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thisbluespiritThe Ingenuity of Edith Artois (or The Nicked Knockwursts Get Nicked Again)
I got the story written (for Kanna-Ophelia in NYR) at last. See here: http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/86/theingenuity.html
Summary: Michelle's plan has gone wrong (again) and it's up to Edith to save the day. This would be so much easier if everyone else would get out of the way...
I have tried my best to fulfil the request, so let's hope the recipient likes it... *crosses fingers* I certainly agree about the wonderfulness of Edith (and Carmen Silvera, whose singing could never be dubbed in any language) and Michelle is fun - an enigmatic and pragmatic creation under the accent. It was fun (and there really ought to be Allo Allo fic out there, so I had to do it) but one of the hardest things I've written. The accents! And why did I bring Crabtree on at the end? I still couldn't even approach the heights of daft comedy reached by the TV show. I am now lost in admiration. And it looked almost easy... And then I was sort of attempting femslash. I don't do slash of any sort, but this is Allo Allo. If there is any show, where this sort of thing is entirely in keeping, it's this one. (And given that Michelle will do a lot of kissing of fellow Resistance members, then abruptly declare a passion for Rene - lying her head off - and then later be found with Crabtree, I mean, who can say?) And I had to be good and set it after Hans left (it would be so easy to then give another character too much too do. Well, I also needed the sausages.) *Collapses*
A Carry On crossover was so much easier!
If, as usual, people don't know what I'm on about, Allo Allo was an 80s BBC TV sitcom set in Occupied France that sent up all those WWII dramas and films and anything beyond that will get very long-winded. Mind you, this sort of farcical comedy is (see above for my struggles) much harder to do right than people realise. Here for my choice for funniest scene (from the first Christmas speical, when everyone decides to kill General von Klinkerhoffen on the same day, by various rhyming methods and Hans (my favourite character, played by Sam Kelly) gets landed with them all in the same line) - much better than an explanation: (Very short clip) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_cB9AfNKA&feature=related
Edit: Oh, look, someone put up one of my other favourite scenes (from the pilot, Rene, Le Clerc Gruber, matches and the problems of code): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HfdGs5oXo&feature=related
And since, my story was about Edith and Michelle, a montage of Michelle's 'Listen very carefully...' (including some times when she doesn't get to say it.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNStcseZMw0 (This is the trouble with watching clips on YouTube, you keep finding more...)
I got the story written (for Kanna-Ophelia in NYR) at last. See here: http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/86/theingenuity.html
Summary: Michelle's plan has gone wrong (again) and it's up to Edith to save the day. This would be so much easier if everyone else would get out of the way...
I have tried my best to fulfil the request, so let's hope the recipient likes it... *crosses fingers* I certainly agree about the wonderfulness of Edith (and Carmen Silvera, whose singing could never be dubbed in any language) and Michelle is fun - an enigmatic and pragmatic creation under the accent. It was fun (and there really ought to be Allo Allo fic out there, so I had to do it) but one of the hardest things I've written. The accents! And why did I bring Crabtree on at the end? I still couldn't even approach the heights of daft comedy reached by the TV show. I am now lost in admiration. And it looked almost easy... And then I was sort of attempting femslash. I don't do slash of any sort, but this is Allo Allo. If there is any show, where this sort of thing is entirely in keeping, it's this one. (And given that Michelle will do a lot of kissing of fellow Resistance members, then abruptly declare a passion for Rene - lying her head off - and then later be found with Crabtree, I mean, who can say?) And I had to be good and set it after Hans left (it would be so easy to then give another character too much too do. Well, I also needed the sausages.) *Collapses*
A Carry On crossover was so much easier!
