#sky1

[clarkkantagain]

captain sky1

[asoulofatlantis]

Oh you have NO IDEA... ^^'

And this here marks the moment were our shipping fun ends and the shipping pain starts... oh joy...

You know that these days I am not such a big enemy of Ouroboros anymore... but there are certain people there that really need to die. He was one of the ones who needed to be dead, and while I still feel sorry for the way he had to die and Kevins role in it, I still somewhat think Weissmann got what he deserved.

Yeah... IF you EVER get married, that is...

Yeah it will. After... one more game of... suffering and pain and heartbreak and frustration and waiting until freaking chapter 6 to be finally able to fucking fix this! URG! I am not looking forward to this. The second sky game had a really bad pacing and the writing of the Joshua and Estelle situation had been seriously lacking until they FINALLY reunited. So... uh...

The things I do for love...

(And here I am... quoting Crow...)

You will never get something like this in a modern Trails-Game... but that also means avoiding the heartbreak that follows ^^'

Oh the pain!

If you haven't noticed that... Falcom is really good at ending a game in a way that... makes sure you see that wretched fairytale to the end if you get me.

I am kind of glad I finished the game. Even tho what's coming next isn't very fun ^^' Or the one that is coming after that one. But... oh well...

I have to say tho... that all in all the Sky-Saga is really nice. Its just that the games haven't aged super well and that it really makes you see Falcoms biggest weaknesses. The interesting part of the plot FINALLY kicks in around chapter 3 and the final chapter is often dragged on and on and on and on and on and that can make you get tired of it at a very crucial point. BUT all in all it was a very nice story. And it has great characters. And once again, watching the game with the future knowledge I have is a fun thing in itself.

I guess I will play the second Sky game next, even tho I am not really having many fond memories of it regarding the pacing. But... oh well.

But since I have to go back to work tomorrow I should better now start today. Maybe the next weekend. We will see.

Until then... maybe you should listen to the "Whereabout of light"? It will set the right mood for the next game XD

That aside. We can still look forward to the next game as we will have some amazing shipping moments for almost all our ships at some point. And lots of Olivert! Lets look forward to it! ♥

[theholmwoodfoundation]

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION PILOT EPISODE CAST/CREW - PART ONE

REBECCA ROOT - MADDIE TOWNSEND/MINA HARKER

Rebecca trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for the National Theatre (UK and Ireland tour); Rathmines Road for Fishamble at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Trans Scripts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Bear / The Proposal at the Young Vic; and Hamlet at the Gielgud Theatre and Athens International Festival. TV, Film and Video Game credits include Monsieur Spade, This Is Christmas, Irvine Welsh’s Crime, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, Heartstopper, Annika, The Rising, Sex Education, The Gallery, The Queen’s Gambit, Finding Alice, Creation Stories, Last Christmas, The Sisters Brothers, Colette, The Danish Girl, Flack, The Romanoffs, Moominvalley, Hank Zipzer, Boy Meets Girl, Doctors, Casualty, The Detectives, and Keeping Up Appearances.  Radio credits include Clare In The Community, Life Lines, The Hotel, and 1977 for BBC Radio 4. Guest appearances include Woman’s Hour, Front Row, Loose Ends, Saturday Live, and A Good Read.  She plays Tania Bell in the award-winning Doctor Who: Stranded audio dramas. Rebecca has also recorded numerous documentary narrations, audiobooks, and voice-overs. Rebecca is also a voice and speech coach, holding the MA in Voice Studies from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

SEAN CARLSEN - JEREMY LARKIN/ JONATHAN HARKER

Born in South Wales, Seán trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He has worked extensively in audio drama, television, theatre and film.  Seán is perhaps best known to Doctor Who fans as Narvin in the Doctor Who audio series Gallifrey and has appeared on TV in Doctor Who - The Christmas Invasion and Torchwood. Recent TV credits include Mudtown (BBCiplayer/S4C), Dal y Mellt (Netflix), His Dark Materials (BBC1), All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5), A Mother's Love (Channel 4) and Series 5 of Stella (Sky1).  Films include supporting leads in Boudica - Rise of the Warrior Queen, cult horror The Cleansing,  the lead in Forgotten Journeys and John Sheedy’s forthcoming film ‘Never Never Never’

