Academy Of Armitage Studies - pass the Twiglets...

[Bodenbabe]

Welcome to the new common room! Grab yourself some Twiglets and a glass of Chateau Gisborne or some Polish Cordial and come on in - the water's lovely!

Okay, okay, we won't speak to you, Guy. simmer down!
Am loving the gloves btw.

I read a good quote yesterday from Boris Johnson of all people
''The trick of happiness is to know how to master your rage and turn it into something useful''

I agree about the cheesey poses, Mr Armitage doesn't need to try that hard to look attractive.

Theresa I thought I was the only one who didn't really care for Daniel Craig, he's too.... pouty.

Some great vids here ladies.

Can anyone link to the photo of Lucas in the bar? You know that really swoony one?

I am not, repeat, not talking about Daniel Craig. I am talking about Commander Bond. As he appears in the 2006 version of Casino Royale. Is not the same thing at all.

Your wish is my command, o Stripey One.

Sorry to sadden you with Bring Him Home, Flowers and Theresa. Perhaps I should've thought twice before posting that. I found it an odd mix of sad yet very cathartic.

Re. the posed pics, I do love most some of them, it was just that shirt off one with the dodgy suit that was gross. It's that whole 'leave something to the imagination' that we often speak of. For example, look at these two pics from the same photoshoot. this is beautiful but this just makes me think 'put it away, love'.

Shame it's so small but this looks hysterical!

Now, that just goes to prove how individual a thing taste is. De gustibus non est disputandum. Both of those make me think 'Very nice, dear, now button up your shirt before you catch your death of cold".

This, though, represents perfection.

Oh, this is clarifying things for me re photos. Anything that looks as if it's trying too hard is not to my taste. The more casual and relaxed the better.
I feel like shaking the photographers that insisted on Boden's last effort. But have to grin at it even so.

Well done Flowers finding the Lucas in the bar pic. Now that is nice.

Yeah, but if the screenwriters did not know how to draw us in and keep us engaged, then it would be just another drossy telly serial, of which there are more than enough already.

I hear you, Flowers, but as far as I can see the story arc doesn't hang together too well. They could have killed Lucas off in a more logical way while still keeping us glued to our seats.

RL is depressing enough, I do need some sort of a sop to my romantic notions of heroes and catharsis and rising above tragedy.

I agree with you, Theresa. We're probably talking about slightly different things. I have always, ab initio, enjoyed Spooks as a series of tales of derring do - implausible hokum but great fun. However often The Poet and I rolled our eyes at its more ludicrous elements, we always tuned in the next week (and used to watch it twice a week in the days when one could).

But the whole story arc for Lucas/John took that implausibility to a new level. I was always of the view that Lucas would have been sent home on an invalidity pension as soon as Harry got him back from Russia. In this last series there were so many contradictions in his motivation and behaviour that it was hard not to snort; there was no catharsis, just disintegration.

Hence the need to return to the eternal verities

Thank you flowers, I knew you would know which one I meant! I am trying to convert a friend who is a bit sceptical- if that and a JT one don't turn her towardsthe light then I think she may need medical help.

Dear, dear Mr Thornton --is he the only one with a happy ending? Apart from Dibley Harry.

Now I can accept their killing off Guy, sad though it is, and despite all the It made sense in the context of the series. Whereas a whole lot didn't perhaps, ha ha.

Oooh, Theresa, I have Guy in my sitting room right now, on horseback in front of a Nottingham which is about to be torched. What a vista.

If you are worried about dwarves and Nazis, you may want to travel into a parallel universe where Mr Armitage did not decide to quit musical theatre and is currently starring in (shall we say) Mamma Mia.

OMG, Flowers, constant jocularity. That is going a bit too far the other way.
Oh lovely, Guy's Lancelot moment.

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That's lovely, Theresa, thank you. And here is a, like, totally rad version of a song which we once agreed would be .

But Mamma Mia wouldn't be so bad, would it? He must be a better singer than Mr Dry-My-Shirt Darcy.

Ah, Oyster. You might know the answer to my burning question. Do you know where (and crucially when) the final episode of Spooks was filmed? Not the railway station bits, obviously, but the chase through the streets etc.

Sorry - you mean Spooks 9?

Thanks, Oyster, nice to see it hot off the press. I had been bemoaning the lack of light-hearted material available and voila!

It was almost like an advent calendar with all those doors opening, and chocolate behind every one

Or do you mean Spooks 7?

Aaaah!

Yes, the most recent one - Spooks 9.

Do you mean when Beth and Dmitri chased the fake Lucas out of the cafe and Lucas snatched Ruth?

Exactly that! I am curious about something.

How are you on George Formby, Flowers?

Actually re Mamma Mia you could be right. Few could do worse than Foghorn Leghorn Darcy. But think of those costumes behind the end titles. The floppy satin jumpsuits and the platform boots