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[nny]

Notes:

Lack of Lestrade makes me disgruntly with the second episode of Sherlock; he would have been far more awesome and interesting than DI Dinky, or whatever his name was. Also lack of Lestrade icons. >:(

I am investigating Strong Poison/Gaudy Night TV adaptations. I'm... wary. I LOVE THE BOOKS WHAT IF THEY DO IT WRONG.

Considering replacing food with beer on a semi-permanent basis.

I dislike the limitation of moods on LJ. Why can you not be proud? Or disgruntled? Or super? My life would be better if I could be super. (I know you can write in your own but that is TOTALLY NOT THE SAME.)

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[skygiants]

So far I have been too terrified of Strong Poison/Gaudy Night TV adaptations to risk any, but also, shallowly, this is because none of the TV Lord Peters I have seen ever match my mental Lord Peter. (If I were in charge of Hollywood, Hugh Laurie would be playing Lord Peter in a movie right now.)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I LIKE YOUR BRAIN. I think... I am able to disconnect enough between different versions? So I think I'll be okay. It won't spoil it for me if it's rotten.

Still, wary, because it's pretty much my favourite Wimsey selection...

[skygiants]

I honestly don't understand why no one has made him do this already. It seems so obvious! Like, Lord Peter's Fop Mask basically is Bertie Wooster, and then you peel that away and underneath he's a less-grumpy-more-angsty House.

Either way you should report back! My favorite is Murder Must Advertise, which I think there is a film version of that actually tempts me the most of all of them, because a lot of what's awesome about MMA isn't all tied up in Lord Peter being Lord Peter, you know?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh Becca, Becca! He's delightful! Not quite silly enough, to be sure, but there's this wonderful scene with Miss Climpson where she offers him a buttered teacake and a teaplate to eat it off - he takes the teaplate but wanders off expostulatin' before she can offer the cake. Then he comes back past, notices he's holding a teaplate, wonders why, decides he must be investigatin' it, examines the underside of the teaplate and then hands it back to expostulate some more, ignoring the cup of tea he's offered.

It's just... delightful and SO CUTE!

[skygiants]

. . . in spite of myself the cockles of my black heart are charmed. I find myself intrigued!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Also his monocle keeps fallin' out. Heeeee I really think you'd enjoy this, and it's all on youtube...

[skygiants]

>.>

Well if you saw fit to provide me with a link I suppose it couldn't hurt to try it out a little.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*whistles (http://www.youtube.com/user/starman2110#p/search/8/cVVro4LV3cM)*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE WONDERFUL LESBIANS

[skygiants]

. . . Nny, you know the ways to my heart. *cracking up*

[suzie-shooter.livejournal.com]

is that the Edward Petherbridge ones? I love those, but this may be because I first saw them at the age of about eight... Can't get on with the earlier versions with whatsisname though.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Edward Petherbridge, yes. There's something charmingly fey about him. I've only managed to get hold of the first episode of Strong Poison, though, which is a little disappointing; I have all of Gaudy Night. I'm totally jealous of tiny!person exposure to Wimsey!

[suzie-shooter.livejournal.com]

I've got Strong Poison and Gaudy Night on dvd (er, somewhere) and Have His Carcase on video, which is a bugger because it's my favourite of the three and I haven't got a video player any more... *multimedia!fail*

hmmn, quite a lot of it (SP) seems to be uploaded on youtube if that's any good to you?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Ooh, if it is that'd be mighty shiny. I shall have to investigate, because I'm really enjoying this quite ridiculously. Might have to purchase them eventually, but this month I've already laid out a ridiculous amount of money on things to make moving and suchlike easier, so it'll have to wait. XD

[catwalksalone]

I MISS LESTRADE. I MISS HIM WITH EVERY FIBRE OF MY BEING, NNY.

I DO NOT EVEN HAVE A BLANKET.


*ahem*

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

TBQH I gave up on the 2nd Sherlock, because I was bored :-/ Partly I think this was due to the fact the story it was based on (10 dancing men) was not one of my favourite Holmes stories, but yes, I missed Lestrade! (although I still think the character should have been female. Like Sandra Pullman in New Tricks)

[looking4tarzan.livejournal.com]

I've only ever seen the Edward Petherbridge adaptations. and I loved those. They were what got me into reading DLS' books

[looking4tarzan.livejournal.com]

Oh and as for Lestrade...I MISSED HIM
though DI Dinky just proved to me Moffat was writing as he's been in Torchwood.