#fandot listenalong 2020

[mjn-air]

...or the International League Against Cheesecake

#cabin pressure #martin crieff #benedict cumberbatch #episode: gdansk #cabinpressurechallenge #fandot listenalong 2020 #prompt: orchestra

[sircarolyn]

abu dhabi thoughts:

they're actually all such dickheads in this one like if you were douglas wouldn't you just want to smack martin so bad

beautiful example of the finnemore callback, smoke in the flight deck, temperature in the hold, i never get sick of that

'lift, weight...' 'engines?' 'No! Well yes, sort of, lift weight, thrust and...' 'time' i love this whole exchange it makes me laugh so much every time

love how much carolyn is in this one tbh even though possibly she didn't need to be and she's kind of mean

and it's full of classics like 'if anyone is sir i am sir' and 'if mjn is anything it is an airdot' and 'sharpening her teeth'

oh arthur they're so mean to him too but in fairness orange platter sounds so repulsive what a superb joke it makes me feel sick

finnemore is so clever this is such a simple episode but it still tells you everything you need to know about them - like is it the hest ep? no, but i still think it's so funny

douglas is such a dickhead about the whole cat thing omg

'or is that a weasel in a submarine'

hands up who else thought martin was saying 'cat seer's eye' instead of cat csi for the longest time too.....

but seriously i do love this episode i just think it's fun and clever and it sets them all up as twats and it has loads of great lines and if you were to listen to zurich immediately afterwards the development would be insaaaane

'that's why planes can't fly upside down' hdhdjsjdhdjs

'masterly use of the passive voice' i say that so much haha

arthur and the cat my heart and then how douglas solves the problem.... start of a beautiful family <3

this isn't one of my faves but i do enjoy myself every time and i think i always forget how much and also ben doing the credits, awwwww

#fandot listenalong 2020 #cabin pressure #gotta get it in early today or i won't listen :( #unfortunately for anyone else reading i have many many more thoughts on some other eps #so get ready for that!! hehe #lucy listens to cp

[zandalorscat]

Abu Dhabi

I’m a day behind, but it just struck me how much funnier this whole episode is once you consider that if anyone at MJN had been any good at saving money, they’d just have put the cat in a passenger seat and turned off the heating in the hold. The cat is in a carrier. They have no other passengers. There is no reason whatsoever to put it in the hold. Literally none of this needed to happen, they’re all just useless at saving money.

#fandot listenalong 2020 #cabin pressure

[cabinpressurechallenge]

hello darlings! who’s excited to start our relisten tomorrow? I am! 

this is a pretty low pressure event, so please join in with as much or as little as you’d like! my plan is to make a post every morning for the next month, with the episode of the day, and a couple of prompts that can be interpreted however you’d like. 

the brilliant @clairedrawsairdraws has also set up a channel in our discord (how modern!) into which we can share our thoughts or reactions or conversations about the episodes. i’m not setting any sort of listen time, because frankly that’s a nightmare with the amount of time zones our amazing fandot is in, so i suggest just post freely, on tumblr, discord and wherever else! (if you still need the link to the discord, please message me privately @sircarolyn)

please reblog this? let’s get as many people involved as possible and spread some aeroplane shaped joy <3

#cabin pressure #cabin pressure challenge #fandot listenalong 2020

[thekenobee]

No offence, Carolyn, but I would love to be trapped in a grounded aircraft with two middle-aged pilots singing Puccini at me

#cabin pressure #carolyn knapp shappey #douglas Richardson #herc shipwright #stephanie cole #roger allam #Anthony head #John finnemore #episode: newcastle #of mice and me #fandot listenalong 2020 #cabin pressure relisten 2020

[coffeeandbowtiesrps]

okay, so my mum used to live in Ottery St Mary, which makes it an even funnier episode for me 'cause I can visualise the whole trip for them. From Exeter airport to Ottery it's around 15 minute drive (and probably a couple of hours walking) along the A30, so a super busy dual carriageway just off the motorway. Then to get to the village you have to go down a really long hill, then to top it off most of the village then undulates so you're going uphill again...whenever I drove to see her I could literally just imagine three men trying to keep hold of a piano as they manoeuvred down the hill, then Douglas seeing the road start to go up again to get into the centre...It did make me chuckle!

also fun fact: every year around Bonfire Night Ottery has a tar barrels race. People run through the village with burning barrels of tar on their backs. Not just adults, kids do it too!

