Apparitionsssssssssssssssssssss! Squee! (Part 2)

[byslantedlight]

Squeeeeeee! *g*

It wasn't at all Bonekicker-y... *g* Okay, I knew it wouldn't be really, but... well sometimes you just worry a bit... *g*

I'm sorry I don't have torrents or recordings or anything like that - I have the sort of tv where I balance an aerial on top at the precise precarious angle required to get a picture at all. All I have is happy - and slightly spooked - bounce...

Oh it was fab! And not that I've particularly been out of love with him since I first saw him in Pros when I was a teenager, but I think I may have fallen for MS all over again - he was lovely as the priest... I mean, he was good still, but he didn't feel the same sort of "good" that he was in JJD, if you know what I mean. Maybe because he was playing a character that actually is likely to have people looking sideways at him - a priest, you know? So he wasn't playing the "hero" role exactly, he was playing a man who might be a hero... if that makes any sense.

Oh, I'm trying to think what I can say without spoilering anyone... It was beautifully shot! *g* No, but it really was - from the opening credits which were just gorgeous, and then everythin else was so beautifully done... Oh, and not a spoiler cos all the articles have already mentioned it - the young gay priest in the sauna - very beautifully shot...

It's also not a spoiler that bad things happened to the young gay priest (stoopid newspapers - it meant that I was waiting for that moment, which is a whole different thing to having the tension build up without knowing what's going to happen... *kicks spoilers*) but to be honest it was nothing that we haven't seen in Buffy, so that particularly stoopid newspaper really needs to get over itself about that. Not nice, no, but they've been told it's a harsh supernatural series and there was the little beeb warning before it started for those of more delicate constitutions at the beginning, so unless they're going to go around banning stuff after the watershed... But really, I didn't think it was any worse than some BtVS scenes... Well, not much...

The demon itself was scary, but then the more ordinary something truly awful looks, the scarier I find it, so... *g*

Oh, I can't think what else to say - talk to me about it?! *vbg*

Comments

[rosie55.livejournal.com]

Me too, me too! I was half expecting not to like it (apart from MS, of course!) because it really didn't sound my sort of storyline.
But I have to say, I enjoyed it infinitely more than I expected, I thought MS was superb in the part and he looked amazing! I think I've fallen in love all over again, too!
Oh, yes - that's going to become a regular date for the next six weeks, no wonder the beeb commissioned the extra progs! Definite squeee material there!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm so glad you liked it too! It really was a good story I thought, and yeay that there's six more programmes (you had me all extra-excited for a minute thinking they'd commissioned more than the six, and then I remembered that it was only supposed to be one in the first place!)

There must be women - and probably men too - all around the country just melting from the falling-back-in-love thing right now... *vbg*

[rosie55.livejournal.com]

Get all extra-excited then, because over on Martin's Place there is a report today that a second series has already been commissioned! From someone with a friend inside the Beeb, apparently whose info is usually good.
Still melting, here! It would be self-indulgent to watch it again now on i-player wouldn't it? But maybe I feel self-indulgent!....

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh my word - squeeeeeeeee!

I'd so be self-indulgent with you, but I have to go to bed soon. Sometime soon. When I'm done with the squee, you know... Thank goodness there's no school for me tomorrow! *g*