Jeeves & Wooster, episode 1
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-Interesting animated opening.
-Dude, that's the back of Hugh Laurie's head! I have the power to recognize the back of Hugh Laurie's head!
-I think he has the same exact haircut as House. That's funny.
-Speechless. Very un-House-like.
-stumbling around wasted... now that's familiar.
-Wow he's young. He looks like 25, 30 at very best, though it's hard to tell because the cheek-creases around his mouth probably started developing when he was 10, judging by the shape of his face.
-Dude, totally Brit accent. I knew that of course, but it's weird.
-He's SMILING. Weirder!
-You know, guys, all the "I say!"s and morning cheerfulness is not doing anything to break down my television-created British stereotypes.
-Dude, it's been too long since I got new Doctor Who episodes, I'm forgetting how to understand quick-spoken British accents!
-I keep watching Bertie and thinking "This is House doing an impression of someone to make fun of them" and expecting him to suddenly cease his immitation and spit out something acerbic.
-What year is this set in?
-HOUSE IS SMILING. AGAIN WITH THE WEIRD!
-British humor: I love it but it also goes around my head. Not over my head, around it. Like a dodge.
-Does everyone say "I say!"? Is that like a cultural requirement?
-So is Bertie Wooster just a rich kid bachelor who never works and spends all his time time socializing?
-Didn't Xander call Giles "Jeeves" on BtVS?
-Bertie's not too bright, is he? Jeeves already controlls him with a bit of reverse psychology.
-I'm kind of bored.
-mswyrr, I'm totally in agreement about the asexualness of Bertie. He's not fuckable like House is.
-Dude, he just pushed a little kid off a bridge. And the little kid swims better than he does.
-walking wet and scowling and rolling his eyes-- that's familiar.
-Definitely not too bright.
-He's kind of ditsy isn't he?
-Why is it all old family matriarchs seem the same in every British show or movie I've seen? All overbearing and stifiling.
...and here's where my computer's power source quit on me again. Stupid thing.
I'll finish watching the first episode later. I'm behind on my music pirating.
random: I NEED HOUSE ICONS. Clever and funny ones.
Or, dude, CROSSOVER HOUSE ICONS! That would be awesome. What dialogue could you cross House with? Jossverse is tried and true, always good for a laugh. Then there's movies of course.
I still want to see an episode / read a fanfic where House meets John C.McGinley's doctor character on Scrubs. I've only seen about 12 episodes of Scrubs from scattered seasons, but his character is House's kindred soul. I'm telling' ya. They even have similar hair.
mswyrr.-Interesting animated opening.
-Dude, that's the back of Hugh Laurie's head! I have the power to recognize the back of Hugh Laurie's head!
-I think he has the same exact haircut as House. That's funny.
-Speechless. Very un-House-like.
-stumbling around wasted... now that's familiar.
-Wow he's young. He looks like 25, 30 at very best, though it's hard to tell because the cheek-creases around his mouth probably started developing when he was 10, judging by the shape of his face.
-Dude, totally Brit accent. I knew that of course, but it's weird.
-He's SMILING. Weirder!
-You know, guys, all the "I say!"s and morning cheerfulness is not doing anything to break down my television-created British stereotypes.
-Dude, it's been too long since I got new Doctor Who episodes, I'm forgetting how to understand quick-spoken British accents!
-I keep watching Bertie and thinking "This is House doing an impression of someone to make fun of them" and expecting him to suddenly cease his immitation and spit out something acerbic.
-What year is this set in?
-HOUSE IS SMILING. AGAIN WITH THE WEIRD!
-British humor: I love it but it also goes around my head. Not over my head, around it. Like a dodge.
-Does everyone say "I say!"? Is that like a cultural requirement?
-So is Bertie Wooster just a rich kid bachelor who never works and spends all his time time socializing?
-Didn't Xander call Giles "Jeeves" on BtVS?
-Bertie's not too bright, is he? Jeeves already controlls him with a bit of reverse psychology.
-I'm kind of bored.
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mswyrr, I'm totally in agreement about the asexualness of Bertie. He's not fuckable like House is.-Dude, he just pushed a little kid off a bridge. And the little kid swims better than he does.
-walking wet and scowling and rolling his eyes-- that's familiar.
-Definitely not too bright.
-He's kind of ditsy isn't he?
-Why is it all old family matriarchs seem the same in every British show or movie I've seen? All overbearing and stifiling.
