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🤓Happy Geek Day!!🤓
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Ghosts’ Larry Rickard Explains Why They Chose the Captain’s First Name
Photo: Monumental,Guido Mandozzi
It couldn’t be a joke. That was one rule laid down by the Ghosts creators when it came to choosing a first name for Willbond’s character. Until series five, the WWII ghost had been known only as The Captain – a mystery seized upon by fans of the show.
“It was the question we got asked more than anything. His name,” actor and writer Larry Rickard tells Den of Geek. “Once we got to series three, you could see that we were deliberately cutting away and deliberately avoiding it. We were fuelling the fire because we knew at some point we’d tell them.”
In “Carpe Diem”, the episode written by Rickard and Ben Willbond that finally reveals The Captain’s death story, they did tell us. After years of guessing, clue-spotting and debate, Ghosts revealed that The Captain’s first name is James. At the same time, we also learned that James’ colleague Lieutenant Havers’ first name was Anthony.
The ordinariness of those two names, says Rickard, is the point.
“The only thing we were really clear about is that we didn’t want one of those names that only exists in tellyland. It shouldn’t be ‘Cormoran’ or ‘Endeavour’. They should just be some men’s names and they’re important to them. The point was that they were everyday.”
Choosing first names for The Captain and Havers was a long process not unlike naming a baby, Rickard agrees. “It almost comes down to looking at the faces of the characters and saying, what’s right?”
“We talked for ages. For a long time I kept thinking ‘Duncan and James’, and then I was like ah no! That would have turned it into a gag and been awful!” Inescapably in the minds of a certain generation, Duncan James is a member of noughties boyband Blue. “Maybe with Anthony I was thinking of Anthony Costa!” Rickard says in mock horror, referencing another member of the band.
Lieutenant Havers wasn’t just The Captain’s second in command while stationed at Button House; he was also the man James loved. Because homosexuality was criminalised in England during James’ lifetime, he was forced to hide his feelings for Anthony from society, and to some extent even from himself.
In “Carpe Diem”, the ghosts (mistakenly) prepare for the last day of their afterlives, prompting The Captain to finally tell his story. Though not explicit about his sexual identity, the others understand and accept what he tells them – and led by Lady Button, all agree that he’s a brave man.
Getting the balance right of what The Captain does and doesn’t say was key to the episode. “It wasn’t just a personal choice of his to go ‘I’m going to remain in the closet’,” explains Rickard. “There wasn’t an option there to explore the things that either of them felt. That couldn’t be done back then – there are so many stories which have come out since the War about the dangers of doing that.
“We wanted to tell his personal story but also try to ensure that there was a level at which you understood why they couldn’t be open, that even in this moment where he’s finally telling the other ghosts his story, he never comes out and says it overtly because that would be too much for him as a character from that time.
“He says enough for them to know, and enough for him to feel unburdened but it’s in the fact that they’re using their first names which militarily they would never have done, and in the literal passing of the baton”.
The baton is a bonus reveal when fans learned that The Captain’s military stick wasn’t a memento of his career, but of Havers. As James suffers a fatal heart attack during a VE day celebration at Button House, Anthony rushes to his side and the stick passes from one to the other as they share a moment of tragic understanding.
“From really early on, we had the idea that anything you’re holding [when you die] stays with you. So it wasn’t just your clothes you were wearing, we had the stuff with Thomas’ letter reappearing in his pocket and so on. And the assumption being that it was something The Captain couldn’t put down, it felt so nice to be able to say it was something he didn’t want to put down.”
Rickard lists “Carpe Diem”, co-written with Ben Willbond, among his series five highlights. He’s pleased with the end result, praises Willbond’s performance, and loved being on set to see Button House dressed for the 1940s. He’s particularly pleased that a checklist of moments they wanted to land with the audience all managed to be included. “Normally something’s fallen by the wayside just because of the way TV’s made, it’s always imperfect or it’s slightly rushed, but it feels like it’s all there.”
Rickard and Willbond also knew by this point in the show’s lifetime, that they could trust Ghosts fans to pick up on small details. “Nothing is missed,” he says. “Early on, you’re always thinking, is that going to get across? But once we got to series five, there are little tiny things within corners of shots and you know that’s going to be spotted. Particularly in that very short exchange between Havers and the Captain. We worried less about the minutiae of it because you go, that’s going to be rewound and rewatched, nothing will be missed.”
