Quick Fannish things
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thisbluespiritSome 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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Date: 21 Mar 2025 08:53 pm (UTC)My first encounter with him was very funny because I saw Children of the Damned for the Alfred Burke content, which starred Ian Hendry and Alan Badel. I don't know how long it took me until I finally realised that I'd mistakenly assumed Ian Hendry was Alan Badel and Alan Badel was Ian Hendry, but it was probably not until I made a picspam here and my flist pointed out my error and I still nearly didn't believe them. But basically, Alan Badel carried almost the entire film by sheer force of charisma, and then he was also v eccentric and OTT in Otley in a more minor role, so I'd kind of assumed he was just Like That. (My flist told me Ian Hendry was awesome, but unfortunately CotD is a definite off-day for him, indeed, a whole wet weekend in November, and that was how I came to muddle them up so hard.)
Anyway, his Sir Robert is very downplayed - he's very much taken the cold/dry/unfeeling surface thing to heart. I'm liking what he's doing so far very much.
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Date: 21 Mar 2025 11:08 pm (UTC)That is also the mode in which I am used to seeing him, which I mean in an approving fashion, so I am intrigued by the underplaying. How is their Catherine?
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Date: 22 Mar 2025 01:15 pm (UTC)Oh, I totally would have assumed the approving - he is highly enjoyable in that mode!
Michele Dotrice is Catherine and she's also very good - she just hadn't been in it so much at the point I made the entry last night. I had expected it to be more the full play, but I think it's also a similar length (& actually, somehow feels even shorter), so it's also made choices about what to emphasise, while obviously being more play-based (in terms of where the scenes happen, who does what and timing). I'm finding it both lovely in itself and it's also giving me new appreciation of just how effective & clever & deft David Mamet's adaptation is.
If you wanted to watch it, it is here on YT, at least visible in my region.
(I clearly need to obtain the actual play at some point. But anyway, 2/3 adaptations I can confirm as lovely, and I obv how no trouble believing you &
ETA: I think it's only fair to add that I have now finished it, and Michele Dotrice and Alan Badel made me cry at the end.
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Date: 22 Mar 2025 08:26 pm (UTC)I understand that as a good sign!
*hugs*
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Date: 22 Mar 2025 08:31 pm (UTC)Oh, yes. :-) 1970s TV is always sneaking up on a person and doing that, I find. It's very unfair of it.