fangrrl_squees | Singing Plotbunny!

It's more of a mini-ficlet than a plotbunny, but I figure that if any of you want to run with it, please do. And, yes, I know exactly what's to blame for this.

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A familiar, delicious, smell permeated the air, and Owen realized that Ianto had, with his usual discretion, somehow rustled up a bag of fresh popcorn - real popcorn - without disturbing the scene that was unfolding in the Hub's main work area. Owen took a handful and passed the bag to Gwen, who also leaned on the railing overlooking the Hub.

"Did I miss anything?" Ianto whispered.

"Yeah," Owen whispered back. "The first half of Night and Day."

"Really?" Ianto looked sulky. "I love Cole Porter."

Owen rolled his eyes. "You are so gay."

"Shut up, you two." Gwen hissed.

Meanwhile, Jack and Toshiko sang and occasionally danced, using the Hub's desks, stairwells and the occasional well-time swoop by Myfanwy (particularly effective during a medley of South Pacific) as their set.

"How long's it been now?" Owen asked.

"Half an hour." Gwen murmured. "I didn't even know they could sing."

"Well, of course he can." Owen scoffed.

"I'd call you a prick, Owen, but then I'd have to..." Gwen's voice trailed off, apparently entranced by a deft segue into It Had To Be You.

Owen backed off from the incipient spat. "How the hell can you dip someone like that and not drop them?"

"Practice?" Ianto suggested, deadpan.

"We should probably do something." Gwen said without much conviction and reaching for the popcorn again. The other two nodded and muttered agreement.

"I mean, obviously that thing's harmless," she gestured towards the rift's most recent offering. Not quite as large as a baseball, the purple and silver orb emitted a cheerful glow somewhat brighter than might be expected from an object of that size. Apparently Tosh had been the first person to examine it, with Jack peering over her shoulder and... the next thing the team knew, the pair started singing. A lot. And surprisingly well.

Owen tried to tear his attention away from the scene. "Maybe it... I dunno, brings out your inner musician or something. Didn't we get a report about something like this in California a couple of years ago?"

Ianto shook his head. "I don't think so. That involved a pendant of some sort and... spontaneous combustion."

That snapped Gwen out of her reverie. "Then we should definitely put a stop to this! Just in case."

"Alright, alright!" Owen retreated from her vehemence. "Just let 'em finish this one, first. I loved Miss Saigon..."

"And you call me gay?"

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Actually it's on right now - on BBC ONE - the thing lasts two hours (although obviously you've missed the Barrowman bit). As a consolation the RVP have this hunky picture of him on their site:-

From the write up it was a 40s medley of songs (bit like Springtime for Hitler then - lol)!

That's from the cover of his covering-Cole Porter album. *dreamy sigh*

Alas, I'm not in a situation to be watching BBC1 right now.

However, should that friend of my family finally agree to put a Slingbox in her place on my dad's behalf, hot damn!

Alas, I'm not in a situation to be watching BBC1 right now.

Yeah, the sooner the BBC starts streaming video (like they do with radio, BBC Parliament etc) the better! I doubt you'd get a very good signal on BBC One in San Fran anyway. ;) Even just a phone call that distance requires multiple signal boosts. However if you could remotely take over a UK computer (eg Remote Desktop, VNC) that had a TV tuner card fitted you probably could. I'm not quite sure what streaming video is like over VNC though.

As I said, Popster is trying to talk a London-based pal into installing a Slingbox (he's offering the bribe that he'll pay her monthly bill to go digital, as she ain't right now - that's a pretty good bribe) and he's agreed to let me have access to it. At that point, I think I'll be kissing most of my free time goodbye. Thank god it functions as a DVR, or else I'd be staying up some *weird* hours.

At £180/Slingbox they aren't cheap! You can go digital without a monthly subscription - you just need to get a Freeview box (digital channel decoder for the old analogue TVs).

*shrug* Popster's got his heart on the Slingbox. I think the remote access from anywhere is what he's after.

(and of course, he's paying for that, too - didn't meant to give the wrong impression, there)

Yeah, but is TV so important you'd want to watch it from anywhere?

Surely there must be somewhere to escape! :)

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