Multilinks
Dec. 8th, 2011 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakOne of these days I'm going to write a guide to German railway stations, and in it, Essen will get a bad mark for having the tracks for the local lines miles away from the ones for the regional trains, so there. Meanwhile, have some multifandom links:
Torchwood:
Meta about Tosh and Jack, investigating an often overlooked relationship.
Battlestar Galactica:
Beginnings, a charming series of glimpses of Kara and Sam during the New Caprica year. Sometimes I wonder how I developed into an accidental Kara/Sam shipper to the point where the "my Sam" scene in the finale made me misty eyed. I think it's probably due to them NOT being a couple of destiny (tm), and Sam being one of the few examples of how a character originally probably meant as nothing more than a temporary obstacle instead gained narrative dignity, three dimensionality and an endearing everyman decency in an increasingly dark world.
Feminism on tv:
Great article about the 80s show Cagney and Lacy and the actresses playing the leading roles (and where they are today). Of course, the most depressing aspect about this is that what made C & L revolutionary then - a buddy cop show where the two buddies in question are women, with the bond between them treated as intensely and importantly as in the male variations of the concept - still makes it unusual now, decades later. Also, don't read the comments. There are some incredibly annoying oafs represented there.
Beatles: Alice Cooper about Lennon and McCartney. The words " Alice Cooper" and "awwwww" usually aren't associated (by me) in the same sentence, but they are in this excerpt from a longer interview where the interviewer, Kim Mitchell, is evidently baiting him for some negative stories and instead Cooper comes up with some great 70s tales of how they would defend the respective other even at the worst of times if anyone but themselves dared to attack, and is full of affection and respect for both of them. Add some stories about John in Los Angeles and babysitting Keanu Reeves, and you have a very entertaining take from someone who was actually around, as opposed to many a journalist.
Torchwood:
Meta about Tosh and Jack, investigating an often overlooked relationship.
Battlestar Galactica:
Beginnings, a charming series of glimpses of Kara and Sam during the New Caprica year. Sometimes I wonder how I developed into an accidental Kara/Sam shipper to the point where the "my Sam" scene in the finale made me misty eyed. I think it's probably due to them NOT being a couple of destiny (tm), and Sam being one of the few examples of how a character originally probably meant as nothing more than a temporary obstacle instead gained narrative dignity, three dimensionality and an endearing everyman decency in an increasingly dark world.
Feminism on tv:
Great article about the 80s show Cagney and Lacy and the actresses playing the leading roles (and where they are today). Of course, the most depressing aspect about this is that what made C & L revolutionary then - a buddy cop show where the two buddies in question are women, with the bond between them treated as intensely and importantly as in the male variations of the concept - still makes it unusual now, decades later. Also, don't read the comments. There are some incredibly annoying oafs represented there.
Beatles: Alice Cooper about Lennon and McCartney. The words " Alice Cooper" and "awwwww" usually aren't associated (by me) in the same sentence, but they are in this excerpt from a longer interview where the interviewer, Kim Mitchell, is evidently baiting him for some negative stories and instead Cooper comes up with some great 70s tales of how they would defend the respective other even at the worst of times if anyone but themselves dared to attack, and is full of affection and respect for both of them. Add some stories about John in Los Angeles and babysitting Keanu Reeves, and you have a very entertaining take from someone who was actually around, as opposed to many a journalist.
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Date: 2011-12-08 09:05 am (UTC)I remember how deeply impressed I was by C&L when I first saw it on German TV sometime during the early 1990s. And while I was just a teenager back then, I of course noticed the difference. If only the C&L approach were the rule and not the exeption.
Thank you so much for linking! :)
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Date: 2011-12-08 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-08 12:36 pm (UTC)That the show still feels progressive all these years later is a bit discouraging to me. I think that is one of the reasons I cling so tightly to Lost Girl. It's the first show in a long time that has two women with a deep friendship (who fight crime!) who love and respect each other as much as Mary Beth and Chris did.
Did Alice tell the tale of Groucho Marx's bed and how it came to belong to Paul? If not check out his interview with George Stroumboulopoulos . Alice comes across as a intelligent and amusing teller of tales.
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Date: 2011-12-08 05:18 pm (UTC)Alice Cooper didn't tell the story in the interview I linked, but I know through Barry Miles' book about Paul.*g*
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