Tremendulent!

So. I've just finished watching Hamish MacBeth and I have thoughts.

On the whole, it's fantastic. I'm a huge sucker for shows that are centered around wacky, small towns that are steeped in history and myths and this show definitely hits the spot in that regard. The actors are obviously having a ball and the amount of chemistry between ALL of them is a delight to watch.

I also loved how most of the characters have actual character development, even if it's minor, as in a young man leaving his dad to go live on his own or the two people who had been hiding (badly hiding) their love affair, finally go public. I did end up caring about all of them.

The first season is definitely the best one, in my opinion. Season two has it's moments and season three goes a bit off the rails.

Robert Carlyle is, naturally, very fun to watch. He's got the most elastic face and can convey so many conflicting emotions. His relationship with the other fellows and folks in the town is very fun to watch and he can be wonderfully deadpan.

He also has a Westie named Jock that is the cutest thing ever.

Now.

My problem with the show is, sadly, with the writing of the ladies. I'm going to cut for spoilers, even though this aired back in the mid-90s. ( Spoilers about the fate of the ladies )

So, I wrote a tiny fix-it fic during lunch this week. This is what I would have liked to have happened at the end of season one, which could have led to a more interesting season two.

Isobel Gets her Groove Back - post-season one, a few days after the last episode of the season.

( Nellie Bly never met Hamish MacBeth )

In short (too late!), the show is fun, the characters are loveable, but it definitely suffers from the usual pitfalls in regards to love triangles and melodrama. I would actually recommend it to fans of Robert Carlyle because there are moments that totally foreshadow the rest of his career and that's always delightful to watch.

So, yesterday I finally worked on the first chapter of the Going to Georgia sequel. I only needed to add one last paragraph and then I was going to send it off to the lovely fringedweller so she can help me curb my run-on sentence fetish.

HOWEVER...

I saved the wrong bloody file to google docs and the file I want is sitting on my home laptop all incomplete and lonely! Because I am a moron. *head desk* And I cannot remember the stuff I added yesterday.

I guess this means I will work on the SGU fic that won't leave me alone. I'm only doing it because the world needs more Robert Carlyle being snarky.

How is everyone else's Monday? Does anyone else think that they really needed more OT3 on Being Human this season? I feel a little let down. There were not enough cups of tea this time around.

Someone needs to talk me out of writing fic for a show I've never even watched one episode of (Stargate Universe) all because I like the idea of Robert Carlyle in space being charmed by a blonde medic.

Seriously, talk me down, folks.

Has anyone actually seen this show? Is it worth a look?

Why, oh why, must I get interested in actors/tv shows/movies that have no fandom whatsoever to speak of? I'm this close to writing fic for movies that probably only two people on earth have seen.

Darn you Robert Carlyle with your charming Glaswegian accent and dodgy career choices!

*head desk*

Well, I made the Earl Grey cupcakes recommended by shaxophile. They are gorgeous! I haven't made cupcakes since I was 12! Husband has already eaten four.

I'm currently on a Robert Carlyle kick for some reason, have any of my UK flisters seen Hamish MacBeth? It looks adorable, is it worth a search to try to find episodes?

Happy Saturday everyone! Aladdin is on and I'm totally having middle school flashbacks!