The Hour

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The Hour, oh how I love you!

Even made myself an icon, see?

Not very good but it's my first, so could be worse.

ETA: there may be spoilers in comments

Comments

[gillo]

Yay for an icon of your own!

The Hour was really rather good. Love all the familiar faces in 50s outfits too. (Mac from Green Wing!)

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Yay for an icon of your own!

I'll delete it if I see one I like better, but it'll do for now.

I adore The Hour. I love the nuanced characters. Juliet Stevenson was superb.

Am just a bit concerned that it'll turn out Clarence is the Soviet spy. I like Clarence.

ETA: as you can see I also made a Freddie icon, though I think the Hector one is better.

[lonelybrit]

Was it not absolutely glorious :) It's been a while since I've been so smitten with pretty much each and every main character on a show. Roll on next week!

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Was it not absolutely glorious :)

Yes, I'd say so. I love it absolutely to pieces. I just hope the end isn't a let down, because so far the mystery is very intriguing.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Icon!

Not bad *at all*.

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I made three, in fact. One for each of the main characters. But I think the Hector one is the best one.

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

Yay for icons!

I love all of the main characters, but Freddie most of all. His expression when Hector told him about his affair with Bel was heartbreaking. It's wonderful to watch a series that isn't just 'Typical Male Charater' gets together with 'Typical Female Character' in a 'Typical Relationship' and, instead, has characters with rough edges whose feelings aren't neat... And then there's murder, and intrigue, and politics, and sexual politics... The Radio Times critics seem to have had a problem getting their heads around it, saying that it's 'exasperating' and that it's hard to care about any of the characters. What?

I would watch it for Bel's wardrobe alone!

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I find the Radio Times's reaction puzzling too. What's not to love? It's all wonderful. The Lix/Freddie took me by surprise, but I thought it worked really well in the circumstances. And I love how nuanced it all is.

The different 'classes' aren't stereotyped either. The Elms family are all very sympathetic, I think, and Marnie's dad seems like a decent bloke.

[kathyh]

I'm loving "The Hour". I think I would watch Ben Whishaw in anything and I adore Freddie but the other characters are terrific too.

Not very good but it's my first, so could be worse.

It's absolutely fine. There's nothing wrong with that at all and I would never have guessed that it's your first! Welcome to the addictive world of icon making *g*.

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I think I would watch Ben Whishaw in anything and I adore Freddie but the other characters are terrific too.

I love Freddie too, and if anyone wanted to write Freddie/Hector slash I might well read it. ;)

Thanks for your kind words about my icon. I think the Hector and Bel ones aren't too bad, but I need to remake the Freddie one. It needs less black and more of the thing he's standing next to, which is a camera. As it is, you can't tell.

[kathyh]

Yes, I think you're right. I haven't seen the cap obviously but I'd be inclined to move Freddie right over and lose most of the black. That's a really pretty Bel icon.

if anyone wanted to write Freddie/Hector slash I might well read it. ;)

LOL! I didn't think I'd be the only person to spot the slashy vibes!

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LOL! I didn't think I'd be the only person to spot the slashy vibes!

Heh! They're hard not to spot.

The Bel icon was easiest in fact and is the only one I managed to get completely square.

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Okay, I've tinkered with the Freddie icon. What do you think now?

[kathyh]

I like that a lot better. The shape of the camera makes his face stand out against it. It's more him if you see what I mean. Very nice work!

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The screencap was rectangular and I couldn't square it and include in the pic where it said BBC on the camera. A pity.

[kathyh]

Welcome to the sometimes massive annoyances of icon-making *g*. I find getting a good crop the hardest thing to do, but they make or break an icon. I've had to junk so many because I got half way through and realised that there was a way I could crop it better!

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Well, I hope I might get the hang of square cropping soon. After that, there'll be no stopping me. :)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ohhh...I take it that Dominic West is very good in this??
(I already miss him from the Wire. His acting in that final season was ...amazing. Actually everyone's was.)

Your brief reviews are intriguing me and I'm going to get to watch it myself - next week! YAY!

Avoiding spoilers..

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Ohhh...I take it that Dominic West is very good in this??

He is, though his accent isn't quite RP enough for the period (ie. he doesn't sound enough like the Queen), but it's not just him. Everyone is excellent.

I hope you enjoy it when you get the chance to see it.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Well done on your icons! When you mentioned yesterday that you needed some I thought about the session on Saturday and wondered if you might give it a go, and you did. I think they look great.

I have to admit that I've not paid full attention to The Hour up until last night, and might just have to go back and watch it on the iPlayer. Yesterday's ep was a cracker though.

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I think they look great.

Thank you. :) I think the Bel and Hector ones are not too bad. I need to remake the Freddie one, though. At the moment, it just looks like he's wearing an odd earmuff rather than standing next to a camera.

I highly recommend going back and rewatching previous eps. I actually re-watched last night's episode before going to sleep. Was glue to it.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

Last night's ep was superb! I adored pretty much everything about it, but have to admit to having a bit of a soft spot for Freddie. I may just have to re-watch it again myself...

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I'm a bit in love with Freddie myself. He has this vulnerable quality that's very attractive.