Less fun fact: there’s no statue of a saint covered in otters in the church. I checked.

#fandot listenalong 2020 #cabin pressure #good old ottery

[jealousofthetea]

Gdańsk

Because we're going with alphabetical order rather than aired order.

- Douglas literally HOW are you getting yours down this fast while also working so hard on winding Martin up.

- "Don't 'oh but mum' me, who owns your car?" "*sigh* Douglas does." So good! "And at a very competitive hourly rate." Oh Douglas.

- "In six words..." "Or, if you prefer, whom and whym?" So much of this series is Having Fun With Language and it's *chef's kiss*

- Martin is rightly Very Suspicious of Douglas but he doesn't know how to direct it so it doesn't do him any good.

- Throughout the episode, Carolyn and Madame Szyszko-Bohusz's interactions are delightful. Incidentally, the transcript I got that spelling from (arianedevere on lj) describes her voice as "(European accent – your guess is as good as mine what nationality she’s supposed to be)" which I enjoyed.

- Ah, the cheese tray is mentioned for the first time, I believe. It will of course return soon in Ipswich in all the a/b/o chat. (is there... I don't know why i'm asking this because I don't really want to know and also maybe i should save it for my Ipswich post but is there a/b/o cabin pressure fic inspired by their conversations about it in canon. This is just like Carolyn's 'what's a kink' but worse. I'm going to look. ... Ok, there's 23 cabin pressure fics tagged with alpha/beta/omega dynamics. One has GERTI going into heat like in Xinzhau, get it? One is also tagged 'aviation history' so I'm going to read it. ... Ok that was fun (?), back to episode)

- Excellent commentating from Arthur. If he ever has to stop being cabin crew or ice cream man, this is the career he should pursue.

- "Right. I don't know who you mean by that, madam, but I wouldn't call her an old woman." A good and well-trained boy.

- "This is how you diddled me with the female air traffic controllers." "Crikey." hkajhska

- Arthur and his very cunning plan... ANOTHER thing that has lived in my brain for 9 years is the way Arthur says "rasp-berry" here.

- @everyonehatesstrudel it's your moment! your line!

- Douglas is being mean because Martin got at him about the pretending-to-be-captain thing :( “No! That’s the thing I’m sensitive about!” But then the revelation that carolyn DOESN’T PAY HIM is so tragic that Douglas helps him out with his dwarves. Great Bugs Bunny impression.

#fandot listenalong 2020 #cabin pressure #m

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

yalllll gdańsk today??? heck yeah this is a special favorite of mine, not least because a chamber orchestra is involved

i know the opening’s meant to sound ridiculous but having been involved with a particularly dysfunctional orchestra between the first time i listened to gdańsk and the present day, this is just tame

“how am i supposed to serve her dinner?” “carefully” is a one-liner i vary and use regularly. iconic

douglas naming the deadly sins to throw off martin is so damn clever and has me in STITCHES every time i listen to this episode

“you’ve missed out ‘anger’” “that IS ‘wrath’!” and “you’ve got ‘lust’ down twice.” “NAUGHTY captain crieff!” are iconic and live in my head rent free. RENT FREE

douglas goading martin to bet reminding me of how i consider ‘i bet on losing dogs’ a very douglas song. dont text 💔 /j

“martin...don’t forget Lusty!” SJJSUEJEJEEJEJ

aaaand there it is! my blog title! carolyn calling the musicians jumped-up buskers! i chose that for my blog title because firstly, love u carolyn, and secondly yes. i was a jumped-up busker for almost two years!

