Round 19, Hour 9

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

 Well this is my last hour modding for today :D I hope that everybody is writing up a storm like I am. Drop me a comment and let me know :D Plus cause it's my last hour today here's a couple of gifs :D







All made by digitaldesigner :D

Comments

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

*waves sleepily*

I'm just off for a shower and then I'll be back to take up the mod baton and write like fury!

[thisbluespirit]

Your first gif: shortly before my heart broke into tiny little pieces. *watches it a lot* (I probably shouldn't have admitted that in public.)

(The second one does more to make me think I should maybe sometime watch Stargate than anything else I've yet seen of it.)

Anyway, what I meant to say. Hi, good morning! Since Feb I have been muttering that it might be the fic_rush I managed to type up a drabble. I think it really will be this time, but if not, there will hopefully at least be some Sapphire & Steel icons. There would be words on some. Probably. Which should count. (I say Sapphire and Steel, but mainly I am having a lot of fun with the colouring re Silver's hair...)

But I will drop by to cheer later. :-)

[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

Ok, I'll see you soonish :D

[lolmac]

The Stargate episode is "Window of Opportunity", and it's a truly wonderful episode! In fact, you can probably watch it by itself, and be able to enjoy it, without needing to know a lot of backstory.

I get way too much of a kick out of Silver in S&S, mostly because of having seen him on Blake's 7 as well. What are you doing with his hair?

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you. I'll see if my friend has it - she has some Stargate DVDs. :-)

*hugs lolmac* Excuse my scary excitement, but I have been flailing incoherently since last week about how much I loved S&S and Silver and the three of them together in particular and most of my flist have been backing away slowly, esp re Silver. *lost_spook breathes properly and calms down*

And I'm not doing anything much to his hair, it's just that it is exceptionally good for iconing, possibly even better than Stella Gonet (who has curly yellow hair, ok). :-D How red and gold can I get David Collings hair to go is the simple quest here. :loL: I've liked him for years for being Poul in Doctor Who (and seen him in his other 2 DW roles, plus Press Gang, the BBC Persuasion and eventually B7 - the only sensible person in Blake, yes) so knowing he was in it was a big draw - he always seems to make his one-off characters so interesting. And then Silver was just so marvellous I flailed a lot. *flails again*

Excuse my scariness here. Sorry. I did make a big post of glee, but it, um, wasn't quite enough for me, apparently. Sadly, I'm not that pleased with the icons so far. I think I need some different textures to the ones I'm using.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

"Window of Opportunity" is to Stargate as "Blink" is to New Who, in terms of "gateway episodes". *nods sagely* (It's even timey-wimey, lol!) Do watch it, yes. And then there are many other good episodes. :-)

[lolmac]

ROFL! *hugs back* Call me Beth, BTW. And glee at will!

B7 was my first attempt at fix-it fic. Sigh.

I fell in love with S&S back when all we could get here in the States were fifth-generation videotapes that had been 'camera-copied' to get them into a format we could play. It was amazing when I finally saw it on DVD and could actually, you know, see the characters' faces! I need to get my own DVDs of that show.

[lolmac]

Good comparison, yes. *also nods sagely*

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

I think by the time I made it to B7 about 2 years ago, everyone who'd ever written anything for it had all written some kind of post-Gauda Prime fic, so I mainly hang about in S3 being frivolous, although I must do more one day.

Heh, I had thought that S&S sounded interesting, but like I said, if I ever mentioned David Collings (which I don't do a lot. except for just now), people would always tell me to watch it. So, I thought, I'd finally get round to it. ... And was it more or less scary when people didn't have faces? (Aside from the man without a face, of course).

[lolmac]

LOL -- my B7 attempt was back in the late 80s, and never saw the light of day. Just as well!

As for the faces: they had them, but everything was so blurry that you couldn't see expressions. The process also messed up colours; I remember very yellow skintones.

Without facial expressions, the impact of the show depended entirely on the writing and the acting -- specifically, the voice acting. There's some amazing work there, and it really shone through.

An unexpected benefit was that cheap sets, strange costumes, and antique special effects weren't an issue -- you couldn't see any of it clearly enough anyway. This probably helped with Blake's 7 in particular (although the B7 episodes that had awful writing were in trouble).

[thisbluespirit]

Blink, eh? Well, that is intriguing, certainly.

Unfortunately, I just went and checked and my friend doesn't own that one. I shall have to hope she gets some more of the DVDs soon, then. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

It's a different way to watch things, yesh. Heh. I am v lucky. And having watched ridiculous amounts of DW, the only sfx that throw me, are when they go the extra mile and march in Michelin Men in one case and have ominous pillows in the other. :-) And there really are some good voice actors in both shows; I hadn't thought about it. Which also explains you noticing David Collings, as he does have a v distinctive voice (and has done a load of voice work, too. A very memorable evil dragon on one occasion among other things.)

The awful writing... Yrk. Just imagine watching that episode of Ben Steed's or whatever his name is, without getting the light relief of Jacqueline Pearce's unexpected comedy double act with Michael Keating. (Or maybe it is just me that thinks Vila and Servalan should team up for more haplessness and impatient eye-rolling some time... :lol:)