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totallyhextra · 6 months

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People? In MY computer?? It's more likely than you think!

The following is a fanvertisment and is not connected to the show. ****Yet.*** *Also yes, this is the fourth time I'm posting this because TUMBLR WONT LET ME EDIT SPELLING MISTAKES!

ANYWAY,

Once upon a time, back in 1987, Dire Straits put out this music video for “Money for Nothing”, which, as you know, was a song about wanting my MTV.

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The video was made by two guys (Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson) on a very moody computer. After the video went out, these two guys went to a pub:

Ian: “Hey, we should make a whole show like this!”

Gavin: “Dude, making three minutes almost killed us.”

And so it was decided!🎉

The two guys were joined by two other guys (Phil Mitchell and John Grace) and created the Hub, which then became Mainframe Entertainment. They got even more people, and then they all holed up in this hotel.

They were mad lads with a dream: a whole cgi animated show, and they made it happen a whole year before Toy Story!

Behold! ReBoot!

(Yes that fever dream was real)

Now before I get any of this:

Let me lay this down. If you can’t with the animation of the first season because it was CUTTING EDGE IN 1994, you can close your eyes and listen to it. ReBoot wasn’t just a CGI gimmick. The characters are fully developed, the voice actors are peerless, the plot is sharp, and there’s so many easter eggs that you’ll never find them all.

Never

(And yes the episode "Bad Bob" was the actual catalyst for Fury Road. Look it up)

ReBoot is about what life is like in a computer (in the 90s, because it was the 90s) called Mainframe (because of course it is). People are sprites, the guys that look like 1s and 0s are binomes (which represent 1s and 0s). Bad guys are viruses, and the good guy is a Guardian named Bob, who is a certified cinnamon roll.

In the first season the eps are light and self-contained, mainly because there was constant friction between the Mainframe studios and the Board of Standards and Practices.

They still got away with some pretty dark stuff, like Megabyte (virus) making Enzo (the kid) watch his dog get sliced open (dog got away, obviously) , Dot (sprite) have a hallucinatory breakdown, and the fridge horror of realizing the thousands of worm things (nulls) that plunged off a bridge to their death were actually people.

And Hex's (virus

best girl) scary face single-handedly traumatized an entire generation. 🙂

But busting through a window was a no go, because WhAt If tHe cHiLdReN dID iT tOo?

Anyway, halfway through the second season, ABC cut them loose, so they were like, fuck it, we’re going to start going hard. The story shifted from episodic to arcs and things start to get serious.

Third season the show moved to YTV in Canada, which gave no fucks about shielding the innocent children.

So it got DARK

How dark?

The UK refused to show the entire season, so the audience there had to wait until pirated copies made it across the pond to see how it ended.

Also by 1997, the animation was gorgeous. (Best example of third season animation I could think of that didn't have spoilers)

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The show was green-lit for a fourth season on Cartoon Network, but halfway through production Warner Bros took over and the same fucking thing happened.

Because Mainframe was halfway done, they decided not to scrap all of it, but knowing they wouldn't be able to finish it correctly, Mainframe stripped anything that would hint at Season Four's true ending, then left what remained on a cliff-hanger of angst.

FOR 22 YEARS

(It's also why the last four eps of season four seem to make no sense)

And so it was.

Other crap happened, the soul left Mainframe, and its animated corpse spat out “The Guardian Code” in 2018.

But never say die! The year is (almost) 2024, 30 years later. ReBoot shall rise from the dead, because here come the documentary!!

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Do you dare see what you’ve been missing?

What the (UK) government doesn’t want you to know??

Then come on down to ReBoot!

We got:

Magnificent bastards with sexy voices!

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(Tony Jay at his best)

Kickass women who could probably crush your head with their thighs and you’d enjoy it!

Innuendos in a kid's show!

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💗 This adorable cinnamon roll!! 💗

Insane third season glow-ups!

YOUR NEW GOD

These guys!

