Entertaining in a Disturbing Way

1. I visited my family over the holiday - it was nice to see them. Mom and I watched the end of Foyle's War, and Sister Boniface, and Campion and some other things.

2. I took two weeks off. Well. Six days, I've got the Friday/Monday sandwiching both holidays off as well. It feels weird.

3. Did NOT drive in the storm, went down the day before. Wouldn't have enjoyed it.

4. Chris Boucher and Stephen Greif have both passed away. The Blake's 7 family continues to shrink (show lead, Star Cops creator, DW script editor and writer. And the first Travis).

5. I got round to posting the Lee/Roslin smut fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43725378

6. Also wrote some Johanna (modern) and Ric the Vic fic. Well, mostly Ric's POV. https://archiveofourown.org/works/43609537 I would kill for an entire series of the two of them and their insane adventures bilking the aristos out of cash for demon slaying.

7. Re: Foyle's War, I have thoughts on how Foyle was entirely unsuited to the security services. And I fell in love with Valentine (who has no fic about him at all, which is sad). I still don't like Adam Wainwright :/ - at least Max Brown had decent chemistry with Honeysuckle Weeks, though. I'm also deeply unimpressed with their choices at the end of the series. Ugh.

1. I was listening to the Counting Crows' August and Everything After..., and 'Anna Begins' came on, and the line about coconut islands crossed my ears, and I started thinking about Sam/Jack and how I'm not really in that place anymore where I ship them so hard. Except as strangers, apparently. Idk.

2. I sort of have this terrible idea of making a Ros/Adam vid to 'Dotted Lines' by Sweet Talk Radio, with extra punchy angst for the last refrain and closing shot (because I am mean)

3. In news about how easy I am, I discovered, upon watching series 8 of Spooks, that I ship the new home secretary (Andrew something or other) with Ros.... Because she drags him down a corridor this one time (damn you, BSG, for adding patterns to my shipping). (also, because he sacked Harry; everyone should sack Harry)

4. Speaking of Harry, re-listening to Foyle's War brings me to rediscover Hilda Pierce, who is obviously Harry Pearce's grandmother, name spellings notwithstanding. (no lie, I would watch a series about Hilda Pierce, international spy handler. GET ON THAT, BBC)

5. Also. The French Drop is extra hilarious after having seen Spooks (just for the ridiculous spy stuff, and the giggles that the baby MI-5 cause, although it possibly isn't really MI-5, as there's an MI-6 operative about. BUT STILL. giggles)

6. NOTE TO SELF; DO NOT FORGET YOUR CELL PHONE.

As foenix says.

Entirely accurate. Yes.

In other news, I've been mainlining Foyle's War (again, though I did stop at the end of s1 last time), and, really, it's like watching a Vancouver TV show with all the Spot the Actor bits.

Makes it rather amusing, as I'll go, "I know that person" -- although, the thing that makes me giggle even more are the adds inside the DVD case for Midsomer Murders box sets. Both shows seem to share the same guest cast...

Seriously, if Julian Curry ever shows up, he'll have, like, the Quadruple Murder Crown or something. He's been in Rumpole (Claude Erskine-Brown, in fact), Inspector Morse AND Midsomer Murders.

And some of them can even be tracked to Doctor Who. Oldskool, even.

Plus, where else will you have Jonathon Kreitman arresting Andrew? OR OR.... OMG.

BEST GUEST STAR EVER. The London office of the gas board (or whatever it was during Among the Few) that Foyle and Milner visit? IS THE OSC BUILDING.

FOR SERIOUS.

The conference room was redressed for the period, but that WAS the main stairwell. There can't be that many buildings in London used by TV crews that look like that.

Erm. Yes. So the other good thing about the dvds is their lack of, ah, copy protection. It's going to take four tapes to get three seasons, which isn't too bad.

Also, all of the men dress so NICELY.

And the interview with Sam and Milner's actors is just horrible. The person doing the questions is fucking awful, and really should have just poked them and made them laugh and mock each other or something.

ETA: ALSO. The best best thing about Honeysuckle Weeks? She was mini!Faith in A Dark Adapted Eye. *geeks*

Mmm. Marathonned some season one X-Files. There's nothing quite like very early stupid!cute to make you remember why you liked a show. I find, as long as the Conspiracy isn't there, I like XF. Pity it collapses under its own weight later on.

And Scully's dad is General Hammond.

Cue bad crossovers.

Leoben was in an episode, too. Which means you can totally have Cylons on Earth during season two. And Scully and Mulder find the Cylon conspiracy... Or maybe Leoben just converts Scully to the Way of God.

Saw Phoebe Green, too, and was reminded of the fabulous What God Has Joined Together which is an XF/Excalibur crossover, with the Uncreated (who, really, should run into the Cylons... ooh, three-way crossover). And was one of the first crossovers I ever read. Pity Luba and Roberta never finished it. Sigh.

(also, saw Badger, but I kept calling him Weasel, and if they ever DO a Deadpool movie, Mark Sheppard should SO be Weasel)

I randomly got the first episode of Foyle's War from the library last week. Really liked it, it's set during WW2, and the politics and interpersonal strife is just done incredibly well (and, er, makes the stuff on BSG look complete crap, sadly). So I got the next three eps.

And now must wait until I can get season two. Since, er, WWC is this weekend, and I can't marathon eight hours before then. Really.

I've also found a new Sam to love. Samantha Stewart, Foyle's driver, is rather lovely. She's cute, perky, bluff, not particularly good at being sneaky, tall, smartly-dressed. And has no qualms about hitting people with lead pipes.

I feel certain that they put the lead pipe (or whatever it was) scene in just to snag me.

She's also snarky at times. (her meeting with Foyle's son was marvellous)

*happysigh*

The mysteries themselves are full of drama. Lots of emotion and passion, things of that nature. They're really well-done. And, as I said, the interpersonal stuff is just incredible. England during wartime is so beautifully-drawn, when bombs might fall at any moment, or an invasion occur. And I love that they weren't afraid to show every side of humanity, so you get the nazi sympathizers, the communists, the people who hate without question, etc, and there's no clear-cut message of them saying, "OMG, this is right! And this is wrong!"

Well, justice is about the only right, really. Finding out the truth and bringing murderers in.

And Sam has great legs.