HP meme and Carnivale vid rec

Given that I actually don't fancy any of the Harry Potter characters that way, I was curious about the result.

( My Harry Potter husband is... )

I also have a vid rec: Not quite the actress, a Carnivale vid around the Dreifuss family. Uses only season 1 material, to devastating effect, if you know what happens to Dora Mae. Pick a number: the darkest episode that Ron Moore ever wrote, bar none. Makes BSG at its darkest look humane and his DS9 episode cheefully optimistc. However, as opposed to some dark BSG eps which come across as self-indulgent in their gloom, Pick a number is flawless, and filled with deep love for its characters. Back to the vid: oh, the Dreifuss clan. All of them, Rita Sue (talk about a force of nature), Libby, Stumpy - and Dora Mae. Oh, Dora Mae. Watch.

More links

...for various fandoms:

Battlestar Galactica:

Cathedrals is an absolutely amazing vid about Three (D'Anna), Laura Roslin and Caprica Six. the vidder has distilled the best of these women's arcs, and the result is beautiful and disturbing.

Damages and BSG:

Speaking of morally ambiguous women: after watching this vid, I checked out the journal and discovered a fascinating post about Damages, comparing Patty Hewes (Glenn Close's character) with BSG's Laura Roslin. As I've only recently discovered Damages myself and could not find any meta about it safe from londonkds who recced it to me to begin with, I was very excited to find such a good post.


and lastly: kathyh linked me to a recent Catherine Tate interview in The Woman's Hour, which you can still download
here. She talks about Under The Blue Sky (the play I'd seen her in in London), Donna and Doctor Who, Tony Blair and the various characters she developed for her show. The interviewer asks refreshingly intelligent questions (for example, re: Under the Blue Sky, what she felt about ( spoilery for that play )

. Of interest for Whovians: asked whether Donna would return at some point, she replied she couldn't say, and if you don't get an outright denial to these type of questions, it of course inspires speculation. (Also, since her answer to why she agreed to do a full season was because she enjoys working with David Tennant so much, I'd say this augurs well for future projects. Damn it, I want them back on my tv screen, can be in completely different roles, but someone needs to write more scripts for them!)