There's always room for yet another apocalypse (this is a rule)

[thisbluespirit]

Memed from just about everyone:
Go look at your journal. Find the last fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How doomed are you? [If I had used the original wording for this, you might have got more of my thoughts on Elementals and teh sex, and that would only be worrying.]

Okay, so I have Sapphire, Steel and Silver. I suspect that the zombies are therefore more like the soldiers in Assignment Two. I am pretty sure the zombies are doomed, but there is a very good chance I am too. Happily, the odds of my survival are slightly upped by the presence of Silver as well. (And he can have my ring, my necklace, my earrings, whatever to make stuff.) I still might be doomed. But right now I have to say, there are worse ways to go. It might well end up never having happened - probably the best possible outcome with this team.

Hmm. Actually, I have Lead, too. Zombies are doomed - I'm not. It's okay.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

The zombies are definitely doomed!

[thisbluespirit]

They are! I just have no confidence in my continued survival (or at least not without having terrifying consequences to deal with) but right now I am so in love with the show that I'm tempted to think it would be a price worth paying. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Hee.

I will read your S&S reaction post later. I'm still too dazed from getting only 2.5 hours sleep last night to make sense of much.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw. *hugs* Yes, if you've had hardly any sleep - poor you! - my ramblings would *not* be the thing to try and cope with. Oh, dear, no ...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

At the moment I'm struggling to read anything more than a couple of hundred words at a time - so I'm grabbing Sanctuary screencaps in order to attempt to make an LJ banner/laptop wallpaper. I may not get very far but at least grabbing the caps isn't exhausting my brain!

[thisbluespirit]

Yep, screen-capping is a *very* useful thing to do when you've no brain, as I've learned the last few months!!! Aw. Anyway, hope you catch up with the sleep soon. *hugs*

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*nods* I remembered you mentioning that before.

Provided the next door neighbours but one DON'T decide to have another BBQ party tonight and play music until 3am, I should be okay, I hope!

[thisbluespirit]

Ack. 3am? I hope not! (It was raining here - I'll send it down to deter them..)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I wouldn't joke or lie about that.

[thisbluespirit]

No, no. I meant, I hope they don't do it again! :lol: I wouldn't imagine you would make up something like that. Only my general incoherence striking again, sorry.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see... It doesn't help that I'm half asleep...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Yep, the undead are going to get, err, deaded agin....

[thisbluespirit]

As I look up and down my flist, I have to say, that they are really not having much luck. :-)

I'm just not totally sure *I'm* not doomed as well. Right now, though, if that means I get to watch Sapphire & Steel posing perfectly and maybe get nicely flirted at by Silver first, it'd probably be worth it anyway. :lol:

[pitry.livejournal.com]

You see those zombies in the corner? They're shouting you're cheating! :D

(Ah, now I see why you prefer your doom over mine - indeed, Sapphire & Steel are more reliable than TW!)

[thisbluespirit]

Why do the zombies think I cheated? They're bad losers, aren't they? :lol:

Well, let's admit it, it would be quite tough to find a band of sf heroes who are less reliable than TW, bless their little pteradactyls and all. :lol:

And, yes, indeed, if I am doomed, it will be done with impeccable posing.

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, Ruth, Eleven, Rory the Roman and Amelia Pond? Yes, zombies are well and truly doomed.

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, this meme made me think of you - and I realised you were far better off than most with your team. The zombies would barely get in the door. (Assuming there was a door).

... And, while I do not wish to be annoying and oppressive again... (I was thinking we were even now, but then I thought about no of episodes and TWW vs Life. Yeah...*cough*). Anyway, as you can see, I watched Sapphire & Steel, but I kept thinking Hmm, belantana would like this.

I am not absolutely sure, because after all, it is v old, I don't *really* know you in rl, and I did wonder if what I really meant was 'belantana would get how beautiful an idea this is for fanfic', which is probably true, but I still think you might like it. It is... very mysterious and has only 34 1/2 hr eps (six stories). Even though it is old and made by ITV and quite cheap and 1970s/1980s dingy, it is extremely visual, and I always get the feeling you are more visual than me. It doesn't just do creepy images (like a house with loads of clocks, or a deserted railway station with one lone whistling ghostly soldier, or sepia children playing in the dark), it goes out to unsettle the viewer by doing things wrong. There is much standing and posing; the camera stays quite static in odd positions, so you get shots of people's middles with their faces chopped off (I screencapped, so I noticed it) and Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as the title characters are non-human metallurgical elemental thingies and do not behave like anyone else on TV that I have ever seen. Nothing much is explained to the viewer, and it becomes clear that these elementals are also mysterious to each other. Sapphire and Steel are also as shippy as anything, but so coolly. And then there is Silver who turns up half way through. But I am biased in his favour (he is David Collings, and I bought the Full Fathom Five audio to hear him being the Doctor, so, yes, biased = me). Still, I have to like a character who goes about like a magpie picking up shiny things, gets a brilliant entrance, annoys (and flirts with) the male lead and then flirts even more with the female lead. It would be possible to find him annoying or creepy or both, but I love dhim to bits.) And then they all make the most beautiful, flirty mysterious OT3 I have seen. It is all about time breaks and psychic-y stuff. I forgot to mention that.

I linked on my LJ to eponymous_rose's introductory post about it (and that at least I do know is the sort of thing you enjoy - :Lol: at the list of Things To Be Scared Of, and 'My fandom has no concept of personal space'.)

So... sorry about that. I won't mention it again (well except in my posts, as it is something I will not be able to resist writing for/talking about/making icons for), but in between thinking: 'this is slow... but v v cool' and 'ooh, that was chilling' and '*flail* Silver! *flail*' I did really think 'Belantana would like this', so I had to mention it. Sorry.

Okay. *breathes again*. I am terribly annoying, but this one... Well, you could just go for the fic. As long as you avoid refs to the ending, there are so little canon facts that everything is either Missing Assignments or total fanon which varies from fic to fic. (It is on YouTUbe, too.)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Heeee, you are TOTALLY RIGHT, this sounds like exactly my cup of tea! I was getting intrigued when you mentioned a house full of clocks, because, uh, house full of clocks, what's not awesome about that! and then I read the introductory post and: Malevolent torch beams! Ominous stairwells! Nursery rhymes! Basically, yes please!

Not to mention of course that you *do* know a lot better than most people in my RL the kind of thing I like, so I will always trust your judgement. :D I'm therefore going to resoundingly reject all your apologies. So there.

I'll attempt to acquire this next weekend, then! YAY.

[thisbluespirit]

Hee! Well, I hope you do like it. You can throw things if you don't. Nice to know I wasn't too far out in my thinking, anyway. There are definitely nursery rhymes, quite a bit. Probably only one ominous stairwell, and the ultimate danger is to be found in a ... service station, heh.