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thisbluespirit) wrote2021-01-10 08:34 pm
thisbluespirit) wrote2021-01-10 08:34 pm
Fandom Snowflake Day 5
Day 4 was to set goals and since I have decided that it is very important for me to have a goal of not having goals for the moment, that's a wash. I suppose I could vow to re-upload some more icons that PhotoBucket ate in one of its tantrums. That would be good.
In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I was determined this time to do something less obscure but canons I have been thinking about and having feelings for especially at the moment are The Power Game, The Shadow of the Tower and Department S, so no hope of that.
Anyway, I love The Shadow of the Tower and am halfway through my annual rewatch, but I stopped to watch new and shinier things and also because I don't want it to be over and there will be no more, and while I am grateful with all my heart for the fic that kind people have written for me, I pine for more. But I am working on tumblr on that, although mostly their enthusiasm for SotT is that the BBC should remake it now so it would be pretty and have prettier people and, as you can imagine, that is NOT what I am here for.
Anyway, if random Snowflakes like old time BBC theatrical period dramas ASK ME MORE here. Otherwise, I will leave everybody in peace with my weird liking of a thing made of cardboard on 1972 about Henry VII. (I do love it so very much though. It's like being cursed. By an secret awesome thing.)
I won't even talk about The Power Game any more because it has been about six years and I can't even sell it toliadt who loves one of the main writers and likes this kind of stuff, so what hope is there in the world? None. And this is fair. They are terrible charming snarky people who make concrete in fuzzy b&w film copies of the originals, and people do not believe me (or Mariocki on tumblr) when we talk of its awesome.
But I have Barbara Murray gifs and this is something that anyone can appreciate, I feel sure. She is not the only great thing in it - everyone is great! But she does just about win best person in it and she has the silliest hats and I love her (even though Pamela is also a terrible person really):
John (Patrick Wymark) and Pamela Wilder (Barbara Murray) in their first on-screen appearance in The Plane Makers in 1963.
Some Pamela gifs for the world. (Only one hat; not especially silly on the S2 Pamela hat scale.)
The shipping possibilities are way off the scale and all in totally uncharted waters. I'd say the first fic writer to do something about this will have mighty rewards, but all they will actually get is bafflement and silence. However, one such ship is Pamela/Don, which I casually mention as I have gifs:
(He does not even mind her silliest hat.)
This totally happened in the past between them:
(OK, not really, but this is Jack Watling and Barbara Murray in Meet Mr Lucifer in 1953. Can you believe that Wilder asks Don to take Pamela out every time he's not available? He does.)
Anyway, this isn't a proper write up, because if it were, I would insert a gif of a young Michael Jayston at the very least and talk about how epic the snark is and all the possible ships that lie unwritten and also probably add more James Maxwell eating peanut gifs, but I'm just sharing Pamela today, much to the relief of everyone, I'm sure.
Department S, in comparison, is practically not obscure, is in colour, on film, has exciting adventures, is the 1960s finally making something that was not racist, and has an adorable OT3 and also the same wallpaper in every other episode. (The wallpaper also turns up in other British films and ITC serials, so I have fun looking out for it now. I spotted it in Hammer the other day. It was very exciting obv.)
Here are Jason and Annabelle not caring about each other a lot:
Jason and Stewart also don't care about each other and Sir Curtis's concern for his trio is always PURELY PROFESSIONAL even when he calls in the army the second Jason gets taken hostage and can talk Stewart down off the ledge in about five seconds flat or if he worries that Annabelle is working too many hours.
I wrote this about it for a Yuletide promo post once:
It's one of those UK 60s action-adventure serials (made on film! with US money! Not 100% composed of cardboard!), about an Interpol Department that investigate inexplicable and surreal incidents that nobody else can explain. (Why did someone suffocate in a space suit in central London? A plane goes missing for six days, but everyone on board is sure they've landed 20 minutes early... Why is there a body in a fake, beautifully furnished room in a warehouse?)
The Department consists of the diplomat in charge, Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters), and his three operatives, Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) who heads up the team and tends to do the legwork and the action scenes (although he has an impressive tendency to get drugged/knocked out/tortured in the process, especially in the first half of the series), computer expert Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nicols) who's brainy, competent, and is let in on the action far more than most ITC female leads, and flamboyant thriller author Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), who's there to flirt with the enemy and provide outside-the-box answers using his imagination. You can ship them in pretty much any direction you like, and they a pretty great OT3 of whatever kind you prefer and there is lots of potential for casefic, shipping and hurt/comfort in canon.
It's a lot of fun and the "Mary Celeste" type openers are v cool, its moments of seriousness are actually pretty great, and the guest cast even includes a young Anthony Hopkins, while Jason and his fictional hero Mark Caine mean it comes with a post-modern tongue-in-cheek/meta element. I picked it up this summer and loved it far more than I'd expected, going by the idea I had of Jason King.
Where to find: It's out on DVD and even Blu-Ray; I can't find it on YT, though, but I did find some trailers/fanvids that give a pretty good idea of its virtues and flaws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-UUbdLDrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06YHH9eEjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4V2nZBYvnM
You can find the first episode online here at DailyMotion.
