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

[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.

[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

[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

[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*