As I was saying in my latest post, I ended up (to my surprise) falling pretty hard for a fairly obscure (in the English-speaking world) series of short novels and films set in what the author, Giovannino Guareschi, calls the "Little World"; it's a rural area of the Po Valley in the years after the end of WW2 (so basically 1946-1969, the dates he ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been too long since I posted anything here... Well, I'll try to come back more often. Meanwhile, since I have a new story (in a new fandom), I'll post it here too, just in case :o)

Title: Giuseppe detto Peppino
Fandom: Giovanni Guareschi's The Little World of Don Camillo stories
Genre: Mostly comedy with less funny bits and children ( Read more... )

For Ivybramble, who requested I post this here, and anyone else who is interested :o)

( 30 snippets for 30 words. )

Last entry, a day late - I can’t believe it’s been a month already. It’s been fun :o)

Day 30 - What is it that you love most about Hogan’s Heroes?

The humour and the friendship and interactions between the characters. The fact that said characters almost always triumph out of guile and cleverness and sheer outrageous audacity. The fact that, even if ( Read more... )

Day 29 - Just tell us anything. Pick a random thing you want to get off your chest about the show.One of my personal explanations for Kinch’s total absence (even in passing mention) in season 6 is that it’s actually an alternate universe in which he doesn’t exist, and fate/the powers that be/whatever made it so that Baker landed in Stalag 13 ( Read more... )

Day 28 - What do you think happened to the characters (Allied and German) after the war?Well, Hogan probably stayed in the military, along with Kinch - and I can’t see Hogan not pulling strings and use his cunning for an integrated army. When I think of the kind of everyday crap Kinch (and the other African-American soldiers, but we’re speaking of ( Read more... )

Day 27 - Favourite reference (to a real-life WW2 incident/fictional shout-out/anachronistic 1960s random nod)?

I love that they had the bloody cheek to make Klink chief of Staff during D-Day, thus having our Heroes take part (and what a part!) in one of the most important (both in terms of scale and significance) operations of the century. I mean, ( Read more... )

Day 26 - Favourite denouement/wrap-up scene/episode ending? (If not, favourite loose end. Or both.)Hogan and his guys have done a lot of crazy things right in the middle of camp, in plain sight of everybody (and I’m not counting the stuff they do outside the wire): steal and dismantle a Tiger tank, steal and sabotage a mini-tank, make countless ( Read more... )

Day 25 - Movie speculation time. Is there a particular character you have an unimpeachable fancast for?

I can’t unsee Nathan Fillion as Hogan. Seriously, the more I watch him in different roles the more I think he’d be perfect for Hogan (even though he might be getting a little too old for the part if the movie gets done in five or ten years - ( Read more... )

Day 24 - How did you get into Hogan’s Heroes?I had watched some of the show when I was a kid, but my memory of it was hazy at best. In late autumn 2011 the show as rerunning on French TV, and I watched a few episodes, which I loved. I then tracked it on Internet and fell in love, hard enough to buy the series on DVD later ( Read more... )