Beyond the Roundels

persiflage_1 asked for my Top 5 David Collings performances. It's a tough call and I had to separate them into TV and audio to make it fair:

( Under a cut because gifs )

from beccadg: Top 5 Time Travel Stories Any Medium

1. Doctor Who
2. Does Sapphire & Steel count? Because S&S
3. A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley
4. Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
5. Back to the Future


Top 5 Plays by William Shakespeare

Oh, tough, I've never really tried rating them before. (Also I haven't finished watching my way through the BBC Shakespeare yet so some of them I don't know.)

1. Henry V
2. Twelfth Night
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Measure for Measure (I have feelings, I don't know, I just do! *fights people*)
5. Julius Caeasar. (I once hugged my BBC copy of this when I was very ill and I felt grateful for its existence but I was so ill I fell asleep like that and its cover plastic has now gone wibbly because I softened it with my love in a very literal way).

I feel bad about leaving RIII off though, as it is awesome, especially in the BBC Shakespeare version (which accounts for most of my Shakespeare watching). But top 2 still goes to the two I actually studied properly, despite my demon English teacher. Even he couldn't ruin Shakespeare too much.


Top 5 Cartoon Series From the 1980s

THis is basically another banana one because there is Dungeons and Dragons and then there's everything else, but hey, I shall try.

1. Dungeons & Dragons
2. Mysterious Cities of Gold (that was an epic ride when we were about 9 or so)
3. Visionaries (or was that just 1990s) - I do recall having a thing for that one, but it might have been early 90s
4. Ulysses 31
5. Um...? Oh, yes, Battle of the Planets. I know nothing about it now, but I adored it when I was six and it is a real thing that I didn't dream, despite nobody else my age ever remembering it when we talked children's TV. (Me: "So they had like bird helmets and one of them talked like a duck, and there was a robot and a really scary baddy!" EVeryone else: ??? *backs away slowly*)

Top 5 TV Shows With a Fantasy Theme

Which is tricky, because there's not much TV that is actually fantasy rather than SF; TV people are always so scared of magic things.

1. Once Upon a Time
2. The Librarians
3. Legend of the Seeker (I haven't rewatched this one since, which is always a telling thing, but I did enjoy it a lot when I did watch it)
4. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Meme found in the wild: Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc. Treat us to some commentary once you're done.

I thought it'd be fun... I hadn't quite realised what a weird jumble of characters I have - some of them are there more for the action in the icon than the character. So, in most cases, let's say that instead of a commentary, a horrified silence might be more appropriate?

(Actually, it turned out better than I expected. For the first half of the alphabet, anyway.)

( 38 random pairings and an odd man out )

I made this yesterday (& probably spent too much time doing it) and apparently I won't be happy till I've posted it. I'll catch up with everything else tomorrow. Besides, who doesn't want happy festive stuff in their life, even if it is a bit early. And just one of the million and one adaptations of A Christmas Carol?

Well, ish. The bits with David Collings in as Bob Cratchit, anyway. I thought I'd better explain my strangeness the other night by sharing these with you. It was tough not making it as epic as the David Collings picspam to which this is an (early) festive addendum, but I managed it!

Basically, I was so tired on Monday when I watched it that my brain hiccoughed and fell over the Oliver! accent, and then failed to pick itself up due to the unreal amount of Dickensian Christmassy fluff going on. (what is this i don't even. yes, exactly.)

There was some stuff with Albert Finney and some ghosts played by Alec Guinness, Edith Evans and Kenneth More, but why would anyone be interested in that? (I know, sorry! I... just was more interested in this other stuff under the cut. I might use the more general caps to make some festive/winter icons, maybe.)

( The Cratchits are going to have as good a Christmas as the Lord Mayor of London himself! )