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rionaleonhart) wrote2012-04-12 12:30 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-04-12 12:30 pm
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You Just Decked The Director Of Education.
My verdict on episode 7.28 of Waterloo Road: NO JOSH, TERRIBLE EPISODE.
I did enjoy this episode, actually, which is a good sign; Josh is in his final year of school (noooo Josh don't leave), so if I found myself incapable of enjoying episodes without him I would be in trouble. It could still definitely have been improved by the presence of Josh, though. I just want Tom to be comforting his son in the background of every scene; is that really so much to ask?
If I wrote for Waterloo Road, I would at this point (well, not at precisely this point, but once Josh is back from hospital) trap the school in a time vortex so Josh, Finn, Lauren and Tariq would never be able to leave. (Actually, if I wrote for Waterloo Road, I'd have trapped the school in a time vortex back when Sam was still around and Karen was still headteacher, although sadly in that case we'd have missed out on Tariq and Nicki.*) Why did I have to get emotionally invested in a programme with such a high cast turnover and such a small fandom?
(I'd need to find some way of ensuring Josh didn't cut his lovely hair whilst in the time vortex, of course, because then his hair would never grow back and it would be awful.)
Something not about Waterloo Road for you: have a handful of notes I forgot to include in my original write-up of the Bhaskar-Madeley-Humble-Jupp Would I Lie to You? recording in March.
Just prior to the recording actually starting:
Brydon: Yes, I can. (pause) I should point out that when I say 'yes, I can' it's in a response to a voice in my ear asking 'can you hear me?'; I'm not just trying to motivate myself.
Mitchell, in response to Humble's claim that she'd dressed in a giraffe outfit to photograph giraffes, opined that a real giraffe would probably be able to tell the difference between a fellow giraffe and two people in a giraffe costume. He used the phrase 'Surely it takes a giraffe to know a giraffe'.
Later:
Humble: Well, as you said, it takes a giraffe to know a giraffe, but...
Mack: (haltingly, frowning) Can I just say: you two keep saying it takes a giraffe to know a giraffe, but I'm not a giraffe, and I know what a giraffe is.
During retakes, Mitchell was asked to re-record one of his lines with slightly more pre-watershed-friendly language. Brydon saw fit to imitate his voice when telling him what the line in question was. Mitchell became quite annoyed.
Mitchell: Well, why don't you just fucking do it?
* I've previously spelt her name Nikki, but according to the credits it's actually Nicki. I feel a bit silly now. I was convinced that Nikki was the correct spelling! Where did that conviction come from? I remember trying to check the spelling before I first mentioned her in an entry, so I must have got that impression from somewhere.
For those of you who wish I'd abandon my apparent quest to post an entire fandom's worth of entries about Waterloo Road, incidentally, there are only two episodes left of the current term, so there's light at the end of the tunnel! Although I can't promise I won't try to fill the gap with fanfiction. Apparently the fact that Waterloo Road pieces get two comments if you're lucky hasn't deterred me from writing them.
I did enjoy this episode, actually, which is a good sign; Josh is in his final year of school (noooo Josh don't leave), so if I found myself incapable of enjoying episodes without him I would be in trouble. It could still definitely have been improved by the presence of Josh, though. I just want Tom to be comforting his son in the background of every scene; is that really so much to ask?
If I wrote for Waterloo Road, I would at this point (well, not at precisely this point, but once Josh is back from hospital) trap the school in a time vortex so Josh, Finn, Lauren and Tariq would never be able to leave. (Actually, if I wrote for Waterloo Road, I'd have trapped the school in a time vortex back when Sam was still around and Karen was still headteacher, although sadly in that case we'd have missed out on Tariq and Nicki.*) Why did I have to get emotionally invested in a programme with such a high cast turnover and such a small fandom?
(I'd need to find some way of ensuring Josh didn't cut his lovely hair whilst in the time vortex, of course, because then his hair would never grow back and it would be awful.)
Something not about Waterloo Road for you: have a handful of notes I forgot to include in my original write-up of the Bhaskar-Madeley-Humble-Jupp Would I Lie to You? recording in March.
Just prior to the recording actually starting:
Brydon: Yes, I can. (pause) I should point out that when I say 'yes, I can' it's in a response to a voice in my ear asking 'can you hear me?'; I'm not just trying to motivate myself.
