Time travelling links
24 Jun 2019 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespirit1. persiflage_1 just linked me to this Dec 1977 London Weekend Television promo pic, and I'm so strangely charmed to see Emily Richard, Bernard Horsfall, and Alfred Burke standing together (they must have started work in some shape on Enemy at the Door,) and yet all smiling and happy and not at all war-worn and sad. (I want that AU, please. :lol:)
2. I finished my epic quest to gif an awful lot of the 1968 Thames TV Dracula over at tumblr and am now (via the queue) posting the final, collected character and ship editions -calliopes_pen, I actually have done a Jonathan one! (Be proud of me. <3)
But if you want to understand why Dr Seward is so hopeless at fighting vampires, here's his photoset, complete with quote that explains that in one sentence. :-D
3. Pers also pointed out that Big Finish were doing Adam Adamant Lives! audios next year, but I looked at the page and got as far as learning that it didn't involve the original actors and the line "And to his rescue comes history enthusiast and would-be novelist Georgina Jones" and ran away. I mean, yes, of course make Georgie more pro-active in a reboot by all means, but if you want an Edwardian Adventurer & Gent culture clash with a with-it 1960s girl, making her a bookish historian instead of a DJ is, er, not the way to do it.
Besides, Georgie would be so horrified at the mere idea of that description! As would Adam, for different reasons. And Simms would never let her live it down. There would be limericks. I'm tempted to write fic. (But not the limericks.) ETA: I'm going to be laughing a lot at that line every time I think of it...
persiflage_1 just linked me to this Dec 1977 London Weekend Television promo pic, and I'm so strangely charmed to see Emily Richard, Bernard Horsfall, and Alfred Burke standing together (they must have started work in some shape on Enemy at the Door,) and yet all smiling and happy and not at all war-worn and sad. (I want that AU, please. :lol:)2. I finished my epic quest to gif an awful lot of the 1968 Thames TV Dracula over at tumblr and am now (via the queue) posting the final, collected character and ship editions -
calliopes_pen, I actually have done a Jonathan one! (Be proud of me. <3)But if you want to understand why Dr Seward is so hopeless at fighting vampires, here's his photoset, complete with quote that explains that in one sentence. :-D
3. Pers also pointed out that Big Finish were doing Adam Adamant Lives! audios next year, but I looked at the page and got as far as learning that it didn't involve the original actors and the line "And to his rescue comes history enthusiast and would-be novelist Georgina Jones" and ran away. I mean, yes, of course make Georgie more pro-active in a reboot by all means, but if you want an Edwardian Adventurer & Gent culture clash with a with-it 1960s girl, making her a bookish historian instead of a DJ is, er, not the way to do it.
Besides, Georgie would be so horrified at the mere idea of that description! As would Adam, for different reasons. And Simms would never let her live it down. There would be limericks. I'm tempted to write fic. (But not the limericks.) ETA: I'm going to be laughing a lot at that line every time I think of it...
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Date: 24 Jun 2019 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jun 2019 01:27 pm (UTC)*sidles up to your elbow instantly* May I introduce you to Enemy at the Door, a 1978-80 WWII drama set in the Channel Island in which he was co-lead with Alfred Burke? It was v well researched, complex and compassionate so despite a lot of YMMV stuff generally stands up pretty well still (although, of course, YMMV ;-p). The only downside is that it got cancelled before the end because the Jersey location filming was expensive.
I made a trailer here, too. (It has technical sound issues, because I made it to discover if I could get around my programme's audio issues, and the answer to that was no.)
It is even out in R1, unlike a lot of this stuff! And a couple of people have it up on YT, so it should be obtainable.
*sidles away and looks innocent*
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Date: 25 Jun 2019 12:56 pm (UTC)Argh! Yes, Georgie as a bookish history lover is all wrong. They describe Adam as a "tatty broken man" on the description so are they going for is he a fantasist or is he really from the past thing? I need a lie down;p
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Date: 25 Jun 2019 07:38 pm (UTC)So does Simms. Adam and Georgie are too busy bringing petty villains to justice to noticed, but Simms was overcome for a bit by the mere idea. ;-D
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Date: 26 Jun 2019 01:53 pm (UTC)