6 posts tagged “videos”

Um. Oh yes.

So Star Trek was shiny and lots of fun (although personally I would have liked a few more female characters who weren't just there to be love interests/sources of angst for the men; thankfully I am not the only one), but it made me wonder where I'd heard Simon Pegg do a Scottish accent before, and then I realized it was in one of my favourite Big Train sketches:

The silliness! I LOVE IT.

Oh yeah, and then there was the SPN finale which had

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DEAD WOMEN EVERYWHERE! Slaughtered nuns and nurses stuffed in car boots and Ruby killed in a disturbingly sexual way and Lilith wearing the traditional SPN sacrificial white nightie! ARGH! And still I continue to love this show even though it constantly makes me feel like a traitor to my gender.

Stuff in no particular order:

• Dean's gleefully wanton destruction of property and subsequent completely unsubtle guilty expression when Castiel turns up. He is five. ♥
• I know EVERYONE'S said this, but: jacket clutching! ♥ ♥ ♥
• OH. SAM.
• In Sandman, when Lucifer left Hell, he buggered off to Australia and bummed around on a beach for a while, grudgingly admiring God's sunset work, and then he opened a nightclub in LA. Sort of want something like this to happen on SPN. Like, Lucifer's all, OH BUGGER THE APOCALYPSE FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS I JUST WANT A HOLIDAY.
• I LOVE that Dean broke the first seal and Sam the last. And now they are equally matched in their guilt and self-doubt.
• I thought at first that it was the angels who had altered Dean's phone message, because they SO WOULD, but rewatching, Ruby's smirk when Sam listens to it seems to suggest otherwise. We are going to get some closure on that, aren't we? Sam is going to find out what Dean really said, yes? Fic, glorious as it is, will only satisfy me so much.
• I sort of want the spin-off Chuck and Castiel Show. Chuck would be going "Don't look at me like that, man. I can't write when you're looking at me like that. God I need a drink. Do you eat pizza? I think I have some leftover somewhere..." and Castiel would be all *headtilt*. Yeah, I dunno. Needs some work.
• It's interesting that Zachariah is constantly trying to lead Dean into temptation.
• God has left the building? Why is no one writing SPN/Preacher crossovers? They are PERFECT for one another. Fallen angels, absent Gods, Vietnam vet dads called John, Western themes, towns called Salvation, dog collars...
• I'm so sick of the word "bitch" being flung around. More creative, less gendered insults please! And doesn't Sam calling Ruby a bitch at the end just seem horribly... inadequate? Evil Counselors and Deceivers go to the 8TH CIRCLE OF HELL Sam!
• Part of me is gleeful that Ruby was playing the long con, the rest of me is pre-emptively wearied by the idea that this will allow the more misogynistic elements of fandom to feel justified in hating her. I've already seen too many icons taking pleasure in her demise.
• I do quite like the poetic justice of Ruby dying by her own knife, though.
• Extreme close-ups a-go-go! I liked the sense of claustrophobic tension this lent things, much like last season's finale. I also liked all the push focusing.
• Next season: Hugging! Flaming swords! Zacharia gets his! Apocalypse! Hugging!

In conclusion: PILLOW FORT.

Yeah, so, apparently, explaining maths to ten-year-olds fills me with an intense and geeky joy (prime factorization! Divisibility rules! Simplifying fractions! It's all so very cute); I'm still not convinced I would make a good teacher though - I am rubbish at asserting my authority.

Um. THIS. This may actually be the definition of win. Robert Webb in a SHINY LEOTARD, with BOOBS and MAKEUP and 80s HAIR, doing Flashdance, and pwning pretty much everything ever:

I just. I can't stop watching it and giggling. He's so game - it's marvellous.

This is just the best music video ever:

The other week Channel 4 broadcast the Secret Policeman's Ball, a comedy variety performance fundraiser run by Amnesty International. The stand-ups were the better acts, the sketches had some good ideas but somehow managed not to be very funny, the absolute highlight, though, was David Armand doing a deadpan interpretive dance to Natalie Imbruglia's Torn.

And because I am currently unable to create posts which don't relate in some way to Torchwood I must also note here that David Armand previously acted in the Channel 5 sketch show Swinging, which also starred Lynda-with-a-y from Doctor Who and Gwen's former police partner from Torchwood.

I'm not a great one for fan vids, I don't really "get" them in the way some people seem to. Either the visual medium is not one I interpret easily, or I just don't spend enough time thinking about the characters in the telly I watch to pick up the subtleties; either way, it's as though fan vids are in a dialect I don't have all the vocabulary for.

So, when I do find a vid I enjoy, it's invariably of the funny, silly variety. This one, by silversolitaire, celebrates the House/Wilson relationship to the tune of I'm Super! (Thanks for Asking) - a cheerfully, marvellously camp song from South Park: The Movie (which I really should watch again one of these days) - and is sheer joy from start to finish.