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.

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[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

[asakiyume]

they are stone doors through which the living try to touch the dead --That's a beautiful quote.

A fish-tailed Artemis feels like an Artemis as known and venerated among the merfolk. Or maybe in Atlantis.

[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.

[sovay]

--That's a beautiful quote.

It was the most striking to me in an article full of excerpts from the poetry of George Mackay Brown.

A fish-tailed Artemis feels like an Artemis as known and venerated among the merfolk. Or maybe in Atlantis.

I like that very much. Among the Sea People.

[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.

[lauradi7dw]

We went to Orkney in about 1994, I think, so at the time of the TV series "Oliver's Travels" (Sinead Cusack, Alan Bates, Bill Paterson) in 1995, the memories were fresh.
this is the final episode, so it's full of spoilers, but at 40:40 and onward they are walking around the ring of Brodgar
https://youtu.be/GcX8lkJJwD4?si=BKY4odbp8Y4pEgz9

Here's a loose approximation in my back yard in 2007
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/65472.html

[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*

[regshoe]

Oh, I'm glad you're finally getting to see Ghosts! I am still very fond of it, despite (IMO, and without spoilery details) its terrible ending. There are some good fics too.

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

It would be nice! I hope it does. <3

[sovay]

We went to Orkney in about 1994, I think, so at the time of the TV series "Oliver's Travels" (Sinead Cusack, Alan Bates, Bill Paterson) in 1995, the memories were fresh.

I think that's wonderful. I have not been to Orkney and would really like to.

this is the final episode, so it's full of spoilers, but at 40:40 and onward they are walking around the ring of Brodgar

With that cast, I might just try to watch it. (I just saw Bill Paterson in Defence of the Realm (1985)).

Here's a loose approximation in my back yard in 2007

Awesome.

[sovay]

Oh, I'm glad you're finally getting to see Ghosts! I am still very fond of it, despite (IMO, and without spoilery details) its terrible ending. There are some good fics too.

Good to know! The first series was a hit. (I have no knowledge of the ending, but if it cratered for you, I take it as a good sign that your fondness for the rest of the show survived it.)

It would be nice! I hope it does.

Thank you!

*hugs*

[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.

[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*

[selkie]

I need to warn you that you will THROW SOMETHING AT THE FUCKEN SCREEN at the end of Ghosts, otherwise a hilarious and moving project from the Horrible Histories folk. You will say "What?! NO!" and dislodge your beverage and be swamped by it and bellow. It is a canon event. I cannot save you.
The first Christmas episode is a real one, though. Ooof.
And Kitty. Kitty is so much and so good. I'm glad you're watching.

*am dog of war nice nice*
*nice hunt nice nice*

[sovay]

I need to warn you that you will THROW SOMETHING AT THE FUCKEN SCREEN at the end of Ghosts, otherwise a hilarious and moving project from the Horrible Histories folk. You will say "What?! NO!" and dislodge your beverage and be swamped by it and bellow. It is a canon event. I cannot save you.

You are the second person to deliver this warning! Forewarned is not drinking a beverage for the last Christmas special, I guess.

And Kitty. Kitty is so much and so good. I'm glad you're watching.

I am really enjoying it so far. And definitely need to see Lolly Adefope's series of Taskmaster.

*am dog of war nice nice*
*nice hunt nice nice*

"Yeah, the seal is not a creature you want to toy with . . ."

[selkie]

Yeah the seal has a mind set on violence
And the seal is the sworn enemy of man

Wow, scream-singing to Mountain Goats songs really takes me back. To, like, last December and having to scream-sing 'No Children' at Republicans.

[sovay]

Wow, scream-singing to Mountain Goats songs really takes me back. To, like, last December and having to scream-sing 'No Children' at Republicans.

A fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us!