why I don’t understand those shows with ‘experts’
Sherlock: Your jumper shows sign of significant wear and tear meaning it must be your favourite and yet you didn’t wear it to the victim’s house last night. Why? You knew it was going to get messy from the start. It was cold premeditated murder.
Me: My aunt knit it for me and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s the ugliest fucking jumper I’ve ever seen. I didn’t wear it last night because I was trying to impress a hot girl.
Sherlock: ...
AND
Miss Marple: If you walked straight home from work this afternoon, why do you have fresh mud on your shoes?
Me: Because-
Miss Marple: Because you didn’t go straight home. You took a shortcut through the graveyard to the victim’s house where you murdered him in cold blood before-
Me: Actually, I saw a puddle in someone’s garden and I couldn’t resist jumping in it.
Miss Marple: ...
ALSO SEE...
Mentalist: The number you’re thinking of is 32,684
Me: No, it’s 10,000.
Mentalist: You’re lying. I’ve been feeding you clues through your subconscious the entire time so you’d pick the number 32,684.
Me: Oh, yeah, I got distracted by something you said about bees earlier so instead of paying attention I’ve been constructing an elaborate daydream in my head about what kind of cliques would exist at an all-bee high school for the majority of your performance. Also I murdered the audience member next to me.
Mentalist: ...
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Jane: I hired a guy to break into our superiors house to get a list and exonerate our another superior who didn’t murder anyone and get to the man who is working in the CBI for Red John. There’s four other names and if it’s not one of them, it’s La Rouche
Teresa: …. Oh my gosh I cannot believe you. Why didn’t you tell me about this?
Jane: I didn’t want to put you in danger.
Teresa: You are an idiot, I’m gonna go fix this and then we are going to have a LONG talk about all this.
Jane: …fix? This? I’ve been trying to do that all weekend! I had the perfect escape plan but nooooo he wants the charges dropped.
Teresa: yea yeah let’s go
Teresa: *immediately fixes it with violence*
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So I have decided to try and do Whumptober! I can not promise all the fics will be out on time but I'll do my best 😬 there is the addition of Ben Miller too!
Here’s who’ll get what:
1) Sick - Javier Peña
2) Insomnia - Joel Miller
3) Sensory deprivation - Marcus Pike
4) Hiding an injury - Din Djarin
5) Hostage - Marcus Pike
6) Forced to hurt someone else - Benny Miller
7) CPR - Frankie Morales
8) Panic attacks - Joel Miller
9) Scar reveal - Erza
10) Branding - Din Djarin
11) Paralyzed - Marcus Pike
12) Character death - Frankie Morales
13) Crushed - Din Djarin
14) Field medicine - Javier Peña
15) Self Defence - Benny Miller
16) Chronic pain - Ezra
17) Hypothermia - Javier Peña
18) Fever - Frankie Morales
19) Left behind - Din Djarin
20) Mutilation - Ezra
21) Shock - Marcus Pike
22) Nerve Damage - Javier Peña
23) Forced to watch - Benny Miller
24) Failed escape - Din Djarin
25) Nightmares - Joel Miller
26) Non-Consensual Touching - Din Djarin
27) Forgotten - Frankie Morales
28) Oxygen deprivation - Javier Peña
29) "The easy way or the hard way?" - Joel Miller
30) Coma - Frankie Morales
31) PTSD - Benny Miller
Happy Whumping folks!
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Magic From The Beyond
The Big Jazz Band version of the main theme played at the end of Good Omens 2 episode 4 is my favourite. I'll only remember to be quick enough with the clicker some of the time, to hear all of it, but even less than that would I be paying attention to actually watching the credits.
So occasionally when I wasn't completely in my head enjoying the music, and my eyes were open, the closing credits would arrive on this screen and I would make a mental note to learn about Anthony Owen.
In Season One Episode One of Good Omens, Anthony Owen is listed as 'Magician' in the closing credits at 50m10-12s.