SAM CLEMENS - ARTHUR JONES

Samuel Clemens trained at the Drama Centre London and is an award-winning director with over twenty years’ experience. Samuel has recently written and directed his debut feature film ‘The Waterhouse’ with Take The Shot Films & Featuristic Films and represented by Raven Banner Entertainment, which is due for release this coming year.  In addition, he has directed fourteen short films, winning awards all over the world including shorts ‘Surgery (multi-award winning), A Bad Day To Propose (Straight 8 winner 2021), Say No & Dress Rehearsal’. Samuel also directs critically acclaimed number one UK stage tours and fringe shows (Rose Theatre Kingston, Swansea Grand, Eastbourne, Yvonne Arnaud, Waterloo East Theatre) and commercials include clients JD Sports, Shell and Space NK. Samuel is also a regular producer and director for Big Finish Productions & Anderson Entertainment. He has cast, directed, produced and post supervised numerous productions of ‘Doctor Who – (BBC), The Avengers (Studio Canal), Thunderbirds, Stingray (Anderson Entertainment), Callan, Missy, Gallifrey’& Shilling & Sixpence Investigate’ and many more. Samuel has directed world class talent such as, Sir Roger Moore, Ben Miles, Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Alex Kingston, Frank Skinner, Rita Ora, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, Rufus Hound, David Warner, Celia Imrie, Samuel West, Youssef Kerkour, Sophie Aldred, Ian McNiece, Colin Baker, Olivia Poulet, Stephen Wight, Jade Anouka, Mimi Ndwendi, Michelle Gomez, Peter Davidson, Paul O’Grady and many more. Samuel is one of the founding members and directors at Take The Shot Films Ltd and is Head of Artistic Creation and Direction. Lastly, Samuel is a regular tutor at The London Film Academy, The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting & The Rose Youth Theatre and is a member of The Directors Guild UK. As for upcoming projects, Sam is currently in pre-production on his next feature film “On The Edge of Darkness”, which is based on his dad’s stage play “Strictly Murder”.

ATTILA PUSKAS - DRACULA

Attila Puskás is a native Hungarian Voice Actor born in Transylvania – Romania, so Romanian is in his bag of tricks too, but most of his work is done in English, in a Transatlantic Eastern European Accent, but is quite capable of Hungarian, Romanian and International Eastern European accents, plus Standard American. His voice range is Adult to Middle Aged (30-40+) due to his deep voice. Vocal styles can range from authoritive, brooding to calming and reassuring and much more. He’s most experienced in character work, like Animations and Games, but his skills encompass Commercials to Narration as well. He’s received training through classes and workshops, pushing him to the next level to achieve higher standards. Now on a journey to perfect these skills and put them to good use!

PART TWO: HERE

PART THREE: HERE

[lyinginahammock]

I think the Internet would be a funnier place if the fantasy text that defined our generation was "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" or "The Wee Free Men" instead of "Harry Potter". If the hero of a generation was Tiffany Aching and not Harry Potter. If the mentor of a generation was Granny Weatherwax.

We'd certainly be better read and more knowledgeable, since not only is there a lot more Discworld than HP, but Discworld also makes you want to learn more about our world to understand the jokes in Discworld.

Also, there'd be actually good adaptations of Discworld (not looking at you, Sky1 Hogfather).

[abigailspinach]

And yet Battlestar Galactica’s true run of episodes began 20 years ago — on October 18, 2004 on Sky1 in the U.K., and January 24, 2005 on the Sci-Fi Channel (not yet “SyFy”) in the U.S. And the episode that launched that regular run was the aforementioned banger, titled “33.” Many fans will tell you this is still the greatest episode of BSG, and looking back 20 years later, there is some truth to that. While no two BSG “best of” lists tend to agree, several rankings (including Collider and Digital Trends) put “33” in the top five.

