(no subject)

[avevale_intelligencer]

Turns out a lot of my further thoughts on the godsense came out in comments, and the rest I've forgotten. So, back to the telly-watching, and last night and today's treat was the Reeves and Mortimer remake of Randall and Hopkirk Deceased. Great fun. I loved the original series, and this was in every way a fitting successor to it. Vic and Bob played it mostly straight and were therefore the funniest I've ever seen them, Emilia Fox was a true Jeannie for the modern age, Tom was divine as he always is, and the effects technology was used sparingly and sensitively. The scripts were more reminiscent of The Avengers than the original R & H (D), but as such they succeeded in recapturing, for me at least, a sense of innocent fun that was characteristic of that kind of telly in those days and that I thought long lost.

Would that all remakes were as good, or as faithful.

We've now moved on to RTD's Casanova, in which Tennant's portrayal of the lad himself is only distinguishable from his Doctor by virtue of the fact that he has plausibly to turn into Peter O'Toole at some point. But then, since I have no investment in any previous depiction of the character of Casanova, I don't much care and can enjoy the show for what it is.