meddow: Malcolm and Nicola from The Thick of It (Nicola)
meddow ([personal profile] meddow) wrote2010-02-10 09:21 am
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It's Murray Time!

I wanted to contribute to [livejournal.com profile] halfamoon and decided I would celebrate Nicola Murray, lead character and Secretary of State for the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship in the third series of The Thick of It. I'm not sure how well known it is, but The Thick of It changed last year from a show with a male lead, to a show with a female lead, and really, how often does that happen? That in itself is pretty awesome and that way, she is actually quite ground breaking.

But, really, what I love most about her in terms of being an awesome female character is that she is not the singular and not-so-funny female island of competency in a world of screwed up and hilarious males. No, Nicola is just a screwed up, hilarious and incompetent as all the men in The Thick of It. That sounds contradictory, but the above trope seems to be the norm in comedy these days and I think it's fantastic when women get to be funny.


































[identity profile] arathesane.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee, I(and some others on my flist)are doing the same thing! I'm watching anything that she(and Capaldi too)is in, that I can get my hands on. I had see her before, apparently, but in bit rolls that I didn't remember her from like AbFab. I am completely infatuated with her right now.

Doesn't really compare to yours in awesomeness but I recently was sick and did this massive picspam (http://arathesane.livejournal.com/612147.html) when I began to feel better. Toward the end of it there are a lot of caps of Peter and Rebecca. I love both of their faces! Their expressions are always so brilliant.

[identity profile] meddow.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I've very sadly pretty much run out of Peter Capaldi's back catalogue (that I can get my hands on) :( My love for both of them increases the more I see of them.

I love the pictures you've got of those two (and the activate Scottish Ninja's one make me crack up laughing). I must know - where are those first few pictures of Rebecca Front from?

[identity profile] arathesane.livejournal.com 2010-02-10 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
The first ones of Rebecca are from Lewis which I plan to start this week.

Heh, that Scottish Ninja one is my personal favorite of the macros I've made. Every time I look at it, I can't help but smile!;)