It’s all quite a bit to juggle, and we haven’t even gotten to the primary A-plot of the episode; ie why this episode is actually called “33.” This structure, for better or worse, defines much of what makes BSG tick. You’ve got the actual weekly story front and center, with the lore-building mystery box stuff in the background. Obviously, a lot of shows have this exact format, but what makes “33” great, and Battlestar a (nearly) perfect sci-fi show, is that it tends to lean more heavily on the grounded character stuff than the material you need to know for the bigger arcs.

In “33,” the fleet is getting attacked by the Cylons every 33 minutes on the dot. When the episode opens, we’re told that the crew has gone “130.35 hours without sleep.” Because the Cylons are attacking so regularly, and the Galactica has to defend the unarmed civilian ships, fighters have to be scrambled, the attack has to be held off, while everyone spools up their faster-than-light drives and jumps away. To be clear, this premise is as brilliant as it is convenient. With one concept, writer Ronald D. Moore presented the essential drama of the show: How can an under-gunned space military protect the entirety of the human race against relentless automatons? The Cylons don’t need to sleep, but the humans do.

At the time, in 2004, starting a science fiction show out with all of the characters looking sleep-deprived and at their absolute worst was also provocative and somewhat new. While it's true Moore had cut his teeth on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and brought a level of grittiness to Deep Space Nine, the vibe of “33” couldn’t have been more anti-Star Trek. According to Moore in Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman’s oral history book So Say We All, Edward James Olmos encouraged his fellow actors to intentionally stay awake for days and days in order to make the shoot as accurate as possible. “Eddie did stay awake like 24 or 48 hours or something going into his scenes,” Moore recalled.

This pseudo-method acting works. If “33” did one thing perfectly for Battlestar is that it convinced you of its veneer of realism right out of the gate. Don’t worry about artificial gravity functioning on all these ships even though they are low on power. Don’t ask too many questions about why the faster-than-light jumps can’t take them further away than just nearby neighboring parts of space. It all works because Adama looks horrible and even cuts himself while taking a break to shave.

The realism in Battlestar came through the believability of the characters and how they would behave under extreme stress and mental exhaustion. Early in the episode Apollo (Jamie Bamber) tries to give a pep talk to his fellow pilots before having to fly another mission without rest. Again, this feels like a subversion of expectations. Because all the Viper pilots in the classic 1978 show felt like knock-offs of X-wing pilots in Star Wars, what “33” does is remind you that people fighting in a rebellion against an unstoppable force, wouldn’t look like grim, cool space warriors. They would look like hell.

“33” remains an excellent episode of Battlestar Galactica because of this fact alone. It established that beaten-down and utterly human characters were at the core of this wild science fiction show. It's a formula that Ron Moore and his collaborators have now perfected in For All Mankind. But, what “33” still has is a ghost of a space opera heart. There’s a bigness to this story that is suggested by the world-building we get throughout, even though the story feels relatively small and contained. Battlestar may not have come into its own yet at this point, but with “33” all the elements were put into motion for the first time.

[iamjapanese]

Alexey Alpatov（Алексей Алпатов Russian, b.1968）

Небо1  Sky1  2012  oil painting   via

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

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@silent-sky1

Ahh!!! you make my day, and I will take time to visit your page. Thank you!

By the way, my blog has no secrets, you can make it public, because as long as it is a "secret", it must be buried in a secret place, and I will still not say it even if I am sentenced to death. 🤣😂🤣

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[lemonsharks]

Here is the an alternate way to possibly get Lockwood and co a new home:

Identify broadcast networks where it would fit (BBC, Sky1, ITV, etc). Streaming platforms are a nonstarter due to contract reasons.

Identify the executives at those networks with the authority to say yes. Inundate them with letters. Send them PowerPoint printouts outlining how our show fits their audience (and their advertisers?). Give them compliments about shows they've greenlit before.

[dantesinfernhole]

Tagged by: @cpt-sky1

Relationship Status: so chronically single it’s bordering parody 

Favorite colour: Nature green! The darker and richer, the better. 

Song stuck in my head: Ya know, it’s been oscillating between Adele’s Easy on Me, and Countdown by Beyonce since I needed a bop

Last song I listened to: Opera Fight from EEAAO

Three favorite foods: I’m a classic Pizza Slut, but also egg noodles in any kind of fashion. Not to mention burek (Slavs wya?)

