a flicker of the future could've saved the cindered sister

[hardparade]

THIS IS AN ANNA POPPLEWELL APPRECIATION POST. (Mostly.)

She did a photoshoot for THAT magazine, which isn't actually out yet, but there are behind-the-scenes pictures from it which are gorgeous.


















I am much more in favour of these clothes than her NMAs dress. *gazes* CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR EVERYTHING, ANNA. Oh, there is also this picture from the NMAs, though, which is beautiful:



But sadly there aren't any pictures of Anna and Georgie together (besides those ones of them in the audience) or with James. And speaking of sad things, her new project—Brave New World—wasn't picked up by NBC, so that really sucks. :(


In other news, I've been watching a ridiculous amount of TV. I'm watching Game of Thrones and The Borgias, and generally enjoying both. Game Of Thrones, I'm less sure about—some of it really disturbs me, and I know that's kind of the point, but I just feel kind of nervous and uncertain about it. But I do like it! It gets like +1000 points for the incest and the slash. I really like The Borgias a lot—shipping Cesare/Lucrezia, obviously, and generally enjoying François Arnaud's face, and also there was consensual whipping which I approve of. I find the Cesare/Michelotto relationship really interesting. And now I want to read A Song of Ice and Fire and lots of books about the Borgia family, but I still suck at reading lately.

I'm also watching Camelot which, um, is not so good. I don't know, maybe Arthurian legend shows just don't do it for me, but it's just kind of boring, and really at this point I'm only watching for Eva Green and her OVERALL AWESOMENESS, being all crazy and powerful. (Also maybe a little bit for Jamie Campbell Bower.) What else? Baffled by the Fringe season finale, and growing increasingly concerned about the state of House (and also suddenly shipping Chase/Thirteen, where did that come from??). Rewatching the first season of The O.C., because I kept seeing stuff on Tumblr and getting nostalgic. I got so much of my music taste from that show back in the day, it's amazing—at least twice an episode, I'll be like "hey, I like this song!...oh, this is where I first heard this song."

In the past week or so I've also been marathoning Community and Parks & Recreation and wondering why I didn't do that sooner. SO GOOD, YOU GUYS. I don't actually laugh out loud that often at TV shows, and it's not like I don't find them funny, but it's more like...I appreciate the clever writing and I'm amused, but I'm not actually cracking up, you know? But both of these shows have been making me laugh regularly. Especially the flu episode of Parks & Rec. My Dad actually came in and asked me what was wrong because I was laughing so hard. "I can't go home! I have to get ready for the Chamber of Secrets!" "...Commerce." SPEAKING OF WHICH: I love Ben Wyatt. Can we talk about Adam Scott and his delightful face?

Can we talk about any of this, actually? I've basically just been sitting here watching all this TV and not really talking about it.

AND FINALLY, a meme which could be fun maybe if anyone is interested:

Mini-DVD Meme: Pick any paragraph or any passage of between 500-600 words from any fanfic I've written and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet of what I was thinking when I made or wrote it, why I wrote it, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the fic, and anything else you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My masterlist is here but I guess if you pick something I wrote ages ago I might not remember what I was thinking at the time. :/

Comments

[likecharity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean! I like that about her and Georgie, you really get the sense that they are just normal girls instead of these rich famous celebrities who are trying to give that impression.

I haven't heard of Luther! *googles* It looks interesting. Although the nightmares sound terrifying. I'm still not sure how I feel about Game of Thrones in general - I get really excited about the new episodes, but spend the whole time really nervous about how it's going to be, and I'm just like...it still feels like I've only seen a tiny little piece of the big picture and it's so hard to make any sort of judgement, not just on whether or not I like it but on what kind of show it is in general. I think just because there are so many characters and so much history and so much TO it, you know? I'm enjoying it, but in a weird way.

It took me ages to realise Camelot was a series too, I'd assumed it was a movie. I'm not sure if my opinion is trustworthy on this one because of how I think the whole Arthurian legend thing is sort of boring in any format. Like, that might be why I'm not that taken with Camelot. But I also think the acting is kind of iffy (except for Eva, of course, who is perfect in every way) and the whole thing is just kind of...ehhh.

I don't think you should be too worried about House! It definitely has changed quite a bit, but I can understand why - they couldn't really keep things the same forever. But I just feel like the writing isn't as good as it used to be, and the writers are stuck for what to do, because they can't keep things the same and it doesn't work when they change things either. It seems like the actors are losing faith in it, too - Lisa Edelstein recently quit, and Robert Sean Leonard has said he doesn't enjoy it anymore, and the whole thing just makes me really sad. I mean, if they make another season without those two, I probably won't even watch because it just won't be the same.

Oh my god yes, the first two seasons of The O.C. were definitely the best. I just never watched season 4 beyond like, maybe the first episode, because as annoying as Marissa often was, it just wasn't the same without her. Also, Nothing like a good bromance and Peter Gallagher's eyebrows should be the show's tagline.

Parks and Rec is one of those shows that you just sort of don't get until you watch it. Like, I saw quotes and stuff on Tumblr and thought it looked funny, but when I read the synopsis I was like "...really?" because it just sounds like such an odd premise for a comedy show. And then the mockumentary format threw me off because I hadn't been expecting that either, and I never saw The Office so it was really new to me. But as it went on I just fell in love with it. It's just so clever and perfect and all of the things that are slightly odd about it end up working in its favour.

[umbrrrayla.livejournal.com]

I'm on episode 5 of Luther right now (links are all on tvduck) and I really like it, but one thing I'm disappointed about is the format. I figured from what I'd heard about it and from watching the first ep that Ruth Wilson's sociopath character was the main theme of the show, and it seemed like a really interesting story. But it's actually more like she's a thread running throughout the series, but the series itself is more about a new case every episode, which is just so run of the mill. That's how every cop or medical drama works nowadays. It could have been interesting to have something that would usually be the subject of a one-off drama as a full length series. Also, I don't really like Idris Elba that much. He irritates me, though he does get the character right.

I'm the same as you about GoT. I'm pretty disappointed in it - it isn't like I thought it would be from the first couple of eps.

House :( I have a feeling it will be coming to an end very soon. Better than it fizzling out badly, I guess. I just feel nostalgic for when it first came out over here. That was a good year for tv. Man, the last Harry Potter book hadn't even come out then... weird.

Lol, YES to that being The OC's tagline! And also yes to everything about Parks and Recs - totally not what I expected. From Tumblr, I got the impression that Ron Swanson was some beer-gutted couch potato who was lovably stupid, but that's not even slightly right. I love him!