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selenakMonday starts with good news, to wit, that the RSC will film last year's Hamlet production starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, thus making me happy on three fannish fronts. (Incidentally, and speaking of X-Men/Time Lord/Shakespeare crossovers, I have the McKellen/McCoy Lear dvd now, and plan to watch it soon.) Having seen it once just wasn't enough.
Being Human ended its first season, and while I didn't fall in love with the show the way many people on my flist did, I like it very much and am really glad it got promised a second season. George, Mitchell and Annie are truly an OT3, which I thought was one of the changes from the pilot I approved of; in the pilot, it was the two boys plus Annie, on the show proper, all of them developed strong ties with each other. As far as the supernatural plots were concerned, it didn't have the cool originality of Ultraviolet, but it more made up for it with the characters - in addition to the OT3, there were great recurrings like George's girlfriend Nina, one-shots like the 80s ghost Gilbert (has anyone written a crossover where he met Alex Drake and Gene Hunt back in the day?), and in the finale the hospital vicar (who I hope will be back). As far as the main villains were concerned, here the recasting from the pilot to the series really was a big advantage - pilot!Herrick was a LaCroix wannabe, series!Herrick was a wonderful take on evil with an ordinary, pleasant facade. The season finale did a nice job of wrapping up some plot threads while hinting at lingering and new ones which make the prospect of a second season really exciting.
In recent weeks, I also got the miniseries (four parts) Lost in Austen on dvd, after having heard much praise while it was broadcast in England last autumn. It's really adorable, taking the most shameless fannish premise imaginable - Pride and Prejudice fan Amanda Price swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet, in other words, the quintessential Mary Sue plot - and pulls it off gloriously, not least because it never condescends to its viewers but expects them to know their Jane Austen by heart just as Amanda does. And thus appreciate the twists and turns Amanda's presence in the story causes, and how the characterisation plays with our, and Amanda's, expectations. It's so good natured and clever, and boasts of a great cast (Alex Kingston as Mrs. Bennet, and Lindsay Duncan as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, among others), that one can't help but love it. Highly recommended.
Being Human ended its first season, and while I didn't fall in love with the show the way many people on my flist did, I like it very much and am really glad it got promised a second season. George, Mitchell and Annie are truly an OT3, which I thought was one of the changes from the pilot I approved of; in the pilot, it was the two boys plus Annie, on the show proper, all of them developed strong ties with each other. As far as the supernatural plots were concerned, it didn't have the cool originality of Ultraviolet, but it more made up for it with the characters - in addition to the OT3, there were great recurrings like George's girlfriend Nina, one-shots like the 80s ghost Gilbert (has anyone written a crossover where he met Alex Drake and Gene Hunt back in the day?), and in the finale the hospital vicar (who I hope will be back). As far as the main villains were concerned, here the recasting from the pilot to the series really was a big advantage - pilot!Herrick was a LaCroix wannabe, series!Herrick was a wonderful take on evil with an ordinary, pleasant facade. The season finale did a nice job of wrapping up some plot threads while hinting at lingering and new ones which make the prospect of a second season really exciting.
In recent weeks, I also got the miniseries (four parts) Lost in Austen on dvd, after having heard much praise while it was broadcast in England last autumn. It's really adorable, taking the most shameless fannish premise imaginable - Pride and Prejudice fan Amanda Price swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet, in other words, the quintessential Mary Sue plot - and pulls it off gloriously, not least because it never condescends to its viewers but expects them to know their Jane Austen by heart just as Amanda does. And thus appreciate the twists and turns Amanda's presence in the story causes, and how the characterisation plays with our, and Amanda's, expectations. It's so good natured and clever, and boasts of a great cast (Alex Kingston as Mrs. Bennet, and Lindsay Duncan as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, among others), that one can't help but love it. Highly recommended.
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Date: 2009-03-02 12:34 pm (UTC)Eee!
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Date: 2009-03-02 01:21 pm (UTC)Yes, we loved it. What I really liked was that they could have done a perfectly straight version of P&P with that cast and it would have been a stellar production. Alex Kingston was just perfect as Mrs Bennet and the sisters were delightful.
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Date: 2009-03-04 05:41 am (UTC)Off-topic: Stewart's going to have to work pretty hard to top B or not a B. (http://soliloquy.ytmnd.com/)