#bbc staged spoilers

[loveagoodmaim]

S2 of Good Omens ended the way S3 of Staged did.

They're both split screen

They're both effectively motionless with the camera focussed on their faces, while action continues around them

They both end with Michael/Michael's character choosing to leave

[ineffableigh]

omg ok I finally watched all of Staged

OW MY FEELINGS jesus that ending

how did they manage to craft an ending that was both heart shattering and hopeful what the fuck lol

[lanniisters]

Save a horse ride a cowboy sooooo…. Saddle up, Sheenie! 🤠

[dudesrysly]

I just started watching Staged for the first time and let me tell you, the fact that Michael and Aziraphale give the same silent treatment is KILLING ME!

This is so cute; I can’t-

Staged: 1x3

Good Omens: 2x6

[thatannoyingbitch]

now Michael Sheen can never tell David Tennant he's not Doctor Who again!! his doctor is out there forever just to troll Michael.

[rainbowpopeworld]

The Doctor to The Toymaker

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

To be fair to Michael Sheen, if I had my own TV show I’d write in a pointless bisexual polycule scene that had no bearing on the plot too

[nickyroethemarinebiologist]

Ascending to a whole new plane of insanity right now <- watched ofmd S2 and then ghosts S5 consecutively and will never ever ever get over it

[ancientstone]

I do love that the end of Staged is that nothing lasts forever (affectionate), and the end of good omens s2 is that nothing lasts forever (derogatory)

[despisedtoolofsatan]

I made the mistake of watching Staged like a week after good omens 2. 😭😭😭 Michael I can't keep watching you break up with David. It's too sad.

Good Omens S02E06 // Staged S03E06

They are sick and twisted for this

(insp)

[brian-in-finance]

The Graham Norton Show and Cait just started following each other. Hoping she'll be on the show soon.

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃 She’s not listed among the guests for the balance of 2024. Let’s hope she shows up on Graham’s stage in the new year. 🥳

The Graham Norton Show / BBC

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃 I watch Outlander on someone else’s schedule, so have only just seen Brotherly Love. I always enjoy watching Claire/Lord John scenes, and look forward to more of them… my dear. 😉

🚨 Spoilers ahead for S07E11 A Hundredweight of Stones

Things are about to change for Lord John and Claire. Robert Wilson/Starz

What to Watch the Week of December 1: Outlander's Most Jaw-Dropping Episode Yet

Get ready for Outlander to devastate, shock, and surprise you in one of the most explosive hours of TV yet. Following this past week's episode (in which Claire got some devastating news...no spoilers it you're not caught up), we enter episode 711 with Claire's life in shambles, Roger and Buck no closer to finding Jem, and Brianna ready to do battle with anyone who comes between her and her family.

When I previewed the new (half) season of Outlander in this guide a few weeks ago, I teased its gut-wrenching and raw return and this episode is why. Caitríona Balfe (Claire) gives one of the most chilling performances of her impressive career, one that will stay with you long after you've watched the episode.

It wasn't an easy week at work, but it's also great that you get asked to push yourself and force yourself into these crazy situations," Balfe told me last month. "It's amazing that seven seasons in that you're getting thrown something that's as risky and challenging as that.

"That" is something which Outlander book fans will be expecting, but it's still quite unreal to see it play out. Come back to Glamour on Friday, December 6 to read more of what Balfe has to say as well as Sam Heughan's thoughts and more from executive producers Maril Davis and Matthew B. Roberts.

Glamour

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃 Are you quite sure someone said Caitríona was the weakest link in Season 1? How interesting. The Golden Globe Awards nominations committee must have been very hard up that year. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Here’s a clip from the 2015 Gold Derby video you quote:

Video 📹 clip from YouTube

I’m glad you included the 2015 bit from Tom & Lorenzo because the link refuses to cooperate with me. I imagine a lot of people who read the entire quote would see fightin’ words, but… “second” is an intriguing counter to “the weakest link,” is it not? 🤔

Galway 🇮🇪, November 2024 Instagram

Remember… Balfe gives us a Claire that's not only sympathetic and admirable, but someone anyone would want to get to know. She's smart and wry, bold and funny, empathetic and stubborn. Tom & Lorenzo

[princeloww]

Got and read the Takin Over the Asylum script book today (stage play),,,

Spoiler and trigger warning*

We get some extra Campbell family lore !! Since it's written by Donna Franceschild as well, I think it's safe to consider canon, partly? Campbell has siblings, and was possibly admitted to St. Judes after trying to convince the BBC he was the best comedian in Britain.

