My flisters are very possibly magic

[thisbluespirit]

swordznsorcery, who is very kind, giffed the bit where the Brigadier walked in and hugged Inspector Kate! And here it is:




"Put me down, sir, you don't know where I've been!"

That put a large smile on my face when I checked Dreamwidth this morning! And clearly, as you see, it is not all bad in Hartley after all.


While I am at it, here is an inferior gif (it is lacking in Brigliness) I made the other day (through much struggle, since it turns out my JB S4 DVDs I have don't work on my usual ripper), of Inspector Kate on a worse day in Hartley:



Having just defused a hostage situation in her own office from a man who wanted to kill her, she quietly walks out, empties the gun on the desk and says, "Protecting life and property sometimes has its problems. With all this manpower, I don't suppose anyone had time to put the kettle on?"

Sgt Beck: "You're wrong, ma'am. There been nothing else to do..."



(I am writing/editing stuff, so there will be something here soon that has nothing to do with Juliet Bravo, I promise. I just did not expect the Brig. Nobody expects the Brig! ;-D)

Comments

[misbegotten]

Days are massively improved by Brig hugs!

[thisbluespirit]

I think so, anyway! :-D

[persiflage_1]

Yay!! Brig hugs are FTW!!!!

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed! And much more effective with a gif!

[persiflage_1]

Indeedy!

[liadt]

Whheeee, that's one good hug!

Magic indeed:)

I hope the editing isn't annoying you!

[thisbluespirit]

It is!

And thank you, I have not really been doing much editing today, but I will soon. :-)

[osprey_archer]

I don't even know this show but that is a truly excellent hug. A++ work, Brigadier.

[thisbluespirit]

It is! The Brigadier is from Doctor Who, and is really just Nicholas Courtney playing someone else here, but he is just always the Brig to all DW fans. (One of the few things we agree on generally is that we love the Brig. He doesn't usually hug people in DW, though. He just looks put upon because why can't he meet an alien menace that isn't immune to bullet?) I don't think Juliet Bravo got shown much in the US!

[kaffy_r]

Oh, the Brig! He's always welcome! And good luck - lots of energy if needed - for writing and editing today. I hope it's not too hot or sunny out for you.

[thisbluespirit]

He is indeed! And thank you, the weather is being beautiful and cool today and has been since Thursday. I'm very happy!!

[swordznsorcery]

Apparently everybody likes hugs. Weirdos. :p

But blimey, I remember that other episode! I had thought I didn't really remember anything much about the show, but watching that one yesterday to gif it, loads came back, and I do actually remember the hostage situation episode (although there may have been more than one - it was a weirdly eventful little patch!) All those craggy-faced sergeants. Quite why that tiny little station had so many sergeants, and just a couple of constables, is anybody's guess!

They should do a new version, where it's now just a tiny office tacked onto the local library, manned by a part-time constable, with three counties all sharing one sergeant, and an inspector being as rare as hens' teeth... Not that I have any issues about the destruction of rural policing at all. (Clearly I'm in grumpy mode today!)

[thisbluespirit]

and I do actually remember the hostage situation episode

It was a particularly standout one, yes. It was the one I remembered even when I'd forgotten everything else, before I got S4 for the measly bit of Collings-content. Anna Carteret is especially excellent in it.

Well, they do have other constables. Occasionally they even have names as they pass us by, it's just that only 2 sergeants and 2 constables are actually real and generally allowed to have lines, and the 2 sergeants rarely actually go home when they're off shift. I am sure it was all 100% realistic.

They should do a new version, where it's now just a tiny office tacked onto the local library, manned by a part-time constable, with three counties all sharing one sergeant, and an inspector being as rare as hens' teeth..

That's very unrealistic, the library would have been closed long before the police station!

[swordznsorcery]

You're probably right about that, in 99% of cases! We lost our police station but kept the library though. Nobody's sure quite how. Possibly they just forgot the library is here.

(They closed the police station, and stuck a part-time constable in a back room at the library, then decided that was too expensive. Now our police station is a telephone nailed to the back wall of the town hall.)

I am sure it was all 100% realistic.

:D My mother ran an open house for the local police (while we still had some!), and their opinion of the show was... colourful. But who cares, it was good.

[nostalgia]

Wait, her name is not ACTUALLY Juliet Bravo?

[thisbluespirit]

No, I know, it's very misleading! Juliet Bravo is the call sign, and there are two of them, the first one is Jean Darblay and then she gets replaced by Kate Longton, but while Jean is fine, Kate is the best. The Brig thinks so anyway, and so do I!

There was an episode the other day and it was v exciting because Kate used her call sign and said, "Call me Juliet Bravo!" And that was like the only time it was ever used in the show that I know of. Although I did miss a lot with Jean, because there's only so much of the 1980s in Lancs a person can take in one summer.

[dimity_blue]

But he's so welcome when he's there. ♥ The Brig gif was a thing of beauty.

Poor Kate. She needs another Brig hug.

[thisbluespirit]

It is! I'm very grateful that swordznsorcery was kind enough to make it for me!