I've been trying to watch the surviving 60s Callan eps over the summer, funnily enough. I have managed to get beyond that, but started with A Magnum For Schneider, which sort of has the same plot but a different scenario (Schneider is an arms dealer, I think).
I gather in this case I would have done better to start with the pilot. I can see the skepticism about the target going over better without the Holocaust.
I mean, having watched more, Callan hates and mistrusts everyone who asks him to kill someone whoever they are, (because who asks you to kill people, I suppose?) and that's the whole series, but unfortunately anti-semitism is still among the many hazards of watching TV of this era, much as I wish I could say otherwise.
No, I am very aware of it as an occupational hazard; it just made for a bad introduction to the show. I appreciate the précis of the rest of the episode! I do not feel especially compelled to go back for it.
It is a compelling but grim show, and Edward Woodward is very good in it, the way everybody said, and the whole Callan-Lonely and Callan-Meres relationships are genuinely interesting.
I actually went ahead and skipped to the second surviving episode and whoever requested Lonely whump for Yuletide that year must have been delighted. (I enjoyed it much more. The relationship dynamics are immediately interesting in a way that actually didn't pop out in the first episode—I can't tell if they developed over the intervening, missing episodes or if the show just didn't hit the ground running on that front—and Woodward is fantastically intense. Russell Hunter's face continues great.)
just British Intelligence being shady and the Cold War, and Callan hating everything and everyone except Lonely.
Fortunately, someone who isn't me will have taxonomized British spy fiction so that I don't have to stay up thinking about the ways in which it obviously differs from something like Mr. Palfrey while obviously also descending from le Carré.
LOL, that really is Burn Gorman, I think! I keep only seeing him being a creep!
I saw him first as an adorable nerd! I saw him second as an adorable nerd doing his best in an espionage narrative! I was multiply warned about the first few episodes of Torchwood and my fondness for him remained undamaged! I quickly figured out it was a deeply uncharacteristic experience.
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I've been trying to watch the surviving 60s Callan eps over the summer, funnily enough. I have managed to get beyond that, but started with A Magnum For Schneider, which sort of has the same plot but a different scenario (Schneider is an arms dealer, I think).
I gather in this case I would have done better to start with the pilot. I can see the skepticism about the target going over better without the Holocaust.
I mean, having watched more, Callan hates and mistrusts everyone who asks him to kill someone whoever they are, (because who asks you to kill people, I suppose?) and that's the whole series, but unfortunately anti-semitism is still among the many hazards of watching TV of this era, much as I wish I could say otherwise.
No, I am very aware of it as an occupational hazard; it just made for a bad introduction to the show. I appreciate the précis of the rest of the episode! I do not feel especially compelled to go back for it.
It is a compelling but grim show, and Edward Woodward is very good in it, the way everybody said, and the whole Callan-Lonely and Callan-Meres relationships are genuinely interesting.
I actually went ahead and skipped to the second surviving episode and whoever requested Lonely whump for Yuletide that year must have been delighted. (I enjoyed it much more. The relationship dynamics are immediately interesting in a way that actually didn't pop out in the first episode—I can't tell if they developed over the intervening, missing episodes or if the show just didn't hit the ground running on that front—and Woodward is fantastically intense. Russell Hunter's face continues great.)
just British Intelligence being shady and the Cold War, and Callan hating everything and everyone except Lonely.
Fortunately, someone who isn't me will have taxonomized British spy fiction so that I don't have to stay up thinking about the ways in which it obviously differs from something like Mr. Palfrey while obviously also descending from le Carré.
LOL, that really is Burn Gorman, I think! I keep only seeing him being a creep!
I saw him first as an adorable nerd! I saw him second as an adorable nerd doing his best in an espionage narrative! I was multiply warned about the first few episodes of Torchwood and my fondness for him remained undamaged! I quickly figured out it was a deeply uncharacteristic experience.