Summer of Stargate

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Do people still make gratuitous icon posts? Anyway I watched Rivals which is on Hulu/D+, it is an adaptation of one of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles books, which I was into for a bit way back when. In fact in retrospect, possibly you can blame all my age gap shipping problems on this very ridiculous novel. The show keeps the setting in the 80s (it probably wouldn't make much sense out of it, tv broadcasting main plot and all) which is visually and aurally very fun. David Tennant plays the antagonist. One of the large numbers of characters fleshing out the cast is played by Luke Pasqualino, because they needed an ambiguously ethnic person who could ride horses and he is obviously the perfect, I mean only, choice, every British show should hire him to be flirty on a horse so fandom can write readerfic about it.

Danny Dyer is in it, Brits, if you would like to mock me, I have only heard of this guy because his daughter was on Love Island. All the Islanders were like, omg, your dad is Danny Dyer?!? Me: *furiously googling*. Anyway I was led to believe he only plays tough guys but he is a full sweetheart in this. Aiden Turner is in it, every time I see this guy he has different facial hair and is therefore unrecognisable.

Taggie O'Hara is played by Bella Maclean who I have never seen before, but she is very pretty and I am having very on brand feelings about her, Alex Hassell as Rupert Campbell-Black is appropriately charming and cocky and good at the Taggie heart eyes.

Did I mention Taggie is disabled? Gang, this silly soapy show may have been made in a lab for me.

The zoomers watching the show are all, wait, is it appropriate to ship this? Adorable. Look kids, this story was written in the 1980s, we don't know what else to tell you. The show aged Taggie up a tad actually. But did not make RCB less of a jackass, which is as it should be.

They only adapted half the book, so there'll be a second season? And judging by Easter eggs, a non-zero chance we get a few parts of Book 3.

(Content notes: the 80s, basically. Inappropriate comments about many things - not condoned by the narrative. A sexual assault that should get a warning in the show's own content notes when that episode arrives. Also just generally, rated M, do not watch with anyone you wouldn't want to look at dongs with.)

Anyway you should watch the show and talk to me about it and then watch the vids to very silly 80s songs I am making, I finally have an excuse to only vid retro pop lol. Also I'm realising I never read the whole novel series and now there's 14 of them apparently, I should definitely not go back and do that hmm.

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I have therefore gone back to tumblr to look at gifs and I'm kind of mad about it.

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Also obsessed with this season of The Wheel of Time, all my faves are perfect. 😭

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I could add more random thoughts but I guess that would make the post less gratuitous. 😂