(Gay roller-skating binome is my boi. I named him Jerry)

Nonstop cultural refs (You'll never find them all. Never.)

(There are literally videos dedicated to trying)

So many computer puns!

Body Horror!

Existential Crisis!

HAVE I MENTIONED YOUR NEW GOD?

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This is it, folks! The real thing, the gem hidden in the moose-filled forests of Canadia!🌲🌲🌲

Take a trip inside a mid-90’s computer!

See the World Wide Web! (omg):

Witness the original purple Gamecubes that randomly fall from the sky when the owner of the computer (OUR GOOD LORD THE USER) wants to play a game. If it lands on people and they lose, they dissolve into mindless energy leeches, fated to tormented by their former bretheren for all of eternity.

Just like in real life! 🙃

So watch the eps! They on YouTube!

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I think they're on Pluto, Hulu, Sling, and Tubi too! Also DVDs for people who have the patience to wait for them!

WATCH! BELIEVE! SUFFER THE SOUL-CRUSHING RAGE OF THE SEASON 4 CLIFF-HANGER!* (come on, its fun!)*

HYPE THE DOC!

The more people hype, the better the chances of actually getting it finished.

NOW SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE!

And now I will leave you with this screenshot from the ep "Painted Windows", where dicks can clearly be seen drawn upon the wall behind the fleeing anthropomorphized television.

(PS: If you heard the clown pic at the top of the page in your head, you're welcome)

IMPORTANT UPDATE

This message is now approved by Gavin Blair! He's an awesome guy. Show him some love on TWITTER (fuck you musk) at @TheRealMrSweary Also, if you want to share this with non-tumblr friends, here is my attempt at a webpage version:

theseventhstarprojects.com/REBOOT.html

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frooogscream · 11 days

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Every Con O’Neill character ticks at least three

•alcohol problem •manhandled by scary strong man (oh no😏) •shirtless scene •dad shaped (wholesome) •daddy shaped (sexual) •trauma •useless little worm •a homosexual •cool leather jacket •seductively smoking

…and then there’s Jim

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bunglecryptid · 2 years

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Was inspired by @disappointingaffirmations on Instagram to make these

#mr bungle #mike patton #trevor dunn #fantomas #tomahawk #dave lombardo #trey spruance #trio convulsant #madlove #faith no more #bar mckinnon #danny heifetz #scott ian #dead cross #justin pearson #mike crain

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mariocki · 2 years

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Victoria Regina: Winter (1.4, Granada, 1964)

"What is one to do? There are so many of them - far too many, as you say - and social conditions make it so difficult, you can't get rid of ignorance in a day, Mrs. Clayton!"

"No, nor in a lifetime if one does nothing. Indifference, prejudice, class distinction; all help."

"Help?"

"Have helped, most certainly, to make Windsor what no self-respecting place ought to be."

"Would you wish to get rid of class distinction, Mrs. Clayton?"

"I would wish to get rid of anything, ma'am, which prevents people from recognising their responsibilities."

#victoria regina #classic tv #granada #winter #1964 #laurence housman #peter wildeblood #stuart latham #patricia routledge #max adrian #jameson clark #dorothy reynolds #lloyd pearson #kevin brennan #rosamond burne #ernest milton #ian wilson #george curzon #charles cullum #john h. moore #christopher steele #having been in some ways sidelined by the plot of Albert's death in Autumn‚ Victoria is once again centre stage for Winter. dealing with #her final decades as queen‚ the play opens on VR receiving old friend Disraeli (a welcome return for Max Adrian‚ here playing Disraeli as #an old and tired man compared to the twinkling politician of Autumn) before quickly taking in meetings with a reformer of public life and #then a group of bishops. the effect is to present a queen who is as strong of spirit and mettle as she ever was‚ but who is gradually #living out of time and touch with her country; Mrs Clayton is something of a grotesque and the scene clearly has a comic element‚ but she's #also right when she talks about improving conditions for the poor and updating infrastructure. even the bishops are able to appreciate #changing times and evolving views. but Victoria is so steeped in tradition that she risks belonging to an age entirely separate from her #people. Housman was a gay‚ feminist reformer so it's fairly obvious where his sympathies lie‚ but he also lived through the period this ep #covers: his portrait of the queen is not without affection‚ and the series ends on a note of public celebration with the diamond jubilee

