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Oct. 20th, 2009 09:26 amWe've been watching the first season of The Equalizer. This was quite a fun series starring Edward Woodward as an ex-spy turned urban Robin Hood. Three episodes (but only three, sadly) featured Saul Rubinek, now one of the stars of Warehouse 13, as a brilliantly annoying yuppie-type spy who tried (and presumably failed) to sideline Woodward's former boss, Control (played by Robert Lansing), and assume power in the "Agency." It's good writing.
Stewart Copeland's theme music fascinates me. There's a strong beat, as always with Copeland, but there's a middle section where I find it almost-but-not-quite impossible to follow the rhythm, so that when the main theme comes in I'm often surprised to find myself a beat out...which is so symbolic of the way Woodward's character ideally operates, putting his adversaries on the wrong foot, misdirecting them, that I wonder whether that was Copeland's intention or whether he was just putting together an interesting bit of music.
And of course Woodward is always magnificently watchable. Now where are the other three seasons?
Stewart Copeland's theme music fascinates me. There's a strong beat, as always with Copeland, but there's a middle section where I find it almost-but-not-quite impossible to follow the rhythm, so that when the main theme comes in I'm often surprised to find myself a beat out...which is so symbolic of the way Woodward's character ideally operates, putting his adversaries on the wrong foot, misdirecting them, that I wonder whether that was Copeland's intention or whether he was just putting together an interesting bit of music.
And of course Woodward is always magnificently watchable. Now where are the other three seasons?