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jemck at 09:35am on 25/03/2009
jemck at 09:35am on 25/03/2009Feeling rather more improved today. And have had some thoughts on rewriting the opening of Banners in the Wind as it currently stands. So I think I'll look at that today.
In the meantime, I see both the BBC's Robin Hood and ITV's Primeval are back on Saturday. We're rather more excited about Primeval in this household - given its track record as good family entertainment with some nifty ideas and decent scripting plus committed performances. And CGI dinosaurs!
Robin Hood? Hmmm. In two minds about that. Husband and senior son both ditched this half way through last series, on account of some major plot holes and knitted-string-chainmail production values. Me and junior son persisted, reckoning it had its moments. I shall record it and we'll see how we go. We're promised a darker, grittier Robin, all grief-stricken about Marion's loss - and that's a plus in itself, no insult to the actress intended. David Harewood's a solidly talented actor so curiosity about his Friar Tuck is reason enough to watch the first episode at least.
Then of course, there was Demons on ITV a while back. Oh dear. Oh deary, deary dear. Wasn't that a shame? And it looked so promising, with the likes of Philip Glenister and Mackenzie Crook and Kevin McNally (possibly some ex-Pirates employment scheme?)
Then it turned out to be some half-arsed attempt at Buffy-lite. Mentor called Rupert? Goody Vampire on the team? Best mate with a crush on Our Hero, who has this destiny to...? C'mon, they didn't even file off the serial numbers!
Yes, it had its good moments. Sadly, like Wagner, they were separated by truly dreadful quarters of an hour. Husband ditched it when Our Hero and Rupert the Mentor got trapped by the gribbly they had been chasing - coz, er, neither of them had thought to bring a weapon... Sorry chaps, at that point, you should have been toast and you deserved to be.
The rest of our viewing remains dominated by US copshows, of which there's a goodly choice at the moment. I do have one gripe there though. Actresses have this tendency to get pregnant, which is all well and good and thank heavens we're past those days when that automatically got them binned by the studios. But it would be nice if script writers came up with rather more inventive ways of accommodating pregnancy/maternity leave. As per Margita Hargitay on L&O SVU and Amanda Tapping on Stargate.
Because all too often the sequence simply goes - oops, I'm pregnant, how did that happen? As per JJ on Criminal Minds, Lindsey on CSI:NY. Then boyfriend steps up to do the honourable thing. Good-oh, drama over. And all sorts of tedious cliches and stereotypes incidentally reinforced.
The thing is, it would be nice to think these otherwise competent and professional educated women were also sufficiently competent with contraception - which is not, after all, rocket-science and is pretty reliable - not to get accidentally knocked-up like some teenager on prom night!
In the meantime, I see both the BBC's Robin Hood and ITV's Primeval are back on Saturday. We're rather more excited about Primeval in this household - given its track record as good family entertainment with some nifty ideas and decent scripting plus committed performances. And CGI dinosaurs!
Robin Hood? Hmmm. In two minds about that. Husband and senior son both ditched this half way through last series, on account of some major plot holes and knitted-string-chainmail production values. Me and junior son persisted, reckoning it had its moments. I shall record it and we'll see how we go. We're promised a darker, grittier Robin, all grief-stricken about Marion's loss - and that's a plus in itself, no insult to the actress intended. David Harewood's a solidly talented actor so curiosity about his Friar Tuck is reason enough to watch the first episode at least.
Then of course, there was Demons on ITV a while back. Oh dear. Oh deary, deary dear. Wasn't that a shame? And it looked so promising, with the likes of Philip Glenister and Mackenzie Crook and Kevin McNally (possibly some ex-Pirates employment scheme?)
Then it turned out to be some half-arsed attempt at Buffy-lite. Mentor called Rupert? Goody Vampire on the team? Best mate with a crush on Our Hero, who has this destiny to...? C'mon, they didn't even file off the serial numbers!
Yes, it had its good moments. Sadly, like Wagner, they were separated by truly dreadful quarters of an hour. Husband ditched it when Our Hero and Rupert the Mentor got trapped by the gribbly they had been chasing - coz, er, neither of them had thought to bring a weapon... Sorry chaps, at that point, you should have been toast and you deserved to be.
The rest of our viewing remains dominated by US copshows, of which there's a goodly choice at the moment. I do have one gripe there though. Actresses have this tendency to get pregnant, which is all well and good and thank heavens we're past those days when that automatically got them binned by the studios. But it would be nice if script writers came up with rather more inventive ways of accommodating pregnancy/maternity leave. As per Margita Hargitay on L&O SVU and Amanda Tapping on Stargate.
Because all too often the sequence simply goes - oops, I'm pregnant, how did that happen? As per JJ on Criminal Minds, Lindsey on CSI:NY. Then boyfriend steps up to do the honourable thing. Good-oh, drama over. And all sorts of tedious cliches and stereotypes incidentally reinforced.
The thing is, it would be nice to think these otherwise competent and professional educated women were also sufficiently competent with contraception - which is not, after all, rocket-science and is pretty reliable - not to get accidentally knocked-up like some teenager on prom night!
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