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Various things of a fannish nature
May. 6th, 2004 11:28 amI had a dream about ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lydia_petze last night in which she owned a string of high class clothes boutiques for the discerning lady. I've no idea what this could mean or why I dreamt it. Unless... Lydia, do you secretly own a string of high class boutiques for the discerning lady?
daegaer is continuing her one-woman ficathon. Hurray! Just Names for Sides made me giggle very much indeed.
I spent a few minutes (literally) this morning being rubbish at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
impulsedriven. I've discovered I can write something in two minutes, but none of it makes any sense and I can't read my own handwriting afterwards. Will persevere.
Season 4 of the Professionals is mine, all mine! It was only £20 in Fopp, compared to £39.99 in HMV. Season 4 has the famous episode 'Discovered in a Graveyard', where Doyle gets shot. It put me in mind of that X Files episode were Scully sits in a boat deciding whether to kick the bucket or not. Except it's Doyle through a fish-eye lens and he's wandering round with Cowley and Bodie, talking without moving their mouths. Bodie has a wonderful expression on his face in the ambulance taking Doyle to hospital - like his world has just ended. Doyle's would-be assassin has the most amazing Vidal Sassoon geometric bob.
I actually thought that the Professionals would turn out to be really terrible, after watching the first few episodes of the first series, but I kept watching and now it's somehow grown on me.
Good things: Bodie, Doyle, the hotness of them, the hilarious tight trousers, the cars, the funny banter, Cowley, incidental music, theme tune, Bodie being very camp.
Bad things: plots (help, I've fallen down a plothole!), bloody terrible bit part actors, the hilarious tight trousers (which depend entirely on a good bottom to carry them off), Bodie's brown double breasted blazer teamed with cream slacks and a polo neck look, absence of any tough women to give Bodie and Doyle the kicking they deserve, Lewis Collins's acting (which admittedly seems to have improved by s4).
Not all the bit part actors were bad though. It's fun playing spot-the-extra-who went-on-to-glory-and-fame. So far there's been: David Suchet, playing a dodgy geezer from some indeterminate foreign place, Pamela Stephenson, playing a different dolly bird on three seperate occasions, Keith Barron, playing a man who wanted to spike London with LSD, Geoffrey Palmer as as a politician, the man who played Don Brennan on Corrie, as a crim. Erm.
I don't seem to be able to find the good fic though, or at least, the fic I want to read. There have been a few good things, which I'll get round to reccing at some point. There seem to be quite a lot of AU's in this fandom, interestingly, but not a great deal of action plots, which is what I think I'm hankering after.
lydia_petze last night in which she owned a string of high class clothes boutiques for the discerning lady. I've no idea what this could mean or why I dreamt it. Unless... Lydia, do you secretly own a string of high class boutiques for the discerning lady?daegaer is continuing her one-woman ficathon. Hurray! Just Names for Sides made me giggle very much indeed. I spent a few minutes (literally) this morning being rubbish at
impulsedriven. I've discovered I can write something in two minutes, but none of it makes any sense and I can't read my own handwriting afterwards. Will persevere.Season 4 of the Professionals is mine, all mine! It was only £20 in Fopp, compared to £39.99 in HMV. Season 4 has the famous episode 'Discovered in a Graveyard', where Doyle gets shot. It put me in mind of that X Files episode were Scully sits in a boat deciding whether to kick the bucket or not. Except it's Doyle through a fish-eye lens and he's wandering round with Cowley and Bodie, talking without moving their mouths. Bodie has a wonderful expression on his face in the ambulance taking Doyle to hospital - like his world has just ended. Doyle's would-be assassin has the most amazing Vidal Sassoon geometric bob.
I actually thought that the Professionals would turn out to be really terrible, after watching the first few episodes of the first series, but I kept watching and now it's somehow grown on me.
Good things: Bodie, Doyle, the hotness of them, the hilarious tight trousers, the cars, the funny banter, Cowley, incidental music, theme tune, Bodie being very camp.
Bad things: plots (help, I've fallen down a plothole!), bloody terrible bit part actors, the hilarious tight trousers (which depend entirely on a good bottom to carry them off), Bodie's brown double breasted blazer teamed with cream slacks and a polo neck look, absence of any tough women to give Bodie and Doyle the kicking they deserve, Lewis Collins's acting (which admittedly seems to have improved by s4).
Not all the bit part actors were bad though. It's fun playing spot-the-extra-who went-on-to-glory-and-fame. So far there's been: David Suchet, playing a dodgy geezer from some indeterminate foreign place, Pamela Stephenson, playing a different dolly bird on three seperate occasions, Keith Barron, playing a man who wanted to spike London with LSD, Geoffrey Palmer as as a politician, the man who played Don Brennan on Corrie, as a crim. Erm.
I don't seem to be able to find the good fic though, or at least, the fic I want to read. There have been a few good things, which I'll get round to reccing at some point. There seem to be quite a lot of AU's in this fandom, interestingly, but not a great deal of action plots, which is what I think I'm hankering after.
