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I didn't make this, if I knew who did, I'd creditt

I have pimped this show before but it's such a feel-good, charming show, and it doesn't date, and I will quite happily watch it with people, or lend them my dvds if that's easier. Because everyone should get to enjoy it.

And if you happen to be a slasher, you're spoilt for choice. There's Pippin, who is a swinger and sex addict and I can totally see them in a fuck-buddy friendship, I just can't see Pippin being monogamous.

( Eddie/Pippin picspam )

And THEN there's Eddie's boss, Superintendant Nathaniel Johnson, played by hot like molten lava Colin Salmon.

If I could do a picspam of Superintendant Johnson being all intense at Eddie I would, but I have legally purchased dvds, dammit, and I don't know how to screencap from those, so.

Johnson is Eddie's very stuffy, strict boss, who Eddie is cheeky to, and lets Eddie get away with crap, including calling him by his first name. In the first ep Eddie asks Pippin if Johnson is gay.

In the final ep, which I don't really like*, in a break from the quirky tone of the rest of the show, this is quite dark. Eddie is obsessed with bringing down this bigtime criminal and Johnson and Pippin are AFRAID FOR HIS LIFE.

Johnson, who is a 6'4", very powerful, and who runs weekly self-defence classes in his spare time is urging Eddie to ask for help on the case, says -

Let me make myself clear, the things I am truly afraid of I can count on two fingers. Anton Levy is one of them.

Then as they are leaning across the desk, staring at each other intently, face to face -

Don't put me in a position where you won't let anyone help you. I'm not ready to prepare for the worst as far as you're concerned.

(Really, really truly with the emphasis on 'you're', complete with eyebrow raise.)

( Mmm piccie of Johnson )




*I think, because this is such a feel-good woobie fandom for me.

My brain has like, completely stalled on Keen Eddie. This is a totally bizarre sensation. And it's not that I want to obsessively find every fic every written, I don't.

I want to write it. I wrote like this scene/ficlet/whatever on impulse the other night (there were painkillers involved) and now I have SEVEN more scenes I want to do. It was four when I left the house this morning. I wrote some dialogue for five and six while playing scrabble with my Grandma today, and thought of where I want to go for seven driving home from afternoon tea with my Dad.

This has never happened to me before. Explains why I never wrote much, I suppose.

My brain feels weird.

So I've just been watching songvids from 'Escapade 2004' Omg. There's Fight Club, La Confidential, Gladiator and Master and Commander. I loves me the movie slash!

And a Smallville one set to Placebo that rips my heart out. It even makes me want to actually start watching the show again.

And I have a new fandom! I just wish I knew what it was. The songvid is by Gwyneth (one of the Media Cannibals) and is fabulous. It's an NYPD guy transplanted to England, and partnered with a guy who's a bit posh (I recognise the actor, he was the bad guy's sidekick in Tomb Raider) There's an amusing pit bull and lots of scenes of the American cop being tied up, blindfolded; there's graffiti on buses that says 'Yank Cop Go Home' and scenes with the English cop asleep and snuggling all over him, and looking jealous when a girl smiles at him. Oh, and that drop dead gorgeous black guy who plays M's right hand man. in the last couple of Bond films is in it and seems to spend a lot of time smiling at the American. I think I saw Alexei Sayle, too.