Could it be the famous Flying Cloud?
For our twelfth anniversary, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks and I conversed over Zoom, because he is still recovering from Schrödinger's flu. Once we are both in better health, we will celebrate properly, as is traditional, with a restaurant and the sea.
The mail this afternoon brought my copy of Chris Boucher's Corpse Marker (1999), so I am naturally rewatching The Robots of Death (1977). Last night I managed to watch a movie I had not previously seen, even.
I keep receiving photographic evidence that people are buying and reading my book, which remains extremely cool. I should like it to continue.
The next secret project proceeds apace. Technically it is someone else's secret project, but I'm in on it, which is fun. Autolycus is helping.
rushthatspeaks and I conversed over Zoom, because he is still recovering from Schrödinger's flu. Once we are both in better health, we will celebrate properly, as is traditional, with a restaurant and the sea.The mail this afternoon brought my copy of Chris Boucher's Corpse Marker (1999), so I am naturally rewatching The Robots of Death (1977). Last night I managed to watch a movie I had not previously seen, even.
I keep receiving photographic evidence that people are buying and reading my book, which remains extremely cool. I should like it to continue.
The next secret project proceeds apace. Technically it is someone else's secret project, but I'm in on it, which is fun. Autolycus is helping.
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Good luck with both the new secret project! (I mean, not that you need luck with the assistance of Autolycus, of course.)
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Thank you! I am enjoying Corpse Marker so far, even if I believe it obviates the fic idea with which I was struck last night after rewatching The Robots of Death.
Good luck with both the new secret project! (I mean, not that you need luck with the assistance of Autolycus, of course.)
He is a marvelous guarantee.
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You should never let that stop you, though! XD I'm glad you're enjoying it.
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In point of fact, I started writing it.
I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I did! In terms of prose style, I found it functional, but in terms of plotting, I liked the riffs on the original.
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And good. His talents definitely lie more with the scriptwriting, certainly.
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*cough*
His talents definitely lie more with the scriptwriting, certainly.
I've just had another recommendation for Blake's 7!
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XD I saw it before I saw this, as I have a Classic Who AO3 feed set up on my Dreamwidth and jumped and ran off to read it immediately. And I have left a little comment there, but I will spoiler that for you by telling you that I loved it!
I've just had another recommendation for Blake's 7!
Well, you know that, given that we first met over Mr Collings, 1970s/80s budget-lite British TV SF and Robots of Death, I have been tiresomely reccing it to you forever! *nods* And, yes. If you watch one thing of all these weird old recs of mine, if any do become possible for you, let it be Blake's 7. I do not know what you would make of it, of course, but I do not think you would ever regret it. <3
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Hah! I'm so glad!
And, yes. If you watch one thing of all these weird old recs of mine, if any do become possible for you, let it be Blake's 7. I do not know what you would make of it, of course, but I do not think you would ever regret it.
Maybe once I finally get my pseudo-TV set back up, I will see if I can find it. I was just in the throes of writing about Kaldor City and a friend in another conversation dropped by to tell me about how much of what she loved about Blake's 7 was Chris Boucher.
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Aw, I hope you can. It is probably the only thing I know that is genuinely both relentlessly bleak and wonderful fun at the same time. (This is why I doubt anyone could really reboot it in a way I would like. They'd be all tonally consistent and, not to downplay the genuine talents involved, B7 works due to some magical serendipitous combination of things that really really shouldn't go together but do.)
I was just in the throes of writing about Kaldor City and a friend in another conversation dropped by to tell me about how much of what she loved about Blake's 7 was Chris Boucher.
I'd hard agree on that. I mean, Terry Nation's set up works very well, too, but he just does not have the knack for characterisation or symbolism or, indeed, outrageous snark, that Chris Boucher has!
Btw, given that I know TV-watching is difficult especially now, if you do feel yourself in the need for more immediate and shorter Chris Boucher stuff, there is also Image of the Fendahl, which is not the polished piece that RoD is (tbf to him, I don't think the director got it, which makes a big difference), but I also adore it (my weird DW fave serial I will defend even though I know it isn't the best one); and as his take on 70s Brit folk horror I think you'd get far more of what he was doing out of it than I can. (He plays games with character names again as well. Plus Leela!)
I found Pt 1 at any rate here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x62guke
(Btw, the other thing that is amusing about it is that I think RTD must love it as well - it features a Time rift, a Martha Tyler and her son Jack, a reference to a mysterious Hartmann, and an Adam. And, funnier still: Martha Tyler lives on a time rift and fights the monsters that come out of it with folklore and she's way better at it than Torchwood. She's one of my all time fave guest characters - Four has far more than his fair share of awesome elderly ladies. XD)
DVD trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp9mIiK2Jdg
But, yeah. B7. It never stops having things to say to everyone who watches it, and it's so deep in the DNA of so much sff that came after. <3
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I really like things with that kind of apparent tonal incongruity, especially when it's key to them working at all. I realized some time ago that several of my favorite movies feel a lot more normal when you are watching them than when you attempt to describe them to anyone else.
(There is little point in most reboots as far as I am concerned, because the originals are almost always so much of the alchemy of who was around at the time and what was in the zeitgeist.)
