last QAF post for this week, I swear.
Jan. 18th, 2006 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Just rewatched all of QAF UK series 1. Ahhhh. My Stuart/Vince(or Brian/Michael) need has been nicely assuaged. It's very nice to have the UK version there to support my OTP, no matter how scandalously it is denied in the US version.
Also, I am in love with what I now call the 'Vince's Declaration of Independence Theme', because it plays whenever Vince actually takes control over his own life. Three times in series 1 -- at the end of ep 4, when he chooses to walk away from Stuart after Stuart and Nathan screwed around in Vince's old bedroom; at the end of his party in ep 7, when he (again) chooses to leave Stuart because Stuart is the asshole to top all assholes; and at the end of ep 8, when he chooses to dump Cameron and go back to Stuart. Three of my favorite moments in the show, those are. Which is why I can't understand why people think Vince (or his US counterpart, Michael) is weak or clingy or follows Stuart around like a trained dog. Sure, at the very beginning of the series, he is and does, but he finds his own damn strength over the course of the show, and when he goes back to Stuart in the end, HE'S the one in control of their relationship, and he knows it. It's FANTASTIC. Stuart self-destructs when Vince isn't around, but Vince could do just fine without Stuart -- he just doesn't choose to. My love for this pairing, it knows no bounds.
I quite like this sort of pairing, actually. Always have. Those two personality types bouncing off each other -- one who is outwardly always in control but in reality needs the other desperately, and one who may appear weaker but actually is completely self-sufficient and when he/she chooses to love, hot damn. It's kinda Mulder/Scullyish, even, or my interpretation of Sirius/Remus...
Also, I am in love with what I now call the 'Vince's Declaration of Independence Theme', because it plays whenever Vince actually takes control over his own life. Three times in series 1 -- at the end of ep 4, when he chooses to walk away from Stuart after Stuart and Nathan screwed around in Vince's old bedroom; at the end of his party in ep 7, when he (again) chooses to leave Stuart because Stuart is the asshole to top all assholes; and at the end of ep 8, when he chooses to dump Cameron and go back to Stuart. Three of my favorite moments in the show, those are. Which is why I can't understand why people think Vince (or his US counterpart, Michael) is weak or clingy or follows Stuart around like a trained dog. Sure, at the very beginning of the series, he is and does, but he finds his own damn strength over the course of the show, and when he goes back to Stuart in the end, HE'S the one in control of their relationship, and he knows it. It's FANTASTIC. Stuart self-destructs when Vince isn't around, but Vince could do just fine without Stuart -- he just doesn't choose to. My love for this pairing, it knows no bounds.
I quite like this sort of pairing, actually. Always have. Those two personality types bouncing off each other -- one who is outwardly always in control but in reality needs the other desperately, and one who may appear weaker but actually is completely self-sufficient and when he/she chooses to love, hot damn. It's kinda Mulder/Scullyish, even, or my interpretation of Sirius/Remus...
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QAF UK
Date: 2006-01-18 03:50 am (UTC)I almost bought QAF UK today. That's almost entirely your fault. I didn't though, because I've never actually seen any of it. And I wasn't sure whether they'd wrapped up the show or whether they'd cut it half way through or what.
It's 20 dollars for the first half of season four - that's four half hour episodes?
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Date: 2006-01-18 05:06 am (UTC)Thank you! It so totally is! I've always thought so.
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Date: 2006-01-18 07:13 am (UTC)Oh yeah. I want to see more of this kind of fic, in any fandom.
Re: QAF UK
Date: 2006-01-18 04:44 pm (UTC)But, ehm, there is no season 4. Series 1 is eight half-hour episodes; series 2 is a two-part 90-minute television film. That's all they wrote. And it wasn't cut off prematurely -- the story comes to a very definite conclusion at the end of series 2, and for that matter, series 1 could stand alone just fine.
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Date: 2006-01-18 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 04:45 pm (UTC)Re: QAF UK
Date: 2006-01-18 08:55 pm (UTC)Oh, good. I am glad the story is there properly. Except now I really should buy it. Maybe once I've done the job applications.