Here we are half-awake
The second-best part of this highly mediocre day was a gyro on which I put a phenomenal amount of tzatziki, to the point that by the end of it the meat was probably the condiment. The best part was taking a walk with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch right before sunset. I remembered to bring my camera.
Since our street has proved something of a canyon when it comes to afternoons, I have gotten into the habit of walking up to Tufts for my allotment of late sun and brick.
Their last roses of summer are particularly voluptuous.
This Karnak-wall of sandstone belonged to one of the residential halls.
Up close it was filled with the wealth of tiny shells and spines and bones, the settling of an ancient seafloor.
Rob took a dramatically sun-flooded picture of me.
I liked the interaction of the subject with the shadow.
This brilliantly dead leaf in its mesh of green looked like as good a symbol of autumn as any to me.
A moment of silence for the birch that used to grow around the corner of our block.
I am not sure that Series 13 of Doctor Who holds together at all, but since Kevin McNally was playing essentially Marcus Brody if he had started in parapsychology instead of classics, I enjoyed him very much.
spatch right before sunset. I remembered to bring my camera.
Since our street has proved something of a canyon when it comes to afternoons, I have gotten into the habit of walking up to Tufts for my allotment of late sun and brick.
Their last roses of summer are particularly voluptuous.
This Karnak-wall of sandstone belonged to one of the residential halls.
Up close it was filled with the wealth of tiny shells and spines and bones, the settling of an ancient seafloor.
Rob took a dramatically sun-flooded picture of me.
I liked the interaction of the subject with the shadow.
This brilliantly dead leaf in its mesh of green looked like as good a symbol of autumn as any to me.
A moment of silence for the birch that used to grow around the corner of our block.
I am not sure that Series 13 of Doctor Who holds together at all, but since Kevin McNally was playing essentially Marcus Brody if he had started in parapsychology instead of classics, I enjoyed him very much.
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They do similar things with the dead cast as well, including using their children/other relatives instead, which I just feel is going Too Far, but nobody else minds. XD
OH and I meant to tell you about two comments ago that thanks to our recent conversation, I now have a strong suspicion of where the protagonist's ahistorical but cool-looking leather coat came from.
I will look into it, but it does sound like the sort of thing where I'd be stuffed if it's not on DVD and the fact that it's not on my Amazon list as such despite me definitely having been recced it a few times by now, does not suggest that there is one over here.
LOl at the coat, though! Why not have a cool looking leather jacket in the 18th C? XD
I've been staring at this podcast and wishing it had transcripts, since I can manage eleven minutes of Denholm Elliot on Desert Island Discs, but an hour of podcast is incredibly difficult for me to manage for anyone
That is a shame. I'm not usually able to do podcasts either, so a lack of transcript is very frustrating and tantalising.
You should totally tell me about that last one.
I will, although I do need to tell you also that it struck me after that I could probably Google "the one with the maggots" and it would come up with the DW serial and I just checked and it really did, no other context needed. :D
The gravity-manipulating woodlice are in Frontios, which is a Fifth Doctor serial that I adore for having a sort of BBC Shakespearean DOOMED far future human colony where the leader is called Plantagenet among other things & features William Lucas, Lesley Dunlop, Jeff Rawle & Peter Gilmore, but which many other fans regard as merely mid, and they also feel the leader of the woodlice shouldn't have a nose. *handwaves objections* (I recommend it as a good Five serial, with a strong guest cast, a moody if studio-bound setting, and proper stuff for all three regulars to do, and also features the hatstand in a starring role. "Frontios buries its own dead.")
BTW, nothing to do with DW, but something that amused me this week - someone reacted to Gosford Park on YT (the 2nd person ever afaics), and someone else wrote in the comments that Tom Hollander apparently tells a story about Maggie Smith - that he hadn't met her before, and she turned up late and tired having been off shooting Harry Potter that day. He was too nervous to go over, until he finally said to himself this was silly, plucked up courage and asked, "How's it going, Maggie?" To which she replied, "Oh, deathly dull," and he was crushed.
