Last 10 sentences

[thisbluespirit]

Meme stolen from misbegotten: List the first sentence (or two because a couple of those first sentences are quite short) of each of the last ten fics you posted.

Skipping the UC ficlets, because otherwise they'd all be meme/random stuff, and those were basically essentially flash-fic writing, my last ten first lines (or so). It is still, almost all meme/comment fic, though:

1. “It’s muddy,” said Silver. It was more of a protest than a statement of fact. “And wet.” (In the Depths (S&S/DW))

2. Liz risked opening one eye and then wished she hadn’t. “What?” she croaked. (Hungover (DW))

3. “I wish you’d told me. I’d prepared a serum for this very eventuality.” (Like Wolves in the Night (DW))

4. Mina was the first to recover her senses, finding herself lying on a stone floor in a tangled heap of bodies that, when she extracted herself, proved to consist of herself, Jonathan, and John. (Trouble Comes in Threes (Dracula 1968))

5. Edward Iveson glanced at his watch and quickened his pace as he headed down Whitehall from Charing Cross towards the Foreign Office. (White Feather (Original))

6. Henry thought it must be a dream the first time it happened. (Half an Angel (SotT/15thC Hist))

7. When Martha got into the tube carriage, there was only one other person inside it – a man. (Trouble on the Line (DW/S&S))

8. Mina found the crypt open. It didn’t seem strange to her that it should be, just as it had not felt wrong to be drawn here at this time of night. (Out of the Darkness (Dracula TV 1968))

9. It was for science, that was what the Professor insisted. If vampires existed, then who knew what else might? Restless Spirits (Dracula TV 1968))

10. The house is empty. It’s looking sorry for itself; narrow and gloomy, with dust collecting in its corners and cobwebs in its attics. (Not So Much Awry (S&S))

Comments

[liadt]

Lots of horror! But then horror tends to be cooler;)

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, it's just more to do with what people requested in the meme and the commentfic, as that accounts for all but a couple of belated longer things that I'd been working on a while!

[moon_custafer]

i have stolen this from you now. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Memes are for stealing! :-)

[misbegotten]

I feel as though I've really missed something good by not seeing Sapphire & Steel.

[persiflage_1]

Well you're not wrong! Can highly recommend - though the creep factor gets dialled up to 11 sometimes!

[thisbluespirit]

*flails about*

Yes, yes, WATCH IT! I mean, I wouldn't say that to everyone, but to someone who knows both Classic Who and Blake's 7? Yes, do it! It is the weirdest, strangest, most beautiful & original SF show ever made. They knew how to turn low budget slow moving TV into an advantage instead of a problem. *flails some more*

There are only six 'assignments' (i.e. Classic Who serials, ranging from 4-8 episodes (1,3 & 5 = 6 eps; 2 = 8 eps, 4 & 6 = 4 eps) and that's all, and they're all up on YT at the moment (e.g. here, and the DVDs (unlike B7) are out in R2, although how available they are currently, I don't know.

Basically it is Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as weird inhuman beings who fight Time while standing still looking beautiful terrified of clocks, nursery rhymes, photographs, flowers, pillows, torchlight, and motorway service stations. (And then sometimes you also get David Collings as Silver flirting with everyone, especially Sapphire and Steel, and they are the best inhuman OT3 whatsit ever.)

/flailing over. *starts on the incoherent mime instead*

(Assignment 1 is a little slow; and still hasn't quite shed the trapping of its original intent to be a children's show - there are two children involved - but it does give just about the only explanation for anything you'll ever get* and has Lead, so it's good to give it a go.)


* The Guiness Book of Tv, on S&S, says something like "There are many ways of holding the audience's attention. Total lack of explanation is not supposed to be one of them..."

[misbegotten]

Oh, Amazon Prime has it too! I shall put it on my list of things to watch when I have half a brain cell to spare.

Total lack of explanation is not supposed to be one of them...

*chortle*

[thisbluespirit]

Yay! And, as someone who watched wioth only half a brain cell, it can work quite well that way too, although it's definitely freakier. (It's so slow and calming and creepy and absorbing if you're in a weird state already, although of course, your weird state is no doubt quite different to mine...)

[dimity_blue]

"There are many ways of holding the audience's attention. Total lack of explanation is not supposed to be one of them..."

And yet it worked so well.

[thisbluespirit]

I love that description of it, because it's so true!

[dimity_blue]

Nice meme with intriguing first lines. I may have to borrow this.

"The house is empty. It’s looking sorry for itself; narrow and gloomy, with dust collecting in its corners and cobwebs in its attics."

This has such a feel of S&S. It's perfect.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks! And, as we all know, memes are for stealing! ;-)

[paynesgrey]

Ooh! These sentences all have nice hooks in them, very fascinating!
I especially love #10.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you!

[swordznsorcery]

Sorry, late to the party. :) This is a good collection, and I especially like the first, as I could really see the expression on poor Silver's face! (And Sapphire smiling in reply.) Also it was one that I hadn't read yet, so it was a very timely nudge.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you!

[shewhostaples]

*steals*

[thisbluespirit]

Meme thief!! ;-)