Mitchell, in response to Humble's claim that she'd dressed in a giraffe outfit to photograph giraffes, opined that a real giraffe would probably be able to tell the difference between a fellow giraffe and two people in a giraffe costume. He used the phrase 'Surely it takes a giraffe to know a giraffe'.
Later:
Humble: Well, as you said, it takes a giraffe to know a giraffe, but...
Mack: (haltingly, frowning) Can I just say: you two keep saying it takes a giraffe to know a giraffe, but I'm not a giraffe, and I know what a giraffe is.
During retakes, Mitchell was asked to re-record one of his lines with slightly more pre-watershed-friendly language. Brydon saw fit to imitate his voice when telling him what the line in question was. Mitchell became quite annoyed.
Mitchell: Well, why don't you just fucking do it?
* I've previously spelt her name Nikki, but according to the credits it's actually Nicki. I feel a bit silly now. I was convinced that Nikki was the correct spelling! Where did that conviction come from? I remember trying to check the spelling before I first mentioned her in an entry, so I must have got that impression from somewhere.
For those of you who wish I'd abandon my apparent quest to post an entire fandom's worth of entries about Waterloo Road, incidentally, there are only two episodes left of the current term, so there's light at the end of the tunnel! Although I can't promise I won't try to fill the gap with fanfiction. Apparently the fact that Waterloo Road pieces get two comments if you're lucky hasn't deterred me from writing them.
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His exam was struck by lightning. Lightning. Lightning struck his exam. Through the window. Lightning.
It's not even raining outside.
It's a hot day, and Josh is at the back of the exam room, far away from the high-powered fan at the front. The windows are open, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. Josh struggles on, trying to stay awake in the sweltering room, even though a part of him is convinced it'll all be for nothing.
When the papers have been gathered up and placed on the front desk and they're all being dismissed, Josh can hardly believe it.
And then a stray gust of wind picks up the paper on top of the pile and carries it into the fan. It's shredded into confetti instantly.
"Oh, my God, whose was that?" his fellow pupils demand.
Josh doesn't bother asking.
What's it going to be this time? Fire? Fainting? Someone's smuggled in their pet paper-eating fox? It's driving him mad, all this writing and writing and knowing something's going to ruin it. His dad's been watching him the entire exam, which isn't helping.
"All right," Ms Diamond says eventually, "put your pens down, everyone."
Josh tears his manuscript into pieces.
"Josh!" Tom shouts. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Something was going to happen to it anyway," Josh shouts back, and then he buries his face in his arms on the desk and bursts into tears.
"So what do you teach?" the father of a potential pupil asks him on open day.
"I'm doing my A Levels."
"Really? Sorry, I wouldn't have guessed you were that young. Doing your A Levels, eh? What do you think you'll be doing afterwards?"
"My A Levels."
"Yes, but after that?"
Josh blinks, twice, and tries to push through the tiredness enough to focus properly on what he's being asked. It doesn't work. "...what? I - what? I don't understand."
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Hopefully one where filial incest is common.
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Surely that makes the filial incest less fun, though?no subject
But harder for you to avoid Hatsmdear.
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♥
Was it in a joking way, or was it in the head slightly tilted down, eye-twitching kind of way Mitchell has when he's genuinely pissed off about something? I ask because Brydon's Mitchell impression is so bad, that I am kind of hoping it's the latter.
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(I'm reminded of that guest who made an oblique reference to Mitchell's engagement on 10 O'Clock Live. I don't think Mitchell was at all happy.)
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(Yes. I got that impression too.)
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(Hey, you know stuff about Ye Olde Englishe, right? Is 'art thou angry' the right Ye Olde Translatione for 'u mad'?)
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This is such a relief to hear; I hope it holds for others.
('Art thou angry' or 'art thou angered', yes! 'Thou' is informal, so it seems more appropriate than the formal 'you' (as I'd say 'u' is informal), and 'art' is the correct form of 'to be' when used with 'thou'.
Incidentally, 'Ye' means 'the' - the 'Y' is actually supposed to be the letter thorn, which represented a 'th' sound and came to look very like a Y - so when you say 'the right Ye Olde Translatione' you're actually saying 'the right the old translation'.
Linguistics!)
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(Thank you! I wanted to make a macro and I figured it'd be best to have the correct translation.)
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