not going to even spill tea about the number of times i’ve spent the day playing violin in public behind an open violin case for people to put coins and bills in,,,,,,

I LOVE CAROLYN AND MADAME S-B’S INTERACTION IN THIS EPISODE OH MY GOSH

“never am i separated from my bassoon” “ah, the clingy type, is it?” lmaooooo me when i had to fly with my violin last year

(i read one too many horror stories of people having their instruments taken from them, being checked in, and subsequently getting destroyed. call it preparation and research 😌✨)

“but [air traffic controllers] are nearly all male” martin i might slap you

also genuinely curious. does anyone sincerely like brie? the inside is nice but the rind is...in my opinion, not so much

oh martin. taking the less likely bet (said like a person who makes bets, which i don’t)

“you lose some....don’t you” msjehebejdn

ok yeah douglas faking being captain for helena,,, now that’s funny. martin is a walking tragedy

again. carolyn and madame s-b are the best part of this episode for me.

the cashew packet only having five cashews in it is peak airplane food tho

up to this point i was under the impression they were flying from fitton to gdańsk and not the other way around. them contacting maastricht now makes a looooot more sense lmaoooo when they were calling warsaw i was thinking. wait that must mean they’re nearly to gdańsk????

on another note, all that time the seatbelt signs are still on? flight from hell

unfortunately, i forget how distance works outside america, as i just had a minor crisis over poland and amsterdam being forty minutes apart. if i took off from los angeles or something and flew straight east for forty minutes in a bizjet i doubt i would been be out of the state

PASSENGER DERBY!!!!!!!

“the trombonist making little meowing noises” AJAJSHSNJSJSHS THANKS I HATE IT!!!!!,

GO HARRY POTTER’S GRANNY!!!!

this commentary is EVERYTHING arthur i love you so much but also even if he were in the galley it’s likely everyone in the cabin heard him, which makes this even more funny

arthur’s professional-steward-speak is one of the most endearing things i’ve ever heard my goodness

“see, my light is on!” “and yet nobody’s home” OWNED!!!

PILOT’S DROPPED HIS MAGIC FEATHER oh my gosh i love this episode so much,,,,,,

martin for the love of god overthinking isn’t working TRY SOMETHING ELSE

i like strudel :(

“tastes like the pink stuff you bite into at the dentist, laid on a bed of fish tank gravel. if it were ever shown a picture of a raspberry, it wasn’t looking” perfect summary of airplane food kejdjenejejdn LOVE THIS

ey wait i don’t stand for this strudel slander! i love strudel :(

as usual, when douglas gets riled up i get Scared 👁👄👁

wait let me get distracted real quick!! i’ve never noticed this before but speedbird zero-zero-seven!! speedbird is the british airways callsign (unless it’s changed, in which case it was the BA callsign) and mr finnemore has tacked on a 007 for the flight number!!! i see u!!!

yallllllll,,,, the whole conflict between douglas and martin about the helena story..... mr finnemore your mind your MIND YOUR MIND,,,, it’s not just martin who’s insecure in this metal tube 👀

WAIT NO WJAT. WAIT. THEY WERE FLYING TO GDAŃSK THIS WHOLE TIME,,,,, now i’ve gone and confused myself, it’s literally almost midnight here lmaoooo

OK THIS LAST BIT BETWEEN MARTIN AND DOUGLAS. where martin reveals how he doesn’t have a salary and douglas takes pity on him by giving away the name of the last dwarf,,, reading that makes it look ridiculous but goshhhh it’s just,,, mr finnemore,,, your MIND

the end of this episode implies that madam s-b has just been sitting with her instrument assembled for the last part of this flight and that’s the funniest visual ever

and that’s that!! LOVE this episode y’all!!! 🥺🥺🥺

#em speaks #cabin pressure #fandot listenalong 2020 #featuring Overthinking!

