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Elizabeth, I may be falling just the teensiest bit inlust love.
Really fun episode :-) Between Evil!Elizabeth with mad fighting skill, some seriously slashy Teyla/Weir moments and some lovely Rodney moments ("I wasn't against it from the start!" "Oh, yes, so you were..."), I really enjoyed this episode. Absolutely adored Elizabeth's expression and sink down the bed in the closing shot :-))
It was yet another episode where I had no problem with the Sheppard kissing someone who ain't Rodney thing, which was suprising because this was Sheppard kissing Elizabeth. Except it was not!Sheppard kissing not!Elizabeth and the reaction shot for Rodney can be interpreted all kinds of fun ways :-)
But really, it was Elizabeth's mad fighting skillz. I was hoping to see a full Elizabeth-Teyla showdown, but they denied me that tiny gem. It has, uh, sparked a teeny plot bunny. Damn them.
Even Ronon sees it, although his "I know how Sheppard thinks, I haven't a clue how she thinks" as his reason for sending Teyla after not!Elizabeth could just as easily be intepreted in a Ronon/Weir sort of way.
Which is one of the reasons why I'm adoring my slashy, shiny show - so many things to intepret and so far nobody attempting to force us into an accepted intpretation. I'm really hoping that they keep it that way because it's so much more fun for us fans *g*
At the other end of the spectrum, something much more serious.
I've been working my way through the DVDs of this show, feeling both relieved and surprised to find that it's every bit as good as I remembered. It's a children's show from the late 80s/early 90s, but it really does stand up perfectly well now that I'm an adult. In fact, I'd say that in many ways it's superior to many of the adult shows currently airing. It's set in a children's newspaper - the main characters are 16 or 17 and the actors playing them aren't actually much older. There's a lot of very good acting in this show.
Press Gang was always a show that could have me laughing like a drain most of the way through and completely absorbed in the storylines - some serious, some very funny. What it did that many Brit adult shows still struggle with is move between the humour and serious stuff easily, rather in the way that Buffy could (but with less vampires).
The reason that I'm picking out this episode is that I actually ended up in tears this evening at the end. Every now and again, Press Gang did an episode about a serious issue and managed to do it without preaching. Something Terrible is about child sexual abuse, made at a time when it was rarely talked about on childrens's shows. They took one of the least likely characters imaginable, gave him a rare sympathetic role (that somehow fitted because of the way they did it) and produced a two-part episode that forced me to keep watching despite my promise to only watch one episode in a go. No, it's not one of the regular characters who is abused and the storyline is affecting because of the way the events affect him. It's a powerful piece of television, definitely more than I expected from a kid's show made at that time.
The thing is that there is no "hey, this is gonna be a serious episode" treatment - plenty of laugh out loud moments in the first episode and even the second episode has its moments of humour. It's the kind of thing that creeps up on you and knocks you out, leaving you in tears at the end and then laughing at the (surprisingly appropriate) chatter during the closing credits.
If anyone out there has been seeing tapes or DVDs of Press Gang and dismissing it as kids stuff, give it a try because it really is good TV. Alternatively, you can buy the entire lot from Amazon.co.uk or Play.com *g*
I had a small revelation during the Atlantis episode tonight. The John/Rodney relationship (one might even say, courtship) rather echoes the Spike/Linda relationship in Press Gang and that may explain why I enjoy it so much - that combination of funny, UST in spades and a prickly character versus a super laid-back character seems to be what I look for in a ship, no matter the fandom or gender. Huh.
Elizabeth, I may be falling just the teensiest bit in
Really fun episode :-) Between Evil!Elizabeth with mad fighting skill, some seriously slashy Teyla/Weir moments and some lovely Rodney moments ("I wasn't against it from the start!" "Oh, yes, so you were..."), I really enjoyed this episode. Absolutely adored Elizabeth's expression and sink down the bed in the closing shot :-))
It was yet another episode where I had no problem with the Sheppard kissing someone who ain't Rodney thing, which was suprising because this was Sheppard kissing Elizabeth. Except it was not!Sheppard kissing not!Elizabeth and the reaction shot for Rodney can be interpreted all kinds of fun ways :-)
But really, it was Elizabeth's mad fighting skillz. I was hoping to see a full Elizabeth-Teyla showdown, but they denied me that tiny gem. It has, uh, sparked a teeny plot bunny. Damn them.
Even Ronon sees it, although his "I know how Sheppard thinks, I haven't a clue how she thinks" as his reason for sending Teyla after not!Elizabeth could just as easily be intepreted in a Ronon/Weir sort of way.
Which is one of the reasons why I'm adoring my slashy, shiny show - so many things to intepret and so far nobody attempting to force us into an accepted intpretation. I'm really hoping that they keep it that way because it's so much more fun for us fans *g*
At the other end of the spectrum, something much more serious.
I've been working my way through the DVDs of this show, feeling both relieved and surprised to find that it's every bit as good as I remembered. It's a children's show from the late 80s/early 90s, but it really does stand up perfectly well now that I'm an adult. In fact, I'd say that in many ways it's superior to many of the adult shows currently airing. It's set in a children's newspaper - the main characters are 16 or 17 and the actors playing them aren't actually much older. There's a lot of very good acting in this show.
Press Gang was always a show that could have me laughing like a drain most of the way through and completely absorbed in the storylines - some serious, some very funny. What it did that many Brit adult shows still struggle with is move between the humour and serious stuff easily, rather in the way that Buffy could (but with less vampires).
The reason that I'm picking out this episode is that I actually ended up in tears this evening at the end. Every now and again, Press Gang did an episode about a serious issue and managed to do it without preaching. Something Terrible is about child sexual abuse, made at a time when it was rarely talked about on childrens's shows. They took one of the least likely characters imaginable, gave him a rare sympathetic role (that somehow fitted because of the way they did it) and produced a two-part episode that forced me to keep watching despite my promise to only watch one episode in a go. No, it's not one of the regular characters who is abused and the storyline is affecting because of the way the events affect him. It's a powerful piece of television, definitely more than I expected from a kid's show made at that time.
The thing is that there is no "hey, this is gonna be a serious episode" treatment - plenty of laugh out loud moments in the first episode and even the second episode has its moments of humour. It's the kind of thing that creeps up on you and knocks you out, leaving you in tears at the end and then laughing at the (surprisingly appropriate) chatter during the closing credits.
If anyone out there has been seeing tapes or DVDs of Press Gang and dismissing it as kids stuff, give it a try because it really is good TV. Alternatively, you can buy the entire lot from Amazon.co.uk or Play.com *g*
I had a small revelation during the Atlantis episode tonight. The John/Rodney relationship (one might even say, courtship) rather echoes the Spike/Linda relationship in Press Gang and that may explain why I enjoy it so much - that combination of funny, UST in spades and a prickly character versus a super laid-back character seems to be what I look for in a ship, no matter the fandom or gender. Huh.
