Late night angst

[vilakins]

Argh! The Blake's 7 AU/AR ficathon stories are going up and I can't read them till I get home from work tomorrow evening. I spent tonight watching Doctor Who and Lost, then came in here to catch up on LJ and realised I had to post my story. And now it's almost midnight and I'm still not caught up.

Doctor Who was wonderful as usual: go Mickey, Rose's mum, and the wonderful Harriet Jones MP!

As for Lost, the younger Locke with hair looks disconcertingly like Michael Keating does now. Awww. Poor Locke, used by his ghastly parents like that. I loved the way they kept making me think, "Ah, this is how he becomes paralysed," and fooled me each time. We still don't know, and neither do we know what he saw the time he met the monster, what his mystic connection with the island is, or how he got that prophetic dream and why. We may now know where he learned his hunting skills though.

I got shivers when the light came on. I wish someone would notice the numbers.

Comments

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Lost just gets better and better, the season finale was just fabulous. *bounces*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can't wait for the next one! We like Lost so much we start watching it 20 minutes or so in while it's still recording on the TiVo--you can zap the ads that way and still go back to look at bits again.

Damn, but that was a good story. They played with us and Locke all through it. I wonder what the island wanted from that plane--don't tell me! [sudden thought] I hope Charlie doesn't find the drugs.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who was wonderful as usual: go Mickey, Rose's mum, and the wonderful Harriet Jones MP!

Penelope Wilton, who played Ms Jones, is one of Britain's finest comic actresses. She is rarely less than wonderful. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought she looked familiar; I must have seen her in other things. I recognised Kurt from Teachers as the hapless secretary.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

If you've seen the BBC comedy series from about 15-20 years back entitled Ever Decreasing Circles, she played the wife of the character played by Richard Briers (who also has appeared in Who). She also was in the film Clockwise, which was the one in which John Cleese played a punctuality-obsessed headmaster. She has also appeared in a number of Alan Ayckbourne's plays, some of which have been televised.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I never saw Ever Decreasing Circles (though I may have seen bits of it in passing if the TV was on) but I did see Clockwise years ago.

[trixieleitz]

...the younger Locke with hair looks disconcertingly like Michael Keating does now.

That was my first thought when I saw him. I don't think it's just the hair (although that helps) - the set of his face was different, too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, they made him look younger somehow, and his eyebrows were more pronounced (and pointy like MK's). It was very distracting. His hair was also very like MK's is now.

Yay, I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think that.

You're up late. I'm off to bed now I've fulfilled my b7friday duty.