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thisbluespirit) wrote2025-03-21 06:17 pm
thisbluespirit) wrote2025-03-21 06:17 pm
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Quick Fannish things
Some nice things:
1. Trailer for the new Librarians series! It looks just as fun as before! I have NO idea how I will see it, but I've been missing having a fun magic TV series so much, and especially The Libs. (My usual method was to wait for the UK DVD release and then rewatch it all to death, cheering myself up muchly. ha bloody ha, as they say.)
2. I don't know what was in the water re. my fandoms for last Yuletide, but not only have I continued to have much fun withedwardianspinsteraunt and The Winslow Boy, but someone showed up this week on tumblr to first shower love on my for writing the only Jack/Angela The Net fic on the internet, but then wrote their own start of an AU, which promises to be fun, and turned up on AO3. (The Net is v hoky, but also deeply nineties, and Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam play a fun game of cat and mouse, plus JN, a cyber terrorist, fails to win because he doesn't know when to use an escape key, which should get some sort of prize for popcorn-worthy silliness.)
Alive on Paper (2842 words) by theelectriccat
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: The Net (1995)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Angela Bennett (The Net 1995), Jack Devlin (The Net 1995), Ruth Marks (The Net 1995)
Additional Tags: Suspense, Killer For Hire, Crisis of conscience
Summary: Angela Bennett sees her perception of the handsome Jack Devlin crumble before her, but before he can fulfill his employer's expectations, he has a crisis of conscience, which only intensifies when his coworker notices his obvious attraction to his target.
3. Talking of The Winslow Boy, I am now watching the 1970s BBC version from The Rattigan Collection - I didn't entirely mean to, but I finally treated myself to rewatching the 1980s Browning Version with Ian Holm & Judi Dench & Michael Kitchen (&, as it turns out, a wee Stephen Mcintosh as Taplow and, briefly, Imogen Stubbs as Mrs Gilbert) for the first time in 30+ years, and it was on the same disc. I wasn't sure if I was ready to be fair to an alternate version, but it's got such different emphases etc, plus I can see more of where the 1999 does differ from the play, and it's not only really good in itself, but it's fascinating. Sir Robert has just turned up, and I was intrigued to see what Alan Badel would be like, because I mainly know him from being the perfectly OTT saving grace of duff 1960s films, and it's a very different performance to anything I had expected he might do (but good obv.) Eric Porter has rocked up for duty, aged up as per usual. I am happy to see him, but I am beginning to worry that he spent the entirety of the 60s and 70s as an aged up Edwardian gent. XD
4. My main way of calming myself lately re. the whole world being what it is has somehow turned out to be watching the better end of the Thomas More vids for The Tudors (with occasional relapses into Obidala vids, as per 2020). (It was because I knew I had found a good one, but I'd lost it, but I rediscovered it last week. It turned out I had saved it, but it was to Hallelujah and I'd assumed no good could come of fandom's eternal use and abuse of every version of that, and then another one, if with some dialogue going on there, and apparently angst and dodgy hat-wearing angles help? Plus, I'll give the person who couldn't resist making one to I'm Just More points for the lols.)
... oh drat, late for dinner now!
1. Trailer for the new Librarians series! It looks just as fun as before! I have NO idea how I will see it, but I've been missing having a fun magic TV series so much, and especially The Libs. (My usual method was to wait for the UK DVD release and then rewatch it all to death, cheering myself up muchly. ha bloody ha, as they say.)
2. I don't know what was in the water re. my fandoms for last Yuletide, but not only have I continued to have much fun with
edwardianspinsteraunt and The Winslow Boy, but someone showed up this week on tumblr to first shower love on my for writing the only Jack/Angela The Net fic on the internet, but then wrote their own start of an AU, which promises to be fun, and turned up on AO3. (The Net is v hoky, but also deeply nineties, and Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam play a fun game of cat and mouse, plus JN, a cyber terrorist, fails to win because he doesn't know when to use an escape key, which should get some sort of prize for popcorn-worthy silliness.)Alive on Paper (2842 words) by theelectriccat
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: The Net (1995)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Angela Bennett (The Net 1995), Jack Devlin (The Net 1995), Ruth Marks (The Net 1995)
Additional Tags: Suspense, Killer For Hire, Crisis of conscience
Summary: Angela Bennett sees her perception of the handsome Jack Devlin crumble before her, but before he can fulfill his employer's expectations, he has a crisis of conscience, which only intensifies when his coworker notices his obvious attraction to his target.
3. Talking of The Winslow Boy, I am now watching the 1970s BBC version from The Rattigan Collection - I didn't entirely mean to, but I finally treated myself to rewatching the 1980s Browning Version with Ian Holm & Judi Dench & Michael Kitchen (&, as it turns out, a wee Stephen Mcintosh as Taplow and, briefly, Imogen Stubbs as Mrs Gilbert) for the first time in 30+ years, and it was on the same disc. I wasn't sure if I was ready to be fair to an alternate version, but it's got such different emphases etc, plus I can see more of where the 1999 does differ from the play, and it's not only really good in itself, but it's fascinating. Sir Robert has just turned up, and I was intrigued to see what Alan Badel would be like, because I mainly know him from being the perfectly OTT saving grace of duff 1960s films, and it's a very different performance to anything I had expected he might do (but good obv.) Eric Porter has rocked up for duty, aged up as per usual. I am happy to see him, but I am beginning to worry that he spent the entirety of the 60s and 70s as an aged up Edwardian gent. XD
4. My main way of calming myself lately re. the whole world being what it is has somehow turned out to be watching the better end of the Thomas More vids for The Tudors (with occasional relapses into Obidala vids, as per 2020). (It was because I knew I had found a good one, but I'd lost it, but I rediscovered it last week. It turned out I had saved it, but it was to Hallelujah and I'd assumed no good could come of fandom's eternal use and abuse of every version of that, and then another one, if with some dialogue going on there, and apparently angst and dodgy hat-wearing angles help? Plus, I'll give the person who couldn't resist making one to I'm Just More points for the lols.)