The team were also grateful they’d resisted the temptation to tell The Captain’s story sooner. “We’d talked about it every series since series two, whether or not now was the time, but because he’s such a hard and starchy character in a lot of ways you needed the time to understand his softer side I think before you had that final honest beat from him.”
“What a ridiculously normal name to have so much weight put on it for five years,” laughs Rickard fondly. “Good old James.”
From Den of Geek
#bbc ghosts#bless you larry for doing all these den of geek interviews#I wonder if they just did one marathon session with him#inside ghosts was kind of disappointing this week#I guess Ben just wants to let the episode speak for itself and you're like yes but I would like to hear you talk about every detail#trust me we will be interested#long post#I really thought they loved the joke of nearly saying the Captain’s name so much that they'd never reveal it#so it's so lovely that they were like no this is not a joke name; he's a real man with an ordinary name#and we are going to tell you that in the most devastatingly romantic way#I am eating my words and they are delicious with that spread on top#also 'that's going to be rewound and rewatched' = 'I know you people are loopy so here is content specifically for you'#bbc ghosts spoilers
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Can we all just take a moment to just appreciate the fact that Maps is driving the batplan.
Like...
The Freakin' Batplane!!!
No context, just Maps simply living our her wildest dreams. This is just the beginning of her career as a hero, and she's killing it!
#youre doing great honey keep it up!#she was totally geeking out on the inside#gotta act professional infront of the boss#maps mizgouchi#gotham academy#dc comics#batman#robin maps mizoguchi#batplane#damimaps#batfam#fanfiction#dc#robin#man bat#Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2023)#issue12
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H2O: JUST ADD WATER ↳ S01 E01 "Metamorphosis"
#she's a geek inside and i really appreciate it#h2o#h2o just add water#rikki chadwick#spider-man#spiderman#peter parker#dragon ball#kamehameha#master roshi
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“J-Joy, w-why’d you lock the door. . .? What are ya gonna do with that jar. . .?”
Have Anxiety stuffed into a tinny whinny jar
#inside out 2#inside out anxiety#you know that one scene from Band Geeks#yeah that’s the inspo for this🤣#also forgive me I cannot draw characters in confined spaces#my art
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Okay so I watched Inside Man on Netflix. It's interesting. More importantly, it's a masterclass in crafting likeable characters and how the POV we follow in a scene affects the way we see a character. Also, this somehow relates to the Star Wars Prequels, I promise! 😆
The moral of the series is that "everyone is a murderer, all it takes is a good reason and a bad day." The main characters are:
A vicar who - through a huge misunderstanding - has now locked his son's tutor in his basement and doesn't know how to get out of this situation, played by David Tennant.
A convicted murderer and ex-criminal psychology professor who solves crimes from his cell, as he waits for his execution, played by Stanley Tucci.
So a man who locked a woman in his cellar and a guy who murdered his wife. In any other movie, these guys are the villains. Yet, both of these characters are extremely likeable!
This is achieved through how relatably they behave in their relationships (kind, humble, humorous)...
... and through the emotion and/or charisma brought by the actors playing them (it's THE DOCTOR/CROWLEY and Stanley Friggin' Tucci)... but also through the amount of screen time they get.
We're with them for most of the show. There's other characters (the journalist, the trapped tutor and the vicar's wife) and subplots, of course, but they're our two anchors.
So when I'm watching David Tennant lock his son's tutor in his cellar and consider if he should free her - only to see him and his wife make things worse - I'm not thinking "you monster" like I do when I see Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs for example.
No, I'm thinking "goddammit vicar you're making things worse, it'll come back to haunt you, there's still a chance to turn back, please!" I'm rooting for him to make the right choice because I'm seeing him struggle and despair and hesitate throughout many scenes.
When I'm watching Stanley Tucci guiltily say he deserves death, after being so darn charming, humble and in clear possession of a moral compass, my instinct as a viewer isn't to go "he's right".
It's to go "aaaw, no it's fine, everyone makes mistakes."
And these characters remain likeable and/or relatable for a huge chunk of time... until, every once in a while, the show reminds you that, "remember, these guys are criminals."
