For Your Viewing Pleasure

very quick wrap up of my many recent viewings. in no particular order:

Six Million Dollar Man Season 1 Discs 1 and 2

Haven't reallly watched this since I was very young. Didn't realise how old it was (original movie length episode is from 1973!) but it actually holds up ok. Hokey, sometimes camp, sometimes reasonably dramatic, funny, and overall highly entertaining, it may have stood the test of time because they treated it reasonably seriously (Glen Larson has a fair track record and show was a breeding ground for many contempary writers such as Mark Frost and Steven Bocchco). I would love for them to treat the big screen version seriously (not sure what approach the original novel, "Cyborg" takes), but with Jim Carrey in the role it seems unlikely. Perhaps I could write it myself? (I had the Six Million Dollar Man figure, see above, but always wanted the villian, Maskatron).

Battlestar Galactica (New Series, Season 1)

Oops, wrong cast! Speaking of Glen Larsen, just finished this off. A surprisingly short finish (not a full season of episodes) and a surprisingly dazzling finale also. The best, most literate sci fi series in many a year (Firefly doesn't really count, as I don't consider it straight ahead sci fi, and it's on a plane of existence of it's own anyway). The original series is a mere blur now and can't wait for season 2. That's better, much more buff...


The Singing Detective (Original Series)

Probably one of the best tv mini-series ever made. Has not aged at all twenty years later, it bounds from the strangely surreal such as they gunfight in the hospital ward to the incredibly moving plight of the diseased writer, P.E. Marlowe with effortless ease. Towering above it all is the commanding presence of Michael Gambon (I'll never say a bad word about his Dumbledore ever again). The supporting cast is rock solid but it's had to get a word in edgewise past Gambon. Curiously, I now have the movie remake sitting on my shelf just waiting to be watched.

Young Adam
A curiousity this, but really hated it in the end. Did not stay true to its characters and became a silly Ewan shagfest. Avoid.