The walls grew fatter here than any in the land
It is not my norm that all of my completed fiction so far this year has been fanfiction, but on the other hand I could be not writing fiction at all. Most lately, for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit: "The Debt of Centuries."
I wanted to write them reciprocal casefic for Sapphire & Steel (1979–82), so I threw their catalogue of original and other elements into the Ersatz Genremixer to see if I got any useful prompts. Among others, I received "Arsenic / Zinc - Awkward moment & tradition & Lending a coat in the cold," which was technically no crackier than the rest except that Arsenic and Zinc are fancast with Caroline Blakiston and Alec McCowen, last seen by me in Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984–85). I could not resist.
The title is a mondegreen left over from hearing Dave Goulder's "These Dry Stone Walls" (since I can't find a link to his own recording, here performed by Gordon Bok) decades before I saw the official lyrics. It seemed to suit. I do not think I am one of nature's tag-users.
thisbluespirit: "The Debt of Centuries."I wanted to write them reciprocal casefic for Sapphire & Steel (1979–82), so I threw their catalogue of original and other elements into the Ersatz Genremixer to see if I got any useful prompts. Among others, I received "Arsenic / Zinc - Awkward moment & tradition & Lending a coat in the cold," which was technically no crackier than the rest except that Arsenic and Zinc are fancast with Caroline Blakiston and Alec McCowen, last seen by me in Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984–85). I could not resist.
The title is a mondegreen left over from hearing Dave Goulder's "These Dry Stone Walls" (since I can't find a link to his own recording, here performed by Gordon Bok) decades before I saw the official lyrics. It seemed to suit. I do not think I am one of nature's tag-users.
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Oh, those are good. And a candle totally counts for fire. I used dry stone walling and/or Bonfire Night for tradition.
Oh, there were a lot of 'hysterical' female eps in Thriller that I didn't appreciate that that sounds like (Thriller is very much pastiche, I think; I just don't have a clue which films it's riffing on), but nevertheless, I shall no doubt have to keep an eye out for it as well!
Right? I have no expectations, but nonetheless feel it may lurk in my future. If nothing else, I have never not enjoyed Peter Cushing in a movie regardless of the movie itself.
(I actually mainly know Judy not from film but from being Caroline Penvenen in the 1970s Poldark... which also starred Ralph Bates, of course, because nothing about this era of Brit TV/film is not incestuous!)
I got her from Danger UXB (1979), which also gave me technically the entire cast, since I was in high school at the time, but primarily Anthony Andrews, Iain Cuthbertson, and Tim Piggott-Smith. I hadn't realized until I looked her up recently that she was in Lords of Salem (2012), which I have been meaning to see for an actual decade now.
(If he's watched S4, all of those things should make sense to him as to whether or not he wants to watch them.)
I shall convey this information. Thank you!
and Dad was going, "Napoleon Solo?" and I was dying of laughter on the sofa because, well, my Dad is short and blue-eyed with light brown hair and was 60s cute and, well...
Aw.
(My mother is also fond of David McCallum. I may have told the story of how she wanted to name my brother Ilya, until my father insisted that it would leave their children sounding like a Russian vaudeville act. He is supposed to have counter-suggested Igor and my brother ended up named after one of my mother's favorite literary characters instead.)
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Oh, one of those things I should get to sometime, I think. But, you know, does it have James Maxwell or Suzanne Neve or David Collings in it? No, it does not. Or Martin Jarvis, sadly. Sometimes I watch all sorts, sometimes I'm very tunnel-visioned onto favourites. (I'm still glaring at MJ's imbd in my head ok. I feel he could have made more of an effort to be findable in the 70s.) XD
I may have told the story of how she wanted to name my brother Ilya, until my father insisted that it would leave their children sounding like a Russian vaudeville act. He is supposed to have counter-suggested Igor
lol! That is a story worth telling. XD
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I like it very much, which I am sure you have heard from other people: I watched it again this spring for the first time since high school and it held up (and I recognized far more of the supporting and guest cast than the first time around). I may orient more toward the technical storylines than necessarily all of the interpersonal plots, but I believe that to be a factor of my priorities as a viewer, not the quality of the writing. This latest viewing also got me to care about Kenneth Cranham.
Now I'm trying to figure out the kind of character that Martin Jarvis would have been in an episode of Danger UXB. David Collings would probably have been blown up.
(I'm still glaring at MJ's imbd in my head ok. I feel he could have made more of an effort to be findable in the 70s.)
I assume you saw this interview in which an action sequence from Breakaway featured as his choice of worst job he's ever done?
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I don't know what Danger UXB is like enough to say, but clearly this may be the approach to take! I can watch it and tell you what JM and Martin Jarvis would have been in it. XD I know enough about David Collings to agree that he would unquestionably have died and exploding is a fairly safe bet for him - probably in the process of trying to blow up other people as well, because he's just like that.
I assume you saw this interview in which an action sequence from Breakaway featured as his choice of worst job he's ever done?
The only person I really look hard for interviews with is JM, so no, I hadn't, and thanks! I really did laugh aloud reading that bit because the first thing I thought when I saw that sequence was that the actor was NOT enjoying himself at all and clearly I was not wrong.
I'm very glad he didn't get poisoned by his gas fire before making it in the 60s, though. (I wouldn't have made gas leak comments in my fic if I'd read that!!)
To the Old Vic in the 1950s to work with Gielgud, Olivier, Richardson and the great director Tyrone Guthrie.
But also: he would like to swap places with James Maxwell for a bit. XD
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I mean, I think that would be delightful. And it does have Judy Geeson.
I know enough about David Collings to agree that he would unquestionably have died and exploding is a fairly safe bet for him - probably in the process of trying to blow up other people as well, because he's just like that.
He could always have been traumatized and frozen up while defusing a bomb and gone that way!
The only person I really look hard for interviews with is JM, so no, I hadn't, and thanks!
Of course! It turned up looking for information about The Forsyte Saga. "And I do love them both."
I really did laugh aloud reading that bit because the first thing I thought when I saw that sequence was that the actor was NOT enjoying himself at all and clearly I was not wrong.
The behind-the-scenes for Breakaway so far are really something so far.
I'm very glad he didn't get poisoned by his gas fire before making it in the 60s, though. (I wouldn't have made gas leak comments in my fic if I'd read that!!)
That's like everyone's clocks stopping when they watch Sapphire & Steel.
But also: he would like to swap places with James Maxwell for a bit.
An understandable ambition.
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He's very murdery as well, though. (He started out as Raskolnikov. He murders and breaks down; it's what he does! XD)
Of course! It turned up looking for information about The Forsyte Saga. "And I do love them both."
Aw, yes. And it was very nice, too! (And also I do look for other people; it's just only been JM lately because he is interesting and tantalisingly elusive but not so elusive as to make a person give up.)
Martin Jarvis has a whole autobiography, so by my standards that's just cheating and too much information! XD
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Clearly I just haven't seen him in enough murdery parts, beyond that one terrorist who got a bucket of water thrown over him.