"One of them's killed his wife then decapitated her, and the other one is contemplating murder, so they did/are doing evil stuff, they're the villains and you shouldn't grow fond of them."
Then it goes back to making you empathize with them again.
It's quite the emotional roller-coaster, very intriguing yet frustrating, which I have to guess is exactly what the show is going for.
But the point is: the amount of time we spend with these characters is partially what elicits this emotional reaction out of us.
If we consider the tutor's character:
For all intents and purposes, we should feel sorry for her, or full-on fucking love her. Objectively-speaking, she's:
smart but obviously scared,
we establish early on that she has a brave heart and stands up for oppressed women,
she thinks she's trapped by a pedophile or a man defending a pedophile, figures he'll inevitably try to murder her, yet manages to stay resourceful, determined and cool-headed despite it all.
She's an absolute superhero.
But that's not how the narrative frames her.
She's framed as an antagonistic force, in the vicar's subplot.
She may be the one tied up in a basement, but she's in control and the vicar is not. She's almost framed as being in a position of power (when she's really not), which leads the audience to view Tenant's vicar as an underdog.
When the vicar is trying to look for alternatives to end this situation so that he doesn't have to kill her, she's unhelpful,
and even starts pitting the vicar and his wife against each other.
Again, in-universe, she's scared shitless and in "fight-or-flight" mode. She's putting up a front because she's just trying to get outta this alive. She's the victim, here, not the vicar who captured her.
But as a viewer, you don't feel that, despite objectively knowing that. Why and how?
Because we barely see this character, compared to Tenant's vicar. So we have more time to grow to feel for him. There's "why".
Also 90% of what we do see of the tutor is her being aggressive, manipulative, sometimes downright merciless and we're seeing her from the POV of the vicar or the vicar's wife. There's "how".
Result: the viewer feels sorry for the captor and frustrated towards the captive.
This isn't a rational reaction, it's an emotional one (the goal of any visual artform being to get an emotional reaction out of the viewer).
Which means the series and Stephen Moffat effectively did their job.
How does this relate to the Prequels?
Well, a lot of people see the Jedi in a negative light in the Prequels, and Anakin in a more sympathetic one.
Even though the Prequels are about how a good man becomes bad, and even though the Jedi embody one of the major Star Wars themes (selflesness) as opposed to Anakin who clearly displays the anti-theme (selfish)... a majority of fans feels more for the latter than the former. Why?
Because the Prequels unintentionally do what Inside Man does purposefully. You react to Anakin like you react to the vicar. You react to the Jedi like you react to the tutor.
Simply put: Anakin has more screen time than the Jedi.
And we don't just see him more, we see him struggle, we see him about what he knows to be morally right vs what he really wants, we see him be overtaken by his own fear...
... and just by contrast, that makes him more relatable than the Jedi, who have already overcome their character arcs and mostly all learned to keep their flaws in check.
The narrative doesn't intend to frame them as antagonistic. We do see them talk about how worried they are, we do see them emote.
And if you think about it, it's easy to see why:
their entire way of life is going to crap,
their values are being corrupted as they're forced to fight and die, alongside their clone brothers, in a war they wanted no part of,
they sense that the Force is close to the breaking point and that the galaxy's inhabitants are suffering on the daily.
But, for example, when Mace or Ki-Adi Mundi are shown expressing concern in the Prequels... as worried as they are, in-universe... out-of-universe, their measured reactions doesn't emotionally impact a viewer as much as Anakin's intense ones do.
So a big chunk of the audience will sympathize more with him than them. But like the tutor in Inside Man, the Jedi are objectively the victims and Anakin is objectively an unstable space-nazi who betrayed and destroyed them.
Just because we're not shown these characters be worried beyond just monotonously saying "I'm worried" doesn't mean they're not actually worried as Anakin is in Revenge of the Sith (if not more).
However we don't see it.
Because these three films aren't about the Jedi Order, they're about the Republic and about Anakin and about how each of these two beautiful things were corrupted (by Palpatine and by themselves) into becoming the very thing they stood against.
The Jedi aren't a factor in either of those two themes set up by George Lucas.
