Ashes 1.05

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Some good lines, and it's nice to see Gene back to his old self, even though he didn't get to punch that guy.

The music was really great, it was placed perfectly: I always LOVE it when people can match their music to a scene properly!



Alex was a lot less unbearable this episode, but I think that's because a lot of her dialogue could have been given to Sam (I love the way a lot of reviews I've read include Sam in the present tense :P)

Russell Tovey (so good his parents named him Russell) was fabulous, and he amazes me ever still with his range. He's been a werewolf with a bit of a human problem in Being Human (only a pilot so far and already its got a fandom); he played a kind of forgettable captain or other in 2007's Doctor Who Christmas Special; he's been in this, playing a brave individual in a time not yet ready for him; and then he was Rudge in one of my favourite films ever, The History Boys. I loved his performance in this - it really got to me how people don't have to be so afraid of who they are any more, even though attitudes to "differences" only started changing twenty years ago or so. Actually, I seem to recall homosexuality was still listed in the DMR as a mental illness in 1981, so not even twenty years. I'm glad I live now.

Two other things:

Gene/Alex - really, really meh. I don't care about them. In my mind, Gene is actually Gay For Sam. Personally, I think Alex knows:

Gene: in love? They're two blokes for God's sake! Two hairy stinkin' bloody great blokes.
Alex: someone fell in love with you once.

As a result of not having a valid working ship for this show, I have decided, as of now, that even though Chris/Shaz is cute, I want Alex/Shaz. They are my ship. Yes yes.

I CAN'T FIND ANY ALEX/SHAZ. COME ON PEOPLE, IT'S CANON! yes, I'm allowed to be annoyed there's no fic to qwench my Alex/Shaz love when I can't write it myself. Hippocrite? me?

Comments

[gem-pinkeh.livejournal.com]

"History: it's just one fucking thing after another"

Russell Tovey is awesome. ILhim.

THE END

[aquirkofmatter.livejournal.com]

I did very much like this episode, yus. It's all down to the amazingness of Russell Tovey; despite the lack of SCM.

And I love that 'someone fell in love with you once.'
It's like she KNOWS Sam/Gene lived.

(did you still want some layout-help, btw??)

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this was my favourite episode so far :) RT & SCM were both very good. a2a is certainly growing on me.

EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT SAM/GENE ;D

oh jeez, yeah, I forgot about that. I am such an idiot. Two things: I like how you make things go a different colour when you put them in italics or bold or underlinded in your journal... just wondered if you could tell me how to do that?

also, I miss my tag cloud. Do you know any way I could get it back?

[aquirkofmatter.livejournal.com]

It's growing on me, too, but I still don't really like it. At the moment I'm watching it for the SCM...

The first thing's easy: copy this into your css bit (either the box in the lj customize area or to the end of your actually css file) and change the hex code to whatever colour you want (the colour in there's my blue colour that I'm using)
b {
color: #00acd9;
}

i {
color: #00acd9;
}

u {
color: #00acd9;
}

strike {
color: #00acd9;
}

The second one? That should be under sidebar properties in the customise area - something like:
Show tags in sidebar? Yes
Tag view? Cloud [as opposed to list]

That should fix it, if it doesn't let me know and I'll have another think.

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

awesome, thanks! although it already says tags in the customise bit, looks like its something to do with the CSS?

[aquirkofmatter.livejournal.com]

I shall have a look. I'll get back to you in a few minutes (maybe a bit longer, I'm watching Sunday's Lewis at the same time)

[aquirkofmatter.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... if your sidebar status on the customize area says 'cloud' I dont know why it's still a list... I don't understand the expressive layout, mine are Flexible Squares, so you could ask the person you got the code from? They might be able to help - sorry!!

I see you got the italic and bold and strike and underline thing working tho.

and is that a new header or am I going crazy?? whatever, it's beautiful anyway

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

they have their own comm, but they haven't answered my comment in six months.

Thanks for you help anyway, I love the different coloured bits :) and yes, it is a new header, I did it yesterday, and I am very chuffed with it. How pretty can you get? sunny :) *happy sigh*