#BBC Atlantis Rewatch

[merryslilhobbit]

You know, BBC need to go back to creating shows like Merlin, Atlantis and Musketeers. Those were top quality.

Give me all the beautiful people, their adventures and silliness and barely concealed homoerotic subtext.

[lukasadss]

BBC if you weren't cowards you would've made Jason and Py take Hercules' double bed while he takes Py's single so Jason doesn't have to sleep on the floor in the living room

[morganaspendragonss]

Nice Ask Week, you have been granted extremely specific time travel powers ✨✨✨you can go back in time and give another season to a show that you think was cancelled too soon.  What show are you going back to save? ✨✨✨

ATLANTIS ATLANTIS ATLANTIS ATLANTIS

my bestie, my beloved. underappreciated in its time, it was thee tv show

ancient greek shenanigans!

too wacky for you? okay, how about this

this is pythagoras. he's desperately trying to find a way to save jason and hercules who are due to be executed in the brazen bull (probably the cruelest death at the time)

still not convinced?

gay! and no, they do not bury their gays! (this was in 2015 btw)

and if somehow you're still confused as to why i desperately want a show that was cancelled nearly 10 years ago back, please refer to this list of Actual Things That Happened in BBC Atlantis

tl;dr: bring back bbc atlantis 2k24

[icarusdiesatdawn]

i miss her (bbc atlantis 2013)

[smol-warrior-1258]

Does Atlantis and Merlin use the same whooshy title card sound in the opening or is that just me?

[thenightshadowqueen]

I just rewatched BBC Atlantis and I’d forgotten how good it was? So I have three things to say:

1. Way to cancel the show right having canon gays, guys (but at least there were gays? As a Merlin fan, this is an improvement, so I don’t know whether to be happy or not)

2. I think I’m going to murder BBC for cancelling it (joking for legal reasons, but seriously what the fuck)

3. There had better be so much Pythagorus/Icarus fic on AO3. I mean so much.

[abubblingcandle]

I saw on your ask game that you similarly loved the BBC Robin hood as a kid, and so I had to share that it is available to stream on Roku currently (in the us at least) since it hadn't been anywhere before that for a very long time...I may be doing a rewatch ATM lol

Yay more BBC Robin Hood fans!! It was a formative piece of media for me along with all the other BBC Saturday night shows (Merlin, Atlantis, Three Musketeers etc.)

I am fortunately British and so it has been on BBC Iplayer forever and hopefully will never go but super exciting that it has returned across the pond. I had a rewatch this last summer and still good

[dragontamer05]

I will never not be salty that BBC Atlantis didn't take off and get to have more seasons to continue to tell its story.

Glad it was able to get even 2 seasons but damn I wanted more. I wish it had gone off and gotten the Merlin treatment.

It's fun and interesting, I love the way it take Greek myths and twists them in new ways, uses Greek characters. Hell just the whole idea of it starting with modern day but Jason, protagonist actually being from this other world? Distant past? whatever of Atlantis and some how having been sent to our world/time by his dad to keep him safe.

And just the wild choice of having Pythagores of all people and Hercules (is he the actual Hercules? Meant to be a child of the Demigod? *shrug* no idea) being Jason's two friends / our secondary protags.

Medusa becoming cursed not by the gods exactly but from something with having opened and looked in Pandora's box (also that we get to meet and know her precurse instead of just starting off with her already a gorgon/all snake hair

Just been rewatching it and ughh god I miss it so much- also trying to track down the DVDs (that aren't UK / non region 2 or 4) is a pain for some reason s2 harder then s1.

[rcbertsugden]

I've recently rewatched BBC Atlantis for the first time in years and years to celebrate 10 years since I first saw it and wow, the sleeper agent in me has really come back out, I'm completely obsessed with it again

[hermajestytheempressariana]

ITS BEEN OVER A DECADE I AM REWATCHING BBC ATLANTIS

[merryslilhobbit]

After finishing a rewatch of Atlantis season two (for Pythagoras and Icarus, obviously). I thought I'd go back and do season 1. Where apparently the subtext is Jason and Pythagoras.

BBC you should be ashamed for not continuing these types of show.

[goingsparebutwithprecision]

Fic writer interview

Thanking @sinni-ok-sessi for the tag!

How many works do you have on AO3? 13

What's your total AO3 word count? 50455 - holy shit, a whole nanowrimo!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Sleeping Arrangements (Good Omens) Habitual (Good Omens) Project New Hope (MCU) Passing the Time (Star Trek:DS9) With Friends Like These (Star Wars, The Mandalorian)

I think I kind of already knew about the top 3, but I would not have called the last two. Nice to see With Friends LIke These doing well, that was so much fun to write but I never felt like it found its audience, y'know

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Mostly not, alas - it feels very awkward to just repeatedly say Thanks <3, however genuinely and enthusiastically I would mean that! I want emoji reacts to AO3 comments, that's about the level I'm at. That being said, I'll try to make the effort if someone's written me an essay, because it's so cool to get that and I've had some really fun conversations that way

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? I don't really do angsty endings. I've been known to write angsty fic, but I'm usually ending on an upswing...Story-Wise is probably the closest, being as how it's heavily implied that everybody involved is dead, and also Bilbo walks away at the end, but even that to me is more bittersweet than angsty.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending? Not Story-Wise, and probably not Lethe. But with the rest I don't know that there's much between them. The ship ones tend to end with a get-together, the dealing-with-shit ones tend to end on a found family gathering, and the funny ones end on punchlines; they're all happy but no stand-outs, if that makes sense.

