You Could Be So Much Better.

[rionaleonhart]

Watched the Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief documentary last night, and I had forgotten how freaking charming Derren Brown is. HE COOKS BREAKFAST WITH HIS PET PARROT PERCHED ON HIS SHOULDER, HOW ADORABLE IS THAT. HE PRETENDS TO EAT THE CAMERA LIKE A DORK. And The Heist is still just stunning. The replication of the Milgram experiment is so distressing to watch.

(When I watch Danny's 'you bastard' to Derren at the end, all I can think of is David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade in The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz:

Derren: (after the clip of Danny's post-robbery reaction in The Heist is played) Your question is this: what did I make him do that made him call me a bastard?
(...)
Carr: What have you gone for, Richard and David?
Mitchell: We think that he made him come in his pants. The way he was, you know, bending over - 'you bastard, you bastard' - there was definitely a sort of breathless ecstasy to that.
Ayoade: He seemed quite pleased about it.
Mitchell: There was certainly a sort of wily grin there.
Ayoade: And then do a bank heist afterwards.
Mitchell: Yeah. We also thought there could be the bank thing slightly involved, too.

And, erm, it actually does look very sexual, now that they mention it.)


Also, I have now finished the first series of Misfits! I was a little worried that Curtis' superpower would be used purely to go 'EXCITING CAN'T-BELIEVE-THEY-WENT-THERE PLOT DEVELOPMENT OH WAIT NO CURTIS TURNS BACK TIME TO MAKE IT NOT HAPPEN', but then the fourth episode was one of the most brilliant pieces of television I've ever watched, so I can forgive it. Wow. Curtis is so lovely! (Making sure Kelly is all right, awww.) And Nathan is hilarious. And Simon simultaneously breaks my heart and makes me go AUGH SIMON YOU ARE SO CREEPY STOP BEING CREEPY.

The scene where Curtis appeals to Nathan for help in the car park made me crow with laughter and rewind to watch it again. NATHAN, YOU PRAT. You should know better by now, Curtis.

And then the fifth episode managed to include quite a few of my favourite things. Manipulative age-gap shouldn't-be-doing-this relationships in which one party is painfully selfconscious, yeah. Also, most endearing tale of attempted arson I've ever heard. (I have the very strong sense that Simon is bisexual and that Blond Git is his ex-boyfriend. Is this just years of fandom warping my perspective?)

AND THEN THE LAST EPISODE OF SERIES ONE HAS POSSIBLY THE CRUELEST FINAL SHOT OF A SERIES EVER. Bloody hell.

So, yes, the first series of Misfits is really, really good. I'm deeply intrigued.

Comments

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Just keep James away. Because Jonathan Ross would have a doomsday machine that consisted of three bits of wire and a vibrator, and Richard and Mark would be standing over it arguing whether sparkles go with carbotanium, and James would start tinkering, and end up going "Oh cock, it works!"

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

And then Richard and Mark would go 'Gasp! Captain Slow was the real villain all along!' and decide to take him down after Richard blows up the doomsday machine.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And James would be all "It's designed to blow up, you idiot! You're supposed to stop it blowing up!"

Only Richard would completely fail to grasp the concept of preventing an explosion.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we should put your carbotanium cape over it, to keep the explosion contained!"
"...Why would we want to keep it contained?"
"Because otherwise it'll blow up the world!"

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but what a way to go!"

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"Richard, we're supposed to be superheroes! That means no destroying the world!"
"Not even a little?"
"You won't be able to drive the Black Shadow if the world's exploded."
"Good point."

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Eventually, they realize they have no idea how to stop it, and track down Jeremy and tell him "Make this work!"

That results in him breaking it, and the day is saved!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Jeremy demands a reward for his work, but Richard and Mark are too busy thwarting the evil Captain Slow. "He must be evil, he's got a cat."

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a bloody supervillian!"

Richard would be all, "A really competent supervillain would deny he was a supervillain!"