They became a factor when fans - who despite not liking the Prequels, still admirably chose to engage with the material - made the Jedi be more important to the narrative of the Prequels by re-framing these films as "The Failure of the Jedi".
Now, should Lucas have recognized that most fans wouldn't give two shits about why a Republic falls or the "matinee serial" format, and would've rather he focused on the Jedi, and developed them accordingly? Probably.
But good luck telling an indie filmmaker with a bunch of money how to tell the story he wants to tell.
Could Lucas have done more with the Prequels to highlight the fact that the Jedi are the underdogs of the story, not Anakin's oppressors? Yes.
But, firstly, he probably didn't think that was a point that needed explaining. And secondly, as he explained at Cannes, in 2002, feature films are a very limiting format to tell a story, especially one of the Prequels' scale. If it doesn't directly contribute to the story you're telling... it's gotta go.
A limited show would've been better to cover every aspect of the Prequels more in detail and avoid confusing the audience re: who they should be rooting for.
Which is why it's interesting, to me, that Stephen Moffat used his limited show to INTENTIONALLY confuse the audience! 😃
#the screenwriter part of me was geeking out and I had to write this#one of my longest posts and it's about Inside Man of all things wtf#long post#discussion#star wars analysis#meta#SW Meta#Inside Man#inside man bbc#David Tenant#Hayden Christensen#harry watling#Anakin Skywalker#stephen moffat#george lucas#Jedi Order#Jedi Council#Mace Windu#star wars#revenge of the sith#star wars prequels#media#Netflix#BBC#dolly wells
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Me when Act One ends with Jeremy saying he’ll mute his own voice inside his head (LGW) and Act Two ends with Jeremy saying that of all the voices in his head the loudest one is his (VIMH)
#he’s my little guy#‘just mute the voice inside your head/and connect to another source instead’ vs ‘but of the voices in my head the loudest one is mine’#be more chill#bmc#jeremy heere#loser geek whatever#voices in my head#I swear I saw another post saying this but I can’t find it
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So I've hit season 14 in my latest rewatch and I always forget how much I like Mine Condition! It's just so much fun and I love we are bringing back Sam's dislike of Halloween from the pilot and season 4 plus we hit on season 2s Hollywood Babylon with Dean's love of horror movies (Sam still doesn't get it) and the Hell Hazers movie Dean was a PA on. Also the movie trailer with the show which was done there as well. I love when the show remembers its history and I love when they have fun with themselves. The red hood statue in the shop as a nod to Jen mention of Friday the 13 which Jared was in one etc. for a MOW this was a good one IMO. It was a nice break from the drama of the show with the Michael stuff. Especially when binge watching cause it was quite dark for a bit here then bam a Thundercat beat someone up and we are off. This is also one of the few EPs no one dies in which I liked (Well except Jordan who was already dead). This one just makes me (and Dean) feel good.
#supernatural#dean winchester#sam winchester#episode 14x04#mint condition#jared padalecki#jensen ackles#spn#so much fun#horror movie inside horror show#if sams a nerd dean is a total geek#love how excited dean is
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"reagan's suspected autism is unrealistic!! one day she hates touch and the next she's hugging brett? c'mon man 🙄🙄🙄" L + ratio + her being more comfortable with touch from people she trusts is a sign of healing from her trauma related to touch/hugs + she's mostly only comfortable with it if she expects it's coming, she initiates the touch on her own, OR if it's from brett (someone whom she trusts and someone whom has helped her heal) + touch aversity ranges from person to person + she HAS other SYMPTOMS of AUTISM that aren't her lack of social skills or touch aversity + netflix initially only greenlit 20 episodes of the show so of course some of the pacing is a bit fast in part 1, which is why part 2 goes a bit slower in pacing because the creative crew was expecting to be able to tie down and finish certain character arcs in the promised second season. the one that was cancelled. the one they were promised not even a year earlier. that was cancelled just this year in january.
