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08:34 pm
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My Fic Masterlist - Last Updated 8th June 2009
This is a work in progress; I’ll be tidying it up as and when I get time. Most of my fic is set in the Life on Mars universe; nearly all of it is slash – that’s a male/male relationship. If that bothers you, don’t read any further.
Tags: doctorwho fic, fic, flashslash, gene/sam, greenday, harrypotter, lomfic, sam/gene, slash
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08:48 am
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Summary: This is probably the best film-of-the-book I have ever seen.
Most films-of-the-book - indeed most films, in my limited experience - are total crap. The action is ramped up at the expense of plot and characterisation, and a Hollywood shmaltzy ending is crowbarred in regardless of whether it makes sense. The Harry Potter films, for me, are proof that it doesn’t have to be like that.
It would be nice if Hollywood would note that a strong author with - presumably - an unprecedented degree of editorial control, and a screenwriter who totally gets the book, can produce a very good film indeed.
I’ve read some pretty poor reviews of this film, and I can see why some people wouldn’t have enjoyed it - the Independent sent some idiot who doesn’t even like Harry Potter as far as I can see, and spent half the review moaning about the lack of sex. In the film, that is, although perhaps he was suffering personally too. But I think anyone who loves the book - and I do find it difficult to understand why anyone who wants to see the films wouldn’t have read the books - would find little to complain about here.
( cut for length and Spoilers )
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All in all, I liked the film a lot. I hardly ever go to the cinema because even the films I desperately want to see generally turn out to be disappointing. I am totally a book person, not a film person. But this one absolutely worked for me. I can’t think of a film-of-the-book that has ever been better than the book; I don’t think - for me at least - that’s even possible, but this one left me with one overall impression.
Simply put, this film IS Jo’s book, on the screen.
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Tags: diary, harrypotter, ramblings
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07:43 pm
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La Chica de Ayer Fic - Princesa
Title: Princesa (English-language fic) Author: DorsetGirl Fandom: La Chica de Ayer (Spanish Life on Mars) Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters or their universe. BBC/Kudos/Antena3 do. I’m not making any money out of this. Rating: Cortina Blanca Word Count: 270 approx Summary: Now Quin really does want to kiss Samuel A/N: Necesitaba fic. Aquí es. I never intended to write LCDA fic - apart from anything else, I do tend to think it ought to be written in Spanish! But Quin owns my soul, and he wanted this written. Thanks to![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) clonesgirl for checking it made sense. ( Princesa )
Tags: chica_fic, fic, la_chica_de_ayer, quin/samuel, slash
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10:32 am
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LOM Drabble - Sunshine
Just a quick drive-by posting while I’m round at the library. For some reason I'm only getting the html option, so please excuse any poor formatting.
100 words excluding the two song quotes.
( Sunshine )
Tags: fic, gene/sam, lomfic, relationship, sam/gene, slash
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07:35 am
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LOMFic - Samarkand
Title: Samarkand Author: DorsetGirl Fandom: Life on Mars Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters or their universe. BBC/Kudos do. I’m not making any money out of this. Rating: White Cortina Pairing: Sam/Gene Word Count: Summary: The morning after A/N: I haven’t had much time for anything except RL for the past few weeks, and that is going to be the case for a while yet, but this suddenly wrote itself for me last night. So I’m just taking ten minutes for myself to get it typed up and posted; I hope you like it. I will be back soon, I hope, as I have lots more stories waiting to be finished and tidied up, including several for Survival. Oh - as ever, Gene was in charge and he came out with something very strange, which I offer freely to anyone who wants to raise the bunny. I blame draycevixen - you’ll see why. ( Samarkand )
Tags: fic, gene/sam, lomfic, relationship, sam/gene, slash
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08:06 pm
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La Chica de Ayer - Final Episode Commentary
Capitulo 8
Last episode ever, and I’m sad already. First chance on the computer all day, it’s 9:35pm, and in contrast to last week, it doesn’t look as if the ep is up yet. I suppose it makes more sense to wait until after it’s finished airing in Spain, which I suppose will be 22:20 BST. So, I finally found the ep at 22:15, but I had to go via Antena3videos and search for it. And it’s taking forever to buffer! WHYWHYWHY. Right: summary - I enjoyed this episode, and was very anxious to see how it all turned out. I don’t do clever analysis, and I don’t understand most of what was said. So this is about my visual impressions, and my little excitements about understanding a few words. Oh, and the awesome that is Inspector Jefe Joaquin Gallardo - that man is gorgeous. With lots of love to clonesgirl, my fellow-traveller on this short and slightly bitter-sweet journey, and many thanks to may_potter and lynx_moon at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lcda. ( Cut for Spoilers and Squee )
I have thoroughly enjoyed this show, even without understanding most of what was said. I have quite fallen in love with Quin, and I really got to like Samuel, too. In some ways I even like him more than UK Sam. It’s a great pity Antena3 didn’t give this show a fair chance in a timeslot it could have won, because some of the series two stories would have been awesome with Gallardo y Samuel. I loved this show, and I will miss it very much.