After an attempt to find out more in the usual places - IMDb and Youtube (Full performance of Oil and Water by Anthony Owen) - the best source was this podcast episode by Vanishing Inc Magic dot com, recorded weeks before his death in 2019:
Excerpt from the transcript:
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The Insider: Recently, I don't know how recently actually, but you worked on the mini-series of Good Omens. How did that come about and what did you do for the production? Did you love the book before you started doing it? I can't wait to see it because I've loved the book for ages. That was 14 questions in one, pick any of them and answer it.
Anthony Owen: The answer is, yes I worked on Good Omens.
The Insider: Okay.
Anthony Owen: No, I still haven't read the book. What did I do? I taught Michael Sheen sleight of hand magic.
The Insider: How was he?
Anthony Owen: He's a great fan of magic. He loves magic, he loves going to The Magic Castle, he's a good friend of Derren's. He was a brilliant student of magic and sleight of hand and really got into it and loved the idea of it. The character he plays is quite a fun thing because he's playing a sort of bumbling, not very good magician at a children's party. Teaching someone how to be a bad magician actually was well within my comfort zone and abilities. What was interesting for Michael was because he's a Welsh boy from the valleys he was able to tap into the ... Tommy Cooper [ wikipedia | youtube: Ed Sullivan show | youtube: the best of Tommy Cooper, including the "Indian Rope Trick" ] was a sleight inspiration for him in playing that role. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see how it is in the final cut and what they've done with it, I'll look forward to seeing it.
The Insider: Go and read the book, it's great.
Anthony Owen: I have it on my shelf. I read the relevant pieces that I needed to read to do the job that I did.
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Sadly, Anthony's untimely death meant that he didn't get to see Good Omens when it was released on the 31st of May, 2019.
He is honoured here in Good Omens 2, in more ways than one.
Firstly, as there doesn't appear to be another 'Magician' in the credits for this episode, approximately four years later, can it be assumed that Anthony Owen taught Michael Sheen enough sleight of hand to be used across the entire three seasons of the series (and Michael Sheen has kept up his skills with regular practice)? That the skills performed in this episode are Anthony Owen's teachings remembered, and credited with a memorial?
Then, there's this:
If you search 'Anthony Owen' on Prime Video, here's what you will find...
... a treasure trove!
Apart from there being a few "Anthony"s and "Owen"s, it's quite a specific selection for a bunch of titles that don't seem to have any connection to Anthony Owen himself. (edit, Sunday 17th March 2024: and here I was, expecting to see some of the titles listed on IMDb, but no.)
17 titles, presented in the same order every single time (Update, Wednesday 20th March, 2024: the order has changed)
- not alphabetical, nor chronological by release date. Might they be readable in some kind of order though? Also, it kind of feels like there should be an 18th title, for a nice neat 3 x 6, right?
(Update, Saturday 23rd March 2024: well well well, an 18th title has been added. Note the title name, Snapped, and the two items shown in the thumbnail image - a Polaroid and a derringer! specific to S2E4, nice!)
Update, Saturday 30th March 2024: a 19th title added this week - Survivor season 43. If at the end of next week, this playlist maxes out at 20 and does not continue to grow in the weeks afterward, might it be that 6,6,8 is happening; that season three will contain 8 episodes after all?
Update, Thursday 4th April 2024: IF this is the end of the campaign, then they've ended early, adding not one, but two more titles - three, if counting "You Can Go Now" twice as it is shown; the correct year of release, 2022, then the second entry for "2023" with a separate thumbnail image and its description including the title in all-caps as if being shouted at and dismissed, ouch.
Still, a brilliant move, to end "unpredictably" (just as a certain group of two 'sides' had been working together all along, but acting predictably, in order to check-mate their real opponent, for a game of Chess lasting for most of their existence).
Hints, clues, themes and references galore - given in the titles of films or episodes, descriptions (sometimes of a particular season), images or symbols seen and/or lines spoken in the trailers (some have two trailers, for example I highly recommend watching the full trailer for You Hurt My Feelings) - even "special spoilers" star Sadie is in here!
You don't even need to watch any of these titles either. Just do what Anthony did :)
Coincidental that Good Omens 2 was released on Anthony Owen's Birthday?
It's lovely to have included Anthony Owen in what feels like a mentalist-style trick from The Beyond.
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