Aw.

[x_los]

Okay, hot, snarky Peter Davison aside (THOUGH THAT IS HARD TO PUT ASIDE, GUYS), I do really find this All Creatures Great and Small show ungodly cute. The snarking between the veterinary assistant and Tristan Fannon is epic, I LOVE the housemaid (and Mrs. Harbottle: bookkeeper/nemesis), the sky-blue roadster, the ludicrousness that is Tricky Woo and the assistant's cute little love interest.

Seigfried Fannon is gold as well. Aaaand end of disc. Must shower and drive 3.5 hrd. Mh. Do not want.

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[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

I watched that show on A&E (back in the day when that channel showed something other than 24/7 reruns of "Law & Order") pretty much entirely because of my enormous, consuming crush on Peter Davison. But also because my grandfather had gotten me reading James Herriot's books, and I loved them.

It really is just a big pile of unbelievable English adorability.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Bonk Bonk!

Sorry, Pavlovian response to Law&Order. I in no way hate that show? But the plodding consistency of it bores me, and I don't like how everyone thinks 'Oh, Law and Order reruns are on, Quality Programing, well, that's our night then, guys!' And there's not a ton of character arc, which I find frustrating. Also I think there may be an uncomfortable voyeuristic impulse behind needing to watch Violent Crime Drama in seven incarnations with a special organ specifically for sex-crime. /rant

I believe I read one of these Way Back in elementary school, but it had added colored pencil illustrations and suchlike, and was maybe a version intended for a younger audience.

I wasn't necessarily /aware/ of my own enormous, consuming crush until just now. Um.

It's just so cozy! Gah! I am so stupid for cozy village dramedy!

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

I've never actually seen any "Law & Order" or its spinoffs, and I'm sort of not all that enthusiastic about TV crime dramas in general. (Once I was involuntarily subjected to an episode of CSI Miami that involved a girl found dead in a traffic intersection as an apparent hit-and-run, but it turned out that she'd actually died while having sex in a pool with the son of some high-ranking foreign national. Or something like that. Between the WTFness of the plot and the Carusobot, I figured I'd seen all I needed to see of that series.) For some reason, it appears that I generally prefer my police procedurals in comic book form (see also: Warren Ellis's "Fell").

The books, as I remember them, were sort of the literary equivalent of a good bowl of chicken noodle soup (or whatever your favorite comfort food of choice might be). As you say: cozy. In that, the TV series is pretty much a dead-on adaptation -- and, of course, hot, snarky young Peter Davison. I also watched the Mystery! adaptation of Margery Allingham's "Campion" books on account of him. I really, really hope the big box of juvenilia I recently brought home from FL has at least some of my adolescent Whofic, because HA.

Speaking of Davison and enormous, consuming crushes, have you seen the short "The Kidnappers"?

[x-los.livejournal.com]

It's weird, tho, that I'm down with BBC detective mysteries like Cracker and LoM in varying-degrees-of-modern settings, but yes, American TV crime dramas do suck.

*flail* Those shows are all ALWAYS LIKE THAT tho! Complication for the sake thereof, and new ways to die/cultures to interact with as set pieces or gimmicks (the internet! BDSM! orthodox jews!), rather than intriguing emotional exploration.

Carusobot?

Oh, Fell? I know Ellis, but not that one. Interesting.

huh. I'll check out Campion, I think, thanks! And plz to be sharring that juvenillia, should you find any, b/c indeed, HA.

nooo, what's The Kidnappers? *is intrigued*

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really like what I've seen of "Life on Mars" so far. But it's so obviously more truly character-driven than US crime shows, which -- yes. Gimmick, gimmick, gimmick.

Behold the wonder that is the Carusobot, of CSI Miami. It becomes strangely hypnotic after a while.

Fell is one of Ellis's best, IMO. Ben Templesmith's art is marvellous too. Check it out.

I'm thinking about starting a blog called Portrait of the Artist as a Young Geek, or something like that, and spend a year posting random bits of juvenilia from the stash. Humiliating as it is, I might as well get some jollies out of it. And entertain others while I'm at it.

Oh, "The Kidnappers". :D You are in for a treat. Here you go. Make sure you're not drinking any beverages.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it: the character driven makes it dynamic and thus, y'know, worth watching.

The Caruso thing is allll the saaaaaame toneeeeee. It's like Heero Yuy from Gundam Wing. But whereas I could excuse his lines as poor translation, these are just banal beyond any justification.

I would <3 that blog. Fo realz.

Um. The Kidnappers may be the Greatest Thing Ever. In an "ahahahahaha*uncomfortable*" way.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

My friend Peter and I will occasionally make comments in a deliberate Carusobot style, complete with the Sunglasses of Justice manuever. Well, it amuses us.

Stay tuned. If I do start that blog, I'll let everyone know. (Seriously, among other things, I need to scan in the notebook cover on which I painstakingly drew the logos for all of my fandoms of the time. I was insane. Well, possibly no more insane than I am now; I just had more time on my hands and a lot fewer inhibitions and much worse taste, or something. Again: thank god there were no internets available to me in the late 1980s.)

It is definitely one of the Five Greatest Things Ever, in my book. Davison's facial expressions, oh my god. Just the look of abject, wide-eyed terror at "Do you think I could ... kiss Peter Davison?" XD

[chaviola.livejournal.com]

I loved the All Creatures Great And Small novel back in, like, sixth grade (I used to have delusions of growing up to be a veterinarian. Now I just want to be a rockstar. :/) and so my parents bought me the show. I *just* realised that the dude in it was Peter Davison the other day when I was going through our DVDs, and it blew my mind.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

See above, I think I read that too! I only vaguely recall it though. You should be a rockstar vet, repairing cow's lacerated intestines with the gift of song.

Omg, I'm always having that happen to me! Like the trauma of realizing the guy in 28 Days Later was Christopher Eccleston with Blond Dye? Or the wtfery of the guy in Producer's Springtime for Hitler number being Barrowman? I have mild prosopagnasia, so it's always a swamping OH MY GOD moment when I /get/ it, b/c I normally just go 'bwuh?'

[nacilmeiel.livejournal.com]

I remember the wtfery with John Barrowman.

V. confusing evening.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's...not a good blond, either.

[heather-macleod.livejournal.com]

Will you be coming back from Iowa?

[x-los.livejournal.com]

When I get this bullshit with the unexpected!degree thing and the packing cleared up? *is rueful* So I dunno when? All I know is that this will suck.