#inside job netflix#reagan ridley#i can attest for all of this by the way. i'm autistic.#and also the last one since. that's literally facts. shortly after part 2's preview was screened in netflix's geeked week back in 2022-#shion had posted on twitter they got another season#they DIDN'T KNOW if they were going to GET ONE. so the pacing was a bit FAST.#they didn't get one. obviously. which fucking sucks. but still
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(via Geek Inside Sleeveless Top by RafedRatan)
#findyourthing#redbubble#geek#freaks and geeks#geek girl#geeky stuff#geek inside#tshirts#geek shirts#funny#tshirtdesign#youth shirt#humor#fashion#graphic design#rafedratan
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▪️if you ever need anything, please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
#i'm finnally happy with this specific era of baby nick i think he may have started t already maybe been on for a couple of months he's havin#fun with acne again he is dying inside but happy#he's like 19 here and still lives at home he's in school trying to do something#stefans dragging him to the autoshop with him to work and he's slowly coming to the conclusion he hates this#he liked it better when he was younger and was just goofing around with his dad but now he gotta work like what#plus he gotta hide that he smokes sdfghjk#he's been smoking since he was 14 he wanted a deeper voice okay!#stefan is aware and his just disappointed like child no#on the note of t! its lowkey filling stefan with so much joy cause nick looks so much like him he's proud for some weird reason like look a#mini me. all of his work freinds are geeked for em and its an adjustment because they new him so long but they poke fun at him and treat em#the rookie he is#on the record though nicks great with cars just its boring#Spotify#ts4#simblr#sims 4#nicolas ishida#my sims
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I'm so excited because we're getting a lot of animation announcements today everyone 💖
Starting with:
Arcane
Inside Job
THE DRAGON PRINCE YESSS
And a first look of the Cyberpunk series that was announced 2 years ago, made by Trigger (Little Witch Academia, Kill la Kill)
Love, Death and Robots
And so much more!..
Here's the schedule
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8th
• NETFLIX GEEKED WEEK AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL - 3pm PT/6pm ET/7am JST
• ANIMATION SHOWCASE - 4pm PT/7pm ET/8am JST
• CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS INSIDE LOOK - 4:45pm PT/7:45pm ET/8:45am JST
You can watch it live on YouTube or Twitch
#netflix#alex.txt#netflix geeked#animation#the dragon prince#arcane#love death and robots#inside job#cyberpunk#cyberpunk 2077
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I did the thing
I am genuinely shocked that I didn't mess this up I thought it was gonna be a disaster
Reblogs appreciated <3
Close ups + extra stuff under cut
Close ups
Concept art yaay
And finally the sheet I used to regulate the saturation of the watercolor because I didn't know how else to do it, I just think it looks kinda neat
Ok. I hate watercolor. I hate it less now that when I started but uhhh still not a fan. Yes this was a school project, cringe is dead I am a free man.
#jjba#jojos bizarre adventure#giorno giovanna#jojo no kimyou na bouken#jojo's bizarre adventure#vento aureo#golden wind#OK I AM GONNA GEEK ABOUT THIS NOW SORRY#so there are a fuck ton of references here like a LOT#so I am only going on the background ones#the whole gang is represented here#bruno with zippers fugo with strawberries nara with his plane mista with the 6s abba with his A coins and trish with the math symbols#giorno's theme is represented with the piano#his connection to part 9 is represented with the triangles#the outro is pretty blatantly referenced because it's so funny WHY THAT SONG#and the giorno in half is an inside joke with my friend#rip perler giorno 1 you will forever be missed 🫡#god this was. an experience. a uh. um. a golden experience.
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WHOEVER SENT “BRING BACK JR FOR PRIDE MONTH” INTO THE NETFLIX TOP CHAT, I CANNOT BREATHE
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Desdemona is extremely studious. I still think I'm going to change her aspiration after finals. She really isn't romance sim material anymore at least.
she's a 4.0 so far physics major and science enthusiast... not really the Capp's deal but Kent's already cleared a path in the science career so it's not like she's facing any argument about it. Besides, Hal's already cemented himself as perfectly willing to step into business and Miranda's disgraced them enough that anything she does is fine.
she settles her night with stargazing :) it is the fastest way to fill her fun meter
#sims 2 gameplay#desdemona capp#i have so many thoughts on her inside my mind... she's kinda in between the expectation of being a ditzy girl's girl and a real geek#also engaged. to someone she barely ever thinks about now#but whatever#i know everyone knows this but i'm allergic to aspiration calculators i love forcing all sims to be conflicting and complex individuals#but romance is just not it. probably knowledge but i'm keeping it open
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