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shapinglightHello. Haven't posted much lately. Dunno why really. I just have nothing to say, or nothing that I think anyone will be interested in. ;(
More behind cut with (very) slight spoilers for Lucifer.
I do seem to be busy most of the time, but not with anything worth talking about - except that I have done a little writing. Am currently about half way through the first draft of another historical fic - something I started several years ago but never got very far with. So we'll see how that goes.
TV-wise, I've been watching Deutschland 83 on Channel 4 (brilliant), War and Peace on the BBC (not at all brilliant), Agent Carter by 'other means,' (still enormous fun) and Ripper Street season 4 on Amazon Prime (harrowing). Also on Prime, I've just watched the first episode of Lucifer. I knew nothing about it before I watched it. Had never read the comics series it's (very tenuously, from what I've read since) based on, and only realised it existed because Amazon Prime had a big banner advertising it.
All the way through the first half of the episode, I was racking my brains trying to work out where I'd seen the actor playing Lucifer before. Took me ages before I realised he was the bloke who played Gary, the love interest in Miranda. Bit of a change of pace for him. I thought he was very good anyway - and nice to see a Brit actor playing a villain, who is also the main character so you sorta, kinda have to root for him despite yourself (even if he is playing opposite a very hunky looking DB Woodside sporting a pair of not terribly good CGI wings). We'll see how it goes, but so far so cliched police procedural with a twist, and I really don't like procedurals.
I wonder if the original idea was to make the show much darker, more like the comic books, but that got stomped on by the suits upstairs? We can't have a lead character who is unsympathetic, right, even if he is supposed to be the Devil?
I dunno. Anyway, I kind of want it to do well, if only because some conservative Christian mothers group (or something of the sort) wanted to ban it, in case it made people think the Devil was a good guy. They had a petition, so I understand, with over 100,000 signatures.
Anyway, I'm away this weekend, away next weekend, then away for most of March and April. More on that at some point. Annoyingly, looks like I'll going away in March on the actual day of the Agent Carter finale and the day before season 4 of The Americans begins airing. Somehow or other, I have to find a way of not missing them, but so far I've no idea how I'm going to do it.
Have a nice weekend, and see you next week. I'll try to post some pictures next week, if nothing else.
More behind cut with (very) slight spoilers for Lucifer.
I do seem to be busy most of the time, but not with anything worth talking about - except that I have done a little writing. Am currently about half way through the first draft of another historical fic - something I started several years ago but never got very far with. So we'll see how that goes.
TV-wise, I've been watching Deutschland 83 on Channel 4 (brilliant), War and Peace on the BBC (not at all brilliant), Agent Carter by 'other means,' (still enormous fun) and Ripper Street season 4 on Amazon Prime (harrowing). Also on Prime, I've just watched the first episode of Lucifer. I knew nothing about it before I watched it. Had never read the comics series it's (very tenuously, from what I've read since) based on, and only realised it existed because Amazon Prime had a big banner advertising it.
All the way through the first half of the episode, I was racking my brains trying to work out where I'd seen the actor playing Lucifer before. Took me ages before I realised he was the bloke who played Gary, the love interest in Miranda. Bit of a change of pace for him. I thought he was very good anyway - and nice to see a Brit actor playing a villain, who is also the main character so you sorta, kinda have to root for him despite yourself (even if he is playing opposite a very hunky looking DB Woodside sporting a pair of not terribly good CGI wings). We'll see how it goes, but so far so cliched police procedural with a twist, and I really don't like procedurals.
I wonder if the original idea was to make the show much darker, more like the comic books, but that got stomped on by the suits upstairs? We can't have a lead character who is unsympathetic, right, even if he is supposed to be the Devil?
I dunno. Anyway, I kind of want it to do well, if only because some conservative Christian mothers group (or something of the sort) wanted to ban it, in case it made people think the Devil was a good guy. They had a petition, so I understand, with over 100,000 signatures.
Anyway, I'm away this weekend, away next weekend, then away for most of March and April. More on that at some point. Annoyingly, looks like I'll going away in March on the actual day of the Agent Carter finale and the day before season 4 of The Americans begins airing. Somehow or other, I have to find a way of not missing them, but so far I've no idea how I'm going to do it.
