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Turlough's Gimp Bed

  • Mar. 25th, 2006 at 11:52 PM
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Adric's bedroom was a nice innocent place. Poster of space. Books. Eighties mesh chair that my friend Simon had. A perfectly acceptable place for a young Alzarian to curl up on a blanket and think about Maths.


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Turlough's approach to suitable bedroom furniture appears to have been slightly different.


Ignore, if you will, the pouting air hostess, and marvel.

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Surely that can't be comfortable? Though I suppose it is wipe-clean...


In other news, I have been watching Doctor Who: Lust in Space, aka Mark Strickson Presents Something That Will Make Your Brain Hurt. My fandom is on very hard drugs. John Nathan-Turner making jokes about toast! Nicholas Courtney perving on Katy Manning! Some hats that don't fit properly! Plus a photomontage of b&w images of the Turlough/Peri bikini rescue, set to moving music. Stricko manages, when discussing Tegan, to declare 'She arrived in a school uniform, and ended up in a boob tube!' Freudian slip, darling?

Who cares how batshit it is? It has Stricko being snide in it! Hurrah!

Oh, and I was watching Gaudy Night (the Edward Petherbridge/Harriet Walter one) after discovering that my friend had never heard of Dorthy L. Sayers (I know, I know), and it took me two whole episodes to notice it has Liz Shaw in it. In my defence, Miss Hillyard is being played by Robert Hardy in a wig, which was distracting.

But I'm now having the worrying thought that in my brain, a little bit, Fivey = Lord Peter. Which is just wrong.

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[identity profile] pontisbright.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 26th, 2006 01:29 am (UTC)
Ahh, Campion. Such fond memories. I seem to remember lots of lovely black tie dinners at country houses. Haven't seen it in years but suspect I might have to track down the dvds - especially if there is singing! Am still grinning from watching All Creatures Great and Small when he sings a lovely song about farmyard animals while stirring pigswill: classic Tristan.

Petherbridge is great. I have a couple of the Ian Carmichael ones and while he's good at the posh jolly stuff, he just doesn't nail why Wimsey is sexy. Whereas Petherbridge is, for me, just right: not attractive in any conventional sense, but foxy in a lispy wet intellectual sort of way. Gaudy Night is particularly good; Strong Poison suffers a bit more from 80s drama pacing, and is quite desperately slow, but still very watchable for the characterisation.