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thepresidentrix

Foyle's War gets its own entry.

Jan 07, 2010 16:34

Or at least that was the idea. I saved Foyle's War for today, only to realize I'd never commented on any of the other tv that I meant to mention yesterday. So I'll get the other tv out of the way first, then move on to the topic of the hour! ;o9 ( Read more... )

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litlover12 January 7 2010, 22:51:29 UTC

You have GOT to read "Little Dorrit"! It's soooo good! The Casby/Pancks haircutting scene is much better and makes more sense in the book, BTW. And the Amy/Arthur reunion after she gets home from Italy is a total invention of Andrew Davies's, and I want to strangle him every time I see it. That's SO not Amy. (I recently rewrote it in a fanfiction!)

And I've got to watch the OMF miniseries, which I just got for Christmas!

thepresidentrix January 9 2010, 01:21:52 UTC

I do want to read Little Dorrit, and I'm determined to get to it one day soon, but dang if graduate school doesn't do its best to get in the way of pleasure reading!

I really hope you love OMF! I have a huge affection for it, even if it's not my tippy-topmost favorite Dickens adaptation of all.

fadeintodawn January 8 2010, 02:22:34 UTC

Little Dorrit and Bleak House are certainly superior to OMF. But I personally found the teacher/stalker in OMF to be super creepy and frightening. I do adore Bella's dresses, haha, and I agree that a lot of Eugene's parts are drawn out. My roommates could not resist yelling out "MR EUGENE WRAYBURN" every time someone said it, after the characters did so about a dozen times in ten minutes.

thepresidentrix January 9 2010, 01:26:37 UTC

They do say it an awful lot! Over and over again. I wonder if I might enjoy the Jessie Hexam plot more if the actor who plays her younger brother had any subtlety. (Then again, maybe the book specifies that he has none). I might feel more torn if the brother's loyalties seemed a little more complex.

The stalker guy is *very* good at being a horrible, scary stalker guy. He freaks me out! (Kind of past the point where the plotline is fun, for me).

valancy_s January 8 2010, 13:52:58 UTC

So many things I love in one post ( ... )

I never previously appreciated just how *perfect* your icon is. thepresidentrix January 9 2010, 02:01:45 UTC

1. Years after Buffy ended, Joss Whedon started a Buffy Season 8 comic book, a canon continuation of the series. I think there's an Angel one now, too. They're supposed to be pretty good reading. (I might read them, but I was waaay behind on both those shows, even before they got canceled, so I'd have to watch the shows first). I wish Bryan Fuller would do that with his shows - especially Pushing Daisies. I think a comic would be a great format for the story - even if it would mean a less direct interface with Lee Pace's hotness ( ... )

thepresidentrix January 9 2010, 03:28:54 UTC

Also: have you seen this???

http://epicwinftw.com/2010/01/05/snow-totoro/

tempestsarekind January 8 2010, 22:54:41 UTC

Ah, Foyle's War. I have somehow never managed to see a whole series of this program, despite the fact that it was rather omnipresent on PBS toward the end of their Masterpiece seasons. So I was always kind of like, "I bet I would really like this show, if I had any idea what was going on in it!"

As for decorum... I will stop using my students in the Victorian literature class as an example of our corroded sense of decorum (even though one of them came right out and told me that politeness was hypocritical), and instead think back to college, when I did a semester abroad in England. One of the things the program organizers warned us about was that the Brits were really reserved, so maybe all the American students took that as incentive to be as in-your-face as possible, but I could only look on in amazement as they all started comparing sexual details and the like with each other, and they'd just met that day. It was crazy. Maybe I am Secretly British.

thepresidentrix January 9 2010, 03:57:20 UTC

I still remember walking out of a tube station at the back of my class of students and overhearing a British woman saying, 'Bloody Americans. I don't think they can hear you in bloody Chelsea.' Indeed, I often used to have trouble hearing the British lecturers we went to hear, because they were so mild and soft-spoken ( ... )

tempestsarekind January 10 2010, 05:07:13 UTC

That is an adorable story. And really, how anyone could possibly know that Birmingham M and Birmingham N are two different stations is beyond me!

Partway through my semester abroad, some college friends came to visit me (I'm no longer clear on how that worked out, though I remember being incredibly grateful). And I must have acclimated to the British way of speaking, because whenever they'd talk, I found myself thinking, "Wow, Americans really are loud!" And these are not stentorian individuals, by any means.

In somewhat related news: there's a book I keep meaning to get back to, Watching the English by Kate Fox. I read the first third or so in one sitting, and enjoyed it very much, but then school got in the way, as usual. It covers all sorts of things: how the English order drinks in pubs, how they talk about the weather, the way they apologize when someone else bumps into them, etc. It's sort of the better version of The Anglo Files, and written by an English anthropologist to boot.