Cabin Pressure fic: You know your place in the sky

[nineveh_uk]

Following on from my last post and the revelation that Roger Allam was once in Les Mis. I couldn't help it. On the plus side, it isn't songfic, and I don't think the characters have had personality transplants, so as Cabin Pressure fic goes, that puts it considerably ahead of the game already.



Carolyn: Douglas! Think of something!

Douglas: Very well. A banana.

Carolyn: Well, that was constructive. I mean, solve it. Think of a way out to get us of this.

Douglas: It's a difficult one. Perhaps I could come up with a solution, if only there weren't this pressing issue of Saturday.

Carolyn: Douglas, if you don't come up with something, you will have all the Saturdays your heart could desire. What you will not have is any money for a ticket. They are going to sue us, and it is your responsibility to stop them.

Martin: For God's sake, Carolyn, it's over. They're going to sue us, we'll be bankrupt, and I will be only a man with most of a van. Even Douglas can't solve the problem of a Royal Command performance of Les Miserables missing its Javert because Arthur gave him food poisoning on the flight.

Douglas: I am hurt by your lack of faith. Granted, the reupholstering of the cabin will not come cheap. I wasn't aware that the phrase "projectile vomiting" was quite so literal. But MJN Air is not necessarily doomed. Had Arthur's victim been Cosette, even I might have been hard-pressed for a solution. As it is, I think I may say that the show will go on.

Martin: How? Javert's locked in the toilet with a bottle of Dettol. You're not going to get him out of there even if Carolyn would let you.

Douglas: I believe this is what is known as confession time. Martin, you are not the only MJN Air pilot with a second career. In my youth, I set my sights rather higher than 'airline pilot and sky god'. I wanted to be a star.

Comments

[legionseagle]

Oh, bravo!

[nineveh_uk]

*bows*

[aella_irene]

I love this. cesy, who is reading over my shoulder, has just reached a pitch usually available only to small dogs.

[nineveh_uk]

Oh, that's what that noise was.

[castiron]

Hee! Excellent.

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you!

[antisoppist]

The internet flickered and then died twice, eating my comments on this and your previous post on Saturday.

This is inspired (not to mention inspiring) and your Douglas in particular is fabulous.

[nineveh_uk]

How annoying. I hope it is now back properly.

The great thing about short fic is that you can just do the obvious tics and it counts as in character ;-)

[antisoppist]

It has fortunately stayed up all day. Working yesterday afternoon (I am behind) with inability to look anything up was extremely annoying, plus worry that it might not come back in time for this morning's deadline.

you can just do the obvious tics
She says airily ;-)

[coughingbear]

Lovely!

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you!

(fabulous icon)

[tree_and_leaf]

Splendid!

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you!

[madamedarque.livejournal.com]

Had Arthur's victim been Cosette, even I might have been hard-pressed for a solution.

*sporfle* This is lovely. I am sadly unversed in Cabin Pressure , despite my love for Roger Allam. I clearly need to rectify this...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Cabin Pressure is a lot of fun. I missed the first couple of series, assuming it was a typical unfunny Radio 4 sitcom, until forcibly introduced by my sister, who showed me how wrong I was. It is a bit surreal and brilliantly funny. Unfortunately the majority (with some very honourable exceptions) of fanfic is written by people who appear to have missed the point entirely. Roger Allam plays the enormously smug First Officer.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am also quite late to Cabin Pressure, and adore it now. Do you have any recs for fic from people who have not missed the point?

[silverweave.livejournal.com]

Although let's be honest, few things are as awesome as Sarah Lund's jumper.

I could be wrong, but this is quite frankly fab, and I think it's fair to say that I am a little disturbed by how well you have captured Douglas's tone in this brief extract.

This makes me feel intimidated by my sister.

One thing we could do, encourage more little extracts to get it out of your system before the next family gathering....

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Ah, the icon! I shall steal it.

I also admire your in-canon approach to commenting.