To my dear, small but very select group of friends,

The time has come to change my username to jaycat92.

I'm doing this by keeping this my 'old' lj,  and starting a new account with a new lj, which looks as close as I can make it to my comfy  'old' familiar one, and friending you all for that one. Which means I have to ask you to do me the great favour of friending jaycat92. I hope you will!

Here's to 2009 and a whole year to look forward to of clever, creative, moving, or plain silly (and slashy!) Pros-y posts from you lovely people.

Happy New Year!

From the agent formerly known as come_in45.

Doyle is a scruffy , insubordinate cop, Bodie is 'in sugar beet machinery' and they are so gorgeous and so together. I enjoyed this!
 


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Review posted later than planned, and with fewer screencaps, due to DVD player malfunction. But I really wanted to post a review this week, as I've been enjoying so much the lovely seasonal treats of the Pros advent calendars.



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Back in RL after a superb weekend of Pros, Pros and more Pros, 'Fall Girl' locations, fans and lj friends.


More this way...

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With excitement mounting over Proswatch 'Mixed Doubles', agents might be interested in seeing Lewis Collins and Nikolas Grace head to head to as rivals once again in 'Sheriff of Nottingham' (1985?).

Many thanks to Rochvelleth, whose Safehouse post in August alerted me to this delicious episode, and also to Sunray45 for an earlier set of screencaps. 

I love 'Robin of Sherwood', partly because I specialise in the late twelfth century (it gets the period feel right for me), but mainly for the Sheriff of Nottingham/Guy of Guisburne scenes, and with Lewis Collins too, swoon.



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Just because I can't help seeing both sides of any argument, a very short defence of 'The Gun'. Maybe life at CI5 is (relatively) uneventful some of the time, even for the best agents...

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Global Proswatch: Slush Fund

Bodie and Raffles in one sentence! What could possibly be better?

After he confesses to little bit of the old B&E, Doyle calls Bodie 'a poor man's Raffles'! To misquote Cowley, well Doyle, you're right about the 'Raffles'..., but 'poor man's'?  Huh!

And Bodie knows his Raffles stories! 'At least he was never nicked.' 

So careful, Doyle, if Bodie is Raffles, that makes you his Bunny!

Breakfast with a smile, when Radio Times (8-14 November) arrived on the doormat. Pic on the cover is Gene Hunt muscling up to Richard Hammond!! with more inside!! OMG.

Oh, and there's a feature interview with Martin Shaw about Apparitions, but I couldn't get past the cover...

Since I messed up posting this yesterday, please bear with me while I try again.

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Byslantedlight's excellent  review of 'Takeaway' at http://community.livejournal.com/the_safehouse/ quotes the Sweeney-esque cops, "He knows you, sunshine..." , and exclaims: "Sunshine" is not a loving nickname for Ray Doyle! It's a generic...

Support at last for the same suspicion I've been harbouring.  In fact, N. my other half uses it all the time, I'd just never noticed before. He's of similar age to the lads (well, bit younger I'm glad to say!) and like them is a northerner  who migrated to the south-east in the 1970s.  (Whether Derby is north depends on your point of view, of course) .

The point is that 'Sunshine' drips irony. Sounds affectionate, but is meant unpleasantly, but not so unpleasantly as to be really mean and nasty, just a bit cheeky. Which is why N. tends to use 'sunshine' when regaling to me what he would have said to... you know, anyone who's mucked him around, like the charming people around here who put signs at the end of their driveways saying 'No Turning' (just don't get that).  Probably wouldn't say it to anyone's face unless really provoked.

BUT that's what makes it so sweet when Bodie calls Ray 'Sunshine', because then it's cheeky and ironic, but without the usual aggression. 

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Antipodeans and ex-Antipodeans rejoice (or cringe), Doyle speaks fluent  'strine! Is there no end to this man's talents? And enjoys a bottle of Seppelts riesling too.

No time for a proper post, sadly, day trip to Cambridge tomorrow, starting disgustingly early.

Love the Spy versus Spy in this: the Russians vs. the Chinese (from old Peking!) vs. the Brits.

Love those Russians, especially Comrade Gorky - so creepy.

Love all the sharp suits, Agent Bodie and especially Agent Doyle look quite underdressed. Except when they are in uniform (swoon), although Doyle's long hair does rather give the game away.

Very much dislike the racism, but do like it that Cowley speaks Mandarin (or was that Cantonese?).

Finally, I'm so touched by Cowley's tenderness when he administers the ?oxygen, especially to Bodie, Keeps stroking him! But maybe it is just  Cowley's guilty conscience.

Favourite line: 'It's madness!' , 'Anything that succeeds in this business usually is.'

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I know 'In the Public Interest' was viewed and reviewed back May, but as a latecomer, I couldn't resist adding my thoughts. It's a bit of an essay really. Sorry, that's habit for you. For those lacking time or inclination, the abstract is: ITPI, slashiest episode ever, esp. the hotel bedroom scene ...