You're moving forward in a figure eight
Happy autumn! After some last-minute, early-morning runaround, I finally got to see a physical therapist about my back. In the evening, I baked things with apples in the toaster oven and watched several episodes of Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984–85) with my mother who has nostalgic feelings about the Thames ident with the river-mirrored skyline. The night is suddenly Arctic, full of the sharp colors of stars. I am hoping to have access to a telescope in time for Jupiter's closest approach since 1963, but if not, there's always binoculars. Have a couple of links.
1. I had not heard the contretemps about the origins of Betty Boop, but I appreciate PBS acknowledging that its failure to fact-check generated now-popular misinformation, which is of course harder to recall than the more complicated reality. "We could have thus avoided this teachable moment."
2. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit: a gifset of Martin Jarvis in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), which I suspect I may end up watching just to have an opinion about what happens to him after the end of it, as the film apparently does not.
3. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: a manuscript scourge, which is exactly what it sounds like, except it sounded like something different to me.
I watched a bunch of movies in the spring before we had to move and intended to write about several of them and did not manage it in time and it is true that I do not have a ready means of rewatching any of them at the moment, but they still feel oddly, mentally inaccessible to me and I am trying to sort out why. It frustrates me to feel so wiped out.
1. I had not heard the contretemps about the origins of Betty Boop, but I appreciate PBS acknowledging that its failure to fact-check generated now-popular misinformation, which is of course harder to recall than the more complicated reality. "We could have thus avoided this teachable moment."
2. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: a gifset of Martin Jarvis in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), which I suspect I may end up watching just to have an opinion about what happens to him after the end of it, as the film apparently does not.3. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: a manuscript scourge, which is exactly what it sounds like, except it sounded like something different to me.
I watched a bunch of movies in the spring before we had to move and intended to write about several of them and did not manage it in time and it is true that I do not have a ready means of rewatching any of them at the moment, but they still feel oddly, mentally inaccessible to me and I am trying to sort out why. It frustrates me to feel so wiped out.
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I think there are three episode extant from Frontier? I don't know if there any from Haunted, which I'm sad about - the same team did a really fascinating little SF series called Undermind the year before, which does still exist. Haunted was supposedly a very similar format but with supernatural incidents instead of stealth alien invasion, and going by Undermind I'd dearly love to see it!
Well, I still haven't seen Blake's 7.
XD I helped divert you! lol.
And reading is still much, much harder than even modern telly. I am like the pickiest eater in the world, but with books. But I have confidence I can get my brain up to the BBC series one day! <3
For the record, I'm not opposed to stories set during or about World War II! I just object to getting bitten by extra surprise antisemitism.
Oh, I got that. I'm just not rational about EatD for multiple reasons already and then it got weirdly popular-ish about two years ago as well and it was not the zeitgeist and that got disturbing around the exchange scene. So, I just like to make sure people do understand what it is it's trying to do first - even though you probably don't need that. But still! It was made 40 years ago and deals with a lot of very difficult topics. Mostly, to its credits, genuinely well, but it's not perfect, either - and while I don't think you'll have a problem with the irony and ambiguity of these kinds of old school plays, that also doesn't help with some modern viewings, because we're less used to that style of TV storytelling now as a rule.
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I hope you can see them someday.
I don't know if there any from Haunted, which I'm sad about - the same team did a really fascinating little SF series called Undermind the year before, which does still exist. Haunted was supposedly a very similar format but with supernatural incidents instead of stealth alien invasion, and going by Undermind I'd dearly love to see it!
I've heard of Undermind! From someone other than you, even—
And reading is still much, much harder than even modern telly. I am like the pickiest eater in the world, but with books.
Understood. Good luck with one day feeling like watching John le Carré!
Mostly, to its credits, genuinely well, but it's not perfect, either - and while I don't think you'll have a problem with the irony and ambiguity of these kinds of old school plays, that also doesn't help with some modern viewings, because we're less used to that style of TV storytelling now as a rule.
Fortunately, I don't watch that much modern TV. If it doesn't click with me, it doesn't click, but I don't think I will feel bait-and-switched.
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And I mean, last year, Talking Pictures suddenly came up with four episodes of The Hidden Truth, which was even more unlikely than Haunted. Oh, I would love to see that one!
And, amazing, a person who knows Undermind! It was how I wound up getting into Department S, because I was a bit fed up with ITC serials which aren't my bag, but Rosemary Nicols really impressed me as one of the two leads in Undermind (and then also because