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thisbluespiritThis wasn't going to be the character for today, but I got carried away earlier when my collecting of bits and pieces and so on led to unexpected Colin Baker and Anthony Stewart Head (see below) among other things. (Besides, does Jonathan Creek count as obscure? Doesn't feel like it can be, really...)
Day Six: Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin)
"I think you get off on puzzles like this. You just don't want to admit that I've whetted your appetite."
Where to start? Maddy is an investigative writer whose abilities to find a way in to see just about anyone would leave even Sarah Jane standing. She specialises in delving into miscarriages of justice and writing true crime. She may be Jonathan's Watson (ish), but if it weren't for her, he wouldn't be solving mysteries at all. He wouldn't just be not famous, he'd still be invisible. What's more she managed to fool him at least once. (If you're a stranger to this show, please note that is pretty much like someone managing to baffle Sherlock Holmes.) She is funny, resourceful, persistent and, even taking into account the natural awesome that goes with Julia Sawalha and Sheridan Smith, still by far the best female lead this show has had. (Come back from America, Maddy, please?)
Jonathan: What was it Sherlock Holmes said to Watson?
Maddy: Get your kit off and give us a kiss?
[This is the bit where I got totally distracted by the first episode]
Since it had been a long while since I'd seen an episode with her in, I had to go searching YouTube just to check her qualifications for this meme. This led to me watching Episode 1 for the first time - I had forgotten I still haven't seen series 1. Maddy was even more awesome than I had remembered, but what I was startled to find was that the first part featured not Maddy or Jonathan, but Colin Baker as the murder victim. That was shortly followed up in the next section by Anthony Stewart Head as Adam Klaus - I had heard he was the original, but wasn't sure he was in actual episodes or not. So Adam really was always that sleazy... and what accent is that he's trying for? There is something surreal about ASH attempting a phony US accent. (Plus, Jonathan being the nightmare man in the supermarket.)
Anyway, after that I found Ep 1 pt 3, which introduces Maddy:
(And then Alistair McGowan walked in. Who later would make his own sketch parody of Jonathan Creek. So that was distracting all round.)
Day One: Soolin (B7)
Day Two: Dayna Mellanby (B7)
Day Three: Michelle of the Resistance (Allo Allo)
Day Four: Beatrice Eliott (House of Eliott)
Day Five: Captain Kathryn Janeway (ST:V)
ETA: Oh, yes, forgot to say that Colin Baker's character has a wardrobe that is painted a suspiciously familiar colour of blue.
Day Six: Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin)
"I think you get off on puzzles like this. You just don't want to admit that I've whetted your appetite."
Where to start? Maddy is an investigative writer whose abilities to find a way in to see just about anyone would leave even Sarah Jane standing. She specialises in delving into miscarriages of justice and writing true crime. She may be Jonathan's Watson (ish), but if it weren't for her, he wouldn't be solving mysteries at all. He wouldn't just be not famous, he'd still be invisible. What's more she managed to fool him at least once. (If you're a stranger to this show, please note that is pretty much like someone managing to baffle Sherlock Holmes.) She is funny, resourceful, persistent and, even taking into account the natural awesome that goes with Julia Sawalha and Sheridan Smith, still by far the best female lead this show has had. (Come back from America, Maddy, please?)
Jonathan: What was it Sherlock Holmes said to Watson?
Maddy: Get your kit off and give us a kiss?
[This is the bit where I got totally distracted by the first episode]
Since it had been a long while since I'd seen an episode with her in, I had to go searching YouTube just to check her qualifications for this meme. This led to me watching Episode 1 for the first time - I had forgotten I still haven't seen series 1. Maddy was even more awesome than I had remembered, but what I was startled to find was that the first part featured not Maddy or Jonathan, but Colin Baker as the murder victim. That was shortly followed up in the next section by Anthony Stewart Head as Adam Klaus - I had heard he was the original, but wasn't sure he was in actual episodes or not. So Adam really was always that sleazy... and what accent is that he's trying for? There is something surreal about ASH attempting a phony US accent. (Plus, Jonathan being the nightmare man in the supermarket.)
Anyway, after that I found Ep 1 pt 3, which introduces Maddy:
(And then Alistair McGowan walked in. Who later would make his own sketch parody of Jonathan Creek. So that was distracting all round.)
Day One: Soolin (B7)
Day Two: Dayna Mellanby (B7)
Day Three: Michelle of the Resistance (Allo Allo)
Day Four: Beatrice Eliott (House of Eliott)
Day Five: Captain Kathryn Janeway (ST:V)
ETA: Oh, yes, forgot to say that Colin Baker's character has a wardrobe that is painted a suspiciously familiar colour of blue.
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Date: 2011-01-30 07:45 pm (UTC)And I really ought to do day 2 of this meme myself - but I've been distracted by Big Finish audios and attempts to write over the last two days!
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Date: 2011-01-30 08:01 pm (UTC)Yes, I've been waiting to see who you would choose next! :-) But writing is always more important. *nods* BFAs and writing - that doesn't sound too bad!
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Date: 2011-01-30 08:10 pm (UTC)Sorry for the unintentional suspenders - I mean suspense - I didn't mean to get so caught up in Jago & Litefoot S1 or the Peri Companion Chronicle or S10 of Benny...
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Date: 2011-01-30 08:15 pm (UTC)Can't blame you in that case! Keep me in suspenders anytime (Erm... Hmmm. Maybe not...)
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Date: 2011-01-30 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-30 08:14 pm (UTC)Anthony Stewart Head's accent -- yes, what is he doing there? It actually sounds mostly English to me, with a hint of American. At least it's not grating at all, though, or not to me.
I know nothing about Jonathan Creek -- never seen the show, never heard of it.
Looking forward to Press Gang. ;D
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Date: 2011-01-30 08:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, I ended up watching the whole thing on YouTube and it sounds like either he isn't trying (which seems odd), or he's just bad at it, or he's aiming for a sort of mid-Atlantic accent for a US guy who's been in Britain for a while. Whatever the case, it was a toss up for him between this and the part of Giles, and as Adam is such an awful sleeze, even aside from the accent, I'm glad he decided to go off to America!
Really? I did wonder; it's just it's a bit of a household name in the UK, even now. It's by David Renwick (who wrote One Foot In The Grave)and started in 1997 and has only really had 4 series, but there have been one-off specials since (the last one featured Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith, funnily enough). It's a comedy-crime series which always has really complicated solutions to locked room type murders, (which has since become a bit of a standing joke in itself).
:-D
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Date: 2011-01-30 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-31 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-31 02:01 pm (UTC)The first episode is actually one of the few I have seen, but not since it was on tv approximately a million years ago... Must track the rest down! That was such a good show, omg.
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Date: 2011-01-31 02:31 pm (UTC)The rest of S1 does appear to be on youTube, by the same person who put the above links up, though, I couldn't help but observe.
It really was. And occasionally is, too. :-)