[mjn-air]

#cabin pressure #arthur shappey #john finnemore #episode: Zurich #cabinpressurechallenge #fandot listenalong 2020 #prompt: gold

[sircarolyn]

fitton thoughts:

i’m so ready for this one, it’s my joint fave with vaduz and i must have listened so many times, it’s one of those ones i go to when i need an audio hug, because that’s what it really feels like

this cold open really is everything, captain wing commander sir arthur shappey i could not adore you more <3

douglas being late causes me some pain, i hate being late

but then he makes arthur tea and i want to cry - i almost forgot how many bonding moments these two have in this series

‘though i’m a little surprised you do’ arthur trying to remember the song is just delightful 

‘are you sure you’re not thinking of when martin trapped my hand in the cabin door’ oh what a delightful image that presents 

‘i’ve taken the s off!’ oh martin, one day you’ll be okay at word games 

‘god has smiled on us’ i’ve tried really hard not to say this for every single line, but i adore how stephanie cole says everything 

arthur miming apocalypse now <3

i know i’m meant to feel bad for martin here but i just can’t because of how hard i laugh at carolyn and douglas every time ‘but lo! his cap was on his head!’ it’s just so so funny i’m sorry martin you had it coming 

and now is where it sucker punches you, ohhhhhhhhhhhhh gordon my enemy >:(

another beautiful arthur and carolyn moment here, the way she says sorry, calls him dear - man she’s so gentle with him here, and then on the flip side you can just here how horrible gordon’s being in the letter, you can hear his nasty tone and i just want to cry oh my god these two 

ahhh who else fondly remembers john finnemore scrawling on people’s heads in lipstick at airdotcon berlin.... i miss that so much

mmm here’s the most overused martin line, ‘i wanted to be an aeroplane’, and excitingly douglas backstory!

and now arthur breaks my damn heart again with the muppet babies - i actually cannot articulate how much this means to me just like... he doesn’t feel good enough! he doesn’t fit in! and then the others making him feel better hhhh it just hits me in a place in my chest

‘neither carolyn or arthur quite float my boat’ and we’ll see this line again very soon...

‘i’ve just been talking with your father’ o u c h

the way that carolyn is so sharp with douglas and then so gentle with arthur like... god these two! and arthur being ‘selfish’ i’m honestly on the verge of tears 

arthur’s happiness speech is something i try and hold very close to my heart every day, because he’s right! he’s so so right! it’s the little things every day! ‘and when you are you’re too busy worrying about it being over’ i don’t have to say anything else because he’s just right

and at the same time, picturing carolyn sitting alone in the plane... making a decision.... oh my god 

‘surely the only professional pilot who cannot successfully juggle one apple’

and the song <3 these guys what a family unit! this is it!!!!!! this is it!!!!

i hate pineapple juice, but i love that it’s arthur’s running gag

and here, twisting the knife again with douglas’ confession - this episode is such an emotional tightrope and the subtext is so heavy, but it’s balanced so beautifully with the genuinely funny stuff - i know i say it every time but finnemore is so smart 

‘arthur shappey. you’re up.’ oh my boy, he sounds so afraid

i know it’s for the jokes, but i’ll never understand why they changed the names - it’s not like goddard knows their names enough to realise they’re swapped 

trans martin rights!!!!

and they’re juggling apples <3 and arthur is so close to nailing it... if only he hadn’t said his age... and isn’t he just channelling douglas here so so much... dad figure douglas ahhh hh hh (and i’ve just made a realisation about myself as to why i loved douglas so much at 16 rip)

zyyuuumm! zyuummmm! but like he’s right.... it does look like a ray gun...

