You Might Want To Hurry Up.

[rionaleonhart]

My laptop works no more! Oh, Virgil, I'll miss you. It was a good four years. I have access to the family computer for the moment, but I'll be returning to Brighton in a week or so, so I suppose I'd better buy a replacement.


In more positive news: I watched Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet last night! And I'd forgotten how great his programmes are to watch. I never quite know how much of them to believe, but they're always fascinating.

Something else I had forgotten: how sinister he is. DERREN BROWN IS SO EVIL. SO EVIL. The scene in which he had his victim bound to the train tracks and was reminiscing about films and generally being magnificently unconcerned save for the occasional 'train'll probably be coming along soon, you might want to get out of that straitjacket' was probably one of my favourite Derren Brown moments ever.

Here it is on YouTube, in fact! The video has the rather apt description of 'Derren acts like a total dick after putting a guy on some train tracks'.

(As my brother Joseph said when he (Derren, not Joseph) was tying Matt to the rails: 'It would be the perfect crime.' And it really would! People will unsuspectingly place their lives in Derren Brown's hands; we are fortunate that he has not yet used that power for evil.

Well. Not much evil, at least.)

Speaking of crime: it did rather seem in the first half that Derren was grooming Matt to be a robber. He stages a holdup in front of him; he has him break into a policeman's house; he gets Matt used to the idea of having a getaway driver; he gives him that speech about how crocodiles SEE WHAT THEY WANT AND MINDLESSLY GO FOR IT. It makes one wonder whether the security van holdup was the actual objective of The Heist or whether Derren just wanted to help the participants increase their confidence and it all went horribly wrong.

"No, Derren... no, they've become armed robbers instead.
"Blast! Why does this always happen?"

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[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

"No, Derren... no, they've become armed robbers instead.
"Blast! Why does this always happen?"

This would make an entirely awesome children's show.

[rionaleonhart]

Something tells me that creating children's television starring Derren 'I Can Make You Eat Your Own Hands' Brown would be asking for trouble, but I would still totally watch that.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Derren Brown's Confidence-Building School

As of 2010, we have a 100% survival rate!

[rionaleonhart]

Derren Brown's Confidence-Building School: the inspectors never quite seem able to remember anything about it, but they always come away with a strong sense that everything's fine!

Let's not go to Derren Brown's Confidence-Building School.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even after emerging all confident, there'd still be the bank-robbing urges to worry about.

[fera_festiva]

I came to the conclusion last night that Derren is either Ozymandias out of Watchmen, or the young Dumbledore. RIGHT NOW he's using his powers for good, but what if his definition of "good" changes? D: I'm also convinced that he actually is a witch of some sort, which does not reassure me.

(He's brilliant, isn't he)

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

must not write an RPF Watchman AU, must not write an RPF Watchman AU, must not write an RPF Watchman AU

(Who the hell would play Rorschach?)

[rionaleonhart]

I've been convinced that he is the young Dumbledore for ages (look at his home! This is a room in Hogwarts and nothing will persuade me otherwise), but, yes, we could be in quite a lot of trouble if he turns out to be a more Grindelwaldish figure instead.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

IS THAT BIRD EVEN NATURAL?

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to suspect that Derren is basically a MASSIVE soft-hearted man, but he's hiding it underneath layers of evil and sinisterness.

[rionaleonhart]

He really confuses me! Half of the time he is rather sweet and lovely, and the other half he is absolutely terrifying. I'm glad that he responded to the ukulele by sending me a letter of thanks, rather than rendering me unconscious and making me believe I was a banjo.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Or he's absolutely terrifying and yet means well!

[darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com]

*started to download that YouTube vid within 3 seconds of seeing the link*

"probably one of my favourite Derren Brown moments ever."
I am glad you said that, because I feel exactly the same. (From my list of favourite Derren Brown moments I conclude that generally I'm probably something of a pervert who finds him disturbingly hot when he's being evil and putting himself or others in situations that could maim or kill them. Yay!).