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cultfaction · 2 years

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Preview- The Wind in the Willows (Bluray)

1983’s The Wind in the Willows – The Original Movie won a BAFTA for ‘Best Children’s Programme’ as well as an international Emmy Award and set the template for the subsequent hugely successful TV show which ran for 52 episodes on ITV from 1984 to 1988. Toad decides that motor cars are the only way to travel, however his driving skills don’t match up to his enthusiasm. Ratty, Mole and Badger come…

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#Allan Bardsley #Beryl Reid #Brian Trueman #Edward Kelsey #Ian Carmichael #Jonathan Cecil #Richard Pearson #Sir David Jason #Sir Michael Hordern #The Wind in the Willows #Una Stubbs

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randomrichards · 3 months

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HANDS THAT BIND:

Some strange goings on

While farmer’s life falls apart

Trying to find sense

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#Paul sparks #bruce dern #nicholas campbell #landon liboiron #Susan Kent #will oldham #Brendan Hunter #Scott olynek #John Warkentin #Ray Pearson #Kyle Armstrong #Ian Leung #Cristina Menz #Youtube

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itsnothingbutluck · 5 months

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#ohn Pearson #author of a seminal study of the Kray twins and biographer of both Ian Fleming and 007 – obituary

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therealefl · 9 months

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Bolton Wanderers Midfielder Turns Down Championship Move

Bolton Wanderers midfielder George Thomason has turned down a move to Championship side Bristol City. Ian Evatt confirmed to The Bolton News that the 22-year-old would be remaining at the ToughSheet Community Stadium, despite a £1 million bid being accepted by the Whites over the weekend. After Bolton informed the Robins of their valuation of the player, a seven-figure offer was quickly…

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#Bolton wanderers #Bristol City #Championship #efl league one #george thomason #ian evatt #Nigel Pearson

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radio-flora-tm · 10 months

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#Nicole Scherzinger #Aundrea Fimbres #Richard Breen #Sam Farrar #Sam Bailey #Stedman Pearson #Greg Hetson #Robert Forster #Colin Hay #Don Dokken #Billy Hinsche #Lincoln Gordon #Ian Paice #Eric Wrixon #Little Eva #Roger Spear #L. Russell Brown #Billy Storm #Leonard Lee

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pulchritudinous-plants · 1 year

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hey remember when ridley pearson wrote those absolutely terrible supersons books for dc that whitewashed damian and had him prefer to be called ian while also taking away all the charm that Tomasi’s iteration had?

yeah i try not too either

#im…having a lot of thoughts tonight but only half of them are kingdom keepers related btw #the rest of them are vampire related #anyway if you’re wondering ridley pearson and his thinly cailed racism colorism and misogyny are not exclusive to kingdoms keepers #also don’t ask em questions about his supersons as soon as i saw white damian and lear’s he goes by ian i skipped it #a rare look into my other hyperfixation at the moment: dc comics #specifically batman comics tbh #but yj98 is also v good #idk where im going with this btw #ridley pearson #yeah that’s all you get

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hit-song-showdown · 1 year

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Year-End Poll #36: 1985

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Wham!, Madonna, Wham!, Foreigner, Chaka Khan, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Tears for Fears, Dire Straits, Madonna, a-Ha. End description]

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1985 showcases many significant moments in pop music history. For one, this was the year of Live Aid and We Are the World -- two high profile instances of the charity single and the benefit concert. Today's poll also features one of the first uses of computer-animated human characters with Dire Straits' Money for Nothing. The team behind the video, Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson, continued working in the field of computer animation. Under their new company, Mainframe Entertainment, they also created the animated TV series, Reboot. With their extremely prolific work in computer animation, there have been some accounts that they're not thrilled being reduced to just "the Money or Nothing guys". They reference the music video in an episode of Reboot.