Tags: commentary, la_chica_de_ayer, ramblings
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01:30 pm
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“La chica de ayer” no tendrá segunda temporada
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I am so sad about this news; I'm actually crying here. I love this show so much; far more than I ever expected to. I am really, really disappointed. That is all.
Tags: diary, la_chica_de_ayer
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10:38 pm
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Ashes to Ashes 2.08 - Some Undigested Thoughts - Spoilers Ahead!
Just some early thoughts - I can't get on TRA atm, the server was overloaded by the time I got there, ten seconds after the ep ended.
( Ashes 2.08 - contains spoilers )
Tags: a2a, commentary, ramblings
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12:34 am
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Ashes Third Series Confirmed!!!!!
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Ian Wylie just posted the news
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11:50 pm
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La Chica de Ayer - Capi 1.07 Commentary
They clearly do things quite differently in Spain! I got an email from clonesgirl at around 5 or 6pm to tell me this episode was up on the website - several hours before transmission. I was so annoyed about waiting four hours to get on the computer to start watching,
Overall assessment - not enough Gallardo! This has been an episode where I really wish I understood what’s going on. The story seems quite different from any of the UK stories, and I’m quite lost! This is the first episode I’ve watched straight through without stopping all the time to translate stuff; it’s also the first one I’ve watched more or less “live”, so I haven’t been able to see what other people have said about it to help understand. So I definitely need to watch again soon.
( Contains Spoilers )
Tags: commentary, la_chica_de_ayer, ramblings
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02:32 pm
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La Chica de Ayer - Episode 1.04 Commentary
Note to self from 1.03 commentary: In the trailer for Capitulo 4, I think Quin calls Sam señorita again, and does he call him Karina? It’s probably “cariño” which means - Sweetheart!! This seems to be the June episode - we see Sam scrubbing blood off the street, and we see the girl in a hospital bed. I hope they have the post-coital ciggie scene! (By the way, there is a spoiler for a part of the episode where their plot is different from the UK original.) ( So, here we go: )
Tags: commentary, la_chica_de_ayer, ramblings
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01:45 pm
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Some more Spanish-LOM pics
There's just something about this show - uh, that would be Quin - that makes me want to make pictures, when there are so many other things I should be doing. Please do feel free to correct my Spanish - I'm just making it up at the moment.
( Pictures under cut )
Tags: la_chica_de_ayer
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10:33 pm
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Ashes to Ashes 2.07
My first reaction - Holy Shit!! That would be after several "fucking hell"s during the course of the ep.
Absolutely bloody amazing. And Phil! Just the hottest ever, and the most amazing, tragic, tortured eyes. Love that man.
The confrontation scene was extraordinary. Never seen anything like it; very brave choice there, I think, because I'd imagine casual viewers, not being invested in the characters, would have found it boring.
Absolutely fantastic acting there. Giving this one 6 out of 5!
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08:08 am
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La Chica de Ayer - Episode 6 now up
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clonesgirl has let me know that Antena 3 have now made Capi 6 available at their site; I haven't had time to watch it all yet, but we see some more examples of Samuel realising just how different the world was back then, especially for women.
