#Martin Compston

[the-heron]

NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY, HE AIN'T EVER GONNA BE YOUR SON

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[casual-violinist-fangirl]

Petition for our favourite angsty police dramas to have a soft Christmas episode.

Like… I’m excited for the Gavin and Stacey one, don’t get me wrong, but I would commit ✨murder✨ to see Steve, Kate and Ted doing an AC-12 Christmas together, or Morse going to the Thursday’s for the holidays because he didn’t have anywhere else to go…

Give the people what they want 😭

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[upthelagan]

Craig Parkinson, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure at Day Fever. [X]

[areax]

THE RIG: SEASON 1

I saw the wave. I saw the ocean, the seabed, the land that was there before. And that’s just the start. It’s like a memory millions of years long. Scars on top of scars, all the way back to the very beginning. It wants me to see, but there’s so much.

[corpyburd]

Happy Birthday Iain Glen 🎂

From Emily Hampshire's Instagram

[old-mans]

AKA The Three Wise Men!!!

[lobbycards]

Sweet Sixteen, Spanish Lobby Card. 2002

[the-heron]

for your information:

THIS is the father

THIS is the son

and THIS

is The Holy Ghost(ed)

that is all

[ahellalottafandoms]

I ADORE THESE PICTURES AND VIDEO!! 🥰

(Credit to DrGotts on Instagram for these!)

[casual-violinist-fangirl]

I know The Rig fandom is minuscule but I had to when I heard this.

Rose: *suddenly starts breathing after being unalived*

Harish: What is going on?

Fulmer: Well you know how Magnus said that Rose had passed? Well she’s not quite.

Harish: What?

Fulmer: She’s not passed, she’s present! She’s back!

Cameron: *entering with the first aid kit* What’s going on?

Magnus: Rose may have died.

Cameron: May?!

Magnus: We’re looking into it.

[dutchessofcaladan]

Snippet of a possible one shot, featuring an OC of mine, that I'm thinking of writing now that I'm back into Line of Duty (still can't watch S6 here in the states but I've done research and heard the finale was shit so I'm fixing it, sorta)

Jordan (OC): No you're not getting it, Ted!

Hastings: Then explain it to me!

Jordan: *slams fist on table* IAN BUCKLES ISN'T H!

*the officers stationed outside the room hold their guns a bit more steadily at the commotion, Hastings waves them off*

Hastings: *furrows his brow* What d'ya mean?

Jordan: *takes a deep breath* Dot said there were 4 Caddys: Himself, Derek Hilton, Gill Biggeloe, Ian Buckles. However, H is a separate entity from those 4 Caddys. They're still a mystery. H is still out there somewhere.

*officers enter the room and place cuffs on Jordan*

Hastings: What're you doing?

Officer: *hauling Jordan out of her chair* We've gotten the order from Brentiss to transfer her.

Hastings: *stopping them from leaving* Now hang on just a minute-

Jordan: *looks him in the eye* You've found the 4 horseman, now look for the person who's playing God.

*officers pull her out the door and towards the exit*

[cantsayidont]

August 2021. I'll freely admit that Series 1 of VIGIL has a solid hook for a detective story: Scottish civilian police detective Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) is assigned to investigate a suspicious death aboard the Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine HMS Vigil while it's still on patrol, effective trapping her in a claustrophobic environment where everyone has something to hide, no one respects her authority, and the commanding officers seem eager to sweep the incident under the rug even though there may be a killer onboard. Meanwhile, Silva's partner and ex-girlfriend Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) investigates a related murder ashore, with both the Navy and MI5 seemingly determined to obstruct her at every turn.

The first few episodes are well-directed and well-acted, with a cast that also includes Connor Swindells (of SEX EDUCATION) and the perennially underutilized Anjli Mohindra, and the show initially maintains a high level of tension despite some implausible and cliched story elements. However, much like the American NCIS shows, the plot eventually does a jarring about-face that transforms what initially seems to be a rather sordid exposé of the Navy into a propaganda piece about the importance of maintaining Britain's nuclear deterrent, with activists who want nuclear weapons out of Scotland painted as cowardly dupes (a reminder that costar Rose Leslie is a Tory who campaigned for Remain in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum). All this is on top of some really egregious copaganda even by policier standards.

The main reason I bothered with the show at all was learning that the two lead characters were actually presented as lovers, or ex-lovers (as opposed to fandom "gay"). I'm as susceptible as anyone to Suranne Jones' expressively pensive frown, and Rose Leslie is certainly attractive despite her terrible real-world politics, but the faux-mo relationship between Amy and Kirsten is neither very convincing nor ultimately very satisfying. Part of the problem is that it plays second fiddle to Amy's traumatic memories of the death of her former boyfriend and her determination to regain custody of the daughter she raised with him — a lot of plot to squeeze into a six-episode series that's also preoccupied with murder investigations, official coverups, and nefarious Russian spies — but even the flashbacks to the beginning of Amy and Kirsten's relationship seldom suggest any real affection between them, much less passion or love. Given a choice, I guess I'd rather have a bad show with chaste and unconvincing wlw than a bad show without any, but it still feels like pinkwashing, a half-hearted and somewhat cynical attempt to attract viewers who might otherwise find the show's subject matter and politics too unpalatable. Given the show's surprising popularity, it seems to have worked.

I only watched the first part of the ill-advised second series, which awkwardly retains the same title despite no longer having anything to do with the submarine. The second series has Amy and Kirsten back together, but they're still at odds because they're about to have a baby, which replaces the first season's conflict about Amy's commitment phobia with a tonally identical conflict based on her being a passive-aggressive control freak about Kirsten's pregnancy, thus once again sparing Jones and Leslie the need to feign too much unseemly gay affection. There's one (1) scene of them cuddling to suggest that perhaps these characters do indeed love each other, but they're then separated by the contrivance of the plot, which has the same problems as the first series and is also chock full of racist, Orientalist nonsense involving a fictional Arab country called Wudyan. Truly dire.

[camyfilms]

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 2018

We have a scourge upon our land. 'Tis worse than pestilence and famine. 'Tis a woman with a crown.

[naughtydogg]

this is literally the most accurate depiction of ewan and donald’s relationship