Have a nice weekend, and see you next week. I'll try to post some pictures next week, if nothing else.
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Date: 2016-01-29 08:53 pm (UTC)Still enjoying Agent Carter's return. I heard a spot about War & Peace yesterday, too bad it's not very good. Glad to hear S4 is out though I expect I'll be getting it later this year on BBCAmerica. We recorded Lucifer but haven't seen it yet so I don't know if we'll be watching it.
We did just start watching Party Animals on DVD. Quickly spotted actors from Broadchurch, Dr. Who (of course), Downton Abbey, Mistresses, etc. It seems all our British series are like games of visual trivial pursuit.
Speaking also of Brits playing everyone, it amused me that in Man from UNCLE only three actors were actually playing their own nationalities -- otherwise we had an American playing a Russian, two Brits playing Americans, a Swede playing a German, and a Frenchwoman playing an Italian among the major characters. We only had 1 German, 1 Italian, and 1 English actor playing their own countrymen.
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Date: 2016-02-01 08:43 pm (UTC)Yes, it's a holiday. At some point I'll overcome my weird reluctance to talk about it and make a post.
As for War & Peace not being very good, since I've never managed to finish the book I guess I'm not really a good judge. Yesterday's episode (the 5th of 6) was a lot better, I thought.
That is funny about The Man from UNCLE. I had no idea.
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Date: 2016-01-29 09:42 pm (UTC)"nods" It's made me very nostalgic for the 1972 version. Although I do like Paul Dano as Pierre.
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Date: 2016-02-01 08:45 pm (UTC)It is very good. I must have a look at the other Walter Presents series and see what else takes my fancy.
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Date: 2016-01-29 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-02-01 08:45 pm (UTC)Season 2 is shaping up pretty well too.
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Date: 2016-01-30 12:00 am (UTC)I watched Lucifer, too - but I also read some of the comics, so I can attest to just how very tenuously the show is based on them. I guess the show was all right, but really the comic was so much better. The comic was a bit dark, but Lucifer was still sympathetic; it was actually God who was less so, which probably had a lot to do with leaving much of the comic out.
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Date: 2016-02-01 08:47 pm (UTC)I'm sure you're right. I find it hard to believe a US network show would dare to imply that God isn't very nice (despite Biblical evidence to that effect).
ETA: Actually, I may be wrong about this. I've just watched episode 2, and there are definite hints that that is the case.
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Date: 2016-02-04 06:10 am (UTC)I'm still not sure I've committed to the show, though. I have to separate it in my mind from the comic, I guess.
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Date: 2016-02-01 08:47 pm (UTC)And you do watch The Americans, don't you? I'm sure I remember you saying how much you liked it.
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Date: 2016-01-30 08:31 am (UTC)Annoyingly, looks like I'll going away in March on the actual day of the Agent Carter finale and the day before season 4 of The Americans begins airing.
Ah, I was wondering how stuff like this would pan out for you. Especially Game of Thrones, which is presumably starting again soon.
Apparently the grand wotsist of Daesh sent out a call for all Muslims to join them and there was a very witty meme of Americans giving reasons why they couldn't go. Wanting to see the new season of GoT was high on the list :D
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Date: 2016-02-01 08:52 pm (UTC)Is that another TV show?
Especially Game of Thrones, which is presumably starting again soon.
It in fact starts the week after we get back so I shan't miss any of it. Ironically, I'd mind less about missing that than I do about missing The Americans.
Apparently the grand wotsist of Daesh sent out a call for all Muslims to join them and there was a very witty meme of Americans giving reasons why they couldn't go. Wanting to see the new season of GoT was high on the list :D
Yeah, this was on Twitter/Facebook weeks back, and it certainly wasn't just Americans who responded.
The Daesh Big Cheese demanded all Muslims come to Syria to defend Islam, and one very witty (I thought) answer was from someone asking what time they'd be finished, as his mum said he had to be home by half past ten.
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