... oh drat, late for dinner now!
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I'm not quite at the end now, but I'm approaching the final scene, and I've enjoyed it very much! It is fascinating to see the choices made in both as to emphasis, and also gives me increased appreciation of just what Mamet did in turning it into a film. One thing being the removal of almost all the lines re. the family being afraid of Arthur/him being stern, so I feel that's probably not so much a performance difference, as a deliberate directorial choice.
Eric Porter is excellent, of course, though - he always is!
And Alan Badel definitely makes a fun contrast to Jeremy Northam - he's more believably fishlike/unfeeling for one thing, haha, and from what I recall this version doesn't play up the shippy aspects so much as the 1999 one.
Yes, although the sandwich scene remains definitely flirty; I think Jeremy Northam's right about that just being written that way, heh. Even if here, it's also a bit of gallantry to her following her rejection, too.
Btw, I looked for this on YT in case
One random incidental detail struck me as well - in An Ideal Husband, though they borrowed TWB set, they altered the shape of the gallery bars, and I noticed that in the 1977, they are the same shape as in An Ideal Husband, which rather suggests that's the correct shape for them and that the diamond pattern was another deliberate detail choice by the 1999.
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Hmm, yes, that would make sense! I wonder why Mamet would have made that choice...
Yes, although the sandwich scene remains definitely flirty; I think Jeremy Northam's right about that just being written that way, heh.
Indeed! xD And don't they get a flirty moment where they light each other's cigarettes in this version? I must say that Michelle Dotrice's hat is pretty hideous in that scene - a friend of mine actually thought that Alan Badel was making fun of her when he complimented it :P I think the age difference between the actors probably damps down the shippiness a little - Northam's Sir Robert seems a bit more obviously vulnerable in the scenes where he's supposed to be Having Emotions.
And ooh, thank you for the link to the German TV production, I'm quite tempted to give that a watch! (I have never studied German, but I'm well versed enough in Old Englis that I can puzzle it out :P). You may already have encountered it but there's also a BBC radio production of TWB with Sarah Badel, which I've found on both Youtube and archive.org but have yet to watch!
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They do! I noticed that. XD And her hat is definitely not as nice as 1999 Catherine's, but it was the 70s. Taste was notoriously lacking. That shade of green was in!
I finished it now and they made me cry at the end, and also it does appear that you can't do that scene without it appearing shippy, either. So, yes, I enjoyed it very much!
If you can understand any of the finer details of the German one I'll be interested to hear it, lol.
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And in other fannish news, I've also just posted another Robert x Catherine fic on Ao3 (but am too lazy to make a proper post about it xD)!
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Yay! And it's marvellous, and I had a lovely time reading it last night - I will leave a proper comment on it soon. <3
one of the TWB radio dramas I mentioned in my earlier comment, and it was pretty good! I can recommend it.
Oh, cool! I'm glad; I've enjoyed a lot of radio plays over the last few years. I'm slow at listening, but I have really grown to love the medium. I'm still working my way through some radio Rattigans that I don't know and don't have any other available formats, but I'm glad at least one of TWBs are good - and that you still have a working link! I shall make sure to download it for when I do want it.
I'm quite amused that Michael Spice is in both of those, but not entirely surprised - I think he's a pretty regular BBC Radio supporting player.
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I've found I get along quite well with radio dramas, especially when I'm not in the mood to deal with visual stimulation - I haven't listened to many but I've enjoyed the ones I have. I really need to get round to listening to more!
I hope that you're managing as best you can with this warm spell <3 My fannish brain has been hard to get into gear lately, but I'm contemplating signing up to some of the forthcoming summer exchanges - I'm particularly eyeing Rare Pair Exchange and Just Married as opportunities for TWB evangelism (and inflicting Deranged Marriage Tropes on Robert and Catherine, heh)
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Aw, no worries! PhD-ing does have to come first. And it was lovely, so no thanks needed for that. <3
I've found I get along quite well with radio dramas, especially when I'm not in the mood to deal with visual stimulation - I haven't listened to many but I've enjoyed the ones I have. I really need to get round to listening to more!
Oh, nice. I got into it via Big Finish's efforts for DW after a few false starts back in the day, and listening is hampered by being ill, but I also find it often works for me when nothing else does, as well as me enjoying it carefully the rest of the time. Martin Jarvis (who should know) once said something about a radio director taking him aside early on in his epic radio career and telling him it was the most intimate medium, and it really is. There can be something quite special about it.
Funnily enough, I've just been listening to another Rattigan BBC play, The Sleeping Prince with Peter Wyngarde, which was very well done & I enjoyed it a lot, if definitely one of his lighter pieces.
I'm contemplating signing up to some of the forthcoming summer exchanges - I'm particularly eyeing Rare Pair Exchange and Just Married as opportunities for TWB evangelism (and inflicting Deranged Marriage Tropes on Robert and Catherine, heh)
Those would be very good exchanges to put them into! I love