#bbc jekyll

[sillytron2000]

an informative graphic featuring 6 (7? 12? 11? what counts?????) of henry jekylls descendants across media. are there more? can we discuss his genes? who did he sleep with? who's babies are these?

[luna-tori]

Jekyll's descendants, gather together!

Any mistakes, I apologise.

(I couldn't add any more because these were the only ones I knew.)

[queerholmcs]

i'm literally making these for an audience of one and half people at this point. it's fine. anyway the show is painfully 2007 and @ steven maybe go to therapy or something but like. james nesbitt was fantastic in this and more people should watch it. sorry for the spoilers but also the show aired [checks watch] 18 years ago and is now old enough to buy me a drink. so.

[happistar]

It's always the same tea

[forest-of-stories]

Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: "I didn't come here to debate the nature of identity with you."

Jekyll showcases some of Steven Moffat’s weaknesses as a writer as well as some of his strengths, but when I first saw the miniseries in 2011, I thought that it was an amazingly brilliant take on a classic story with which I was quickly becoming obsessed. 

I took a lot of notes as I watched the first episode...

...and the second...

...and all the way to the end.

I wrote almost 14,000 words of Jekyll fanfic over the next year, including several crossovers, and you can find most of it on AO3.  I also collaborated on a fusion with Moffat’s other retelling of a Victorian classic.

Although I first talked about the basic foundations of “Jekyllock” with another friend, @ellekess and I ultimately took the story and ran with it.  In that AU, Jim Moriarty had been Sherlock’s murderous alter ego, sharing and occasionally transforming his body, since childhood.  Mycroft knew about Jim but kept his existence a secret from Sherlock.  Eventually, in the series timeline, John and Sherlock pieced together the truth.

Throughout 2012 and for a little while after, Elle and I wrote scenes as they occurred to us, out of sequence, and emailed them back and forth.  Sometimes we texted each other in character as John and Mycroft, or Jim and pretty much anyone.  (We both really loved writing in his voice.)  I vividly recall scribbling one scene on public transit – I can’t find the draft now, but it involved Molly Hooper finding out what was going on – in a burst of creative energy that I still find remarkable to this day.  I also remain delighted by the interactions that Elle wrote between Jim and Mycroft, in particular.  (“I have no wish to hear about your urges, James.”)

I loved exploring this AU, and I loved working on it together with someone who was equally invested.  Even after we moved on to other fannish interests, and although I don’t know whether we’ll ever share everything that we wrote, Elle and I have always looked back on our Jekyllock project fondly, and we still do.

[dorkydames2112]

Watchmen, The Point, Demon Knight, my fav Batman villain Baby-Doll, BBC's Hex and Jekyll, need I say more?

suggested by i-claim-this-lucid-world-of-mine

[celestetcetera]

Shoutout to the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for having an absolute banger of a title. Truly got everything you need. It’s unique. It’s intriguing. Love the format. However, extreme un-shoutout to literally every adaptation that’s been made since for invariably being titled some form of “Jekyll & Hyde.” Like I get it, it’s easy shorthand to know what story you’re telling, but by the gods of if I have to distinguish between any more of these I’m going to explode

[dontlookforme00]

You guys ever scroll tumblr and find a piece of art that strikes you so much that you know you have to immediately draw it. Anyways original drawing by @/noodleypie

[autumnraine96]

“that man is not truly one, but truly two.”🧪🧬

Reece Shearsmith reading the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

From BBC the read digital art

🧪🧬

[eyesofthefacade]

Thank god I'm lazy enough to not write some kind of Jekyll and Hyde based retelling, kind of like what BBC did with Sherlock...

It would be a shame if I did...

[andnowidie]

Watching "Jekyll" cuz i love jekyll and hyde stiff more than my life

Its actually good

"Created by steven moffat"

BBC SHERLOCK????

[queerholmcs]

mark gatiss as robert louis stevenson in jekyll (2007) // episode five

[to-forgive-is-divine]

Manage to have had all the same interests as me at some point in your life (impossible version)

- Warrior Cats

- BBC Sherlock

- Malevolent

- Jekyll & Hyde: the Gothic Musical Thriller

- The Magnus Archives

- Good Omens

- Lackadaisy

- Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War of the World's

- The Phantom of the Opera

- The Hobbit

- Detroit: Become Human

- Gravity Falls

- The LEGO Batman movie

- Master and Commander: the far side of the world

- Runemarks series by Joanne Harris

- The Sandman

- Garten of Banban

- The Stanley Parable

- Moominvalley (2019)

- Batman (Telltale Series)

[happistar]

bbc jekyll to me is what if innie!mark from severance had superpowers and loved killing. also jekyll and hyde is there.

[forest-of-stories]

Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: Crossover Investigations

I wrote a lot of crossovers back in Ye Olde LiveJournal Days.  From time to time, I solicited prompts from my readers, using a format that I’d borrowed from another LJ user.

Below the cut, I'm going to list a total of 20 characters (10 male, 10 female). Your job, if you choose to accept it, is to pick two of the characters (can be from same fandom or not) and give me a line of dialogue/song/quote. I will attempt to write something for those two characters interacting.

I initiated five rounds of what I called the Big Damn Crossover Project – which was, for those who don’t remember, a Firefly reference.  If I issued a similar challenge today, I’d almost certainly call it something else, and I probably wouldn’t divide the characters according to a gender binary, either.  I’m not saying that I plan to do it again, but I’m not saying that I wouldn’t, either: although I don’t write as many crossovers as I used to, I certainly don’t love them any less. And this project gave me the chance to write about characters whom I liked but for whom I couldn’t think of any creative story hooks, and to stretch my imagination toward scenarios in which the requested characters could meet, even if sometimes the scenarios turned out to be “time travel” or “the psychic plane” or “a hostage situation.”  Some universes, however, meshed surprisingly well together.  During the fourth iteration of the project, in 2011, Miranda Callendar, a detective from the BBC’s Jekyll, investigated the succubus-run fashion company from the short-lived and much-missed comedic superhero series The Middleman.

"Lesbian detectives leave retirement to track supernatural shenanigans while dealing with the challenges of new parenthood" would be an awesome premise for a show, is what I'm saying.

[annabelle--cane]

i don't have a rationale yet but i definitely think the line of harker was cut off earlier than we are being led to believe

plus who is Dracula saying "Harkerrr I can taste youuu" to on episode 1, his very first lines, like he tells van Helsing he can taste him and smell him on ep 3-4. since not to Jeremy, was J3 even in the westenra building, because the only other person there was Maddie. the plot thickens.

(grouping these two asks because I assume they're from the same person) (edit nope my mistake sorry to both senders)

I hadn't spotted that! the opening scenes between the trailer and episode one are a bit different, the full episode cuts to the theme music when maddie goes off to get jeremy but the trailer lets the scene continue until she brings him back, they hear the containment breach alarm, and dracula specifically says "harker I can taste you," and I hadn't actually listened to the trailer before. my god does the sequence of events in the first ep make more sense now lol.

now, hmm. arthur seems like a decent enough bloke, but I am getting a leetol suspicious of him, and he's the one who suggested maddie switch careers from history teacher to vampire archivist. hmmm.