‘i have a message for mr shappey from the ceo of mjn air. gerti’s staying with me so up yours baldy. yes that is a business message’ <3 queen

and here again, exposing vulnerability - this is such an interesting episode for douglas + carolyn because it really really puts them on the back foot, and for a change douglas ends the episode on a low - i could talk about this all day but i’ll stop now haha i really really adore this episode 

#cabin pressure #fandot listenalong 2020 #lucy listens to cp

[cabinpressurechallenge]

hello my loves! it’s november, and that means i’ve started to think about that special time of year where you can listen to an episode of cabin pressure every day in the run up to christmas! it’s been one hell of a year, and cabin pressure has always been there for me, so i’m going to invite all of you to listen with me, one episode a day, so that we can chat, and write, and make art, and just hang out with the brilliant people of the fandot!

i personally cannot commit to meeting at a set time every day and doing a group listen, much as i’d love to, but if that feels like something people want, then i’m sure there’s a way of doing it, whether just liveblogging together here, or using the discord, or something else! 

anyway, if this sounds like fun to you, please reblog this and please please let me know if you’d like me to throw out some daily prompts too, for discussion or for creation, or if you have any other ideas at all for something to do - really, i just want the joy of thinking about a daft old airdot, and i’d love it if you guys joined me too <3

#cabin pressure challenge #cabin pressure #fandot listenalong 2020 #maybe? i'll workshop the tag hehe

[thekenobee]

“This is your Douglas speaking. I’m joined in the flight deck by Martin, who will be your Martin today.”

#cabin pressure #just in case someone needed those :D #endeavour #cabin endeavour #martin crieff #douglas richardson #shaun evans #roger allam #just for the record- i DO love Benny as Martin however messing around with Shaun-Martin edits .. i just can't help it :D #benedict cumberbatch #graphic #graphics #john finnemore #posters #background #header #mjn air #fandot listenalong 2020 #aesthetic #gerti #my edit #edits #endeavouredit #bbc #radio 4 #audiodrama #fancast

[coffeeandbowtiesrps]

Ipswich is quite possibly my favourite episode, because my dark angsty heart gets to enjoy Martin collapsing in a smoke-filled fuselage, Douglas having the small hint of worry in his voice at the idea of Martin collapsing and the image of Douglas then carrying his Captain out.

#Cabin pressure #fandot listenalong 2020 #what I’d give for a tv version of this episode #if only to see Douglas carrying him out #these two

[jealousofthetea]

Douz

- This cold open is so good

- Brilliant! (camels are mentioned at least twice in cabin pressure - these brilliant camels, and then the camel camels in timbuktu. don’t remember any other instances but it’s possibly)

- "Oh i'm not denying a right old meal was made of it, but i was not the chef du jour"

- "Oh, then café you shall not have" is one of those lines that has stuck in my head for 9 years and that i often think of when someone declines something i’ve offered them

- Monsieur jutteau is suuuuch a dick and i love it. “although on the upside, this time i will not charge you for mobilising it!”

- *scottish noises*

- Douglas joining in the underwear cricket is wonderful

- Ah yes in this ep we get the reveal of just how dire MJN - and Carolyn’s - financial situation is. Real stakes! And Carolyn opening up a bit, definitely the most vulnerability we've seen from her so far

- Douglas and martin working together to come up with the solution that saves the day! and arthur who just likes talking like this... (but then does also actually make a helpful suggestion)

- Sassing jutteau together at the end! “as the voice recorder in this flight deck will forever record for posterity...absolutely not.” “wouldn’t dream of it, against the law you know”

- They drive on the right in Tunisia, for anyone wondering

#fandot listenalong 2020 #cabin pressure #m

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

cremona is known for violin makers so i should like cremona, but i didn’t really because hester is That Awful so here are some unsolicited thoughts about one of my favorites of all time, douz

douz may be one of my all time faves but this opening isn’t one of them. it’s funny sure but idk. i just don’t vibe w it

the discourse on “brilliant” 🥺🥺🥺

“lumbering on after the uptake” is still far too relatable

oof douglas mentioning checking the fuel tank for water has me thinking about how i wrote that part of preflight into that one fic i wrote for theresa week where douglas teaches theresa how to fly,,,, ugh brain SHUT UPPP brain SHUUUT UPPPP

i was so confused about the “number of takeoffs and landings” back-and-forth until i had that period in my life where i was obsessed with everything to do with commercial aviation and found out that pilots actually do alternate takeoffs and landings to maintain recency/give junior pilots more experience/etc

