#captain vincent

[tampire]

Captain Vincent seduces an old man with a trophy in Good Omens S01E04: Saturday Morning Funtime

[ngkiscool]

This week - First person POV!

As usual,  all the fics are rated G or T and SFW. If I missed a tag or cw, let me know. 

The Ineffable History of Ducks by IxiLecter - 4.4K, G, ducks POV. Summary: Crowley and Aziraphale visit the St James's Park for centuries during their secret meetings, watching the ducks. They don’t really think about the fact that perhaps the generations of ducks are watching them as well, passing on stories and observations. Alternatively: four times Crowley and Aziraphale helped their ducks and one time the ducks helped them.

To Pad By His Side by Ineffable lawr (LawrVert) - 3K, G, Dog’s POV. Summary: The story of Dog and Adam from Dog's POV as he pads by Adam's side through all of life's ups and down.

To Whom It May Concern by Ghostinthehouse - 279 words, G,  R. P. Tyler ‘s POV. Summary: R.P. Tyler has Opinions on recent events. As always, he writes to the appropriate paper(s) about them.

Swapping stories by hapax (hapaxnym) - 1K, G, Police officers POV. Summary: The constable had heard many peculiar stories about the previous Saturday, in addition to having seen quite a few odd things himself, but he remained stubbornly skeptical about this one. The four police officers seen in canon dealing with the conflagration on the M25 get together over drinks.

Lost Continent of Atlantis by doomed_spectacles - 1K, G,  Captain Vincent POV. Summary: Captain Vincent wakes on the deck of the cruise ship Morbilli with a splitting headache. His arm is flung over his head at an angle that makes his wrist and shoulder ache. Around him, his crew is similarly arranged — limbs splayed like the chalk outlines of an unfortunate incident. They groan and rub their heads. The sky, a cheerful blue, seems at odds with the fog in his mind.

From the Inbox of God by benevolentmonolithicc - 11K, G, alternating POV. Summary: You've reached God. Sorry I can't get to the phone right now. At the sound of the tone, please leave your prayer. -BEEP-

The Cupbearer, or, The Exile's Tale by CopperBeech - 2K, T, Original Male Human Character POV. Summary: There’s an uncanny pair who seem always to turn up at the Ritz just as a table becomes available. There’s a maitre d’ who finds it curious. And he has his own story to tell.

The Cask of Holy Water by ThornsOfWinter (SeedsOfWinter) - 2.3K, T, Eric the disposable demon POV. Summary: Having suffered enough, Eric decides they must put an end to Duke Hastur’s abuses.

Thanks for reading and sharing, and have a great week :)

Bonus - master list with all past recommendations! 

[shark-from-the-park]

The lovely Captain Vincent really was lovely. And a Captain. And I would have liked to have seen and heard more from him, even though it was unnecessary to the plot.

[leftduck9986]

Remember When The Pleasure Cruiser Morbillo Was Headed for Hawaii? The "Error" Fixed With Overdubbing.

Remember when, in Season One Episode Four, Captain Vincent, of the Pleasure Cruiser Morbillo is recording an audio log and his lips are saying, "Hawaii" but is overdubbed with "Havana"?

Portraying Captain Vincent is David Morrissey, and to me it sounds like he had overdubbed his entire part.

That seems a lot of work just to mask one out-of-place word, though perhaps it would have been obvious otherwise?

Sigourney Weaver's "well screw that!" in the film Galaxy Quest went completely unnoticed by me until recently, re-watching as an adult! Her mouth shape is very obvious (and you can guess what word she actually said without having to go watch it).

However, the difference from what was originally spoken in this case, is more subtle.

Dear Diary - ahem, Captain's Log

The dictaphone microphone held close, he is speaking gently, "on the breath" or at half voice, "sotto voce"; his diction all focused at the front - "the tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips". Mmm, great for ASMR. Would Shakespeare have praised him for speaking the lines trippingly?

Here's the line, "We were sailing south-southwest on course for Havana when we realised-" up close and slowed:

There's no mistaking "Hawaii" with it's three - no, four - open vowel sounds ah-oo-ah-ee; there's no top teeth meeting the inner bottom lip for the "v" of Havana, nor the subtle jaw movements that would have accompanied the syllables.

Sailing SSW for Hawaii or Havana/Habana

If the original line is, "We were sailing south-southwest on course for Hawaii ..." then firstly, the Morbillo may have been travelling down the west coast of the USA, then eventually correcting to south-southwest. Makes sense, especially being in the North Pacific Ocean!!!

In S1E4, Saturday Morning Funtime, Atlantis rose from the sea floor, in the South Atlantic Ocean. Diagonally, A. Whole. Ocean. Away.

That's a great big whopping error to make! Too big.

So, overdubbing with "Havana" changes things ever so slightly, but doesn't completely fix the situation.

Which Havana?

Travelling down the East coast of the USA now, makes sense for changing course south-southwest, headed for Havana CUBA, since Havana in eleven of the United States of America, can all be ruled out, being inland. So can Havana, Turkey.

A total of thirteen places in the world named Havana, and all of them are still too far north for Atlantis.

Just in case, all places spelled Habana are also too far north, or in the case of Habana Philippines or Habana Queensland Australia, are back in the Pacific Ocean.

Nowhere near Atlantis.

How to Draw Attention to Something: Make It Look Like An Error

Why make this particular "error" ? Well if it doesn't have anything to do with the Daily Specials Honolulu Roast sign, I'll eat my ... don't have a hat, not a hat person. I'll have a heaped teaspoon of Vegemite when the time comes.

Why insert errors at all? We humans loooove pointing out errors!

Ingrained from children's television, the Playschool song (whoops I mis-remembered, it was actually Sesame Street!: One of These Things is Not Like the Others then got sidetracked on youtube for a while: Classic Sesame Street 01 | Classic Sesame Street 02 | audio | Grouch Jazz | "Three of These Things Belong Together" | Barbershop parody.)

That's the point, to draw our attention. In Season Two especially there are plenty of errors to find, in the mis-spelling of words, names, the odd writing style of certain letters and numbers...

But here in season one is a potentially placed error, where the audio doesn't quite match the lip-flaps, and to discover this "error" opens up the possibility of there being another overdubbing mis-match to find.

Thanking @kimberleyjean for checking the Season One Script Book and the TV Companion for any mention of this error. There was none. Nothing at all in the TV Companion about the captain, the ship or Atlantis.

For anyone who owns the Season One DVD: is there anything said in the audio commentaries? Was there a trivia visual overlay?

[EDIT, Saturday 7th September 2024: this image shows that the original scripted line was indeed "Hawaii" -

So, this means that for Miranda Richardson, her scripted line in The Ball really was, "Surrender the anctle."]