Put your circuits in the sea

[sovay]

After years of not even being able to pirate it, spatch and I have finally just finished the first series of BBC Ghosts (2019–23), during which he pointed out to me the half of the cast that had been on Taskmaster. I recognized a guest-starring Sophie Thompson.

This article on the megaliths of Orkney got Dave Goulder stuck in my head, especially once one of the archaeologists interviewed compared the Ring of Brodgar to sandstone pages. "They may not have been intended to last millennia, but, now that they have, they are stone doors through which the living try to touch the dead."

I wish a cult image of fish-tailed Artemis had existed at Phigalia, hunting pack of seals and all.

Any year now some part of my health could just fix itself a little, as a treat.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, Ghosts! How lovely! I hope you are able to continue, too, at some point - s1 is great, but I loved everything they did after even more, which is always nice to be able to say of a show. (S2 is my favourite, though, and has my absolute fave episode, which I say in absolutely no offence to s3-5. Apologies if you must wait another x years to get hold of more, though). Such a silly show on the face of it and then also so beautiful and sad and wise.

And, ha, yes, it is definitely full of TM alumni! I watched the first couple of series before I watched my way through TM, so rewatches and later seasons were suddenly full of very familiar faces. I had forgotten Sophie Thompson, though, but she was the awful neighbour's wife, wasn't she?

<3<3<3

[sovay]

I hope you are able to continue, too, at some point - s1 is great, but I loved everything they did after even more, which is always nice to be able to say of a show.

I'm not surprised. They gave themselves a lot of room to build.

(S2 is my favourite, though, and has my absolute fave episode, which I say in absolutely no offence to s3-5. Apologies if you must wait another x years to get hold of more, though).

The whole thing's on Kanopy! Christmas specials and all! I practically grabbed spatch by the front of his shirt! (In fairness to him, he was not actually resisting the idea.) We may or may not manage to watch all of it before it expires, given my pace of processing television and general state of flat. But at the moment we at least have the option.

I had forgotten Sophie Thompson, though, but she was the awful neighbour's wife, wasn't she?

She is! I couldn't place her immediately except as familiar, but when I said in slight frustration that I would know her if I saw her thirty years ago, that was more or less literally correct.

[lauradi7dw]

I don't know what ST looked like in Ghosts, but I was horrified at the difference between her body mass in "Persuasion" and the stick-thin person she portrayed in one of the Harry Potter movies.

[sovay]

I don't know what ST looked like in Ghosts, but I was horrified at the difference between her body mass in "Persuasion" and the stick-thin person she portrayed in one of the Harry Potter movies.

I completely forgot she'd been in Harry Potter. I placed her from Persuasion. She did not strike me as a stick insect in Ghosts, I just had to adapt to the explosive cloud of fair hair.

[thisbluespirit]

The whole thing's on Kanopy! Christmas specials and all! I practically grabbed [personal profile] spatch by the front of his shirt! (In fairness to him, he was not actually resisting the idea.) We may or may not manage to watch all of it before it expires, given my pace of processing television and general state of flat. But at the moment we at least have the option.

Aw, good!

Obviously, the availability, not your flatness. *hugs*

[sovay]

Aw, good!

The other elusive BBC thing that has suddenly turned up on Kanopy is all the Mark Gatiss-penned installments of the revival of A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Tractate Middoth (2013) through Woman of Stone (2024). Not sure why not the earlier ones, but if they stick around, even if I argue with them, I will probably check them out.

[edit] Or there's the Internet Archive.

Obviously, the availability, not your flatness.

Less flatness all round.

*hugs*