3 random things
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thisbluespiritI am now ill/tired from having visitors, although not too bad, really, and we had a very nice time (there were even brownies as well as ice cream before Mum and Dad left, amazing.) In the meantime, have three very random things indeed.
1. I watched S2 of The Crown in time to give it back to Mum. It was v good, but there was one deeply weird moment where I realised a minor character was Jacqui Chan, who was one of the regulars in The Hidden Truth with James Maxwell. Idk why that is weirder than all the other real people, but I suppose you don't expect random old telly people to get played by other people in 21st tv unless they're much better known.
2. I looked up an actor to see who they were the other day because I recognised them but not their name. (Richard Lintern, and they were Daniel in House of Eliott, aka the least bad of Evangeline Eliott's terrible no-good love interests.)
But that led to me discovering the existence of Jupiter Moon, and I was deeply amused and bemused. You probably need to be a UK person of a certain vintage to appreciate just how unlikely every single sentence of that wiki entry is, but it's like an April Fool's entry, except it's totally real. BSB, in its short-lived existance did somehow make 150 episodes of a thrice-weekly soap opera featuring a university IN SPACE in 1990, as created by some guy who usually wrote The Archers. There is pretty much no sentence in the wiki page that's not making me boggle or laugh, or both. It has Anna Chancellor in it, and seems to be what Lucy Benjamin was doing between s1 and 4 of Press Gang.
I had to go look on YT and found the whole thing here so I watched some while I was a bit brainless the last few days. It is exactly what you would expect from the description. (Fake looking video-bound soap opera stuff with variable young actors, love drama, and can Timmy give up chocolate, oh and SWIRLY THINGS IN SPACE.)
3. I found another B7 reactor I occasionally look at when I'm tired etc, and recently watched their reaction to "Weapon" and had to link here, because their reaction when Servalan turns up in that costume was great. XD
I hope to be more sensible around here soon, you never know. It could happen. ♥
1. I watched S2 of The Crown in time to give it back to Mum. It was v good, but there was one deeply weird moment where I realised a minor character was Jacqui Chan, who was one of the regulars in The Hidden Truth with James Maxwell. Idk why that is weirder than all the other real people, but I suppose you don't expect random old telly people to get played by other people in 21st tv unless they're much better known.
2. I looked up an actor to see who they were the other day because I recognised them but not their name. (Richard Lintern, and they were Daniel in House of Eliott, aka the least bad of Evangeline Eliott's terrible no-good love interests.)
But that led to me discovering the existence of Jupiter Moon, and I was deeply amused and bemused. You probably need to be a UK person of a certain vintage to appreciate just how unlikely every single sentence of that wiki entry is, but it's like an April Fool's entry, except it's totally real. BSB, in its short-lived existance did somehow make 150 episodes of a thrice-weekly soap opera featuring a university IN SPACE in 1990, as created by some guy who usually wrote The Archers. There is pretty much no sentence in the wiki page that's not making me boggle or laugh, or both. It has Anna Chancellor in it, and seems to be what Lucy Benjamin was doing between s1 and 4 of Press Gang.
I had to go look on YT and found the whole thing here so I watched some while I was a bit brainless the last few days. It is exactly what you would expect from the description. (Fake looking video-bound soap opera stuff with variable young actors, love drama, and can Timmy give up chocolate, oh and SWIRLY THINGS IN SPACE.)
3. I found another B7 reactor I occasionally look at when I'm tired etc, and recently watched their reaction to "Weapon" and had to link here, because their reaction when Servalan turns up in that costume was great. XD
I hope to be more sensible around here soon, you never know. It could happen. ♥
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Date: 7 Oct 2023 09:59 pm (UTC)150 episodes of a thrice-weekly soap opera featuring a university IN SPACE in 1990
I must say that even without knowledge of the surrounding climate of British TV, that in itself sounds pretty weird.
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 08:11 am (UTC)It's one of the most entertaining wiki entries I've seen. If I hadn't found the entire thing on YT, I might still think it must be a joke. (I like the bit where they were talking about sales to other countries and the country who thought EastEnders was getting too expensive and switched to this instead. I can only imagine viewers' reactions when they tuned in next week to see what was going on at the Queen Vic and got this!! XD)
I'm finding it addictively kind of bad-goodish and suitably easy to watch if I'm brainless, but it's certainly not good or not yet, and I am increasingly wishing that some of the characters who want to leave would leave. But they can't, because that includes Richard Lintern and Anna Chancellor and their imdb entries say otherwise, and also that would leave only Lucy Benjamin in the 'can actually act well consistently' category.
I didn't even know BSB had survived long enough to make any telly of its own.
something of this experience with Oppenheimer, where one of his father's best friends in the physics community turned up as a small, credited, but non-speaking role.
Oh, that would be much stranger!!
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Date: 7 Oct 2023 10:17 pm (UTC)I don’t know what that space university thing is, but it sounds kinda cool
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 08:02 am (UTC)I'm curious, though, because it does seem to have had enough of an afterlife to suggest it maybe does at some point?
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 08:03 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 07:10 am (UTC)Hooray for brownies and ice cream, though! 💙
Ooh! I know the name Richard Lintern - though not from HoE. Oh! Oh! I know - he played Nikki Alexander's boss in Silent Witness for 6 or 7 years - up until the end of S23 (2020)
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 07:57 am (UTC)I know the name Richard Lintern - though not from HoE. Oh! Oh! I know - he played Nikki Alexander's boss in Silent Witness for 6 or 7 years - up until the end of S23 (2020)
Yes, he seems to have had a pretty decent career (amusingly, he also immediately popped up in the next ep of The Crown as well) - his stint in Jupiter Moon doesn't seem to have cut short his career. XD
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 08:00 am (UTC)It's good to know Jupiter Moon didn't kill his career!
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 01:16 pm (UTC)It would be weird to see random old telly people in new TV as we're the only people that care.
I didn't know BSB made more than TV intros. After an Archers producer went off to revamp 80s Crossroads with writers and cast, making a soap in space probably didn't feel peculiar!
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Date: 8 Oct 2023 05:11 pm (UTC)It would be weird to see random old telly people in new TV as we're the only people that care.
They cared enough, even though it wasn't a big role to do really well with the casting likeness and everything. It felt very unreal - I last saw the actual actor standing next to JM in magically rediscovered TV on TPTV.
I didn't know BSB made more than TV intros. After an Archers producer went off to revamp 80s Crossroads with writers and cast, making a soap in space probably didn't feel peculiar!
I didn't know BSB made any TV either! I didn't think its lifespan was long enough to manage anything, let alone 150 eps of a soap. That was the first bit where my brain fell over itself reading the wiki article, and then the improbability kept on mounting. 10/10 for a wiki read. Love the bit about the country that decided EastEnders was too expensive and switched to this as a cheap substitute instead. I'm sure that went down we;; XD
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Date: 9 Oct 2023 03:04 pm (UTC)