Do you write crossovers? Write? Sure. Plan out intricately and in great detail? Absolutely. Finish? Never in my life. I tend to have the idea for a lot of crossovers too, but very few of those ever get started. Off the top of my head, the current list includes a Star Trek AOS/Disney's Atlantis fusion, thousands of words of BBC Merlin is happening in Starfleet now, a few incoherent sentences of post-Burial Mounds Wei Wuxian having absorbed all of its ghosts a la Matthew Swift of Blue Electric Angels fame, three scenes of Person of Interest and Castle, several pages of Phryne Fisher and Diana Prince are besties - ohhhhh, and my beloved "Oh Good, My Sith Found the Chainsaw" Star Wars/Lilo and Stitch nonsense, which is the only one of these I have any intention of finishing.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? Not as far as I remember. The closes I ever got was someone commenting on Project New Hope in a very "trying to start a fight about MCU Civil War" way, but claiming they agreed with my opinion on it despite MCU Civil War very much not happening in that universe. Very odd.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Not really? The closest I've gotten in anything published is the blowjob letter in And With It My Constant Mind, which is more of an extended sext, and the ending of Untitled #3...the theme seems to be Cyrano De Bergerac and blowjobs, so make of that what you will.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not as far as I know

Have you ever had a fic translated? No.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Involves too much unfortunate-ordeal-of-being-known, I'm afraid. I'm in awe of people who do this though, the process mystifies me.

What’s your all-time favorite ship? I am invoking my god-given bisexual right not to choose. I cannot do it. Simply impossible. Cyrano/Christian/Roxane of Cyrano de Bergerac fame is probably a front-runner though.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? Lin Chen's Hanahaki Research Project - I was having a lot of fun with character voices and style, and it was challenging me as a writer in interesting ways, but I think it needs more research and investment and full Nirvana in Fire rewatches than I'm ever going to commit to.

What are your writing strengths? Comedy, yearning, and sentences that sound good when you read them aloud.

What are your writing weaknesses? Actually finishing things and comedy (I contain multitudes)

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? Absolutely do not have the confidence to do that, thank you and good night.

What was the first fandom you wrote for? By published work, the MCU, unpublished I was not immune to Supernatural

What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to? Was not expecting this to be the trickiest one to answer, what the heck. Ummm. Idk. I get more enthused by specific ideas than by specific fandoms, I think - if I actively want to write for something it's because I've been Seized By An Idea(TM), Taken Hostage By An Idea, Had My Whole Brain Rewritten To Think Constantly About This Idea, rather than like abstractly, huh, it would be fun to write something for X

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written? I-love-all-of-my-children-equally.gif. No, that's a cop-out. Um. Usually I think whatever I've written most recently gets the most affection, so With Friends Like These is bang at the top. And With It My Constant Mind I suspect is going to have the most longevity at the top of my list, I was living with that one for years and I'm really really proud of how it turned out.

Right, no pressure tagging @starkey @missfangirll @july-19th-club @ereborne and any other writerly folks lurking out there who are interested :D

[owenhcrper]

Can't believe I'm having a BBC Atlantis phase in *2023*

[neverquiteeden]

WE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!

Was watching KAOS (we've stopped at the second-to-last episode so no spoilers please & thank u). Spotted Robert Emms.

And now we are beginning the rewatch.

SHUT THE FUCK UP THEY HAVE ROBERT EMMS IN THIS?????

yeah yeah every one talks about Jeff Goldblum and it was cool when there was Billie Piper and David Thewlis, but FUCKING ROBERT EMMS? AND NO ONE TOLD ME?

Look, I'm first and formost an Atlantis BBC girlie and mentally unwell about this man. Have I ever shut up about Pythagoras within the last ten years?? I think the fuck not. I've fixated so hard on this character it made me sign up on tumblr.com in 2014

(FOR REAL my current url is a reference to this tragic gay love story that rewired my brain at age sixteen)

(also fun fact my friend and I planned on watching episode 1 of Atlantis literally today, this is such a happy coincident for me right now)

ANYWAY,,, just needed to yell about this for a second

[geohenley]

AIYSHA HART as ARIADNE — Atlantis, 2x13 “The Queen Must Die”

[maraschinomerry]

Watching Atlantis for the first time: well Daedalus is just a rude cynical old man, calling Jason a stupid goat and saying he has hope for Icarus even though he also calls him foolish

Watching Atlantis for the second time: ohh he's trying to make sure Pythagoras doesn't crush on Jason so he can set him up with Icarus