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YAY!! Looks like we've got another great Fic Rush kicked off and plans to fic (as well as maybe fic, kinda fic and research, research, research) in the works. Tis Hour Two and with so much awesomeness on the move, I have a feeling this is gonna be a special Fic-Rush!

So how goes it, y'all? Sound off in the comments!

Date: 2016-03-26 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com
I picked a fic to write then actually wrote, 300 words, not too bad for a start :D

Date: 2016-03-26 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
I am starting off my fic_rush by figuring out what to make for dinner. After that, I'm hoping to finish editing my oldest WIP. Will I be able to send it to beta by the end of the round? Ooooh, the suspense!

Date: 2016-03-26 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
Well, you're probably not going to want to read it -- it's for an obscure TV show, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). But I know a few people from Yuletide-land who might be interested, and even if it languishes, at least it will be done!

Date: 2016-03-26 02:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com
1969 or 2000?

Date: 2016-03-26 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
1969! I've only been writing it since around 2000. ;)

Date: 2016-03-26 02:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com
I always had a big soft spot for the original but didn't like the remake despite liking the people involved. I think there are some story lines that were just better suited to the '60s.

Date: 2016-03-26 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
Definitely true! I also didn't really like the personality dynamics they set up in the remake. I think the attempt to do a love triangle was a mistake.

Date: 2016-03-26 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com
Well, there's sort of one in the original, if you squint... really hard. But then having to squint really hard helped a lot. :D

I love a lot of English shows from the 60s like The Avengers, Callan, Danger Man, The Champions, The Prisoner and Department S.

Date: 2016-03-26 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosiedlotrfan.livejournal.com
I loved that show when I was a kid! Would definitely be interested in reading it.

Date: 2016-03-26 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
Wow, there's already more interest than I thought! I'd better actually work on it, then. ;)

I fell in love with the show as a kid, too!

Date: 2016-03-26 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
You always have to squint in those old 60s shows! But that's part of their charm.

Date: 2016-03-26 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com
I dunno, some of those 60s and 70s shows got far more "handsy" than many contemporary shows will. :D

Date: 2016-03-26 04:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
I meant you have to squint to have them make sense, or to get over a bad special effect, or an unconvincing car chase, or something like that.

Date: 2016-03-26 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com

The funny is with our ability to slow down and even pause these shows on DVD in a way that no original viewer could do back then you can spot all sorts of unintentionally funny stuff. I'm a fan of an English 70s show called The Professionals which is full of car chases and if you slow down the film you can see the stuntmen who are basically just wearing wigs to vaguely look like the leads. Unintentionally hysterical.

Date: 2016-03-26 05:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
LOL, that's great! Then there's the infamous "white Jaguar going over a cliff" scene that kept getting re-used. From TV tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockFootage

"1960's British Telly show The Baron had an expensive scene where a white Jaguar car drives over a cliff. This was re-used in almost every other adventure show for the next few years made by Lew Grade's ITC company (The Saint, The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk, Department S etc). It got so that as soon as you see the villains get into a white Jag you know what is going to happen, even if the episode is set in a place that does not have any cliffs (such as the middle of London). "

Date: 2016-03-26 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com
I was blissfully unaware of the white Jaguar... and now I'm blissfully aware of it so thanks. :D

Date: 2016-03-26 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com
You're welcome! ;D

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