2 or 3 people on my flist recced it to me, and I'm pretty sure one of them was vilakins.
Yes, vilakins was definitely one of the people I remember reccing it to me. And she does usually seem to have pretty good taste. :)
I just assumed that you would have known about it and not been able to get a sensible source or something or I would have plagued you sooner, because it's great.
LOL! It seems to take a while for a lot of things to really ping on my radar, though. Currently, I seem to be about a decade behind on shows in general.
and everybody else pretty much is a Taskmaster alumni (and counting)
That is a selling point! And I watched the trailer you linked to, and that by itself actually made me laugh. So clearly I will, in fact, have to add it to my infinite list of Things I Must Watch Soon, Honestly.
I mean, it's something that's well known in the sort of Brit Cult SFF circles that you've hung around in
Oh, for sure! People were constantly talking about Survivors back in my B7 days, but I didn't find any way to watch it then. Apparently I fully intended to find and watch it sometime since, if only just to fill in that gap in my fannish viewing history, but never actually did.
and there was a 2008 BBC remake, which you might have seen some of
I have not, but I'd definitely be more interested in the original, anyway.
It's completely gripping and makes nearly everybody scream at the TV in the bad way as well as the good way at least once, but usually in different places
LOL. That does sound like, well, a lot of television I've enjoyed over the years.
I think they'd stopped routinely showing that to teenagers at school when I got to the right age (unless I was just off ill as usual that day) but we heard tell of its horrors from the older years.
We didn't watch it in school. I vaguely recall that what they showed us was the much less memorable Testament.
I've still never seen it, but it does seem to be the most legendarily traumatising thing of that kind the UK ever produced.
I can only hope it's the most traumatizing thing the UK has ever produced! I watched it at 15, and it gave me a stress-induced muscle tic that took half an hour to go away. First time I'd ever experienced anything like that.
It's all mainly early S1 clips and not really spoilery for anything bar the premise, if you wanted to see if it rang any bells - Let Me Inside.
Zero bells whatsoever! So it must, indeed, remain on aforementioned infinite list. (Nicely atmospheric vid, by the way.)
Yeah, there's so much amazing fictional media out there, there's no need to pursue the ones you don't want to.
Yeah, I try to live by that philosophy more these days, rather than figuring that I need to watch a movie just because it's the Thing That Everyone's Watching.
so I'm very happy to be gradually getting to know what to look for that I will like, and on occasion, adore to pieces and put on my Yuletide lists.
Excellent! Here's to all of us finding the things that will make us happy! Although, I swear, I myself seem to be finding it in weird and unpredictable places lately. Oh, well, it's fun!
Ha, yes. This isn't the being normal space, is it? <3
It is not, and I very much appreciate it for that! I have to have somewhere to go to be unrepentently and unselfconsciously not normal! (She said, about to go back to writing fic about a guy having angsty sexual tension with an evil cartoon triangle. :))
And not to sound like a person in a grim but oddly reassuring 70s TV show, it's amazing how much doesn't kill you
There are worse things than sounding like one of those, and those are undoubtedly true words! Although, in this case, ones I hope not to ever have to join you in putting to the test. I discovered long ago just how important of a stress valve at least a daily half an hour or so of reading-for-pleasure time is for me.
I've been refusing to do the square "self-compassion" because it sounds like a very tumblr attitude.
That is an odd turn of phrase, and not one I'm sure I've heard before. It is very Tumblr, but, honestly, I think I'd take it over a square labeled "self-care."
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I just assumed that you would have known about it and not been able to get a sensible source or something or I would have plagued you sooner, because it's great.
LOL! It seems to take a while for a lot of things to really ping on my radar, though. Currently, I seem to be about a decade behind on shows in general.
and everybody else pretty much is a Taskmaster alumni (and counting)
That is a selling point! And I watched the trailer you linked to, and that by itself actually made me laugh. So clearly I will, in fact, have to add it to my infinite list of Things I Must Watch Soon, Honestly.
I mean, it's something that's well known in the sort of Brit Cult SFF circles that you've hung around in
Oh, for sure! People were constantly talking about Survivors back in my B7 days, but I didn't find any way to watch it then. Apparently I fully intended to find and watch it sometime since, if only just to fill in that gap in my fannish viewing history, but never actually did.
and there was a 2008 BBC remake, which you might have seen some of
I have not, but I'd definitely be more interested in the original, anyway.
It's completely gripping and makes nearly everybody scream at the TV in the bad way as well as the good way at least once, but usually in different places
LOL. That does sound like, well, a lot of television I've enjoyed over the years.
I think they'd stopped routinely showing that to teenagers at school when I got to the right age (unless I was just off ill as usual that day) but we heard tell of its horrors from the older years.
We didn't watch it in school. I vaguely recall that what they showed us was the much less memorable Testament.
I've still never seen it, but it does seem to be the most legendarily traumatising thing of that kind the UK ever produced.
I can only hope it's the most traumatizing thing the UK has ever produced! I watched it at 15, and it gave me a stress-induced muscle tic that took half an hour to go away. First time I'd ever experienced anything like that.
It's all mainly early S1 clips and not really spoilery for anything bar the premise, if you wanted to see if it rang any bells - Let Me Inside.
Zero bells whatsoever! So it must, indeed, remain on aforementioned infinite list. (Nicely atmospheric vid, by the way.)
Yeah, there's so much amazing fictional media out there, there's no need to pursue the ones you don't want to.
Yeah, I try to live by that philosophy more these days, rather than figuring that I need to watch a movie just because it's the Thing That Everyone's Watching.
so I'm very happy to be gradually getting to know what to look for that I will like, and on occasion, adore to pieces and put on my Yuletide lists.
Excellent! Here's to all of us finding the things that will make us happy! Although, I swear, I myself seem to be finding it in weird and unpredictable places lately. Oh, well, it's fun!
Ha, yes. This isn't the being normal space, is it? <3
It is not, and I very much appreciate it for that! I have to have somewhere to go to be unrepentently and unselfconsciously not normal! (She said, about to go back to writing fic about a guy having angsty sexual tension with an evil cartoon triangle. :))
And not to sound like a person in a grim but oddly reassuring 70s TV show, it's amazing how much doesn't kill you
There are worse things than sounding like one of those, and those are undoubtedly true words! Although, in this case, ones I hope not to ever have to join you in putting to the test. I discovered long ago just how important of a stress valve at least a daily half an hour or so of reading-for-pleasure time is for me.
I've been refusing to do the square "self-compassion" because it sounds like a very tumblr attitude.
That is an odd turn of phrase, and not one I'm sure I've heard before. It is very Tumblr, but, honestly, I think I'd take it over a square labeled "self-care."
but I shall have to leave the waffle where it is.
That's OK. I enjoyed the waffle. :)