If, as usual, people don't know what I'm on about, Allo Allo was an 80s BBC TV sitcom set in Occupied France that sent up all those WWII dramas and films and anything beyond that will get very long-winded. Mind you, this sort of farcical comedy is (see above for my struggles) much harder to do right than people realise. Here for my choice for funniest scene (from the first Christmas speical, when everyone decides to kill General von Klinkerhoffen on the same day, by various rhyming methods and Hans (my favourite character, played by Sam Kelly) gets landed with them all in the same line) - much better than an explanation: (Very short clip) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_cB9AfNKA&feature=related
Edit: Oh, look, someone put up one of my other favourite scenes (from the pilot, Rene, Le Clerc Gruber, matches and the problems of code): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HfdGs5oXo&feature=related
And since, my story was about Edith and Michelle, a montage of Michelle's 'Listen very carefully...' (including some times when she doesn't get to say it.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNStcseZMw0 (This is the trouble with watching clips on YouTube, you keep finding more...)
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Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 03:06 pm (UTC)I like Captain Bertorelli, too, but I was young at the time and very much attached to Hans! "Flop!" (I mean, "'ler!") Poor Sam Kelly had an accident last year, or he'd finally have appeared in DW proper. :-(
(And, yes, the sand: "In memory of when the dear Kaiser was buried." :lol: Brilliant! There are so many really funny ones. The only stuff I don't like (well, some of this from v. distant memory) is the last series, when they recast about 3 main characters - very disappointing.
Of course, one of the joys of watching Doctor Who in retrospect is the distracting fact that General von Klinkerhoffen and Lt Gruber both turn up in Genesis of the Daleks.
Re: Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 03:34 pm (UTC)Re: Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 03:40 pm (UTC)Hmm, I expect you're right. There are a lot of the Pertwee episodes I still haven't seen, so I can't say. (Not for any reason, just VHS/DVD availability etc!)
Re: Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 08:45 pm (UTC)Imagine it, though; Four and Harry and Sarah Jane take a wrong turn and end up not on Skaro but in Occupied France, and get brought before Lt Gruber...hilarity ensues! :-)
Re: Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 08:55 pm (UTC)And don't. :-D Oh dear. It would be brilliant, wouldn't it? Harry! Sarah! Not sure what Four would do in Nouvion, though...? Hilarity would definitely ensue.
I wish you hadn't said that!!
Re: Good Moaning...
Date: 21 Feb 2009 09:05 pm (UTC)Gruber: I'm afraid I really don't kno vot zese 'Daleks' are, but ve haven't got any. I do have a little tank, however. I could show you, if you vant...
(I mean, you could see how the Time Lords could get confused over coincidences like that.)
Hmm, which language they would speak, what with the TARDIS interpreters? And then there's Harry and the British airmen...
And STOP IT... *glares*
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Date: 22 Feb 2009 12:32 am (UTC)I agree with you about the last series; the regenerated version of Flick was nowhere near as good as the original, and I seem to recall Helga thought so in-story as well.
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Date: 22 Feb 2009 02:29 am (UTC)The little tank! I don't know what Four would do in a situation like that; goof off to great effect, probably. As long as Lt Gruber got to sing "Mad About the Boy" to him, I think all would be fine...
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Date: 22 Feb 2009 08:10 pm (UTC)I don't think I really am going to do an Allo Allo crossover. You'll have to!! ;-)
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Date: 22 Feb 2009 08:08 pm (UTC)Yes, he had a cunning reason for plastic surgery or something and Helga on being ordered to kiss him, was very much "It's not the same, Herr Flick." At least they did come up with a fairly amusing explanation for it!
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Date: 23 Feb 2009 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 23 Feb 2009 09:00 am (UTC)"Can ve not shoot her just a little?"
Heeeeeee, that was fantastic! I haven't laughed so much since ages. Lovely that your recipient liked it and oh my, I think I even approved of the femslash.
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Date: 23 Feb 2009 07:46 pm (UTC)Thanks. I really don't do femslash and the request was for an Edith story, preferably with Michelle, pref f/s but insanely plotted gen featuring the two would be okay. I got half way through and then thought: This is Allo Allo. Michelle is entirely likely to declare her love for Edith out of the blue as anything else that happened. Poor Michelle. I was watching the montage (above) and her face every time she has to say "Listen very carefully..." or, worse still, someone says it to her. :-)
And I haven't yet had a response from the recipient, although I have had a couple some from other kind people. So I am hoping that this time I actually managed to do what I was supposed to!!
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Date: 23 Feb 2009 11:53 pm (UTC)I will have to check out the links above when I am not over my internet limit...