LOL, although, even better: in the Martin Jarvis rewatch I am even more unconvincingly currently not having, I reached his episode of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, "Five Hundred Carats," and I was definitely not going to rewatch that because all I remembered was that it was bad and he was a rotter with a horrible moustache. But it turned out (because, yes, I DID rewatch it anyway) that I had wronged the episode entirely and must just have been very tired or burned out by 1970s TV adaptations of 19th C stories being offensive and didn't give it a chance as soon as I saw the setting. (The moustache, however, was tragically as bad as I remembered.)
The thing is, I'd forgotten what it was he actually stole and I was deeply amused to find that it was a diamond in a 19th C imperial situation, just like in The Moonstone - so Martin Jarvis stole no less than two fabulous diamonds in two years in the 70s, and deservedly failed to profit from either. No wonder that Inspector suspected him immediately! XD
(My winner in this category, of weirdly specific repeat incidents, is Peter Jeffrey, who managed to be burned to death twice in one year by the BBC in 1972.)
Anyway, he was a completely appalling person in it, and that was a ride and a half. That I apparently just... forgot. /o\
(If I had a time machine I would burn all fake facial hair instead of the TV episodes, excepting only the sacred Brigly moustache and the Eyebrows of Adam Adamant, of course.)
I am not used to feeling so protective on behalf of a TV series rather than a movie, so, thanks, I guess.
Awww. <3 I am a terrible person and very happy to have enabled this! (I mean, if I'm going to go around being attached to these things, company is lovely. <3)
Thank you! I may check that out. I recall you anti-recommending the semi-sequel Blair-centric play.
Yes. It wasn't awful on it's own or anything, but it just took away a bit from the series taken as part of it, whereas Mr Palfrey ended on at least a nice note.
no subject
LOL, although, even better: in the Martin Jarvis rewatch I am even more unconvincingly currently not having, I reached his episode of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, "Five Hundred Carats," and I was definitely not going to rewatch that because all I remembered was that it was bad and he was a rotter with a horrible moustache. But it turned out (because, yes, I DID rewatch it anyway) that I had wronged the episode entirely and must just have been very tired or burned out by 1970s TV adaptations of 19th C stories being offensive and didn't give it a chance as soon as I saw the setting. (The moustache, however, was tragically as bad as I remembered.)
The thing is, I'd forgotten what it was he actually stole and I was deeply amused to find that it was a diamond in a 19th C imperial situation, just like in The Moonstone - so Martin Jarvis stole no less than two fabulous diamonds in two years in the 70s, and deservedly failed to profit from either. No wonder that Inspector suspected him immediately! XD
(My winner in this category, of weirdly specific repeat incidents, is Peter Jeffrey, who managed to be burned to death twice in one year by the BBC in 1972.)
Anyway, he was a completely appalling person in it, and that was a ride and a half. That I apparently just... forgot. /o\
(If I had a time machine I would burn all fake facial hair instead of the TV episodes, excepting only the sacred Brigly moustache and the Eyebrows of Adam Adamant, of course.)
I am not used to feeling so protective on behalf of a TV series rather than a movie, so, thanks, I guess.
Awww. <3 I am a terrible person and very happy to have enabled this! (I mean, if I'm going to go around being attached to these things, company is lovely. <3)
Thank you! I may check that out. I recall you anti-recommending the semi-sequel Blair-centric play.
Yes. It wasn't awful on it's own or anything, but it just took away a bit from the series taken as part of it, whereas Mr Palfrey ended on at least a nice note.