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Sapientia Et Veritas, Et Non

Oct 11, 2010 06:53

"Today is born the seventh one
Born of woman the seventh son
And he in turn of a seventh son
He has the power to heal
He has the gift of the second sight
He is the chosen one
So it shall be written
So it shall be done"

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Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU) anonymous October 23 2010, 19:22:39 UTC

Basic idea: The goings on at Westminster are just a successful tv show. George Osborne is played by Scottish actor Daniel Stewart. David Laws (still in the cast but no longer a headline character) is played by Nik Anderson. Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell are respectively played by real-life couple actors Henry Moorland and Chester Hope.The rest should be fairly self- explanatory. See also http://lolitics-meme.livejournal.com/5715.html?thread=9796947#t9796947, http://lolitics-meme.livejournal.com/5715.html?thread=9940563#t9940563, among others

By: the collective Guardian TV critic and drama review teams, having for the moment escaped the beady eyes of the Weekend and Review editors enough to get away with the below. So it's been a bumpy week for Daniel Stewart, on-screen and off. Probably. Actually, he seems to be one of the few people taking the whole ( ... )

Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 2 anonymous October 23 2010, 19:25:20 UTC

Confirmed: Nik is a Swedish Anderson, not a Scots one. We are not sure why this is being treated as a revelation, especially since he has made no actual effort to hide the fact, quite apart from the occasional hint of an accent and the spelling of his first name (Nik is short for Niklas: he's not just being weird for the sake of it). Possibly there's a sense among the tabloids that implicitly invoking stereotypes of Swedish lubriciousness helps lend credibility to the “Sordid gay foursome” angle, or that no story is complete without foreigners being to blame for something, even if it's not clear what's supposed to be bad about the “something” in question. Not confirmed: rumours that Stewart and Anderson got married in Sweden shortly after Anderson's departure from frontline cast in THoC, with or without the involvement of Moorland and Hope as groomsmen.

Also not confirmed: tabloid hints that Sweden is one great big free-for-all omnisexual orgy, only further fuelled by the Swedish embassy's cultural attache's refusal to comment on the ( ... )

Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 3 anonymous October 23 2010, 19:27:15 UTC

Exhibit A: Stewart's performance as Dorian Gray (we know, blond in the book) opposite yes, Henry Moorland as Lord Henry and Chester Hope as Basil Hallward in the 100th anniversary of Wilde's death TV adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray back in 2000. This actually quite good dramatization got surprisingly little attention at the time, beyond some rather perfunctory “Moorland and Hope play ambiguously gay duo again” noises, but since Moorland and Hope were by then thoroughly out, also as a couple, the excitement was rather muted even on this front. BBC2's scheduling did not help, either. A number of those that did see it, including (ahem) some of us writing this, did produce rather drooling reviews of Stewart, albeit noting that the basic vacuity of the character did not give him much to do beyond oozing sex and that his performance bore marks of being primarily a stage actor. We also noted that Moorland and Hope, cast as supposedly adversarial characters, seemed to be subtextually indicating a second honeymoon as a couple at the ( ... )

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 3 anonymous October 23 2010, 19:29:07 UTC

Moreover, the introduction of George Osborne as a character on THoC was originally a rather slapdash punchline to the Martin Bell independent anti-sleaze candidate storyline, the Tories retaking the Tatton seat. While there have been subsequent complaints that Osborne has been written as something of a Tory stereotype, it is instructive to compare the restraint exercised on this point re Osborne with the broad caricature characters of Neil Hamilton (previous Tatton Tory incumbent) and wife Christine. There is no particular evidence of an intention for Osborne to be more than an incidental character at that point. His subsequent promotion to the more prominent role as Shadow Chancellor seems to have initially come out of Beth Báthory (THoC'sAnn Widdecombe) calling producer Gordon Brown's attention to Stewart's performances in her series of stage adaptations of Dostoyevsky, as well as, if not more than, Stewart's rather more perfunctory stage performances as the Prince of Wales in The Madness of George III and Alec in the stage ( ... )

Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 23 2010, 19:33:15 UTC

There is also considerable, if not always entirely well pulled off, evidence that the producers and writers of THoC have aimed from relatively early on to trade on Stewart's serious acting chops as well as his comedian's facility for playing “posh and useless” public schoolboys with a tendency to develop man-crushes and indulge an occasional side of Dastardly Whiplash. This is not to deny that the characterization of Osborne has been, not to put too fine a point on it, somewhat wobbly in places, as if having an actor who can range from Urky through saintly via Dorian Gray and broad-comedy “yah” posh boy left THoC's writers unsure where to weight the role, in itself or in relation to other characters. This very week's “spending review” headlining appearance sometimes struck a peculiarly uncertain note between Urky-ish and martyred, not least for the way Osborne is shown sinking into the group hug of Cameron, Clegg and Alexander at the end of his speech as if about to mutter “Consummatum est”, only more homoerotically ( ... )

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 23 2010, 20:35:52 UTC

I am damn near speechless from the squee. This 'verse just keeps getting better and better...

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 23 2010, 21:37:47 UTC

I heart this fic. Every last wee detail of it, every interwoven delight of it.

Urky, Bathory, Stroganoff! A veritable Chelsea line-up of stars. And Danny Boy himself - I think it's love. :D

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 23 2010, 23:43:44 UTC

I really enjoyed all the little details here, great add to that verse!

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 24 2010, 10:17:38 UTC

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ALL THE LITTLE WONDERFUL THINGS IN THIS -clutches-

Absolutely sterling work!

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 24 2010, 20:21:24 UTC

J-Jamie MacDonald... Dorian Gray... the picture on the fridge... *flails* YOU HAVE MADE MY EVENING SWEET, ANON. So very, very sweet. And it's sheer brilliance that you put George's puzzling contradictory traits down to the writers XD I lol'd continually.

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 24 2010, 21:00:32 UTC

This is basically made of picture prompts.

Gids as Frank-N-Furter!

Frankie!Gids with RockyHorror!DLaws and RockyHorror!Mandelbell!

Lawsborne wedding!

DorianGray!Gids with evil lord Mandy and brooding artist Campbell!

And Jamie/Malcolm PDA *sigh*

Somebody with manip skills, please do something about it?

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 24 2010, 21:05:04 UTC

I second this motion ~ <3

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 25 2010, 20:47:10 UTC

Thirded!

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), 5/5 (previous post should have been marked part 4) anonymous October 25 2010, 18:28:49 UTC

i love all the details in this!

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), short sequel 1/2 anonymous October 26 2010, 16:40:22 UTC

Internal Grauniad memo: Note from Editor ( ... )

Re: Mad About The Boy? (THoC AU), short sequel 2/2 anonymous October 26 2010, 16:44:40 UTC

From THoCFandom site:

Classic clips update, in honour of Duplexgate!

* Henry Moorland and Chester Hope on Graham Norton: includes the giant “No comment” smirk when he asks HM if he's ever asked CH to “channel Alastair” for him. Watch it before the TV company request it taken down (again)!

* Clip somebody took with their phone camera of Danny Stewart dancing around rather drunkenly in the VIP section at a 2009 Lady Gaga concert, wearing a t-shirt with the News of the World “THoC's Osborne Is Moorland-Hope Boy Toy” frontpage on it. Slightly out of focus picture of smaller strawberry blond guy next to him, but unfortunately the face isn't clearly visible. Still, you know what we're thinking. And let's not even get started on the dancing in a kilt thing.

* And yes, of course, we have reinstated the “Sweet Transvestite” clip.

THoC bloopers out-takes! some of them ahem, from special sources * Nik randomly puts on Viking helmet during “First Paxman interview” scene as camera is off him, and then watches Paxo's breakdown in haughty ( ... )

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