...and here's where my computer's power source quit on me again. Stupid thing.
I'll finish watching the first episode later. I'm behind on my music pirating.
random: I NEED HOUSE ICONS. Clever and funny ones.
Or, dude, CROSSOVER HOUSE ICONS! That would be awesome. What dialogue could you cross House with? Jossverse is tried and true, always good for a laugh. Then there's movies of course.
I still want to see an episode / read a fanfic where House meets John C.McGinley's doctor character on Scrubs. I've only seen about 12 episodes of Scrubs from scattered seasons, but his character is House's kindred soul. I'm telling' ya. They even have similar hair.
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Icons?
Date: 2006-02-19 09:37 am (UTC)NO I AM NOT OBSESSED.thanks!
Date: 2006-02-19 09:55 am (UTC)I'M NOT EITHER. I SWEAR. I AM NOT GUSHING FOR ICONS LESS THAN 7 DAYS AFTER DISCOVERING A SHOW. YOU ONLY THINK I AM.
Sites noted! If you ever happen come across xover icons for House, give me a heads up, eh? ::is in love with any and all xover icons::
Re: thanks!
Date: 2006-02-19 10:02 am (UTC)I'll keep an eye out for crossover icons. I haven't seen too many so far.Seriously, though, I'm in something around five different House communities, not counting the two stamping comms.
It'd odd - and it's something that was discussed in another person's LJ - I cannot get into Hugh Laurie beyond House. I've tried. He's a great actor, but not much of his other work has impressed me to the levels House has. I like to know what he has to say about House, but other than that? Don't much care. You want to see something REALLY non-House, watch that silly remake of Flight of the Phoenix. HILARIOUS.
Re: thanks!
Date: 2006-02-19 10:35 am (UTC)LJ has really streamlined the fandom organizational process; you notice that? New shows have instant communities, going from discussion to pairings to icons to screencaps to music to fanfic... it's like some kind of mass metropolis for online fandoms.
Makes me wonder if fandom continues to exist beyond LJ, given that I've played almost exclusively in LJ for the last two years. I know some fandoms like HP have FictionAlley/Snoogle.com, and I know there's of course The Pit of Voles and TWOP... but I really haven't been at any messageboards since I got sucked into LJ. All the fandom I need is right here, with all the fic I need and all the fanart I need.
Is there another gathering of mass multifandom stuff like there is on LJ? Is JournalFen comparable now? Xanga? Do all the people that play in a show's main discussion community here on LJ also go play in messageboards for their fandoms alone? How do they find the time; I can't even keep track of all the stuff on LJ.
Is Livejournal becoming, like, the Walmart of online fandomverse?
Re: Icons?
Date: 2006-02-19 10:00 am (UTC)Re: Icons?
Date: 2006-02-19 10:16 am (UTC)Re: Icons?
Date: 2006-02-19 10:20 am (UTC)Re: Icons?
Date: 2006-02-19 10:22 am (UTC)Re: Icons?
Date: 2006-02-19 10:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 10:48 am (UTC)The novels/short stories the series is based on were written during from the 1920s to the 1930s.
-Didn't Xander call Giles "Jeeves" on BtVS?
Yup. Lit reference. Wodehouse is *really* popular in England(And India, actually), so Joss must have picked up on it there. And Logan called the Brit hotel clerk Jeeves in "Rusky Business."
-I'm kind of bored.
The pacing does improve, but if the silly exploits of the upper crust do nothing for you, it's probably not your thing.
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Date: 2006-02-20 03:13 am (UTC)Every time I read about a House fan watching his other stuff and boggling, my brain breaks. ;)
Have you watched Spooks/MI-5? He's in two S1 episodes, including one with ASH. (Which, because I can't remember the episode names for crap, I just think of as the Giles and Wooster episode.) His character is kind of what would happen if you crossed Wooster with House--all the upper class twittishness PLUS the sarcastic brains.
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Date: 2006-02-25 05:30 am (UTC)And in case you're looking for some strange Hugh Laurie cameos, try digging up The Eurythmics 'Walking On Broken Glass' video. He plays Annie Lennox's very reluctant date (who gets ditched for John Malcovich)...
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ssg.x. aka The Woman Who Knew Too Much (about Hugh Laurie)
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Date: 2006-02-25 05:40 am (UTC)Here's a link to the video on the offchance you haven't seen it yet...
Walking On Broken Glass - Annie Lennox
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ssg.x.