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Tony and Maria, again. I love them.
Nov. 25th, 2009 02:02 amI'm going to talk about Tony and Maria again. Don't worry, I probably won't be doing this for much longer. The storyline is basically finished, except for Tony apparently making a brief reappearance in spring next year, and I'm not going to able to get any dvds or get hold of the canon in any other way. It's one of the few drawbacks of soap fandoms. For some reason they don't seem to want to put their hours and hours of canon on dvds for the public to buy. Whatever.
Anyway. I have realised that I've been talking about Tony and Maria, probably somewhat incoherently, for about a week now without actually saying who they are or what their storyline actually is. ( The storyline )
( Another paragraph about how much I love Tony and Maria )
Do you want to see some beauty? That was mostly the point of my post. In this Youtube clip, there are clips of Maria and Tony, of the part before he delivers her baby on the beach, and one of him being all psycho when she was accusing him of killing Liam, before they got together. And in between those, you get to see Samia Smith (who plays Maria) talking. And Philip Schofield and Fern Cotton also talking. It's sort of a win either way.
ITV also did some clips on their website of "Tony's diary", which is basically Gray O'Brien, who plays Tony, saying the same confession to Maria onto a tape in three different ways, depending on whether Tony decided to get around the Roy situation by killing himself, killing Roy, or turning himself in to the police. It's here. The last one, "surrender", is by far the saddest, because it's really quiet and resigned and practical, and it's the most in character, really, especially given that it what he ended up doing. At the end (of all of them really, but the third video is the best), he calls Maria "my darling", and it wouldn't be nearly as painful if I hadn't been thinking of a bunch of sad love songs and how they relate to Tony/Maria, and imagining him sort of singing Unchained Melody in his cell, after he gives himself up. Oh god.
The itv site also has this video of clips of Tony's good and bad sides, pretty much out of order from when they appeared in the show, but including the part where he actually delivers Maria's baby, and his really quite gay scene where he kills Liam. I hate those adverts they put on all their videos, although I guess they have to have them. But the clips are pretty good.
How about some RIDICULOUSLY CHEERFUL Maria/Tony vids? There are a few Maria/Tony vids on Youtube, and some of them are quite sad, as befits the storyline really. But I think I love the cheerful ones the most of all. There is I Only Wanna Be With You and I Love It When We Do. They're made by the same person, so some of the clips are the same, but there's quite a bit of different stuff in each one.
And some slightly sadder ones. For some reason this person hasn't put the song title anywhere in the vids or in the info, but there's this one, and this one, which is more of a narrative since they started getting closer. Both are pretty good though.
If I had the clips or the episodes, and I had any kind of vidding capabilities, I would vid Tony and Maria to a bunch of songs. I've already said, most songs at the moment, especially love songs, seem to be Maria/Tony songs. For example, I just put iTunes on and the first song that came on was Trouble by Coldplay. God. I want to do a Tony vid to Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Because they can't read his poker face. And he is marvellous. I love Tony/Maria. And Tony. And Maria. And Gray O'Brien. And Samia Smith. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
( Monday's Coronation Street )
Anyway. I have realised that I've been talking about Tony and Maria, probably somewhat incoherently, for about a week now without actually saying who they are or what their storyline actually is. ( The storyline )
( Another paragraph about how much I love Tony and Maria )
Do you want to see some beauty? That was mostly the point of my post. In this Youtube clip, there are clips of Maria and Tony, of the part before he delivers her baby on the beach, and one of him being all psycho when she was accusing him of killing Liam, before they got together. And in between those, you get to see Samia Smith (who plays Maria) talking. And Philip Schofield and Fern Cotton also talking. It's sort of a win either way.
ITV also did some clips on their website of "Tony's diary", which is basically Gray O'Brien, who plays Tony, saying the same confession to Maria onto a tape in three different ways, depending on whether Tony decided to get around the Roy situation by killing himself, killing Roy, or turning himself in to the police. It's here. The last one, "surrender", is by far the saddest, because it's really quiet and resigned and practical, and it's the most in character, really, especially given that it what he ended up doing. At the end (of all of them really, but the third video is the best), he calls Maria "my darling", and it wouldn't be nearly as painful if I hadn't been thinking of a bunch of sad love songs and how they relate to Tony/Maria, and imagining him sort of singing Unchained Melody in his cell, after he gives himself up. Oh god.
The itv site also has this video of clips of Tony's good and bad sides, pretty much out of order from when they appeared in the show, but including the part where he actually delivers Maria's baby, and his really quite gay scene where he kills Liam. I hate those adverts they put on all their videos, although I guess they have to have them. But the clips are pretty good.
How about some RIDICULOUSLY CHEERFUL Maria/Tony vids? There are a few Maria/Tony vids on Youtube, and some of them are quite sad, as befits the storyline really. But I think I love the cheerful ones the most of all. There is I Only Wanna Be With You and I Love It When We Do. They're made by the same person, so some of the clips are the same, but there's quite a bit of different stuff in each one.
And some slightly sadder ones. For some reason this person hasn't put the song title anywhere in the vids or in the info, but there's this one, and this one, which is more of a narrative since they started getting closer. Both are pretty good though.
If I had the clips or the episodes, and I had any kind of vidding capabilities, I would vid Tony and Maria to a bunch of songs. I've already said, most songs at the moment, especially love songs, seem to be Maria/Tony songs. For example, I just put iTunes on and the first song that came on was Trouble by Coldplay. God. I want to do a Tony vid to Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Because they can't read his poker face. And he is marvellous. I love Tony/Maria. And Tony. And Maria. And Gray O'Brien. And Samia Smith. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
( Monday's Coronation Street )
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