I am still flailing. And giving serious consideration to writing Derren straitjacket-and-train bondage fic.

[rionaleonhart]

Derren Brown makes us all into perverts. I swear he's doing it deliberately. And I would be very much in favour of straitjacket-and-train bondage! (...fic. Not - I don't want to be bound in a straitjacket in front of a train. I really don't. But I would quite like to read about it.)

[darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com]

Really I'm pretty much at the stage of thinking he can put me in a straitjacket and stick me in front of a train if he likes (and I have a slight phobia of railway lines as well). I don't quite know what he's done to me. O__O

Oh oh oh! I read your Derren/Doctor/SPN fic! It's awesome, it made me giggle throughout. (Poor Derren, he's so much fun to mess with by throwing him into situations that defy logical explanation. Maybe it's our revenge for the real one messing with our heads.)

[faeries-bite.livejournal.com]

YES. THIS.

When I watched Derren Brown: Trick or Treat for the first time, the thing which not so much struck me as leaped upon me, beat me to a pulp and spat on me was that DERREN BROWN IS EVIL. He puts people through so much mental distress and pain, all the while going 'this is rather similar to something devised in 1789 by the Spanish military...' or 'our participant (victim) gave me this idea because of XYZ. It's for her own good!'

He is a terrifying, sadistic bastard who somehow convinces people that letting him mentally destroy them is a good idea.

I still want to have sex with him, though. What does that say about me?

[rionaleonhart]

He's such an awful, awful person and I like him very much. Some of my favourite moments of his are when he's working some poor member of the public up into a state of absolute terror and obviously taking such delight in it.

His talents are wasted outside the world of crime, but I'm quite glad he remains outside it (well, on the borderline, at least), all the same.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I started writing a Derren Brown/Robbie Williams S&M thing (you know, more S&M than that bit in actual reality where Derren hypnotized Robbie Williams and stuck giant needles in him), but stopped because, while Derren was only using imaginary instruments of torture, it was still getting too disturbing for me, and neither character was particularly inclined to stop being scary.

[faeries-bite.livejournal.com]

I REALLY need to watch that. Just- Christ. But do you think you could possibly continue with writing that? It sounds rather... Intriguing.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It was getting darker than I intended, because Derren had his own twisted "I'm hurting him for his own good" justification and no real risk of actual physical harm, so he was willing to go a lot farther than he otherwise would have, and Robbie Williams...is not the person you think of when you try to picture someone who will go "No, let's not push it to that scary and potentially unhealthy of an extreme" when it comes to things that definitely won't kill him (he had enough trouble when it came to "This will almost certainly kill you if you don't stop soon" stuff), so I didn't really have a good way to keep a grip on things.

[adraekh.livejournal.com]

... D:

I imagine Derren makes all his victims volunteers sign a waiver form.

[rionaleonhart]

I would love to read the contracts his volunteers have to sign. They probably say something like 'I can do whatever I like with you! Sign here if you accept this. Not that you have a choice, as by now you will be in an extremely malleable state. Kisses, Derren Brown.'

[swing-set.livejournal.com]

...

"returning to Brighton"? You live in Brighton also?

[rionaleonhart]

I've just finished a three-year course at the University of Sussex, and I'm renewing the lease on my Brighton house for another year. How did I not know you lived in Brighton?

[swing-set.livejournal.com]

Aah, I think I've only been here for two and a half months, and I hadn't added you till after I moved.

Er, would you like to, idk, go and do somehting Brighton-y some time? :)

[rionaleonhart]

Wait, what, why did I never reply to this? I would very much like to do something Brightony at some point. Perhaps in the new year, though, because I'm going to London for Christmas.

[swing-set.livejournal.com]

That would be lovely! :D I'll be back in town from the 8th or 9th. (Also it is YOUR FAULT but I started watching Phineas and Ferb and I LOVE it. DAMN YOU.)