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As I said, I've made a lot of gifs over the last couple of months and I have not inflicted them on you shared them with you yet! (Part One of...??)

So, very importantly, even if tumblr did not care, I finally managed to make gifs of Anne and James Onedin from The Onedin Line, which I watched over half of via Drama a couple of years ago and which was a ride (in Devon) but you might recall that Anne was the best, and her marriage of convenience with James where they married for a ship and then were both too practical and northern to know how to deal with feelings was all the things. And here they are (played by Peter Gilmore & Anne Stallybrass):






"Oh, Anne, why d'you put up with the likes of me?"

(Anne is upset in the last one because Peter Jeffrey got burnt alive again for the second time that year, but at least he was evil that time and with fake hair that almost merited such a fate. Still, it's a bit distressing.)


Also I finally managed to gif Bram Stoker's Dracula for my Dracula adaptations I have watched series, so I am up to date with what I have watched so far. (It was much overdue because I was posting collected gifsets of the various versions of each character from each one and they had been sitting in my drafts for a year, awaiting one last gif for each set. Now I have hardly any drafts at all, it's amazing.)

But I thought I'd share this set, as it interests me. The 1992 film seems to share a lot of little things with the 1968 TV Dracula that aren't present in the others. It seems an unlikely influence on the face of it, but it does seem nevertheless to be lurking somewhere in BSD's DNA. (Mystery & Imagination was shown in the US, or certainly the 6 surviving Thames episodes, so it's certainly possible.)


Parallels:









(They both have colder versions of Van Helsing).





(A bit less obvious, because the context is different, but they both end with the focus on Mina and Dracula's inheritance.)

Whereas I don't see the same level of influence or shared elements between it and any of the others that came before it (of the ones I've seen). (The 2006 definitely is in conversation with BSD in some way, but I'm not sure I could pin it down to gifs, but that's fairly inevitable, as it was the previous version at that point.)

Anyway, I think it's interesting!

Date: 15 Nov 2020 02:34 pm (UTC)
liadt: Close up of Oichi drawing her sword close to her face with a sword blade meeting hers (Doctor Who)
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If only we could get a TARDIS and go back to make the terrible fake hair bonfire a yearly thing, move over Guy Fawkes:D

Bu-boom!

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