The story of the play is generally the same on important parts, with a few differences - it's set in 2010-2013~, I think, and laptops/phones play a part that they didn't in the original, as well as the Internet and streaming the radio show online

Eddie's grandma and home life are not referenced at all - his work is still talked about and we see him on phone calls to his boss, but we never actually meet his boss.

I definitely recommend getting this! It's a very, very quick read but packed full of interesting, new content (such as the Campbell lore and interesting directions - including Rosalie being described as smiling at Campbell in a "maternal" way, which is adorable),, I enjoyed it a lot!

(Source - Takin' Over The Asylum, Donna Franceschild, script book)

[iwillstabyou]

You couldn’t have put that more perfectly. I think the ending was perfect in the way that it was what was needed. Of course I’m not saying it was flawless — there were definitely imperfections — but that just makes it so right.

We’re meant to be upset about the ending. It was never going to be perfect. Because this show is ultimately about life, and life is far from perfect. It’s about death. It’s about endings. It’s about new beginnings. It’s about family. It’s about love. It’s about pain. It’s about change. But most importantly, it’s about how whatever happens, things will eventually be okay.

And that’s what this ending did perfectly. We may upset about this ending, but we will all eventually be okay. It may take time, but we will be alright, we will get over it, we will heal from the pain. Much like how things are okay for the ghosts in the end. They still get to see their family, and the plague ghosts get a bloody steam room (they lucked out fr). Things have changed, and it’s natural to miss how things were before, but in the end, everything is going to be okay. If there’s one message that the finale really hammered home, it’s that one.

And that is what makes this show so special to me.

had some more time to think, and i want to make it clear that i’m not actually disappointed that alison and mike left. yes, initially it felt a bit jarring considering the end of 5x06, julian’s speech, deciding to stay, loving it there etc etc. i also couldn’t imagine the ghosts being okay with the hotel but then i reconsidered and thought of how they’d get over it, realise what perks it has, be nosy and interested as always, and know they had proposed it for alison’s sake. sure it would have been a dream if they could just stay all together and compromise on space, but i suppose the whole point of it was family are sometimes just a bit shit at that however well-meaning and the only solution is to get some space from them. mike’s mum was there to hammer that point home, even if i think it was rushed. and i moved out of my family home a few years ago so i know all this to be true, i visit my family all the time and that space apart doesn’t stop you being family, of course it doesn’t.

alison and mike had to put their needs first and prioritise attention to mia, rather than what the ghosts want to watch on tv or turning pages of books, and it is very in-character of the ghosts - who have grown so much thanks to alison - to be the ones to propose they leave. it was also lovely to see that they kept their room and visited into their old age. all of that is tonally very on-brand with the idiots and their work.

my gripes come from the pacing, which is so hard to do in 30 minute episodes but something i feel slipped in s5 particularly - time spent on certain things that could have been better allocated elsewhere. and i just would have liked a little bit more weight on the goodbye, maybe, let it linger a bit. of course you can then argue that, well, it wasn’t really goodbye, just see you later, but still. end of an era and all that. do we really need to see what the interim was like, what they did? no, we can infer that, it’s the same old alison and her ghosts they would always be. i just wanted literally another few minutes with them as they were. idk if that makes sense.

i thought it was weird that alison so readily agreed, but then it’s like, well maybe she knew it was just time. they all knew but she wanted to keep them all a bit longer, hang onto that dream. the ghosts being the ones to encourage her to go rather than hope she’d stay was the final push she needed to accept things finally were going to change. everything changes. the ghosts know that more than anyone because they’ve seen so much of it.

i did absolutely love the parallels of them leaving vs arriving, alison’s outfit and the car on the drive. so many shots were call-backs to the first episodes and i loved that dearly as a bookend.

ultimately, the ghosts weren’t forgotten and they didn’t get sucked off. they were visited for decades, got to have loads of new experiences with a hotel no doubt, got to watch alison and mike’s kid(s) grow.

i have a lot of feelings and it was bittersweet and imperfect in places but ultimately it was one of the kindest endings they could have given everyone bar alison and mike simply just staying, which in the long run just wouldn’t have been viable.