In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I was determined this time to do something less obscure but canons I have been thinking about and having feelings for especially at the moment are The Power Game, The Shadow of the Tower and Department S, so no hope of that.
Anyway, I love The Shadow of the Tower and am halfway through my annual rewatch, but I stopped to watch new and shinier things and also because I don't want it to be over and there will be no more, and while I am grateful with all my heart for the fic that kind people have written for me, I pine for more. But I am working on tumblr on that, although mostly their enthusiasm for SotT is that the BBC should remake it now so it would be pretty and have prettier people and, as you can imagine, that is NOT what I am here for.
Anyway, if random Snowflakes like old time BBC theatrical period dramas ASK ME MORE here. Otherwise, I will leave everybody in peace with my weird liking of a thing made of cardboard on 1972 about Henry VII. (I do love it so very much though. It's like being cursed. By an secret awesome thing.)
I won't even talk about The Power Game any more because it has been about six years and I can't even sell it to
liadt who loves one of the main writers and likes this kind of stuff, so what hope is there in the world? None. And this is fair. They are terrible charming snarky people who make concrete in fuzzy b&w film copies of the originals, and people do not believe me (or Mariocki on tumblr) when we talk of its awesome.But I have Barbara Murray gifs and this is something that anyone can appreciate, I feel sure. She is not the only great thing in it - everyone is great! But she does just about win best person in it and she has the silliest hats and I love her (even though Pamela is also a terrible person really):
John (Patrick Wymark) and Pamela Wilder (Barbara Murray) in their first on-screen appearance in The Plane Makers in 1963.
Some Pamela gifs for the world. (Only one hat; not especially silly on the S2 Pamela hat scale.)
The shipping possibilities are way off the scale and all in totally uncharted waters. I'd say the first fic writer to do something about this will have mighty rewards, but all they will actually get is bafflement and silence. However, one such ship is Pamela/Don, which I casually mention as I have gifs:
(He does not even mind her silliest hat.)
This totally happened in the past between them:
(OK, not really, but this is Jack Watling and Barbara Murray in Meet Mr Lucifer in 1953. Can you believe that Wilder asks Don to take Pamela out every time he's not available? He does.)
Anyway, this isn't a proper write up, because if it were, I would insert a gif of a young Michael Jayston at the very least and talk about how epic the snark is and all the possible ships that lie unwritten and also probably add more James Maxwell eating peanut gifs, but I'm just sharing Pamela today, much to the relief of everyone, I'm sure.
Department S, in comparison, is practically not obscure, is in colour, on film, has exciting adventures, is the 1960s finally making something that was not racist, and has an adorable OT3 and also the same wallpaper in every other episode. (The wallpaper also turns up in other British films and ITC serials, so I have fun looking out for it now. I spotted it in Hammer the other day. It was very exciting obv.)
Here are Jason and Annabelle not caring about each other a lot:
Jason and Stewart also don't care about each other and Sir Curtis's concern for his trio is always PURELY PROFESSIONAL even when he calls in the army the second Jason gets taken hostage and can talk Stewart down off the ledge in about five seconds flat or if he worries that Annabelle is working too many hours.
I wrote this about it for a Yuletide promo post once:
It's one of those UK 60s action-adventure serials (made on film! with US money! Not 100% composed of cardboard!), about an Interpol Department that investigate inexplicable and surreal incidents that nobody else can explain. (Why did someone suffocate in a space suit in central London? A plane goes missing for six days, but everyone on board is sure they've landed 20 minutes early... Why is there a body in a fake, beautifully furnished room in a warehouse?)
The Department consists of the diplomat in charge, Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters), and his three operatives, Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) who heads up the team and tends to do the legwork and the action scenes (although he has an impressive tendency to get drugged/knocked out/tortured in the process, especially in the first half of the series), computer expert Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nicols) who's brainy, competent, and is let in on the action far more than most ITC female leads, and flamboyant thriller author Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), who's there to flirt with the enemy and provide outside-the-box answers using his imagination. You can ship them in pretty much any direction you like, and they a pretty great OT3 of whatever kind you prefer and there is lots of potential for casefic, shipping and hurt/comfort in canon.
It's a lot of fun and the "Mary Celeste" type openers are v cool, its moments of seriousness are actually pretty great, and the guest cast even includes a young Anthony Hopkins, while Jason and his fictional hero Mark Caine mean it comes with a post-modern tongue-in-cheek/meta element. I picked it up this summer and loved it far more than I'd expected, going by the idea I had of Jason King.
Where to find: It's out on DVD and even Blu-Ray; I can't find it on YT, though, but I did find some trailers/fanvids that give a pretty good idea of its virtues and flaws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-UUbdLDrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06YHH9eEjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4V2nZBYvnM
You can find the first episode online here at DailyMotion.
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Isn't that just small-fandom-love all over!
That is a great post - those gifs are cool :)
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And thank you.