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ladybug_archiveSeason 5 Pony finale was today. I don't think I've been so nervous about a finale since season 3. In the end, I was rather underwhelmed with it as a season finale, although there were definitely things I liked (especially the first alternate timeline and seeing Zecora in the second one). I'm glad that the terrible things I was imagining didn't happen. And I hope we're not really going to be without new Pony content for a whole year. Maybe the next Equestria Girls movie will come in the summer or something.
I am apparently going through Roger Moore withdrawal; had a dream about one of his characters this past week. I think it was Simon Templar. I've seen most of the episodes of The Saint and I fell out of the habit of checking MeTV's videos when they went back to the color episodes, which I've seen the most of. If they even still have the videos, they've probably started over by now and I should be checking to see the few B&W episodes I've missed. I wish they hadn't changed how the videos work, though. They've never been quite right since the last time MeTV tinkered with them. They used to play almost perfectly, and then MeTV had to go and do something to make them take more memory. Ugh. Which makes me all the less enthusiastic about checking.
I also wish Cozi hadn't cut the Maverick airings to twice on Sunday. Then it takes forever to go a round! There were still some Beau episodes I wanted to have recorded. I can't buy season 4 right now; still too expensive. And I know Cozi's episodes are cut, too. Sigh.
I'll probably try to bring back that Simon Templar icon again soon. I referenced him in my newest U.N.C.L.E. chapter.
It's funny, but it seems like with almost every classic TV series that I try to move to the present-day, I try to not reveal in the stories that it's the present and just know that I'm thinking it in my mind. But then something invariably happens in the plot of a story that forces me to acknowledge the time period.
Case in point: my newest U.N.C.L.E. chapter. Illya tries to contact Napoleon and can't get through, so Ecks tries to get in touch with Wye. They use cellphones in the stories that only feature them, so here I basically described a Smartphone but called it a communication device, heh. But I'm sure anyone reading it realized I was describing a cellphone. But since I called it something else, I figure they can imagine it as some other kind of spy gear if they want. Now we'll see how long I can go without positively identifying something in this U.N.C.L.E. story or another one as being in the present-day without question.
On that note, I think my U.N.C.L.E. website is almost ready. I've been writing the present-day backstories for Napoleon and Illya in my verse and it was a ton of fun, even if I never do bring said present-day backstories into the actual fics. I would likely enjoy doing that sometime, though, if I thought the readers would like it even though it isn't what they're used to/prefer. I know I could write it just for myself, but if I'm including Napoleon and Illya in a fic, I kind of like to share it with the fanbase. With the ones that I figure no one will read anyway, like the Ecks and Wye-only pieces, I get a lot more bold about the time period. Although I still only do things with it when the plot calls for it.
I am apparently going through Roger Moore withdrawal; had a dream about one of his characters this past week. I think it was Simon Templar. I've seen most of the episodes of The Saint and I fell out of the habit of checking MeTV's videos when they went back to the color episodes, which I've seen the most of. If they even still have the videos, they've probably started over by now and I should be checking to see the few B&W episodes I've missed. I wish they hadn't changed how the videos work, though. They've never been quite right since the last time MeTV tinkered with them. They used to play almost perfectly, and then MeTV had to go and do something to make them take more memory. Ugh. Which makes me all the less enthusiastic about checking.
I also wish Cozi hadn't cut the Maverick airings to twice on Sunday. Then it takes forever to go a round! There were still some Beau episodes I wanted to have recorded. I can't buy season 4 right now; still too expensive. And I know Cozi's episodes are cut, too. Sigh.
I'll probably try to bring back that Simon Templar icon again soon. I referenced him in my newest U.N.C.L.E. chapter.
It's funny, but it seems like with almost every classic TV series that I try to move to the present-day, I try to not reveal in the stories that it's the present and just know that I'm thinking it in my mind. But then something invariably happens in the plot of a story that forces me to acknowledge the time period.
Case in point: my newest U.N.C.L.E. chapter. Illya tries to contact Napoleon and can't get through, so Ecks tries to get in touch with Wye. They use cellphones in the stories that only feature them, so here I basically described a Smartphone but called it a communication device, heh. But I'm sure anyone reading it realized I was describing a cellphone. But since I called it something else, I figure they can imagine it as some other kind of spy gear if they want. Now we'll see how long I can go without positively identifying something in this U.N.C.L.E. story or another one as being in the present-day without question.
On that note, I think my U.N.C.L.E. website is almost ready. I've been writing the present-day backstories for Napoleon and Illya in my verse and it was a ton of fun, even if I never do bring said present-day backstories into the actual fics. I would likely enjoy doing that sometime, though, if I thought the readers would like it even though it isn't what they're used to/prefer. I know I could write it just for myself, but if I'm including Napoleon and Illya in a fic, I kind of like to share it with the fanbase. With the ones that I figure no one will read anyway, like the Ecks and Wye-only pieces, I get a lot more bold about the time period. Although I still only do things with it when the plot calls for it.
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Date: 2015-11-30 10:28 pm (UTC)I try not to reveal modern-day settings, as well--though a sharp-eyed reader could have realized I set my Monkees fics in the present day if they'd paid attention to the order in which the Doctor was reading about the destruction of the Medallions of Doom--I wrote Sean smashing the scorpion medallion as occurring before Davy smashing the Exodia medallion. That's pretty much the only way you could tell...
As for your fic, I think you can divert people's attention from realizing that Ecks was using a smartphone by someone making a snarky comment that it looks like something CONTROL came up with--with all the gadgets they come up with, Get Smart translates to the modern age fairly well--only the one or two eps that have the Chief or Max talking to Lyndon Johnson dates it.
(And you've definitely sparked my interest in Get Smart again--I really must see to reviving that Carmen crossover once I make it through finals next week...)
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Date: 2015-12-01 12:44 am (UTC)Ahh yes.
LOL. That would be amusing, only then it would look like whoever said it has never seen a Smartphone before. It's probably better to not call any more attention to it than necessary.
Oooh! Awesome!
I'm actually planning a blurb thing where Ecks and Wye are caught by KAOS and listening to Siegfried rant and then have to get out of the mess.