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First things first: THE FIVE! ALL THE FIVE! ALL THE FIVE BEING RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME! *flails madly* Historical ep, full-ep historical ep, with the Five. *hugs self and quivers happily*
Tiny quibble, get it out of the way, Sanctuary and timelines are seriously going to kill me one of these days. Sanctuary, fairly obviously, is a full-blown alternate universe and has nothing whatsoever to do with our world's history (leaving aside Hitler being killed by Jack the fragging Ripper, the body-double thing makes that at least sort of plausible, but Nikola just makes NO. DAMN. SENSE.). The part of me that likes timelines to make sense and fanfic to fit them where possible is sort of crushed at the minute. Heh.
Second tiny quibble: Will's granddaddy. For why? Seriously? Okay, okay, nice call forward, I guess, but ... Why?
And now. Now. The squeeful bits.
NIGEL! Seriously, Nigel, I adore every moment of you! *grins at him* I love seeing him in action, and cheerfully sort of getting the girl (is that Anna's mom? Because that's ... sort of awesome, and I always did want Nigel and wartime romance, though I was going for WWI and the Mata Hari, but hey, whatever. *grins*). And being all smug with the soldier-boys when he disappears, oh, Nigel, you are totally one of the Five, attitude and all. *grins at him*
JOHN/JAMES/HELEN! This is canon nao, y/y? I mean, ALL of it. That moment, "Hurt her? Or hurt you?" I swear, I swear, I couldn't breathe. WHY DIDN'T HE KISS HIM? Seriously, they were like that close (well, kiss him or kill him, anyway). And if Helen/James is canon, and Helen/John is canon, couldn't they have gone that one inch further? I mean, they mostly did anyway, because no-one can tell me John/James isn't canon, not after that, but ... I don't even know. THEY ARE SO AWESOME AND BROKEN AND LOVE/HATE, and James' face when John kneels down to free him, and "God yes!", and "Take care of her, James", and ... *flails madly* They are RIDICULOUS, and I can't even breathe, and now I want a John/James/Helen vid to 'As Time Goes By' or something. *grins at self*
NIKOLA! I'm kinda sad he didn't get to go out and play with the others, but, on the other hand, finding spies in the Allied High Command is a decent occupation during a war, and that little trick with the message, and the whole restrained-vampire-menace thing was rather nice. *grins* And I love that the spy 'made me like you'. Actually, I kinda liked the spy in general. Credit where due, the kid was no coward, faced with a pissed-off vampiric Tesla. Heh.
AHNENERBE SS! Okay, the reason for my flailing over this probably only makes sense to anyone who's read Charles Stross' Laundry Series, but! Ahnenerbe SS as the abnormal research arm of the Nazis! The only thing that would have been better would have been the Thule Gesellschaft, because, as James pointed out, the Ahnenerbe were focused more on racial purity and cultural heritage and religion, as opposed to researching occult creatures found under the Tunisian desert, but some people think the Ahnenerbe was the Thule Society's window to the SS anyway, and ... *grins* I'm just geeking out a little bit over here, that's all. *grins, bounces*
ETA: Forgot to squee about the weather machine! Because James invented a big mad weather machine, and presumably not long after, Nikola invents a Death Ray, and Helen throws big mad abnormals at the world on a regular basis, and WE ARE SERIOUSLY LUCKY that the Five at no point decided to take over the world TOGETHER. Because, seriously, the world would have been screwed. *grins*
And now I want a fic where James and Nikola are mailing each other half-plans for various mad-science machines across most of a century, with little notes in the margins of the returned documents: "James, my dear boy, I think you'll find electrical current does not actually work that way in this medium." "Nikola. Charming as always. Am I to take it then that the code was a little too advanced for you, and you failed to notice the upper right notation on conductors?" "James, kindly shove your notations where the sun does not shine, to coin that charming native phrase of yours." "Nikola (very rude Serbian, with a Hungarian garnish)." "James. Congratulations. Your vocabulary has improved. Your spelling, however, leaves a lot to be desired." ...
Anyway! Episode, yes. Where was I?
But! But, most of all, the most squeeful thing this entire episode is still James/John/Helen. Seriously. I may never get over this episode in terms of those three. For Someone's sake, it's goddamned CANON now! *flaps hands* And I'm going to happily assume that this little flaring-up-of-emotions is the reason John and James managed to (mostly) not kill each other come Revelations. Step One: Attempt to strangle your serial-killer, torturing ex in a moment of rage in the middle of a warzone, and stop because the world needs you, sort-of-mostly getting it out of your system ("Feel better?" "Much"). Step Two: Have almost-civil brandies in the library sixty years later and only think about trying to kill each other, whilst still saving the world. Which needs you. Again.
... Is it just me, or is Nigel the only one of the Five who hasn't attempted/threatened/thought of killing another member of the Five whilst in the process of saving the world? So far, anyway? *shakes head at them, bemused* Never easy, this lot, are they? Heh.
So. So. ADORE THE EPISODE MADLY! Have no idea why it's there, or how it relates to absolutely anything else, but serious, SERIOUSLY, do not care. *grins* I love this thing TO PIECES!
