Ooh, dodgy bits...my favorite bits. (don't ask Crime Chick, right?)
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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erikaj - Nov 10, 2006 5:38:13 pm PST #8171 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 10, 2006 6:07:44 pm PST #8172 of 9843
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
The dodgy bits are very dodgy, but such is life.
When I think of the dodgy parts of Manchester, I think of The Royle Family .And when I think of The Royle Family my heart explodes with love.
esse - Nov 12, 2006 12:03:58 am PST #8173 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Cool! That's good, I thought Manchester would be a good base from a cultural-urban standpoint. Mostly I just want an established queer culture and a good music scene, so I think I'll be set.
Fay - Nov 12, 2006 7:46:47 pm PST #8174 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Mostly I just want an established queer culture and a good music scene, so I think I'll be set
Sorted!
When I think of the dodgy parts of Manchester, I think of The Royle Family .And when I think of The Royle Family my heart explodes with love.
YES! Fanfuckingtastic show, that. Caroline Aherne is one talented lady. It's excruciatingly good stuff - incisive as you like, toe-curlingly recognisable people and dialogue. I laughed my socks off, but it also had me weeping like a baby a couple of times. Damn.
...must get that on DVD. Stat.
...it always boggles my mind to think of her with Alexis Denisof. Gosh.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 16, 2006 7:59:00 am PST #8175 of 9843
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Fay, did you see the special a fortnight or so ago? It undid me; I was undone.
Fay - Nov 16, 2006 4:45:38 pm PST #8176 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Fay, did you see the special a fortnight or so ago? It undid me; I was undone.
Sadly I don't have TV set up in my flat at present - pretty much all my TV viewing is via DVD (presently rewatching Alias season 4, with a view to appreciating my newly-purchased Alias season 5.)
Well, plus I'm in Thailand, rather than Blighty, so it probably wasn't viewable on whatever the cable telly here is.
Was it the Christmas ep? With the bathroom scene? That reduced me to a blubbering wreck. (Are you in the UK or the States, btw? Or elsewhere?)
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 16, 2006 5:08:16 pm PST #8177 of 9843
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
No, no, it was a new episode. Baby David as a seven year old, the first glimpse of Anthony's child, "All I ever dreamed of was being laminated throughout" and a bunch of other quotes that have already insinuated themselves into my speech and the most quietly devastating scene yet.
I'm in Ireland but receiving the BBC is par for the course here now.
Fay - Nov 16, 2006 5:10:53 pm PST #8178 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
OMG, really? An all new episode? Is Caroline Aherne back from Australia then?
Argh!
Want. Take. Have!
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 16, 2006 5:16:30 pm PST #8179 of 9843
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
It's ahemable. You must want. take. have it because it was freakin' brilliant. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it and I'm a manly man.
There was also a talking heads piece on after it with J.K. Rowling, Peter Kay and Noel Gallagher geeking out over it in the most affectionate ways.
Fay - Nov 16, 2006 10:17:28 pm PST #8180 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
There was also a talking heads piece on after it with J.K. Rowling, Peter Kay and Noel Gallagher geeking out over it in the most affectionate ways.
OMG. Bless.
Seriously, I could wax lyrical about The Royle Family at length. It's seriously fantastic writing and acting and it deserves to be studied alongside late 20th Century drama on University courses - it's really much more in the theatrical tradition than using the medium of television.
Christ, that sounds shockingly pretentious. But what I mean is that Aherne used only a handful of sets and it's all dialogue-based, character revealing stuff rather than action-y stuff. It could totally be done on stage with the most minimal changes and not lose anything, which isn't true of most television. And it's so painfully funny and funnily painful and just spot on... yeah. Go Team Aherne.