Then Mark would get worried and go, "Can we handle a really competent supervillain?"

"Don't worry about it! The Black Shadow can face anything!"

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"We shall thwart him by slightly misaligning his airvents!"

"...Is that really going to work?"

"Trust me, it'll work. And have you got a watch with one of those plastic circle things you can rotate? Because then you need to misalign that as well."

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

"You're making that up!"

"No, trust me, it's like kryptonite!"

And then they'd follow James around with a watch where the plastic thing was misaligned, and he'd be shouting, "Stop it! I'm not your bloody supervillain!"

Eventually he'd crack and create some sort of world domination plot where he could force everyone to align their watches and air vents properly.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

And then Richard and Mark foil it, and everyone's happy.

Well, except for James, 'cause the world still has misaligned watches and airvents, but Richard and Mark will keep him busy. They can give him beer to celebrate foiling him.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

If they gave James a beer, and stopped pointing misaligned watches at him or messing with his car for a bit, I think he'd be fairly easygoing about being foiled.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

And buy him a curry.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Now I'm picturing James being all "...and also a curry. And a pie. And some Hula Hoops. And another beer. And a model spitfire!" and Richard going "Come on, we only foiled one plot!"

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

But then James strokes Fusker and smirks mysteriously, and Mark is all '...maybe we SHOULD buy him another beer. Just to be sure.'

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And that's how Mark became James's favorite boy band member ever.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Well, Mark sang a song called Hello about how a relationship started because the other person said hello to them, so I think Mark was James' favourite boyband member anyway.

But the beer and curries definitely help.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

True. Mark's going to be all "So, am I his favorite yet?"

"You've been his favorite for ages."

"Well, maybe I should cement my status by buying him more curries."

"What, you think he's going to go like Jeremy and decide he likes Robbie Williams best?"

"Jeremy likes Robbie better than me?" And then Mark would start plotting how to make Jeremy like him best (liking Robbie is okay, but it's important that Mark be the favorite.)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

And he assumes Richard likes him best already, because he's his superhero-colleague! And then he's a bit stuck on how to make the Stig like him, because he doesn't know Robbie is the Stig.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And he'll be bothering Richard about how to make the Stig like him best, and Richard will be all "I have no idea how to get the Stig to have feelings about boy bands. I'm not even allowed to talk to him!"

And then Mark will get a "Stig loves you!" note written in tire-marks, and Robbie will pretend to be jealous.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Howard the canonical Top Gear fan becomes mildly jealous. Also, that's quite the big note, then.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

It's a very big note. He uses a parking lot or something.

Aw, Howard would be jealous, and Robbie would overhear, and start looking for a parking lot big enough to write "Stig loves you nearly as much as Stig loves Mark", so Howard feels love and Mark gets to retain his favorite status.

Eventually, he just writes it on that runway Top Gear has, and everyone there is staring at it wondering who the Stig wrote it for, and why they're loved nearly as much as someone named Mark.

Either that, or he wanders into the Peep Show universe, creating confusing by adding another Mark and another Jeremy into the mix, and leading Peep Show Mark to have another sexuality crisis while Peep Show Jeremy is all "The Stig's in love with you? Can you get me passes to the show, a go in the Bugatti, and a trip to the parallel universe where I'm a big famous rock star and everyone loves me?"

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

He uses the street in front of Mark's house, and all the neighbours are like 'great, another mental Take That fan'.

Howard feels the love, AND secretly wants to steal the Stig costume for some kinky roleplay.

Basically, you just want a Big Mark and Jeremy Crossover, don't you?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And eventually, at Top Gear, they'd be all "Oh no! The Stig's into Take That!" Jeremy would say something about Robbie Williams being the best one, and be mystified as to why the Stig was suddenly so nice to him.

Just one more Mark and one more Jeremy. Largely because Mark Corrigan would be completely unable to cope, as that's what he does.