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So my newest Early Review book for LibraryThing is The Art Of Darkness, about undercover work; and there's been all this talk about the far north lately; and I had a whole bag of mending to do, and needed something to watch. So (as could be clearly deduced from that list of circumstances) I pulled out the tape I got at con.txt of the dueSouth pilot.

Several things:

No amount of fanfic, icons, picspam, or squee posts can possibly prepare you for just how indescribably, irrepressible-grin-inducingly cute Constable Fraser is.

No amount of fanfic can prepare you for how *bad* Ray's fashion sense is. I am more convinced than ever that he's actually a Time Lord. (Though another thing that fanfic hadn't conveyed is that Ray is apparently already doing primarily undercover work, which does make that whole two-Rays thing make a lot more sense without having to bring in regeneration.)

(Ray is also indescribably cute. And Dief is a much better actor than I was expecting him to be. Remember when I was talking about watching Old!Who, and it's like being a historian who's heard all the myths and read all the theories, who gets a chance to actually *be there* and *see it happen* and it's so much more amazingly amazing than any reconstruction? Yeah, like that.)

Also, this song will *get stuck in your head*.


Undercover book is also making me really want fic exploring the Master's tendency to go into deep cover at the slightest pretext. And making me want to re-read A Howling In The Factory Yard, again, but, y'know, that's kind of a given.)

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[also_not_a_pipe [journalfen.net]]

Yes! One of my LJ friends has been crazy about that show for years, but she finally got me to sit down and watch it the last time I went to her house. It weirds me out how Dief is three dogs, none of them are wolves or Malamutes, and I think only one is even Husky. But beyond that, it is just so cute that inaccurate doggies hardly matter.

For once I have a fandom related icon!

[quartz [journalfen.net]]

Due South is awesome. Mom and I keep fighting over who technically owns the series on DVD because I bought it but she's managed to take posession of it at her house.

The music is one of the things that hooked me. I've always had a weakness for old seafaring songs and Due South has quite a few. One of my favorites, (32 Down on the) Robert MacKenzie was actually sung by Paul Gross for the show. And the duet of the Northwest Passage song that he and Ray sing when they're trapped in the crevasse is incredibly beautiful.

[ealusaid [journalfen.net]]

I keep wanting to re-read Howling, but no matter how hard I try my hindbrain says, "This will only end in woe and acid. Save yourself now!" Maybe I can come back to it when the memory's a little less vivid.