It's Chris Eccleston's birthday!

[guanin]

I just saw it on my flist. I have to keep better track of these things. Anyway, happy birthday Chris, wherever you are! Now I feel obligated to watch a CE movie/show. I have to.

ETA: I just noticed that the Heroes people kept CE's birth year and month for Claude's birthday, but changed the day by two weeks. Huh.

Comments

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, awesome! I'll have to pop in some Doctor Who or something.

Oh, hey, how wonderfully appropriate if Claude came back on the Heroes episode tonight? *sigh* Ships that pass in the night...

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I'm in between Doctor Who or The Second Coming. I'll probably watch the later since I started it a few days ago. Yes, it takes me days to watch a whole film. It's sad.

That would be so beautiful! We can dream.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for The Second Coming. To facilitate that Sam Oliver/Stephen Baxter story I hear about ;)

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I did just finish watching that, actually. But the end always makes me so sad.

Yeah, that fic. It's no more than an urge and a few lines of dialogue at the moment, but I really want to do something with it. It's a challenge, you know? Plus, I've never written Reaper fic before.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Yay! But yes. Sad. I think if I ever do try and re-watch it, I'll just stick to the first half.

Mmm, well, I can't say I ever would have considered it before you mentioned it, but since you did...it's interesting. And hey, there's nothing wrong with a fic that's just about satisfying an urge and made up of a few lines of dialogue.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I thought about turning it off before Judith kills him *sniff*, but I decided to be brave.

Me, neither. But I watched the first half of The Second Coming teh other day and I've been watching Reaper this weekend and then the parallel of "the son of God" and "the son of the Devil" (not that we have confirmation for the second one, but I'm running with it) struck me. I'm trying to get a proper bunny now. Maybe Steve landed in the Reapers' neck of the woods sometime in those 40ish days he was gone.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Good for you. I'm really not sure I could handle seeing him die again. Because seriously, I hardly ever rewatch his last DW episode, and Company Man always makes me wince.

Hee. I think there's potential for a hilarious and random and potentially blasphemous "Temptation of Christ" parallel story involving Steve being just Steve and Sam not entirely realizing he's tempting anyone. Maybe that just makes sense in my head.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Why must this man do so many death scenes? Why? It's so cruel on us fangirls.

Mmm. That sounds neat. Though I'm not usually a good hand at the humor, though I do manage it on occasion. I'll have to give it a think tonight. So much for concentrating on the epic, but I am working on it every day.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I completely forgot about the one in Cracker, but I think that's the worst of them. Because it's so freakin' sad. The one in Revengers Tragedy is just so absurd that I just go with it and laugh nervously. But seriously, it's like some kind of fetish.

I would write it myself but I think it would require a lot more Catholic Dogma use than I'm comfortable bringing out. That's the trouble I always have with Reaper fic, I tend to get all thinky about...my time as a good Catholic girl and it never ends well. *cough* Anyway! Yes, fics ideas just have that tendency to grab onto you and not let you do anything else sometimes.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I haven't seen the last episodes he's in and since I found out about that (though pictures, no less), I'm not sure I want to. It is a fetish. What is it with this man and dying on screen? If he comes back as Claude and dies, I will get Medieval on someone.

I never was a good Catholic girl, really, even when I knew all the prayers by heart, and now I'm not Christian at all, so I have no problem with writing the blasphemy. Hell, I like The Last Temptation of Christ.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Garr, it was awful. There's a radio message he leaves for his wife and it's just...he's a very good actor, that man. And in that way that makes it seem so easy when he tears your heart out and stomps on it. I think Claude's already had as much of a death as he's going to get. Or so I tell myself.

I wouldn't have a problem with it for blasphemous reasons, I'd just feel awkward...bringing up certain aspects. Religion's just one of those things I try to steer away from in fandom, but Reaper tends to bring it all up.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Claude must live happily ever after with Peter. That's the only ending I'm willing to accept, even if it only happens in my head

But Reaper's so silly with it. It doesn't come up as often, though, at least compared to Good Omens.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

This is true. Claude deserves the unconditional love and affection only Peter can provide and Peter needs some security and someone he can trust. It'll also happen in the rest of our heads.

Yeah, it's a very Dogma-like approach. I love that about that show.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

That's one of my main motivations for writing the epic. I want them to get through all the madness and still have their happily ever after.

Not surprising considering that Kevin Smith is a consultant.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that they will. I don't care what I have to make up to make it work.

No, not surprising at all.