fuck. ok

[ahappydnp]

okay i'm gonna make seperate posts for the highlights but here are my raw thoughts from my notes app as i watched

dnp 10/19/15

“hello everybody welcome to the show hello everybody welcome to the show” nostalgicccc wahhhh

all these 2015 younow top fans feel like distant relatives at a family reunion 

this is their one day off between shows and they’re doing a liveshow (2015 work schedules at it again but also those younow contracts really made them go live ANYWHERE)

them talking about what they do during their shows and they’ve retired the drawing game and guess the crime rip

if this were current times phil would have just drank out of dan’s bottle without a second thought but i still love that he snatched it so naturally asdsafsgjk

dan asks them how they’re feeling and phil is “interested” in the words

“imagine being ecstatic right now” PHIL ILYSM

“happy 6 year friendaversary” and 6 years of dinof (phil remembered but not dan). they reallyyyy moved past that to focus on dinof lmao

they’re anti spoiler policy and don’t want to talk about it all the time (which is so interesting because you can tell they’ve kept that thinking except promo is important these days, especially for dan during WAD some promo would have massively helped)

dan split his pants and phil bonked his noggin on stage (it’s still them <33) phil has a steel head 😭

phil wants to put a camera in a penny and just see where it goes (he’s so beautiful i love him dearly). do you think you’ve ever used a coin benedict cumberbatch 😭

DAN DO YOU KNOW WHAT YAOI IS

love phil just taking over the liveshow and telling dan they’re going to try and think of a better name when dan just wanted to move past it

pretty odd opinions (phil singing nine in the afternoon changed my brain chemistry jfc)

A level geography + phan 4eva

dan got an A in case you forgot

WAIT WAIT WAIT for the us tour (dnp doing everything themselves is still insane)

“i’m guessing one of you as probably uploaded the video of this already and thank you for doing a service” dan used to be Such an advocate for fan reuploads for accessibility and i genuinely love him for it 

phil likes being remembered :3 the 1975 remembers them 

they like touring <33 try new things!!!!!!!!! “five people die” and you don’t wanna know who adsfdgsfgkj phil stopped the whole bus for a fish and chip shops HE’S SO VALID ILYSM KING 

a fun fact about them seeing derren brown in 2012 is they accidentally left their tickets at home and then had to go all the way back in a taxi to go get them 

OMGGGG DANS NOSE TOUCHED HIS SLEEVE!!!1!

martyn shoutout (remember when IRL was good 😭)

dan coughing in his face is sooooo current dan like that is dan on the gaming channel in 2024 

your enemies didn’t get a good morning (funniest man alive)

bbc breakfast show is like a plain yogurt but nana watches it. the infamous squirrel bite story <33333 phiw

GET OVER IT HE ENJOYS A THEMED DRINK GET OVER IT

dans loubs are on akinator (the time on the internet when you quite literally could not escape dnp was so special)

miss dan’s tv show rants soooo bad waahhhhh pls come back and yell about shit 😭

THE BEST MOMENT IN ANY LIVESHOW EVER phiiiillll 

dan’s face talking about the 3D movies…i fear i love him too much :((( let him watch the movie

them writing that dan’s chair is hiding a huge secret….

genuinely it’s so so incredible how much they loved the book and how much care and effort they put into something they could have very easily just slapped their name on 

dan thinks an apocalypse is going to happen..he was pregnant with WAD here

my favorite thing is the MINUTE they hit that hour mark phil gets “”hungry””” without fail like yes kings get that minimum and dip <33

[tea-cake-and-sarcasm]

The big and important intro post

I finally made one! I might decorate it later, maybe not.

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-Ace attorney

-Death note

-Moriarty the patriot

-Tokyo ghoul

-Botw/totk zelda especially

-Cult of the lamb

-saiki k

-Parkour civ (how did I get here?)

-Alien stage (though I haven't posted it so far)

-Forbidden deductions

-sherlock, the books, though I have been slowly watching the BBC version.

-omniscient readers viewpoint- though I've only read the webtoon so no spoilers please!

-Neon Genesis Evangelion

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-Case Closed (on occasion)

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[stadtfunk]

Attack warning? Is it for real? Attack warning, it's for bloody real! Is it?

Right get to your stations.

OK, that was a bit of a dramatic title but if you recently watched Threads on BBC Four, you'll know the scene.

I must've watched Threads dozens of times since the first time it brought chills to the back of my neck. It's one of those films that I can watch over and over again, and still enjoy it (if enjoy is the right word).

Seeing it broadcast on TV for the nation to watch on the 40th anniversary was especially chilling. It still remains one of my guilty pleasures though.

My recent Threads related purchases include the two books in Jimmy's aviary (the radio and can weren't available so I had to make a compromise).

If you haven't seen Threads I'd recommend it. I'm not going to post spoilers here, but if you're of a similar age to me, this is what could've happened in our era.

You can find it on archive.org, as well as other Cold War related nuclear armageddon, here https://archive.org/details/threads_201712

The funny this is, there's always a Threads scene for modern life.

Remember the fuel shortage of a couple of years ago? There's a scene

Remeber the time we were waiting for the emergency Coronavirus lockdown message on TV? There's a scene.

By the way, here's the music

Luckily we haven't reached the stages of armed, and bloodied, traffic wardens yet, but here he is anyway.