Livin' in a movie

[lizblackdog]

Stayed mostly off the Interwebs yesterday with a case of the nameless dreads. Spent the time watching Poldark. The DVDs I have from Blockbuster are arranged with two and a half hours of solid Poldarkery on each one, rather than split into episodes at all. It's a bit intense. After four solid hours of it I was talking in a Cornish accent myself (and a better one than most of the actors used, too, but it's very like my native Dorset and trips nicely off the tongue.)

there was also ER, which I'm rentally revisiting season by season. Yesterday was the first four episodes of season six. Great show. There was Alan Alda in the eps I watched yesterday, but even he wasn't the best thing in them. Truly, madly glorious.

I keep trying to catch dogs and kittens on video, but they do most of their playing together after dusk, and the movie function only makes sense in bright daylight. Yesterday's highlight was Shona attacking Spike's paw - pouncebite! He got bitten two or three times, kept giving her worried looks, and finally tucked the paw neatly underneath himself when the sharp kittenteeth got too much.

The other highlight was Elda falling asleep next to him. It's a pity it's so warm still; my mental picture of kittens and dog snuggled up together isn't going to happen in real life. Even Squish doesn't want to sleep pressed against me. But this was close.

Comments

[bites-the-sun.livejournal.com]

Goran Visnjic is fine. Rrrrrrrrrarrr.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Isn't he? Beautiful beautiful man.

[fara-shimbo.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember Poldark! Saw it back in the seventies or so...

And I still think Tom Baker was the best Dr. Who.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

The books are excellent as well; I no longer have copies of most of them, sadly. But the TV version is pretty damn good, I'm finding. Very faithful even if the accents are on the dodgy side; and I doubt a non-Brit would be able to tell anyway.

Tom Baker rocks. He's still the one that pops into my head when I think of Doctor Who. I've had a thing for him since I was twelve, when I used to have highly detailed sexual fantasies about him.

...tied up with that scarf. OH MY.

[fara-shimbo.livejournal.com]

Hee! Never had fantasies about him, of any kind, but yeah, he still is who immediately comes to mind when I think of Dr. Who.

Accents... I'm pretty good at them, actually. I can tell (I think I can tell) London from Yorkshire for Liverpool and I've got a pretty good idea of Devonshire (because I watch BBC America all day long). On the other hand, I can not only tell a real Brooklyn accent from a fake one, but I can tell you which neighborhood in Brooklyn the speaker is from. I'm one of these awful people who pick up languages like a sponge...

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

Heh. Glad to know that I'm not the only one who experiences accent changes while watching a show. I've been known to come out of extended Doctor Who sessions with a bit of a London accent going on.