Multifandom links
Apr. 27th, 2019 09:45 amDoctor Who:
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ruuger has written a love declaration to the Twelfth Doctor and his era in the form of a rec list, which I adored.
Better Call Saul:
And Afterwards: there have been a number of post Breaking Bad takes on Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill/Gene over the years, and if they were posted under the "Better Call Saul" label yet featured exclusively Breaking Bad characters and characterisation, I usually end up highly irritated. Not this one, though, in which the law catches up with our criminal lawyer, and Kim ends up representing him. Just the right amount of bittersweet, and a credible take on Kim years hence.
Star Trek: Discovery: Sacrifice. As you know, faithful reader, I have, err, mixed feelings about the Disco s2 finale, but I really loved this brief vignette by4thofeleven which offers a great destillation of the themes and emotional notes they were going for.
Multifandom:
Michael Sheen interviewed by David Tennant, dealing with ghastly photo shoots, being Welsh, stage fright, playing Tony Blair and Brian Claugh, Neil Gaiman and "the love story of the 21st century". Meaning Aziphraele and Crowley from Good Omens, the upcoming tv version of the book. Mind you, I was more amused to learn that Stephen Frears' casting agent's pitch to Michael Sheen about playing Tony Blair in The Deal (which ended up in him playing Tony Blair in two more movies and becoming Peter Morgan's muse) was phrased as: "Stephen Frears is doing a love story between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and you're Blair" after having watched him perform Caligula on stage. I mean, I've watched The Deal, and that's not exactly how I'd phrase it, though it's true that in all three installments of his Blair trilogy - "The Deal", "The Queen", "The Special Relationship" - Peter Morgan quite knowingly uses rom com tropes, though The Queen is the only one of the three where the central pair actually ends up on sort of friendly terms instead of a fallout. Anyway,the Tennnant-interviewing-Sheen hour is immensely entertaining, and people who know Sheen not for his award nominated RPF movies but because of him being in the Underworld and Twilight movies will be delighted to know that one of the stories he tells is about his irration with reporters who interview you with an "we both know this icky horror and fantasy stuff is beneath you, don't we?" attitude, towards which Michael Sheen says he responded with a rant about how between Ursula Le Guin, Philip K. Dick and Neil Gaiman, sci fi and fantasy produced some of the best writing of the later 20th century. (Which rant, when published, resulted in Gaiman writing to him, and thus a relationship was born.)
ruuger has written a love declaration to the Twelfth Doctor and his era in the form of a rec list, which I adored. Better Call Saul:
And Afterwards: there have been a number of post Breaking Bad takes on Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill/Gene over the years, and if they were posted under the "Better Call Saul" label yet featured exclusively Breaking Bad characters and characterisation, I usually end up highly irritated. Not this one, though, in which the law catches up with our criminal lawyer, and Kim ends up representing him. Just the right amount of bittersweet, and a credible take on Kim years hence.
Star Trek: Discovery: Sacrifice. As you know, faithful reader, I have, err, mixed feelings about the Disco s2 finale, but I really loved this brief vignette by
4thofeleven which offers a great destillation of the themes and emotional notes they were going for. Multifandom:
Michael Sheen interviewed by David Tennant, dealing with ghastly photo shoots, being Welsh, stage fright, playing Tony Blair and Brian Claugh, Neil Gaiman and "the love story of the 21st century". Meaning Aziphraele and Crowley from Good Omens, the upcoming tv version of the book. Mind you, I was more amused to learn that Stephen Frears' casting agent's pitch to Michael Sheen about playing Tony Blair in The Deal (which ended up in him playing Tony Blair in two more movies and becoming Peter Morgan's muse) was phrased as: "Stephen Frears is doing a love story between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and you're Blair" after having watched him perform Caligula on stage. I mean, I've watched The Deal, and that's not exactly how I'd phrase it, though it's true that in all three installments of his Blair trilogy - "The Deal", "The Queen", "The Special Relationship" - Peter Morgan quite knowingly uses rom com tropes, though The Queen is the only one of the three where the central pair actually ends up on sort of friendly terms instead of a fallout. Anyway,the Tennnant-interviewing-Sheen hour is immensely entertaining, and people who know Sheen not for his award nominated RPF movies but because of him being in the Underworld and Twilight movies will be delighted to know that one of the stories he tells is about his irration with reporters who interview you with an "we both know this icky horror and fantasy stuff is beneath you, don't we?" attitude, towards which Michael Sheen says he responded with a rant about how between Ursula Le Guin, Philip K. Dick and Neil Gaiman, sci fi and fantasy produced some of the best writing of the later 20th century. (Which rant, when published, resulted in Gaiman writing to him, and thus a relationship was born.)