Go to Antena 3 Videos and click on La Chica de Ayer underneath the video window. Icons for all six parts of Ultimo Capitulo come up at the top right of the screen.
It's a little difficult for those of us who don't speak Spanish to get the full value yet, but I'm enjoying this series very much anyway, and I laughed at the scene where Quin is forced to apologise to a group of women and thank them for all sorts of things. (What, I don't know. But it was funny anyway.)
Do leave a comment over at lcda if you have anything to say about the episode. Most of us are not in any position for intelligent debate and analysis on the ep or the series yet, so feel free to make any observations you like!
ETA: There may be spoilers in the comments.
Tags: commentary, la_chica_de_ayer
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01:20 pm
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A question for anyone watching Spanish LOM
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As it seems unlikely I'll be writing fic for La Chica de Ayer - what with not understanding a word they're saying - I thought I'd do some more pics as soon as I get time.
I have an idea for the wonderfully slashy park scene in ep5 , but I need to know what Samuel usually calls Quin - does he call him Quin, or Jefe? Or is there another word (like Guv for example) that he uses?
Any Spanish speakers watching who can give me some clues? I plan to post some thoughts on the show later, but the pics need doing first!
Tags: la_chica_de_ayer
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01:12 pm
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LOMFic - Nightmare - Part of the Survival series
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Takes place immediately before Another Day (Written for Drayce's Friday Drabble Challenge at lifein1973 )
( Nightmare )
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01:51 am
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Nice Try, Samuel...
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With grateful thanks to Antena 3 for the opportunity to watch La Chica de Ayer. I just couldn't resist this...
Tags: la_chica_de_ayer
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12:17 am
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La Chica de Ayer - aka Spanish LOM
I’ve been watching a bit of Spanish LOM - and I like it rather a lot. ( Read more... )
Tags: commentary, la_chica_de_ayer
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07:37 am
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Um, hi? Do I know you?
I just got friended by someone I've never heard of. This does happen occasionally, but this one doesn't belong to any communities, has no public entries on their journal, no interests listed, and I've never heard of any of their other friends. Except for the one which is my totally private journal that only one person in the world knows is me and no-one else ever reads. And that scares the shit out of me.
Oh, and the bio is written in cyrillic script. Advice, anyone?
Of course, if you're reading this, new friend, perhaps you would be friendly enough to introduce yourself.
ETA: Right, now that's seriously weird. This entry has received fourteen hits in the past couple of minutes, from loads of places I've also never heard of. Normally I get just friends, or comms' friends-pages.
Tags: ramblings
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01:25 am
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Excuse Me?
Got the new Green Day album (21st Century Breakdown) on Friday, and I’m enjoying it quite a lot. Early favourites are Peacemaker and Little Girl, although I’m sure that will change over time. One of the strange things I find with Green Day is that most of their stuff goes past me the first couple of times, and then as I get to know it better it sort of - creeps in. Works its way under my skin, into my spine and heart and fingertips. (Excuse the poeticals, it’s very late here.) Right now, if I had to choose only one piece of music to take to a desert island, it would quite likely be Holiday, from American Idiot, but the first few times I heard it, it simply didn’t register. So I’m guessing my preferences will change as I get to know the new music better; in the meantime these two tracks are I suppose, the simplest and most - um, don’t know how to describe it - open? Does that make sense? As so often, this evening I have spent far too much time watching the boys on YouTube (I started with this interview - warning for language). My excuse is that I’m preparing for the concert. Anyway, I came across a sweet little moment in a recording of Holiday live in Milan. Billie’s just fluffed the last note, and he reaches out and holds Mike’s hand just for a moment. Awww. I’ll stop rambling now, and get back to what I wanted to share in the first place - the daftest line ever. I mean, I love Billie Joe’s lyrics, but seriously - “Little one; little one the sky is falling - your lifeboat of deception is now sailing.” How he manages to sing that with a straight face I don’t know; I haven’t yet managed to hear it without laughing out loud. I love these guys.
Tags: diary, greenday, ramblings, slash
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