[ SECRET POST #2422 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2422 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Mortal Instruments]


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03.
[Harry Potter]


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04.
[Journey]


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05.
[Claire Danes/Homeland]


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06.
[Mortal Kombat]


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[Pacific Rim]


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[Pacific Rim]


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09.
[Reign]


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[Arrested Development]


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11.
[Supernatural, Scottie Thompson]


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12.
[Man From U.N.C.L.E]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 038 secrets from Secret Submission Post #346.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/JcIye8j.png?1

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone else read this? OP's secret piques my interest.

[(Anonymous)]

Currently shipping Peter/Tyburn for tehs hator sexy.

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely!

I sort of shipped him with Molly for a bit, but I think she has a major thing for Nightingale. I can't make up my mind if Nightingale is straight, part of me is hoping for a unrequited or doomed forbidden love affair in his past to be revealed or if he had a wife who died and he carried on with his ageing backwards thing.

[(Anonymous)]

It's awesome and fun :D

[(Anonymous)]

OP of subthread - just read the rest of the comments.

Book six?! No thank you. Ah well.

[(Anonymous)]

The series is planned to be six books long. He's just released book four right now. What a cliffhanger that ends on, who knew Peter would discover the Faceless Man was really Toby the dog all along!

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes - really good. Intriguing world-building combined with a very strong sense of the real London, engaging characters (from a wide and interesting range of backgrounds), good plots. I am side-eyeing the latest big plot twist, but I'm willing to trust Aaronovitch, as he's been so good thus far.

[(Anonymous)]

Read these books they are fantastic. The individual crime stories of each book are a bit "meh" but characterisation and humor make more than up for it.

[(Anonymous)]

But Richard Armitage is the right age for Nightingale. Armitage is 41 and Nightingale is, well okay he is 113 this year but he looks forty and getting younger because of...well because of the big reveal coming in book six, but we should be able to have guessed it by now. Capaldi is way too old, and Gatiss will be too old by the time it lurches to the screen and will look far too old by the time any adaptation finishes (assuming it does a season a year until the end of book six). Casting Nightingale is going to be a bugger and a half, best assumption is they take a thirty year old and give him ageing up makeup then step the makeup down each season until they meet in the middle.

[(Anonymous)]

He might be the right age but he doesn't have that ability to command a screen thing (I don't know how you'd describe it) which makes him seem much younger (IMHO).

[(Anonymous)]

But Richard Armitage is the right age for Nightingale. Armitage is 41 and Nightingale is, well okay he is 113 this year but he looks forty

This. Richard Armitage may not be the right actor to play Nightingale (I've only seen him in The Hobbit and didn't have a very high opinion), but it's nothing to do with him being too young.

If I was fantasy casting, I'd say Michael Fassbender for Nightingale, if they get him a good dialect coach so that he could speak RP for the role, no Irish accent. (Before anyone jumps on me, there's nothing wrong with Fassbender's accent per se, it's just that Thomas Nightingale is upper-class English.)

Alternatively, there is an actual posh English actor who looks fairly right for the role and has the skills: Benedict Cumberbatch.

They're both too sought-after to take a part like Nightingale, but like I said, fantasy casting.

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly thought Richard Armitage was in his 30s.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is the three covers of the audio-books "Rivers of London", "Moon Over Soho" and "Whispers Underground" by Ben Aaronovitch. They all look like they have a bunch of black and white objects in a huge pile in the bottom of each picture, with red ribbons over them.]

I fucking love these (audio) books. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith brings Ben Aaronovitch's characters to life so brilliantly, I'm worried that any TV/film adaptation won't live up to my expectations. I saw some casting suggestions on Tumblr which made me angry because they felt so wrong*.

I don't think I've been this passionate about a book series before and I'm a little worried I'm going to turn into one of those obsessive super fans. [sad face emoticon]

*(Richard Armitage is waaaay to young to play Nightingale, Mark Gatiss or Peter Capaldi would be my choice and not because of the Doctor Who connections, in my head and the way Holdbrook Smith reads Nightingale makes me think of a cross between Mycroft Holmes and Malcolm Tucker. Plus, both look great in a three piece suit.

[souljelly]

I'd never even heard of these until now, but I kind of want to read them just because the covers are so pretty.

[(Anonymous)]

Those are the beautiful British covers! The ones released in America are, um. Not as nice.

[(Anonymous)]

I FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY. There's a fantastic rawness and tactile quality to all of the characters that I've never experienced in any other book. I'm afraid for the TV series, mostly because I know it'll be wrecked/taken-over by Tumblr fandom.

[felizia_felicis]

First of all: YAY Rivers of London secret!

Although I imagine Nightingale as a younger Rupert Graves while reading I would love to see Paul McGann taking the role of Nightingale.
I don't think Richard Armitage would fit into the role as mentor. He just isn't that type of actor.

[(Anonymous)]

I sort of picture David Tenant, but now you've said Rupert Graves I think he'd be better.

[truxillogical]

I just picked up book three randomly (it was free), and I gotta say, I quite like this series. It's funny, a nice dose of referential nerd humor, and an interesting take on magic.

Also kinda liked that he only ever mentions a character's race when the character is white. It was an interesting reversal, and makes me want to pay closer attention to PoV and perception in my own writing.

Also, again, funny.

[localfreak]

Thank you for posting this secret. Purely because it reminded me that I wanted to read these, after hearing an interview with the author ages ago and I TOTALLY FORGOT what they were called and who they were by so couldn't find them!

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read these, but I liked his Doctor Who books.

[(Anonymous)]

These books are fantastic. Thank you for making a secret about them. They need more attention.

And I haven't read the audiobooks, but I already know I'll be upset if the TV show deviates too much from how imagine the characters in my head... which is very likely to happen, because in my head the gang looks very anime.

[(Anonymous)]

I have nothing constructive to add except "yay! Rivers of London!" And holy crap I wish this series had a fandom.

[dwell_ondreams]

I LOVE THIS SERIES!