her, watched every version of Emma she could in her life, which having been from 1945 to 2020 was a lot. I wasn't born until 1975 so I didn't get exposed to all of them, but that version was hardly the only version I watched with her. I watched versions of Emma with her and she watched versions of Jane Eyre with me. Jeremy Northam was my favorite part of that Emma, much as Michael Fassbender was my favorite part of the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre.
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Date: 2024-04-02 07:22 pm (UTC)Ha, yes, I saw the sudden rush of likes and reblogs!! XD
I watched versions of Emma with her and she watched versions of Jane Eyre with me.
Aww. And weirdly, there were very few Austen adaptations until BBC TV came into being and then most of them they immediately lost or never recorded. I was looking when I was having my 'watch all the Austens' thing that I'm still not done with, and strangely, there just aren't any at all except for the 1940 P&P. It took film until the 1990s to discover you could do Jane Austen! Which is so weird now. I think the first surviving Emma is the 1970 BBC one. (I have now watched all of the available Emmas, I think!)
I haven't seen the 2011 Jane Eyre yet - there are a few adaptations of it I mean to get to, but I did like the BBC 2006 one, with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens.
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Date: 2024-04-03 02:57 pm (UTC)I went down the rabbit hole and forgot to say thanks over here sooner.
Aww. And weirdly, there were very few Austen adaptations until BBC TV came into being and then most of them they immediately lost or never recorded.
I don't remember for certain, but looking at the list of adaptations on Wikipedia I think the first one my mother saw was "1954: Emma, live NBC TV broadcast, starring Felicia Montealegre as Emma." I imagine the American TV productions didn't fair any better than the BBC ones as far as "immediately lost or never recorded" goes.
I think the first surviving Emma is the 1970 BBC one.
Heh. The wiki, being a wiki, says "1972: Emma, a six-part BBC miniseries, starring Doran Godwin as Emma.[79] Earliest BBC adaptation known to survive in recorded form." ;-)
I have now watched all of the available Emmas, I think!
Good for you! I haven't remotely seen all the Jane Eyres, even if I have seen a silent one.
I haven't seen the 2011 Jane Eyre yet - there are a few adaptations of it I mean to get to...
The first Jane Eyre I saw, and naturally imprinted on, is the "1983: Jane Eyre, a BBC series starring Zelah Clarke (Jane), Timothy Dalton (Rochester), Sian Pattenden (Young Jane) and Colette Barker (Helen Burns),[48] directed by Julian Charles Becket Amyes[49]." It would be one of the reasons I think of Timothy Dalton's short time as James Bond fondly.
...but I did like the BBC 2006 one, with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens.
I have definitely seen and enjoyed that one! I have a couple of points in adaptations that affect how good I think an adaptation is. As far as I'm concerned, in a really good adaptation--Rochester absolutely has to need Jane's help getting back on his horse after his tumble, and he can't physically assault Bertha's brother Dicky. A reasonable number pass the first test, but a smaller number respect Rochester's restraint with Dicky. Both the 2011 movie and the 2006 BBC show pass the first test, but don't do so well on the second. The 1983 BBC show passes both tests. ;-)
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Date: 2024-04-03 07:17 pm (UTC)*nods* I was looking, and basically, as far as I can see for all Austen film/TV adaptations, there's P&P 1940, and then none till the BBC gets going in the 1950s, after which there are regularly scheduled TV adaptatins, survival random -as you say, including random US ones.
How does the 1970s BBC one with Michael Jayston and Sorcha Cusack fare on the test? I've had that one recced to me a few times, and I do like both those actors a lot. And I know there is, or was a sixties one that had William Russell as St John Rivers!
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Date: 2024-04-04 02:43 am (UTC)Cool! I don't know exactly how many my mom saw in her life, but I know she tried to fit as many in as she could. The last one she saw was the, "2009: Emma, a four-part BBC miniseries, starring Romola Garai as Emma." I saw the, "2020: Emma, adapted by Eleanor Catton and directed by Autumn de Wilde, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma," partly in memory of my mother, and partly because I enjoy Anya Taylor-Joy as an actress.
How does the 1970s BBC one with Michael Jayston and Sorcha Cusack fare on the test?
Heh, it passes both of those tests, but continues my quest to find an adaptation that actually uses a Newfoundland to play Pilot. Though I give it full marks for at least having a big dog play Pilot. My only serious issue with it is that I can't tell if it genuinely has a pacing problem, or if it just feels like it does from how much voice-over they have Jane do...
I've had that one recced to me a few times, and I do like both those actors a lot.
The actors do the material well. Plus, knowing how you like older telly, you aren't likely to waste time questioning the pacing the way I did. ;-)
And I know there is, or was a sixties one that had William Russell as St John Rivers!
Sadly, if Wikipedia is to be believed "was" is the operative word. It says, "Episodes 2 and 3 are missing, believed lost." :(
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Date: 2024-04-04 08:45 am (UTC)Oh, idk, it does vary! There's a Brontes biographical thing that really went over the top with a voiceover as well. But at least it passes your test; that's something. And I am used to the general porridge-esque speed of elderly TV, it's true.
Sadly, if Wikipedia is to be believed "was" is the operative word. It says, "Episodes 2 and 3 are missing, believed lost." :(
My vague memory was that some part of it survived but not much, so I see I was unfortunately right.
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Date: 2024-04-14 12:29 am (UTC)Oh! I'm not sure how big of a Michael Jayston fan you are, but it's one of the few adaptions I've seen that includes the scene were Rochester dresses as an old gypsy lady during a party. It might be worth watching for that alone if you're crazy about him. The film with Michael Fassbender doesn't include the scene, but the TV series with Timothy Dalton does so I know how much I enjoy seeing one of my favorite Rochesters in the old gypsy lady outfit.
My vague memory was that some part of it survived but not much, so I see I was unfortunately right.
I still appreciate you mentioning it. I'm always on the look out for versions of Jane Eyre. It's a story I never get tired of. I did my undergraduate senior thesis on it. 8-)
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Date: 2024-04-14 12:34 pm (UTC)Ha, good to know! He's a good actor, so I'm happy to see him if he comes my way, but he's not one of those I chase down.
I did my undergraduate senior thesis on it. 8-)
That's cool. (I did mine on Enid Blyton, lol!!)
Funnily enough, I've just been watching the 1995 Zefferelli film, which I thought I'd never seen, but after I started it, I was thinking, hmm, I watched a JE film c.1996... and it must have been this one! Some of it did come back to me, although most of what I remember from it is that one of my friends was refusing to watch it because people always died in classic lit things, and we persuaded her in, and she of course turned up for Helen Burns's death and refused to come back again. XD ("Nobody else dies!" we told her, not absolutely truthfully, actually, but she was having none of it.)
A game of two halves, that one, I think, but it was an enjoyable watch with some lovely locations & far more of the cast were familiar to me now than they had been then.