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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...)
