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tellshannon815) wrote2024-03-27 09:50 pm
tellshannon815) wrote2024-03-27 09:50 pm
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So a couple of things recently have made me think about this one - firstly watching One Day as I know Edinburgh quite well - when I read the book ages ago, I realised I actually knew where 17 Rankeillor Street was as it was in the next street to the B&B that I'd stayed in when I'd been to Edinburgh the year before (I took its picture on a later visit, and compared it with the house they used on the show. It's not the real one in the show.) Also recently there was a bit of a fuss here in the UK about the portrayal of Milton Keynes on the soap opera Eastenders, and their MP weighed in.
So, has anyone seen their local area portrayed in any of their fandoms, be it canon or fan creation, and if so how did you feel about the portrayal? I haven't seen it so much with my home town, although years ago when I read The Follies Of The King by Jean Plaidy, I did smile to myself when Hugh le Despenser was given the choice of Hereford or death, and he chose death. We rate a mention in My Fair Lady for hurricanes hardly happening (true), and I've been meaning to check out the Rivers of London series where it rates a mention.
Where I have seen it more is St Andrews, where I went to university. If you've ever been in the Merlin fandom, you may well have come across The Student Prince, where Merlin and Arthur are roommates at St Andrews. I can confirm that the university traditions and the locations are all pretty much accurate (although I did wonder why Gwen took engineering, since there didn't seem to be an obvious reason for the plot why she needed to. St Andrews didn't offer engineering and still doesn't; an acquaintance who wanted to study that but also wanted to follow his girlfriend there ended up enrolling at Dundee, which is what Gwen would have had to do.)
Val McDermid's The Distant Echo is also set there (I did see the TV adaptation, but remember the book better ) - the Lammas Bar doesn't exist, but from the description of where it is, it sounds like it's on the site of a real pub, and the Fife Park accommodation also exists (I do remember wondering whether the guy with all the drums and stuff in his room would really have needed to sleep on his friend's floor because there was no space for him with all the music stuff, because I'd remembered Fife Park rooms as being bigger than that, but acknowledge that I never actually saw one with a drum kit in!)
So, has anyone seen their local area portrayed in any of their fandoms, be it canon or fan creation, and if so how did you feel about the portrayal? I haven't seen it so much with my home town, although years ago when I read The Follies Of The King by Jean Plaidy, I did smile to myself when Hugh le Despenser was given the choice of Hereford or death, and he chose death. We rate a mention in My Fair Lady for hurricanes hardly happening (true), and I've been meaning to check out the Rivers of London series where it rates a mention.
Where I have seen it more is St Andrews, where I went to university. If you've ever been in the Merlin fandom, you may well have come across The Student Prince, where Merlin and Arthur are roommates at St Andrews. I can confirm that the university traditions and the locations are all pretty much accurate (although I did wonder why Gwen took engineering, since there didn't seem to be an obvious reason for the plot why she needed to. St Andrews didn't offer engineering and still doesn't; an acquaintance who wanted to study that but also wanted to follow his girlfriend there ended up enrolling at Dundee, which is what Gwen would have had to do.)
Val McDermid's The Distant Echo is also set there (I did see the TV adaptation, but remember the book better ) - the Lammas Bar doesn't exist, but from the description of where it is, it sounds like it's on the site of a real pub, and the Fife Park accommodation also exists (I do remember wondering whether the guy with all the drums and stuff in his room would really have needed to sleep on his friend's floor because there was no space for him with all the music stuff, because I'd remembered Fife Park rooms as being bigger than that, but acknowledge that I never actually saw one with a drum kit in!)
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I watched Sex Education to check out Ncuti Gatwa in something prior to DW, and it's very good, though it was getting a bit silly by the end of the third series so I haven't watched any more.
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