But one of the biggest things to mention here in my opinion is the presence of Madonna. While her first singles were released earlier in the decade, 1984 and 1985 is really when we see her moment take off. In 1984, Madonna performed Like a Virgin at the MTV VMAs and the number culminated in her rolling around on stage in a wedding dress. The performance was controversial and there were those who saw it was career suicide, but the backlash wasn't enough to stop her upward momentum. If anything, the backlash made her more of an icon in the public eye. Like Michael Jackson and Prince, the decade doesn't make sense without considering her influence, both in music and in aesthetic.

Speaking of Prince, his presence on the charts is once again featured on this poll with the inclusion of Chaka Khan's I Feel for You. The song was originally performed by Prince in 1979 and he returns to provide vocals and instrumentation to Chaka Khan's cover. However, I'm bringing it up to draw attention to the music video. As I mentioned in my way-too-long 1973 ramble, hip-hop and rap have already been in existence for a while (by this poll, the subculture has been around for over a decade) and has found some significant success. I've resisted the urge to ramble about The Message and Rapper's Delight, since those songs didn't get as much Billboard pop success and I try (oh god do I try) to keep these posts focused. However, the 1980's is when we start to see more mainstream audiences forming for the genre. It will be a while until we see rap itself find its place on these polls, but by this point, the movement was recognizable enough to the general public.

And, of course, there is another notable music moment that happened this year. I am of course talking about the release of post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' second studio album, The Firstborn is Dead.

#billboard poll #billboard music #tumblr poll #music poll #1980s #1980s music #1985 #wham #george michael #madonna #foreigner #chaka khan #hall and oates #tears for fears #dire straits #a-ha

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chaotic-history · 3 months

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what are some books on voltaire you recommend for people who don’t know much about him? i’ve only read candide and know some of his philosophies but i want to know about his personal life and all his shenanigans he got up to

Hey Anon!

So the only ones I've actually read that I'd recommend would be Voltaire Almighty by Roger Pearson and Voltaire: a Life by Ian Davidson. Davidson's is.. I don't like it and I'm very much hesitating to recommend it. But iirc it cites pretty well, and I definitely learned things from it.

The two other biographies I'd recommend are Voltaire by Theodore Besterman and Voltaire et son Temps by René Pomeau, which has a 5 vol version and a more recent 2 vol version. Most of the other biographies I've read cite back to these, and Besterman had access to a lot of material that's not public (iirc he was the one who found the letters between V and Mme Denis, though I may be wrong).

I'd also recommend David Wootton; he hasn't written a full bio but his paper Unhappy Voltaire: or I Shall Never Get Over it as Long as I Live talks about his claim of csa at Louis le Grand and also the possibility that he was bi (there's like a 5% chance I'm mixing up different papers here. it def talks about the LLG stuff though), which a lot of biographies tend to ignore or kind of skip over. I used to have a link to the paper but unfortunately it's broken.

Also if you can read French, wikisource is a great resource as well; they have his correspondance from 1711 to 1767: https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondance_de_Voltaire/Correspondants/1711-1735

And if you want to read more stuff V wrote, Letters on England/Lettres Philosophiques is one of my personal favorites, along with Zadig and the Poème sur la Désastre de Lisbon.

@tabellae-rex-in-sui @your-disobedient-servant if you have anything to add?