Last thing I googled: “Saturated vs. Unsaturated groundwater.” I’ve been asked to give a talk about karst geology and caves to my alma mater so I needed a refresher

Dream trip: There’s a cave in France you can float around in something called an areoplume in. Literally tons of helium is holding you up and you just float around a huge cave. That, or a caving expedition to an unknown cave and be the first human to step into a place no one has ever stepped into before (a bucket list item of mine)

One thing i'm craving right now: warmer weather, a blunt, and a cheese danish

I’m passing this along to these hotties: @hereandthere123123 @falling-planet @calvijnsmain and @hole-therapy

[clarkkantagain]

captain sky1

[asoulofatlantis]

Well it wouldn't be the first in certainly won't be the last time ^^'

Always with the long-haired wig...

These soldiers are always playing dirty. No Erebonian Army-Man with pride would do something like that. Heck, I think even most of our Erebonian Jeager wouldn't do something like that. We do like to win "fair and square" in Erebonia. Or... at least we usually do not take any hostages to get what we want - stealing princes to activate Testa Rossa aside, but Duke Cayenne was certainly not a Military-Man and he did not use him as a hostage so that doesn't even count! *achem*

Seriously tho... you can say what you want about Erebonia and their army, but their pride is certainly unmachted.

Schera! I have been wondering when you would finally show up.

Now would you look at that, she brought her future husband along. How convenient XD (No complaints from me, that's for sure, but its somewhat hilarious to witness all that with the knowledge of the future ^^')

Uh... what have you two been up to? I thought you went drinking. That sounds like Schera had a late night snake after the drinks tho ^^'

Uh... close enough, I guess XD

Also: I would have NEVER found that spot without a god Walkthrough. The map was hilarious like... I had no idea were my starting point was or the marker that Zin said was there ^^'

I absolutely agree. Without Estelles S-Craft I would have been done for.

EXCUSE ME?'! Kill him girls! (Joking, I am joking... mostly...)

Uff! This guy was a nightmare to deal with...

I... uh... guess that Agate has never seen the Queen before? ^^'

Well it certainly did not. People on Twitter YouTube and Reddit mention it all the time how this looks like Steam-Punkt, while Crossbell is already immensely modern with and Erebonias follows up with its (until then...) state of the art Panzer Soldats and after that we have Calvard who probably just a huge chunk of the preparation money the got from Erebonia to build a rocketship AND not to forget the things Marduk seems to be capable off.

Sadly... as soon as a country arc is over it seems its loosing almost all of its power and advantages. Liberl at this point in the game is only superior in one thing: Airships. And that was almost taken over by Erebonia too. So... I can kind of understand his sentiment here. Liberl is quite the lost cause between those powerhouses that are Calvard and Erebonia and while Crossbell does lack in size and military power, it certainly makes up for it when it comes to its economical position and the advantages that come with that. Its not just that. We start out with Liberl as one of the countries were the whole Bracer business works out the best, given how Erebonia needed Militäry-Student for help and Crossbell needed the Special Suppor Section to handle things despite the Bracers. However, even tho I wouldn't say that Calvards overall Bracers are better than Liberls, their whole system seems to function entirely better. And no one seems to think to get people like the Brights or Agate for help, when Calvard is in need of more bracers. Instead, we get a newbie from the Enemy-Country. I guess that says A LOT about the fact that even the Bracers of Liberl do not seem to be superior anymore to them in any other countries. So Liberl is... basically a lost cause and I think Richard saw that coming and although misguided, he only wanted the best for his country and its future. That is at least something someone can understand, despite the fact that he obviously did absolutely EVERYTHING wrong in his try to give his country a chance in the future.

I thought I was relatively prepared thanks to the new game plus... but this is ridiculous. Loewe was already hard. Richard was certainly anything but a walk in the Park either and now this thing. I think I've fought enough for one freaking damn day.

URG! This is bad and no fun at all. This fight is far too hard for my liking. And I likely brought the wrong people with me so... T.T

I couldn't agree more...

