"My name is Henry Gale"

All I've heard about the American movie version of State of Play confirms me in my decision not to watch it. I liked the BBC miniseries too much. Which makes me wonder about cases where I did like a remake as much or more than the original, and at the moment I'm hard pressed to come up with something, but it's early in the morning. (West Side Story as much as Romeo & Juliet doesn't count.*g*)

In other news, I recently went back to Lost's season 2 and rewatched the Henry Gale episodes. It was the first time since years that I watched s2 again, and it felt very odd in places (the general focus of the narrative was quite elsewhere then), but considering how much continuity was improvised because Michael Emerson impressed the producers so much (another actor in that role, and Ben as a character would never have existed), it's amazing how well these episodes hold up on a Watsonian level, when looked at with later revelations (especially from the recent Dead is Dead) in mind.

( Take the thing with Danielle Rousseau... )