#pearson's is iffy for the stuff about V's birthday #but in general it seems good #and he acknowledges that it's only speculative when he gives his version of how it happened #voltaire #asks

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justforbooks · 29 days

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Nicholas Shakespeare’s elegant biography of the James Bond author Ian Fleming takes its subtitle from a journalist’s observation, quoted halfway through, that its subject was “for a moment of time, a complete man” while working for British naval intelligence in the second world war. Yet you can’t help read it as a promise to give the reader what was left out of previous biographies such as John Pearson’s crisp, more portable authorised life from 1966. And is there a claim, too, for the alpha male credentials of the man called “Flemingway” by his friend Noël Coward? Journalist, stockbroker, thriller writer and – like his famous creation – a playboy and 70-a-day smoker, who died of a heart attack in 1964 at the age of 56 after a plagiarism row over the origins of Thunderball, the ninth Bond novel.

After a dutiful account of how Fleming’s Scottish financier grandfather became a millionaire – later cutting Fleming and his brothers out of his will – Shakespeare gets going with his subject’s troubled boyhood in the shadow of his father’s death in the first world war. Family friends in Switzerland take his education in hand after hasty exits from Eton (hanky-panky with a woman) and Sandhurst (gonorrhoea). His exams aren’t good enough for the Foreign Office; an engagement to a Swiss lover ends amid maternal threats to cut off his allowance. He falls on his feet at Reuters – it was that kind of life – further honing his knack for a scoop at the Sunday Times, a handy source of contacts for his war work.

Testimony woven from diaries, papers and interviews gives the book a flavour of oral history. Shakespeare goes to great lengths – not least tracking down a 94-year-old veteran, the last surviving member of a covert commando unit that Fleming organised – to dispel the idea that Fleming’s service, occluded by state-sanctioned secrecy, was just “in-trays, out-trays and ashtrays”. The book’s first half puts the future author at the heart of military and journalistic history – a search for German weapons of mass destruction; the race to get an inside scoop on the Cambridge spies – as well as the bedroom shenanigans of the English well-to-do. (Shakespeare, who encourages us at one point to smile at the mention of a “germanely” named Nazi admiral, Assmann, shows his assumptions of his audience when he writes confidently of “that small, turn-of-the-century intellectual clique, the Souls”.)

Fleming may be “the man behind James Bond”, in the subtitle of Andrew Lycett’s 1995 biography, but Shakespeare’s project, you sense, is partly to say there’s more to him. Eager to prove Fleming’s interest beyond the reasons that will draw most of his readers to the book, he is almost comically insistent on the degree to which his subject was ahead of the curve. Not only might he have sparked the idea of creating the CIA – in a memo written when the US-UK special relationship was being forged – but he also came up with the idea of putting a Christmas tree from Oslo in Trafalgar Square.

As for the dozen Bond novels that poured out of Fleming after 1953’s Casino Royale – written in a month in his winter bolthole in Jamaica a year earlier – they were, in Shakespeare’s telling, essentially the literary expression of a midlife crisis accelerated by the encroachments of fatherhood and a faithless union as the third husband of Ann Charteris. They had got together with an affair that caused a high-society scandal during her previous marriage to the Daily Mail heir Esmond Harmsworth; she later cheated on Fleming with the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, who told him that the “sex, violence, alcohol” formula of the Bond novels was “to one who leads such a circumscribed life as I do, irresistible”.

Fleming, injecting the American dirt of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels into the English thriller, launched 007 on what Shakespeare calls the “spam-munching gloom of Attlee’s Britain”, writing (Fleming told his publisher) in order to make “as much money... as possible” and to have “as much fun as I personally can”. Respectable sales rocketed when JFK took a shine to From Russia, with Love – and the movies were yet to come. While Fleming was self-deprecating – telling Raymond Chandler the Bond novels were “straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety” – he was proud enough to greet the director of the first Bond movie, Dr No, by telling him: “So they’ve decided on you to fuck up my work.”

“Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt,” Bond thinks in Casino Royale; he sees luck “as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued”. Squint enough and Fleming took some care to cast his main character in ironic light. Early in that novel, the reader gets a fly-on-the-wall thrill of watching fieldwork in action, with the scene of theatrical care Bond takes to ensure his hotel room isn’t being searched; but soon enough his French sidekick turns up to let Bond know his upstairs neighbours have been listening in to his every move.

