Am I required to keep him alive?

[sovay]

I just watched my first episode of Fringe (2008–2013). It is amazing how disorienting it is to be told a city is Boston when it is very plainly either Toronto or New York. Also, I think the show's Harvard University might be Yale. Can you do that without starting a small war?

(John Noble is awesome. All mad scientist buttons checked. Including the one where he looks good in a lab coat.)

I saw these cat portraits on Tumblr a few days ago, but I had no idea they were actual guard cats of the Hermitage Museum. I approve.

The baked Alaska this afternoon was an amazing sucess. I am very proud of my skills with folding egg whites. rushthatspeaks and tilivenn can be proud of their ice cream wrangling and attention to baking times. The weevils in the confectioner's sugar were a surprise no one was looking for, and so was the time out where we had to get more eggs because the kitchen was too hot and humid for the first attempt at meringue to peak at all, but the results in Earl Grey and cardamom ice cream were wholly worth it. The sponge cake base was fluffy, the ice cream was sliceable and cold, the meringue on top was crisp-brown with the delicious marshmallow taffiness of burnt sugar at the tips. Egg whites are exactly as effective an insulator as I was always told. We really have no excuse for not reverse-engineering a butter-pie now.

I wish my head did not hurt this much.

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

When in doubt, it's Toronto. (Think of it as My Neighbour, Toronto.) I've occasionally had the reverse experience, of seeing parts of Bristol and being told firmly that it is actually central London. House of Eliott, for example.

one the other hand

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

When "Truly, Madly, Deeply" came out, I remarked to a friend from Bristol that it (B) was listed in the filming locations, but none of it looked familiar to me, an occasional visitor. Some of the scenes were obviously London, such as the ones along the South Bank. She said that probably the interiors were filmed in Bristol. She told the story of picking out leeks at her local greengrocer's shop when a bloody hand emerged from the nearby vegetable bin. She started to scream, and then noticed the microphone boom. I was impressed that the filming company would use an actual store and that the store would stay open for business while it was happening.

Re: one the other hand

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

My husband likes to tell the story of how years ago he was in a Toronto bookstore and wandered into a section that had been set up for a location shoot for the movie In the Mouth of Madness. They actually had a big display of "Sutter Kane"'s books -- all of which, if opened, turned out to be the same page endlessly repeated. In retrospect, that's the sort of creepy thing that would have happened in the movie itself.

[sovay]

-- all of which, if opened, turned out to be the same page endlessly repeated. In retrospect, that's the sort of creepy thing that would have happened in the movie itself.

Seriously. Yeeesh.

[sovay]

Some of the scenes were obviously London, such as the ones along the South Bank. She said that probably the interiors were filmed in Bristol.

What a counterintuitive way of doing it.

I was impressed that the filming company would use an actual store and that the store would stay open for business while it was happening.

. . . Did she make it into the finished film?

[ckd]

Or Vancouver. When watching BSG, I was amused to see that Caprica City has a building I have walked through (Vancouver's main library).

[sovay]

Or Vancouver.

Like Millennium, which was ostensibly set in Seattle. I recognized bits of its exteriors from my trip to Vancouver in 2010!

When watching BSG, I was amused to see that Caprica City has a building I have walked through (Vancouver's main library).

Heh. Which one is it?

[ckd]

It was in the background of an exterior shot somewhere in S1 or early S2, I think. I'd have to go look to find the specific episode.

[sovay]

(Think of it as My Neighbour, Toronto.)

I wish I knew enough about the city to say what an appropriate version of the Catbus would look like in this case.

I've occasionally had the reverse experience, of seeing parts of Bristol and being told firmly that it is actually central London.

I bet Boston has substituted for other cities; it just didn't bother to tell me.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew enough about the city to say what an appropriate version of the Catbus would look like in this case.

Toronto buses are still reasonably square, but I can see where one might put the ears.

For my part, I make jlighton, akawil and pecunium crazy when we watch Due South by figuring out what all the locations are. Sometime I would like to pop over to the parallel universe where the show is set in Toronto but filmed in Chicago.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Does not make me crazy. I think it's sort of charming.