“It’s kind of the opposite, where when someone makes you feel like a gargoyle you’re like ‘I’m a flower’, but when someone is like ‘you’re a flower’ you’re like ‘I am trash’ ”
Betty Gilpin on Off Camera with Sam Jones talking about the balance between confidence and self-loathing
Even though “Safe with Sam” is the weakest episode of the OG, I’m not going to sit here and deny the fact that we can get lots of shots of handsome boy from it!
Poor Sarah! If there’s a fire I’ll make sure I bring my favourite teddy bear & blanket with me too!
Prompt : If the characters were YouTubers, what would they do for their videos?
Sam would definitely make friendly and informative fire safety videos aimed at families with kids. (And probably inventing videos… à la PhotonicInduction!)
Elvis would post videos of his musical endeavours. And also cat videos. He probably drags the others into it sometimes and tries to make covers.
Basil would make really boring golf videos.
Bella would do adorable, homely cooking videos that remind you of your kind auntie.
Trevor… Idk, I somehow think he might like doing a “day in the life of a bus driver” sort of vlog, complete with amazing grandpa camera angles and the kids being a pain. (Actually, is there an episode where he makes a video or am I making things up??)
Dilys doesn’t post videos but she starts wars in the comment section about brexit and prices of vegetables.
Penny makes videos about gardening and also a sort of “surrogate mum teaches you how to fix your car” sorta thing.
I am on a quest to figure out every classic era fireman Sam’s hair for drawing. Because before this I pretty much just winged it.
Sam’s hair is fun to draw, and my main two reasons is that it makes sense to me, and the SWOOP™
An example of the swoop™ from my fireman Sam annual:
And of the swoop™ in the show
It like, idk how to describe it other than it swoops up.
It go down, and it go up again. And I think that’s really cool.
I like how it swoops out of his hat too. I made diagrams to illustrate my point
See what I mean it goes up! I like that!
I like the swoop™ I don’t like how they got rid of it in season 5 onwards. Rip swoop™
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Putting this under a readmore cause, idk it’s literally just me rambling.
Now here’s why Sam’s hair makes more sense to me then the other charecters. This goes more into me personally and how my brain works tbh lmao.
His hairs a light colour (it’s usually red, or brown in some illustrations), that makes it easy for me to reference. I can see how it works more clearly. Than charecters with darker hair. And it has a very obvious parting that the hair starts from. (Unlike Elvis or Steele’s hair. Of which I cannot figure out for the life of me).
I have also made diagrams to illustrate this point
His hair makes sense. This makes me happy. /G
TL:DR
Sam’s hair is very cool. And i appreciate it very much.
Been doing some research while brainstorming for June’s short trip opportunity and…
Do we all agree that Ellie Martin almost certainly really is (blonde?) Sam Jones in-universe?
The new name is presumably part of an attempt to preserve her in the timeline after the Council of Eight’s alterations despite original!Sam’s fate in 2002 (and whatever happened to the timeline post-EDAs); a better solution than being kept on the time vortex airship in Repercussions.
In fact, given that Sarah Jane is different from the VNAs/EDAs too (eg. not being married, much closer to her new series status quo) and the connection with the He Jests at Scars world, I bet this is a Time War thing (likely making the latter another Time War spin-off timeline). Being in the time vortex, the airship was probably put under threat by the war so either Eight or War had to work out another solution for its occupants.
This is the reason why she seemingly out-of-nowhere becomes a companion of the Valeyard’s in the He Jests timeline and, despite never knowing him as such, insists on calling him the Doctor and assuming better of him.
Mind you, we don’t know how deep this ‘timeline witness protection’ goes though, so who knows how aware she is herself of any of this.