In Shakespeare’s biography, the novels are mostly a source of supporting quotation – he doesn’t get bogged down in questions of what it means to read Bond now, confining himself to a remark on how his “cavalier treatment of women... carried the sexual climate of the Blitz into the austerity of the cold war, and was less modern perhaps than it was later cracked up to be”. And perhaps there’s no need for his defenders to overstate the case for Fleming’s novelistic subtlety. Bond has always been shaped by a collective amnesia that allows us to make him what we wish him to be at any given moment; when he parachuted into the Olympic opening ceremony with the queen, it was as the best of British, not as a connoisseur of (Fleming’s words) “the sweet tang of rape”.

The novels, in a way, are irrelevant to 007, but the course of history would surely have run otherwise had Fleming not had the foresight to change his protagonist’s name from the original “James Secretan” – Fleming’s typescript revision perhaps his most significant literary act.

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#just for books #Ian Fleming: The Complete Man #Nicholas Shakespeare #book review

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kwebtv · 10 days

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Rhodes - BBC One - September 15, 1996 - December 3, 1996

Period Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Martin Shaw as Cecil John Rhodes

Joe Shaw as Young Cecil Rhodes

Ken Stott as Barney Barnato

Frances Barber as Princess Catherine Radziwill

Neil Pearson as Leander Starr Jameson

Oliver Cotton as Joseph Chamberlain

Ron Smerczak as Edward Arthur Maund

Frantz Dobrowsky as Alfred Beit

Paul Slabolepzi as Frederick Selous

Philip Godawa as John X. Merriman

Owen Dell as Robert Coryndon

Nicky Rebelo as Solomon Joel

Margaret Heale as Queen Victoria

Rex Garner as Henry Loch

Ken Stott as Barney Barnato

Washington Xisolo as Lobengula

Carel Trichardt as Paul Kruger

Ian Roberts as Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander

#Rhodes #TV #BBC One #Period Drama #1990's #1996 #Martin Shaw #Frances Barber #Ken Stott #Tim Dutton #Joe Shaw

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patart-illustrations-stuff · 5 months

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James Bond After Fleming: The Continuation Novels

By Mark Edlitz

Art by Pat Carbajal, Cover by Sean Longmore

Ian Fleming wrote twelve original James Bond novels and two collections of short stories. Despite the cultural importance of Fleming’s 14 books, they represent just a fraction of the Bond novels. Since Fleming’s death, his estate has authorized the publication of numerous Bond novels and spin-off works.

These continuation novels include scores of books about Bond’s dangerous adventures, movie novelizations, a pseudo-biography, and various spin-off series about the teenage Bond, the Secret Service’s beloved secretary Miss Moneypenny, and the next generation agents in the Double O division.For the first time ever, Mark Edlitz offers a comprehensive overview of every exciting Bond adventure in one illustrated volume. Whether you are fully immersed in Bond’s world or new to the spy game, James Bond After Fleming is an essential reference book that is a must-have for any Bond fan.

Chapter art : James Bond in his fifties from John Pearson's The James Bond Biography, 1973

#james bond #James Bond After Fleming #ian fleming

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oifaaa · 1 year

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Did you know? Ridley Pearson is currently (? Or just very recently ended, unsure) writing a run of Super Sons. He made Damian a skater boy who wears a bike helmet, doesn't know who his mom is, and uses stolen batarangs alongside a baseball bat. He's not Robin either. He also goes by Ian.

I've spoken about these books before they're actual nightmares I don't think they could of done a worse job characterising Damian

#Ask #Anon #I don't think they're being published anymore are they?#Yikes if they are #Tho all those graphic novels can be either hits or misses #Kinda like the weebtoons in a way #They're both given a bit of leeway to do what they want #And sometimes that's for the better #And sometimes you get Ian and other very white damians #Like you don't think he can get any whiter #Then he surprises you

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