Recent Obsessions--Slash 1920's Style
What ho! What ho! What ho! It's Jeeves and Wooster!
And a shiny video:
by HaleyPfifer
While Man from UNCLE is still dear to my heart, I have stumbled upon something positively shiny! That is to say, the fuzzy, gooey and moist [working] relationship of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. In particular, their adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster.
It's 1920s-30s, a hint of lime's in the air, people wear beautiful dresses, suits and shoes, everything is grand and the music is jaunty. Enter Jeeves, the man extrodinaire who leaves a room cleaner than it was when he entered it (and indeed cleaner than it was when it was first built), with an enormous brain and charming exterior. Over there, on the chesterfield, is Bertram Wooster, slightly eccentric, slightly thick, and with a warm heart. Wooster is the master, Jeeves is his loyal servant, his valet--according to society, that is. The joke is, the lower class Jeeves is empowered over Wooster; however this power used responsibly by Jeeves, with Wooster leaning back while Jeeves organise his life. Most of the stories have Wooster in the "soup"(often marriage) while Jeeves "fishes" him out (thereby saving poor Bertie from the horrors of hetrosexual marriage). The stories, the Laurie and Fry TV adaption... it's all slashy and good! The crack_van overview can do it more justice: http://community.livejournal.com/crack_van/1889256.html
Hugh Laurie, unfortunately better known as House MD to my American cousins, is in fact a British comedian. Stephen Fry has a voice that I could to for hours and hours and be lulled into a false sense of security--until he says something crude that makes you go "What?? What did he just say?" Suffice to say, where David McCallum's voice makes me go wibbly, Fry just melts.
And a shiny video:
by HaleyPfifer
Click to viewWhile Man from UNCLE is still dear to my heart, I have stumbled upon something positively shiny! That is to say, the fuzzy, gooey and moist [working] relationship of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. In particular, their adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster.
It's 1920s-30s, a hint of lime's in the air, people wear beautiful dresses, suits and shoes, everything is grand and the music is jaunty. Enter Jeeves, the man extrodinaire who leaves a room cleaner than it was when he entered it (and indeed cleaner than it was when it was first built), with an enormous brain and charming exterior. Over there, on the chesterfield, is Bertram Wooster, slightly eccentric, slightly thick, and with a warm heart. Wooster is the master, Jeeves is his loyal servant, his valet--according to society, that is. The joke is, the lower class Jeeves is empowered over Wooster; however this power used responsibly by Jeeves, with Wooster leaning back while Jeeves organise his life. Most of the stories have Wooster in the "soup"(often marriage) while Jeeves "fishes" him out (thereby saving poor Bertie from the horrors of hetrosexual marriage). The stories, the Laurie and Fry TV adaption... it's all slashy and good! The crack_van overview can do it more justice: http://community.livejournal.com/crack_van/1889256.html
Hugh Laurie, unfortunately better known as House MD to my American cousins, is in fact a British comedian. Stephen Fry has a voice that I could to for hours and hours and be lulled into a false sense of security--until he says something crude that makes you go "What?? What did he just say?" Suffice to say, where David McCallum's voice makes me go wibbly, Fry just melts.