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How is it still only Tuesday? Surely it must be Thursday by now? Nope, still Tuesday, cold, rainy, YARGH. Oh well, when I get home I shall console myself with the gooseberry mallow ice cream I made at the weekend, and also my NEW OBSESSION, ie Press Gang. I dimly recall it being on when I was little, but I was a bit too young for it and also it clashed with something good on t'BBC (us didn't have VCRs in them days, and even if we did we'd've probably had to crank them by hand, uphill both ways in the snow usw.), so I never really watched it. But I wandered past a charity shop on Saturday evening (on a quest for spinach and sponges), noticed they had the complete series on DVD for a tenner, and carried it off at once. (I did stop and pay for it first. Just to clarify.) And now I cannot stop watching it. I even considered nipping home at lunchtime and trying to squeeze in another episode, but see above re. rain. Anyway the point of all this wittering is that I love it tremendously, it is witty and snarky and affectionate and although it does occasionally wobble into kid's show worthiness (in a "hello, here is our episode about [insert teen issue here]!" kind of way), I don't mind, due to LOVE and also the fact that they have been pretty well done so far. I would probably have more to say about it if I hadn't inhaled the first season and a half (so far) quite so fast, but really that just means I have an excuse to watch it again. Here are some more, slightly spoilery thoughts:
- Lynda/Spike! I LOVE THEM. I wasn't sure at first but then there was BICKERING and MONOPOLY and I was entirely sold.
- DID I MENTION THE BICKERING? All the dialogue sparkles beautifully, not just between Lynda and Spike, but the whole cast. I would quote some bits but I'm not sure I could resist quoting the whole thing.
- I really like Mr. Sullivan. All the adults are pretty good, and it's nice to see them being broadly supportive whilst leaving the kids to get on with it, rather than antagonistic.
- Hi Angela Bruce! I really like her character, well, I really like them all, but her in particular. I also liked the fact that she messed up when talking to Billy, he told her off for it and she apologised, without making a big thing of it or turning her into a bad person - she's a good person who made a mistake.
- The running jokes about Frazz doing the horoscopes makes me grin, especially that one where he gets them all completely right.
- Lynda/Spike! I LOVE THEM. I wasn't sure at first but then there was BICKERING and MONOPOLY and I was entirely sold.
- DID I MENTION THE BICKERING? All the dialogue sparkles beautifully, not just between Lynda and Spike, but the whole cast. I would quote some bits but I'm not sure I could resist quoting the whole thing.
- I really like Mr. Sullivan. All the adults are pretty good, and it's nice to see them being broadly supportive whilst leaving the kids to get on with it, rather than antagonistic.
- Hi Angela Bruce! I really like her character, well, I really like them all, but her in particular. I also liked the fact that she messed up when talking to Billy, he told her off for it and she apologised, without making a big thing of it or turning her into a bad person - she's a good person who made a mistake.
- The running jokes about Frazz doing the horoscopes makes me grin, especially that one where he gets them all completely right.
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Date: 4 Aug 2009 15:16 (UTC)I'm with you on hating the rain. Bloody stuff should sod off already!
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Date: 4 Aug 2009 18:36 (UTC)Stupid rain. It's supposed to be August, not March!
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Date: 4 Aug 2009 18:45 (UTC)Yes, the weather gods must be told of their mistake!
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Date: 4 Aug 2009 15:44 (UTC)I also have a DW/Press Gang crossover fic on Teaspoon, but I forget which series it corresponds to, so you might want to watch the whole thing first.
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Date: 5 Aug 2009 00:00 (UTC)I also deduce that you know German. :-) Ich auch.
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Date: 5 Aug 2009 11:32 (UTC)Ein bisschen! I studied it at school for three years, about a decade ago, so all I have left is a few phrases (which I probably can't spell) of varying degrees of usefulness, like "enschuldigung sie bitte, aber wo in der nahe ist ein Rathaus?" and "Cheltenham leigt in Sudwestmittelengland, in der nahe von Gloucester" and "ich wurde lieber von ein Brücke springen". :)
I think most of those sentences need more umlauts :\
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Date: 5 Aug 2009 21:32 (UTC)They do! I can't be bothered trying to tpe them either.
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Date: 5 Aug 2009 21:40 (UTC)"Das is mir Wurst", I like that one. I will try and start using it in conversation! :)
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Date: 5 Aug 2009 21:54 (UTC)My sister's first phrase in French was "Le chat est sur la table" which she used to lie in bed and say with great satisfaction (with a long drawn-out "taaaaaaaaable"), so now we have a family thing of learning that first in any new language. I remember my Japanese teacher being puzzled about why I'd find it useful. At least I didn't want to know about the pen of my aunt.
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Date: 6 Aug 2009 15:15 (UTC)Aww! How many languages can you say it in?
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