Btw, given that I know TV-watching is difficult especially now, if you do feel yourself in the need for more immediate and shorter Chris Boucher stuff, there is also Image of the Fendahl, which is not the polished piece that RoD is (tbf to him, I don't think the director got it, which makes a big difference), but I also adore it (my weird DW fave serial I will defend even though I know it isn't the best one); and as his take on 70s Brit folk horror I think you'd get far more of what he was doing out of it than I can. (He plays games with character names again as well. Plus Leela!)
I looked it up to see who else was in it and my first thought was: man, you can't leave Scott Fredericks anywhere, can you?
(I do like folk horror. And Leela.)
She's one of my all time fave guest characters - Four has far more than his fair share of awesome elderly ladies.
All right, I look forward. Thanks for the link!
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XD It's just the glam rock 1984, but with beige sets, crossed with Robin Hood and The Magnificent Seven (but there maybe aren't 7 actually), done as a giant shakespearean tragedy with talking computers IN SPACE but also running around post-industrial Britain in the winter on a 1978-1981 BBC budget.
(I mean, the other reason I couldn't be doing with a reboot is that no one in the 21st C would have the nerve to costume everyone like it's 1979 and they're June Hudson raiding Soho sex shops for leather.)
I looked it up to see who else was in it and my first thought was: man, you can't leave Scott Fredericks anywhere, can you?
LOL! I know, although it's a little less coincidental - directors did the casting in those days and had faves and the same director as Fendahl did the B7 episode Weapon, and cast him again there as Carnell.
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I just wanted to let you know that
(I mean, the other reason I couldn't be doing with a reboot is that no one in the 21st C would have the nerve to costume everyone like it's 1979 and they're June Hudson raiding Soho sex shops for leather.)
The zeitgeist!
although it's a little less coincidental - directors did the casting in those days and had faves and the same director as Fendahl did the B7 episode Weapon, and cast him again there as Carnell.
That's fair, and also kind of charming.
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I'm not sure there is any context for Sarcophagus anyway! Basically if you want to know how weird B7 can be when it feels like it, this is absolutely how weird B7 can be when it feels like it. If you do, I hope you have fun! It's Tanith Lee and not representative of the series for the most part. But also not not representative because some days B7 is like this. (It's s3, though, so you've missed the June Hudson full on leather and glory era of s2, and also will reveal significant cast changes.)
I was worried it might be Sand! Technically there's no real reason you couldn't watch Sand out of context either, I suppose, but I'd save it for watching linearly if you think that might happen.
That YT person seems to have "The Way Back" as well, btw, if you want to try the first episode afterwards, or even before, because it does establish the 1984 future all this takes place in very effectively, is a complete contrast to something like Sarcophagus, which is at least a fair illustration of what a weird combination of things it is in two eps flat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2warRbMFOpk
And TWB does actually have a Blake, it's true.
But B7 is weird chemistry in action and that's why it's hard to say, "Oh, try this ep, or that ep" (although maybe Shadow or Deathwatch or something? And DW fans do City for the Colin Baker, but I think it's nicer to know Vila first).
I wasn't sure I wanted to watch it, but as a longtime DW fan, I'd heard so much about it, I was curious - and also I loved Robots of Death! And then after Image of the Fendahl was great as well, I was just... ok. I have to have more Chris Boucher! I have to Do The Damned Thing, and picked up some VHS edited together versions of the first eps from a charity shop andhad to stop and get the dvds, but I was still a bit, lol, this hokey old show with a great theme tune, I'm just watching it for the lols and waiting for more Chris Boucher ok, i'm not here, right... and then it broke my heart three times at least and made me stand up and clap at the end. Which is embarrassing but absolutely true.
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*cautiously eyes the event horizon*
but I was still a bit, lol, this hokey old show with a great theme tune, I'm just watching it for the lols and waiting for more Chris Boucher ok, i'm not here, right... and then it broke my heart three times at least and made me stand up and clap at the end. Which is embarrassing but absolutely true.
That doesn't sound embarrassing: it sounds like art.
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*points to icon*
That doesn't sound embarrassing: it sounds like art.
<3 (Because of how it ends, other B7 fans do think this sounds sadistic of me when I say, but I had osmosed that bit, so it wasn't like that!)
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I have no photos, but my copy of your book arrived on Friday. *^^* (I'm eternally behind on my reading, as you know, but having it is the first step!)
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Thank you!
I have no photos, but my copy of your book arrived on Friday.
I accept non-photographic evidence! And whenever you get to it, I very much hope you enjoy.
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Also, to be perfectly honest, with HiHo's so close, I have things I should be reading/writing that I've been avoiding. Suffice it to say, I'd far rather be reading your poems.
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I am honored to be a trip book. I am so sorry about the occasion.
Also, to be perfectly honest, with HiHo's so close, I have things I should be reading/writing that I've been avoiding. Suffice it to say, I'd far rather be reading your poems.
*hugs*
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He snuggles so sweetly at the slightest sign of typing!
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I am waiting impatiently for my local bookshop to let me know your book has arrived.
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Thank you!
I am waiting impatiently for my local bookshop to let me know your book has arrived.
I understand shipping is a game of craps these days, but I hope it comes in soon!
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Thank you!
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Thank you.