And on the DVD extras there's a Q&A session in which Jeremy Northam says that on the first evening they were all together, he and Claudie Blakley were sat on a table with Maggie Smith to get to know each other, but she turned up late and tired having been filming Harry Potter, so she looked really unapproachable, and they were both too nervous to speak to her, so they sat there in silence while all the other tables were chatting away, until someone came over and said, "How's it going, Maggie?" and she just looked at them and said, "Oh, deathly dull," and finished them off.
(It may just be the JN one garbled and misattributed via YT comment, of course, but it's definitely more amusing if they really are parallel anecdotes.)
ETA: It looks like there are some German dvds, but it also mainly looks like I could only get S1 and that even if I could get really lucky with s1, 2 & 3, I still couldn't get s4. (It claims to have a s1-3 release but this is apparently just a front for 9-1-1 somehow). Amazon certainly seems to have R1 releases, though, or claims to, although maybe only already out of print.
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I did not actually know any of the roles had been handed down generationally. I will consider how I feel about that. It certainly doesn't bother me that Ian Shaw wrote and played his father in The Shark Is Broken, which of necessity entails some of Robert's acting as Quint as well as all the backstage stuff.
I will look into it, but it does sound like the sort of thing where I'd be stuffed if it's not on DVD and the fact that it's not on my Amazon list as such despite me definitely having been recced it a few times by now, does not suggest that there is one over here.
I was afraid that would be the case. Here there were home releases for the first three seasons and then as of the last time I checked nothing for the fourth, which means I couldn't just get the series out of the library when I was reminded of it, although in that case I might not have discovered Professor Jericho and we wouldn't be having this conversation: causality!
LOl at the coat, though! Why not have a cool looking leather jacket in the 18th C?
Kevin McNally, Doctor Who fan favorite the show never keeps and sharer of scenes with eighteenth-century bomber jackets.
That is a shame. I'm not usually able to do podcasts either, so a lack of transcript is very frustrating and tantalising.
If I decide to throw my brain on it, I'll let you know what I find! The chances at the moment of my doing something else with it are much better, unfortunately. Like seeing doctors. This week has been doctors. It could be something else for a change.
(It may just be the JN one garbled and misattributed via YT comment, of course, but it's definitely more amusing if they really are parallel anecdotes.)
Definitely. The idea of that being her standard line to get people to leave her alone after a long day of Harry Potter is perfect.
ETA: It looks like there are some German dvds, but it also mainly looks like I could only get S1 and that even if I could get really lucky with s1, 2 & 3, I still couldn't get s4. (It claims to have a s1-3 release but this is apparently just a front for 9-1-1 somehow). Amazon certainly seems to have R1 releases, though, or claims to, although maybe only already out of print.
So nobody has a legal fourth season! Fantastic. What the hell, AMC. This is not as much of an incentive for people to subscribe to your proprietary streaming service as you may think.
[edit] This is a bit stupid, but someone actually appears to have put the entire series on Dailymotion. It's not organized in playlists, but I can see Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, and the elusive Season 4. The quality is meh, but the whole thing seems to be there.
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Absolutely!
Like seeing doctors. This week has been doctors. It could be something else for a change.
<3<3<3 Yeah, Doctor Who is one thing; nothing but real doctors is another! *hugs*
The idea of that being her standard line to get people to leave her alone after a long day of Harry Potter is perfect.
More the flip side of the same conversation, if it isn't just a confusion - and poor Dame Maggie getting no luck with conversation all round if so, heh. It's what happens when you get that awesome?
This is a bit stupid, but someone actually appears to have put the entire series on Dailymotion.
Oh, well, good! I'm glad it's turned up somewhere you can get at it if you need to! It would be nice if it was available sensibly as well, but then when we say available sensibly, I suppose we do at this point between us share a very last decade definition of that. ALAS. *fistbumps*