Look who had a last-minute change of heart...

And here he is the biggest, fattest gloryhound in the whole Trails-Saga - and if I as a Rean fan dare to say that, than trust me, it is true...

Estelle might not know much about her father oh so heroic past but trust me, she does know her father very well...

[scotianostra]

Happy 91st Birthday John Anderson Scottish television personality best known as referee and official trainer on the UK version of Gladiators.

I have three differing places of birth for John, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Fife, so who knows! 

Anderson had a successful career long before his athletics and TV fame. Plaudits included representing Scotland as a schoolboy footballer, becoming the first home Scot to gain the prestigious Full FA Coaching Certificate (then only four were awarded per year) He was the first full time National Coach in Scotland

Apart from the confusion about where he was born, I know he is regarded as a Glaswegain, he was a pupil at Queen’s Park Secondary School at the same time as Ally MacLeod.    They became firm friends and played together for the Scotland Schools team then when John was  National Coach, Ally was manager of the Scottish football team.   At a personal level, John was best man when Ally was married.

The sportsman then ventured into the world of coaching and trained some of the most elite British athletes of the 1970s and 80s.

Including former world record-holding runner Dave Moorcroft and double Commonwealth 10,000m champion Liz McColgan.

In an outstanding feat, he's coached an Olympian at every summer games between 1964 and 2000.

He joined the Saturday night show Gladiators in 1992 and stayed with it until it ended its original run at the end of 2000.Anderson became famous for getting the crowd pumped up with his iconic "Contender ready? Gladiator ready?" catchphrases. In 2008 the silver fox reprised his Gladiators role when the show was briefly rebooted on Sky1 in 2008.

Despite surviving a heart attack in 2015 – he has continued to mentor and coach athletics stars in recent years.

Gladiators is returning to the BBC next year, I don’t know if John will be involved

[rizartcreations]

I create a photo manipulation with holographic technique to fantasy concept artwork in photoshop.

Full Process Here 👉 https://youtu.be/cXo5orN-egs

Stock images👇

Field - Sky1 - Sky2 - Dead Tree1 - Dead Tree2 - Skull1 - Skull2 - Skull3 - Raven1 - Raven2 - Claws by ImaginaryRosseArt - Moon - Black Curtains - Model from Photo Manipulation Official

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[beserkerhealer]

@cpt-sky1

[anxiety-elemental-kay]

This reminds me of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, but also the miniseries adaptation by Sky1. Something I've found deeply impactful along these lines that's stuck with me since watching/reading it.

(Spoilers for the book, if anyone is curious.)

For those not familiar, Hogfather is a Discoworld book about the Disc's version of Santa Claus, the Hogfather. Because of Shenanigans Death has to take up the role of Santa Claus while his granddaughter Susan investigates an assassin hired to kill the Hogfather.

Long story short, after some typical Shenanigans, Susan recreates the myth the Hogfather came from, a boar fleeing otherworldly hunters, knowing that if the Hogfather dies in this hunt the sun will not rise.

She succeeds.

When she asks Death what would've happened if she failed, he replies (and I'm paraphrasing from my memories of the book) A GIANT BALL OF GAS WOULD HAVE COME OVER THE HORIZON.

Death explains that yes the sun would have technically risen, failing the hunt wouldn't have put out a star, but the concept of a sun is a human one. Humans needs stories, even ones like the Hogfather or the Tooth Fairy, something to believe in, to be human. So children learn young to believe in LITTLE LIES, so when they grow up they believe in the THE BIG ONES, like truth, justice and mercy.

But those things are real, Susan argues.

Death then says IF YOU GRIND THE UNIVERSE DOWN INTO THE SMALLEST POWDER AND PUT IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE, SHOW ME A MOLECULE OF MERCY, AN ATOM OF JUSTICE. Because these too are human concepts not innate to the universe, they're made real by humans because they believe in them.

This is about where the conversation in the book ends, but the miniseries adds on a little more: Death says humans need stories about things like kindness and justice BECAUSE HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?

We need stories about kindness and love and their triumph, because if we don't believe in these things, how can they become real?

to be perfectly honest. i don't care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be