“i particularly enjoyed the last ground proximity warning, when we were on the ground.” NASHHSJDJDKDJ PLEASE

ARTHUR. BREAK THE EMERGENCY GLASS. I REQUIRE MY BIGGLES HAT

the fact that douglas can be so chill about a hydraulics failure just sends me like sir. that is your LANDING GEAR and your BRAKES. aren’t you going to LAND? using the GEAR? aren’t you going to STOP? using the BRAKES??

and then i realize this hoe has been in the sky for most of his life and knows what he’s doing and i am starting to sound a little too much like martin

douglas’s quiet “you have control” makes my stomach drop every time i hear it, it’s like 👁👄👁

TWO GO-AROUNDS EHHELEJEN no wonder douglas is so pissy!

apart from everything else, he’s had to sit through two rounds of: (1) martin announcing that he will go around and switching the throttle to the go-around position, (2) checking to see if martin’s actually switched the power to the go-around mode (which is a thing i swear i’m not making things up), (3) selecting the right flaps settings and confirming that with martin as martin pitches gerti upwards, (4) checking for a positive rate of climb, (5) raising the already faulty gear, (6) switching on the navigation systems to guide gerti into a missed-approach path, (7) retracting flaps and changing throttle setting, and (8) having douz tower guide them back into the airfield pattern for another approach like GOD MARTIN JUST LET DOUGLAS DO ITTTTTT

“ah! sahara not only brilliant, but hot!”

i don’t understand cricket and i think that’s very secksee of me

and nobody come into my askbox peddling the “up-your-rear american” gotcha insult, i don’t understand baseball either. the only sports i understand are tennis and whatever is in the olympics

carolyn strangling a customer is an image i will forever cherish

martin is disturbingly rude to ground crew, which is a recurrent pattern. even if they mistake him for the junior pilot (which is still immature af and not valid justification for brusque behavior, but whatever) this is just so gross i’m sorry

pour one out for ground crew!! the redcaps! the ramp agents! the airfield managers! the technicians!! the engineers!! they are so important to flight and logistics, and being a pilot doesn’t make anyone any bit superior to ground crew!! ugh!!

just another reason why martin’s development is neat and why early martin is really ✨Awful✨

rip panda charters

continually sends me how mr finnemore lets martin preen over his few successes, and then brings him crashing back down to earth. (pun somewhat intended? some bird imagery happening up there too?)

“we can’t go backwards or sideways.” planes can’t move backwards OR sideways???? but i still love u douglas

CAROLYN BEING VULNERABLE CAROLYN EXPOSING HER HISTORY oh god my chest aches like ma’am!! i will give you a hug!!

IT’S BETTER THAN [BEING] A LITTE OLD LADY MAAAAAAAAAM 😭

i love this episode a lot because of (1) how they get out of this scrape and (2) the wing talk 🥺

WAIT WAIT how martin shuts arthur down but it turns out to be arthur’s idea that saves the day!! POETIC CINEMA

carolyn and douglas and martin taking turns over the satcom with the airfield manager and telling him how they’re outsmarting him is far far more glorious than any marvel climactic battle scene and i stand by that

shout out to “d’you want me to drive for a bit, darling?” “no thanks, dear, you know i get carsick in the passenger seat” for being the exchange i looped most often when i was like 14 without understanding why but they’re on the same siiiide noowwwwww for the most parttttt

let’s see how many i can continue to do 👀 til next time <3

#mine #cabin pressure #fandot listenalong 2020

[mjn-air]

#cabin pressure #martin crieff #benedict cumberbatch #episode: yverdon les bains #cabinpressurechallenge #fandot listenalong 2020 #prompt: capsized #REMEMBER WHEN I BELIEVED MARTIN WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE SIZE OF A DUCK #AND IT MADE SENSE IN MY HEAD #like there are full real captains like douglas and martin is after all a baby captain #a captain-fledgling #or fledgling captain