Apparently it never caught on anyway, as the network executives to whom the script was pitched decided that their demographic would not appreciate a 70-year-old man being on screen for more than five seconds. By that logic, we can safely assume that their main characters would not look like Alan or Caroline, and it would have been just as bad as Life on Mars.
I've been much more aware on this watch of how lucky we are that the concept came from Britain rather than America. There's just so much more chance of everyday people getting cast, rather than Hollywood Quirky, when stuff originates here. As for the ageism of the putative US version... I just can't get my head around it. I feel like that's selling the audience short; those executives must live in such a tiny, tiny bubble...
Re: Photoshop on the laptop, maybe it's about it not having the capacity for the software (PS *is* a beast), but Adobe recently gave away an old version of PS because they wanted to save the huge chunk of server space account validations were taking up! I saw an article on Gizmondo last week, and of course the link they gave was dead from everyone going there at once, but it might be do-able now... otherwise, you can also do some Photoshop stuff online by signing up to their site, though I'd warn that it's a different interface from the normal program (and less options, of course), so that can be a bit annoying. If you're looking for an image host instead of Photobucket, I'm finding Imgur pretty good, and you can upload without signing in, which is great if you just need to quickly put a gif online for a throwaway comment gag or something.
I wondered about Maddy's flat!! Admittedly, I live in a much nicer place than my job would suggest, but it's definitely not that size and the bf's job is the one paying the rent. She must have had a juicy book deal at some point, and be a demon IKEA shopper, I reckon.
I just like the fact he carries his little tool kit around with him, just in case he has to pick a lock. Geek it up, Jonathan.
I bet he's one of those people who just feels compelled to measure himself against security systems. In the afterword to Little Brother, either the author Cory Doctorow or Bruce Sterling (who wrote a little intro for it) advises young readers to hack something - basically figure out how a system works, not necessarily a computer one, and beat it, like the character in the book. That has stuck with me. I feel like if Jonathan had been of a more computery persuasion, he'd have been all over that stuff.
"I nearly rang you..."
That was just such a satisfying conversation. God, I love the way this stuff is written. I find the bit when they're on the phone and she asks what he's cooking very cosy - it's a sort of relaxedness on the phone (even if one or both is having to force the nonchalance) that is so appealing to me in relationships of any kind.
AND THE IRRITATING CRINKLED LOOK SCREENCAP. OMG.
Also: last Rolo? HE GAVE HER HIS LAST ROLO? *DIES*
Paul is very sharp about the food thing. It really throws me how much thought they've put into this during production - I don't think it's an accident and now I'll be watching for it every time they're in a mealtime situation.
I so need to watch the extras - think we saw them last time round but I have utterly memory and am now intensely curious...
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Date: 2013-01-22 03:48 pm (UTC)I've been much more aware on this watch of how lucky we are that the concept came from Britain rather than America. There's just so much more chance of everyday people getting cast, rather than Hollywood Quirky, when stuff originates here. As for the ageism of the putative US version... I just can't get my head around it. I feel like that's selling the audience short; those executives must live in such a tiny, tiny bubble...
Re: Photoshop on the laptop, maybe it's about it not having the capacity for the software (PS *is* a beast), but Adobe recently gave away an old version of PS because they wanted to save the huge chunk of server space account validations were taking up! I saw an article on Gizmondo last week, and of course the link they gave was dead from everyone going there at once, but it might be do-able now... otherwise, you can also do some Photoshop stuff online by signing up to their site, though I'd warn that it's a different interface from the normal program (and less options, of course), so that can be a bit annoying. If you're looking for an image host instead of Photobucket, I'm finding Imgur pretty good, and you can upload without signing in, which is great if you just need to quickly put a gif online for a throwaway comment gag or something.
I wondered about Maddy's flat!! Admittedly, I live in a much nicer place than my job would suggest, but it's definitely not that size and the bf's job is the one paying the rent. She must have had a juicy book deal at some point, and be a demon IKEA shopper, I reckon.
I just like the fact he carries his little tool kit around with him, just in case he has to pick a lock. Geek it up, Jonathan.
I bet he's one of those people who just feels compelled to measure himself against security systems. In the afterword to Little Brother, either the author Cory Doctorow or Bruce Sterling (who wrote a little intro for it) advises young readers to hack something - basically figure out how a system works, not necessarily a computer one, and beat it, like the character in the book. That has stuck with me. I feel like if Jonathan had been of a more computery persuasion, he'd have been all over that stuff.
"I nearly rang you..."
That was just such a satisfying conversation. God, I love the way this stuff is written. I find the bit when they're on the phone and she asks what he's cooking very cosy - it's a sort of relaxedness on the phone (even if one or both is having to force the nonchalance) that is so appealing to me in relationships of any kind.
AND THE IRRITATING CRINKLED LOOK SCREENCAP. OMG.
Also: last Rolo? HE GAVE HER HIS LAST ROLO? *DIES*
Paul is very sharp about the food thing. It really throws me how much thought they've put into this during production - I don't think it's an accident and now I'll be watching for it every time they're in a mealtime situation.
I so need to watch the extras - think we saw them last time round but I have utterly memory and am now intensely curious...