I've had a couple of upheavals, work-wise and in the family, but you get through these things eventually. I don't mean to be cryptic, but you know I'm generally quite uncomfortable talking about RL stuff online.
*nods* And it's fine, cryptic codes and waving your arms about while miming will suffice. It's very sensible to be careful online. Sorry there were/are upheavals, but glad at least that you're okay.
And, LOL, here was me thinking you had dropped out of fandom forever and in fact you were writing 100,000+ words of fic on AO3, if I'd only thought to glance at your account there. And, no, I haven't watched Westworld, but it's one of those Netflix/Amazon things you can't get hold of without paying for, isn't it? I've heard people talking about it but not enough osmosis to know much more. But, hey, what gets you through! And if it results in amazing fic (and your fic always is ;-p), probably it helps other people get through too.
You know I've been loving Twelve even more than Eleven, so, yes, I'm with you. *bounches*
We did discuss The Sandbaggers after you watched it I think, but to reiterate: It's great! And yes, it doesn't go easy on its characters, does it?
Aha, sorry. I can never remember. I quite often will vaguely think you'd like something, or wonder if you've also seen something, and don't remember what conversations we had last time you were around. But yes! The rl stuff with the creator vanishing is also in the You Couldn't Make It Up category, too.
I really enjoyed Doomwatch! It started off with melting plastic and 70s goo everywhere, and what more can you ask in a thing, really? (Well, less sexism would have been nice, but happily the viewers in 1970 also objected and they fixed it for S2.) I liked it so much I watched the film as well, and it's not irrelevant! I haven't seen the 1990s one, but would quite like to just for foolhardy completism.
I wondered when I watched Manhunt if you had ever watched that and mentioned it to me, but obviously not! When you're not streaming cool new shows, it's definitely relevant to your interests as a WWII thing that's very unrelentingly harsh about war. (Alfred Lynch in this makes me think that his casting in Curse of Fenric was a deliberate nod, because they both have things about love/war being code words.) It takes a few eps to get going but Robert Hardy is unbelievably good in it, and also Philip Madoc is an SS officer. It contains the worst Resistance trio ever. They kill fellow agents and shack up with Germans and leave such a trail of destruction behind them that nobody wants anything to do with them.
(Both Doomwatch and Manhunt coincidentally had James Maxwell in. In Doomwatch, he had foolishly forgotten to tell his computer not to kill people, and in Manhunt he was the SS's secret weapon - if you didn't break under torture, they'd bring out JM to be nice to you and nobody could withstand that. :-D)
Anyway, as you see, nothing changes - I still blabber about ancient telly! (I know an online link for Manhunt if you might be interested, sadly not one at all for Doomwatch.)
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Date: 2017-04-14 05:40 pm (UTC)*nods* And it's fine, cryptic codes and waving your arms about while miming will suffice. It's very sensible to be careful online. Sorry there were/are upheavals, but glad at least that you're okay.
And, LOL, here was me thinking you had dropped out of fandom forever and in fact you were writing 100,000+ words of fic on AO3, if I'd only thought to glance at your account there. And, no, I haven't watched Westworld, but it's one of those Netflix/Amazon things you can't get hold of without paying for, isn't it? I've heard people talking about it but not enough osmosis to know much more. But, hey, what gets you through! And if it results in amazing fic (and your fic always is ;-p), probably it helps other people get through too.
You know I've been loving Twelve even more than Eleven, so, yes, I'm with you. *bounches*
We did discuss The Sandbaggers after you watched it I think, but to reiterate: It's great! And yes, it doesn't go easy on its characters, does it?
Aha, sorry. I can never remember. I quite often will vaguely think you'd like something, or wonder if you've also seen something, and don't remember what conversations we had last time you were around. But yes! The rl stuff with the creator vanishing is also in the You Couldn't Make It Up category, too.
I really enjoyed Doomwatch! It started off with melting plastic and 70s goo everywhere, and what more can you ask in a thing, really? (Well, less sexism would have been nice, but happily the viewers in 1970 also objected and they fixed it for S2.) I liked it so much I watched the film as well, and it's not irrelevant! I haven't seen the 1990s one, but would quite like to just for foolhardy completism.
I wondered when I watched Manhunt if you had ever watched that and mentioned it to me, but obviously not! When you're not streaming cool new shows, it's definitely relevant to your interests as a WWII thing that's very unrelentingly harsh about war. (Alfred Lynch in this makes me think that his casting in Curse of Fenric was a deliberate nod, because they both have things about love/war being code words.) It takes a few eps to get going but Robert Hardy is unbelievably good in it, and also Philip Madoc is an SS officer. It contains the worst Resistance trio ever. They kill fellow agents and shack up with Germans and leave such a trail of destruction behind them that nobody wants anything to do with them.
(Both Doomwatch and Manhunt coincidentally had James Maxwell in. In Doomwatch, he had foolishly forgotten to tell his computer not to kill people, and in Manhunt he was the SS's secret weapon - if you didn't break under torture, they'd bring out JM to be nice to you and nobody could withstand that. :-D)
Anyway, as you see, nothing changes - I still blabber about ancient telly! (I know an online link for Manhunt if you might be interested, sadly not one at all for Doomwatch.)