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[thisbluespirit]

I fell out of posting and managing to keep up for a bit, for various reasons, but anyway, here are some things:

1. halfamoon is running again, with prompts every day - it's an annual two-week fannish celebration of female characters etc (1-14th Feb.)


2. fic_promptly has started up again, if people want regular commentfest type posts!


3. In Brit Cosy Crimes fandoms, what they give you with one hand, they take away with the other, which is to say that the BBC has brought Shakespeare & Hathaway back from the dead and Sebastian will get to wear more ridiculous costumes, but ITV countered by cancelling McDonald & Dodds, so there will alas be no more improbable crimes in Bath.


4. I don't want to keep linking to Sesskasays's reactions, but she made it unspoiled to Caves of Androzani, really appreciated it and was not ready for the ending, and it was probably the best first time reaction to that one I've seen. (Of course, this now means that she has to contend with The Twin Dilemma, but we all have to go through that sooner or later... ;-p)


5. In things I have been watching and listening to and should write about properly, because they were all good and interesting: - I listened to another J B Priestley Time Play adaptation, I Have Been Here Before.

In a charity shop (one of my reasons for not keeping up was my friend took me to town for the first time since November) I found one of those inexplicable 3 films in 1 DVDs that are usually random things you have never heard of, only this one was Tom Jones (1963), A Passage to India, and An Ideal Husband; and I'd wanted to see Tom Jones - I think I must have found it via Julian Glover being in it, but parts of it were filmed in my home town! But it was quite expensive online secondhand so I'm still impressed with this piece of serendipity. I enjoyed it and I recognised said home town quite clearly. XD (The street they used, Castle Street, is not only where I was born, but, if you have been around long enough to remember me talking about my family history, it was where one of my direct ancestors came to a tragic end in a cesspool. Yes, I am working class, lol.)

Also I have now finished The Jewel in the Crown! It was indeed very good and the last episode suddenly produced unexpected Peter Jeffrey, who wasn't even actually evil as such, for a wonder.

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[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Oh, serendipitous charity shop finds are the best - especially when it's obscure stuff that you can't find easily online xD And it's always neat when you recognise a filming location in a period drama! I think one of (?) the Miss Marple TV series was filmed in the village where I went to primary school (it's the sort of quaintly pretty little place that works very well for a certain type of crime drama).

[thisbluespirit]

I think one of (?) the Miss Marple TV series was filmed in the village where I went to primary school (it's the sort of quaintly pretty little place that works very well for a certain type of crime drama).

Oh, that's cool! Murders everywhere, then, heh. XD

[pedanther]

This reminds me that I still haven't got around to watching the murder mystery that was shot in and around my home town a couple of years back.

(Well, my home town and the next town over - there are reportedly several instances where characters walk down the street and step into a building and are miraculously transported into the interior of a different building 25 miles away...)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, which one was that? You should definitely find it and do the obligatory "I know that place!" and "Well, that isn't next to there!" etc. etc.

[pedanther]

It was a TV miniseries called Mystery Road: Origin. I've had the relevant page on the relevant streaming site bookmarked ever since it came out, but it's one of those things where I could do it at any time and so I never make up my mind to do it.