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- besleybean
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Fabulous.
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- gently69
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He seems to be a really nice guy. I should be more interested in his works now. Started with ordering "The League of Gentlemen". Only know his roles in "Sherlock" and "Coriolanus" so far.
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- nakahara
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Shit! Apparently, Mark Gatiss visited Orava castle in Slovakia (my homecountry!), while he was making a documentary on horror films (because that was the site where Frank Murnau´s "Nosferatu" was filmed. And I only get to know the fact three years after it happens! Just my luck! 
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- besleybean
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He's fab and it was a good show.
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- nakahara
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Is it possible to watch that show somewhere? I´m very curious about it now.
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- Liberty
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If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's on Youtube (A History of Horror, in three parts). It's worth watching if you're at all interested in the genre.
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Wow, thank you! I will certainly enjoy it, I´m a fan of such stuff.
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- gently69
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Yeah, also watched the show on youtube. It's really interesting and entertaining. Usually I am not into horror that much but Mark does a very good job in it.
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Ten:" I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye."
Sherlock: "I heard you.”
"Temptation coursing through our veins "
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- besleybean
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Hubby and I both hate horror.
Yet we watched the show together and both enjoyed it..
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- nakahara
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Probably because Mark is an enthusiastic fan of it and he could project his enthusiasm to the viewers of the show.
Also, not all horrors are genuinely scary. Some old ones are quite amusing, if you think about it.
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- gently69
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I also like how he guided through the documentary. I love his style.
Another pic ... a little bit different ... 
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Ten:" I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye."
Sherlock: "I heard you.”
"Temptation coursing through our veins "
(Tony Hadley)
- Liberty
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I'm not normally a horror fan (I wouldn't be likely to go to the cinema to watch a modern horror). But when I was young, I used to have a book like Mark's and I loved the look of those early horror films. I was fascinated by them. (In those days, there was no home video and you had to wait for films to appear on TV or see re-runs at the cinema, so the photos in the book were precious in a way that they wouldn't be now). So that part of the documentary struck a chord with me. Once home videos were available in the early '80s, I found a specialist video rental shop and I got a chance to catch up on films like Werner Herzog's Nosferatu.
There's another documentary called Horror Europa, which covers other The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Pan's Labyrinth, etc. The horror genre includes some truly beautiful films.
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- nakahara
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Horror Europa sounds equally interesting, thank you, I´ll try to find and watch it too.
And gently, that picture of Mark above is a blast! What was he doing there? 
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- Russell
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nakahara wrote:
And gently, that picture of Mark above is a blast! What was he doing there?
Ha, Agreed! The majority of his pics, to me, I find so sweetly charming, or looking a little quirky/strange.
Case in point…
(everyone together now, saying 'that line' in Moriarty's voice……) 
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We solve crimes, I blog about it, and he forgets his pants. I wouldn't hold out too much hope!
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- besleybean
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I love him.
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- Russell
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Isn't he adorable? 
This is from the Doctor Who anniversary 'documentary' film… think it's so great for him he got to have a picture of himself in the 'original' style TARDIS!
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We solve crimes, I blog about it, and he forgets his pants. I wouldn't hold out too much hope!
Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay!
I'm working my way up the greasy pole. It's… very greasy. And… pole-shaped.
- besleybean
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Totally.
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- gently69
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And gently, that picture of Mark above is a blast! What was he doing there?
No idea. Some stretching?
The Tardis pic is wonderful!
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Ten:" I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye."
Sherlock: "I heard you.”
"Temptation coursing through our veins "
(Tony Hadley)
- nakahara
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Ha, Agreed! The majority of his pics, to me, I find so sweetly charming, or looking a little quirky/strange.
Case in point…
Mark certainly likes Nosferatu, it seems. 
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window there. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?
- gently69
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Mark, you are just made for wearing a beard ... and that smile ...
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Ten:" I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye."
Sherlock: "I heard you.”
"Temptation coursing through our veins "
(Tony Hadley)
