Had dinner in the center and a little walk around after…
… I’ve finished my Bridgerton part 1 of season 3 binge watch and am eagerly awaiting the second half of the seaon in a month’s time.
…. and the weekend is here (we have a long one ahead of us), where we continue to make our new house a home. The living room is coming along nicely…
Hope everyone has a good one!
For this twentieth meet cute Monday (wow, I’m keeping up with this meet cute series way better than I ever thought I would!) I’m picking the meet cute between Sarah Adams (Marta Dusseldorp) and George Bligh (Brett Climo) from the Aussie TV series A Place to Call Home.
The story centres around the nurse Sarah Adams who in 1953 returns to Australia after having lived in Europe for 20 years. On board ship she meets rich landowner and widower George Bligh and from there an epic story ensues where we learn that Sarah is a Holocaust survivor trying to re-make a life for herself in Australia.
I have blogged about this TV show in this first blog post, in more posts under this tag and I have made fan videos. The show was cancelled and has been saved though fan actions and I love it too which is why this meet cute clip really needed to be included in my meet cute series.
I was flipping through channels this past weekend and came across an episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. I love Miss Fisher and made some fan videos for the show a few years ago. I even helped crowdfund the final Miss Fisher film a few years ago.
So, when I came across that Miss Fisher episode today, I figured it would be lovely to post the meet cute between lady sleuth Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) and Inspector Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) at a crime scene in 1920s Melbourne…
This show is so much fun! It may be time for a re-visit.
One of the reasons I started blogging was that I needed to unburden myself in my enthusiasm for Richard Armitage. So, naturally, I need to inlcude some Richard in these meet cutes I am posting.
The first Armitage meet cute I am sharing is not only a meet cute between two characters (although, frankly, that meeting was not really cute) but it was also my own first time encountering Richard Armitage. I refer, of course, to Richard’s captivating portrayal of John Thornton in the 2004 BBC mini series North and South that I watched for the first time at the beginning of 2006. This means that I am posting this around the 17th (!!!) anniversary of me discovering Richard!
So, here it is: the very contentious meeting of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), the refined young woman from the south of Engand, and John Thornton (Richard Armitage), the rough-edged master of Marlborough Mills in the north.
My goodness, all these years on, the magnetic pull of Richard in this is still undeniable and he had such great chemistry with Daniela.
I still go back to North and South on occasion and re-watch scenes, especially from the final episode. It is still one of my favourite things Richard has ever done.
Almost exactly five years ago I made a Suits fan video called Bomb. It is set to Aloe Blacc’s song Ticking Bomb, a song that was also once used on the show and that I immediately liked. I made this video after the tenth episode of season 7 aired and Donna kissed Harvey out of the blue, surprising herself, Harvey and all the Suits viewers! We were left with that bombshell as a midseason finale and had to wait I think around two months, if not more, for that situation to be resolved.
All of my impatience and fangirl energy went into making a few ‘Darvey’ videos during that time of uncertainty (videos are all up on my Suits video page). Somehow this specific video must have gotten into some sort of YouTube algorithm and has become quite popular. I saw the numbers steadily rising when I logged in to YouTube Studio on occasion and recently the numbers have been rising so much, that I have now been following the progress of the views a little more closely. Today, the video hit one million (!!!!) views! (Click om image for larger view).
Here is the video itself:
That number is simply incredible to me, especially considering that it is blocked in the US and Canada, where I originally assumed most viewers would be. It is also viewable on Vimeo but gets nowhere near the high amount of views there (stuck on 241 there!):
There is no way that I could claim that this video has gone viral. After all, it’s taken almost exactly 5 years to get to a million views (and all my other videos are nowhere near those viewing numbers) but, by golly, it does give me a little tingle to know that so many people have apparently viewed at least some of it. I make no money whatsoever off these videos (I don’t have any copyright to the original materials used, after all) so I guess I’m helping make the copyright holders get richer. 🙂
A few more statistics about the video that I found in the video analytics, as averaged over the whole five years that it has been up on YouTube:
Donna and Harvey, i.e. #Darvey, sure are magic all over the world, these numbers show it. Thank goodness they ended up together before the series ended.
I’m glad Darvey gets so much love. Gabriel Macht and Sarah Rafferty sure knew how to bring those characters to life. Thank you to everyone who has ever viewed this video! Oh, and best thing for me personally? As much as I really appreciate them, it’s not necessarily the 1.000.000 views that make me happiest but rather the fact that on rewatching it, I still like the video and think it is one of my better efforts.
The Book of Esther 