Wow. So totally needed that after the weekend I've had. *breathes*
Tiny quibble, get it out of the way, Sanctuary and timelines are seriously going to kill me one of these days. Sanctuary, fairly obviously, is a full-blown alternate universe and has nothing whatsoever to do with our world's history (leaving aside Hitler being killed by Jack the fragging Ripper, the body-double thing makes that at least sort of plausible, but Nikola just makes NO. DAMN. SENSE.). The part of me that likes timelines to make sense and fanfic to fit them where possible is sort of crushed at the minute. Heh.
Second tiny quibble: Will's granddaddy. For why? Seriously? Okay, okay, nice call forward, I guess, but ... Why?
And now. Now. The squeeful bits.
NIGEL! Seriously, Nigel, I adore every moment of you! *grins at him* I love seeing him in action, and cheerfully sort of getting the girl (is that Anna's mom? Because that's ... sort of awesome, and I always did want Nigel and wartime romance, though I was going for WWI and the Mata Hari, but hey, whatever. *grins*). And being all smug with the soldier-boys when he disappears, oh, Nigel, you are totally one of the Five, attitude and all. *grins at him*
JOHN/JAMES/HELEN! This is canon nao, y/y? I mean, ALL of it. That moment, "Hurt her? Or hurt you?" I swear, I swear, I couldn't breathe. WHY DIDN'T HE KISS HIM? Seriously, they were like that close (well, kiss him or kill him, anyway). And if Helen/James is canon, and Helen/John is canon, couldn't they have gone that one inch further? I mean, they mostly did anyway, because no-one can tell me John/James isn't canon, not after that, but ... I don't even know. THEY ARE SO AWESOME AND BROKEN AND LOVE/HATE, and James' face when John kneels down to free him, and "God yes!", and "Take care of her, James", and ... *flails madly* They are RIDICULOUS, and I can't even breathe, and now I want a John/James/Helen vid to 'As Time Goes By' or something. *grins at self*
NIKOLA! I'm kinda sad he didn't get to go out and play with the others, but, on the other hand, finding spies in the Allied High Command is a decent occupation during a war, and that little trick with the message, and the whole restrained-vampire-menace thing was rather nice. *grins* And I love that the spy 'made me like you'. Actually, I kinda liked the spy in general. Credit where due, the kid was no coward, faced with a pissed-off vampiric Tesla. Heh.
AHNENERBE SS! Okay, the reason for my flailing over this probably only makes sense to anyone who's read Charles Stross' Laundry Series, but! Ahnenerbe SS as the abnormal research arm of the Nazis! The only thing that would have been better would have been the Thule Gesellschaft, because, as James pointed out, the Ahnenerbe were focused more on racial purity and cultural heritage and religion, as opposed to researching occult creatures found under the Tunisian desert, but some people think the Ahnenerbe was the Thule Society's window to the SS anyway, and ... *grins* I'm just geeking out a little bit over here, that's all. *grins, bounces*
ETA: Forgot to squee about the weather machine! Because James invented a big mad weather machine, and presumably not long after, Nikola invents a Death Ray, and Helen throws big mad abnormals at the world on a regular basis, and WE ARE SERIOUSLY LUCKY that the Five at no point decided to take over the world TOGETHER. Because, seriously, the world would have been screwed. *grins*
And now I want a fic where James and Nikola are mailing each other half-plans for various mad-science machines across most of a century, with little notes in the margins of the returned documents: "James, my dear boy, I think you'll find electrical current does not actually work that way in this medium." "Nikola. Charming as always. Am I to take it then that the code was a little too advanced for you, and you failed to notice the upper right notation on conductors?" "James, kindly shove your notations where the sun does not shine, to coin that charming native phrase of yours." "Nikola (very rude Serbian, with a Hungarian garnish)." "James. Congratulations. Your vocabulary has improved. Your spelling, however, leaves a lot to be desired." ...
Anyway! Episode, yes. Where was I?
But! But, most of all, the most squeeful thing this entire episode is still James/John/Helen. Seriously. I may never get over this episode in terms of those three. For Someone's sake, it's goddamned CANON now! *flaps hands* And I'm going to happily assume that this little flaring-up-of-emotions is the reason John and James managed to (mostly) not kill each other come Revelations. Step One: Attempt to strangle your serial-killer, torturing ex in a moment of rage in the middle of a warzone, and stop because the world needs you, sort-of-mostly getting it out of your system ("Feel better?" "Much"). Step Two: Have almost-civil brandies in the library sixty years later and only think about trying to kill each other, whilst still saving the world. Which needs you. Again.
... Is it just me, or is Nigel the only one of the Five who hasn't attempted/threatened/thought of killing another member of the Five whilst in the process of saving the world? So far, anyway? *shakes head at them, bemused* Never easy, this lot, are they? Heh.
So. So. ADORE THE EPISODE MADLY! Have no idea why it's there, or how it relates to absolutely anything else, but serious, SERIOUSLY, do not care. *grins* I love this thing TO PIECES!
Wow. So totally needed that after the weekend I've had. *breathes*