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> "He wasn't his boyfriend, he was a human protector. "
Maybe not a boyfriend, exactly, but he did provide sexual services.
The women were just snacks.
It was a bummer how quickly it sold out (Zavvi really needs to implement some steps to block scalpers, although they probably don't much care f it means they shift their entire product at full asking price!). In my case, since I live in Australia, and mornings for Zavvi are in the middle of the night for me, it was announced and sold out and gone between my midnight and the time I was making my breakfast.
And then that was compounded by the fact that Eureka (the distributor) decided it was only gong to include the bonus booklet in the steelbook, and not the amaray. (Eureka does great supplementary booklets.) I eventually got my copy of the amaray release for about £8 on Amazon, so I can't complain -- at least I got one -- but I would have rather paid a couple of extra pounds and got the booklet as well.
Yep, spot on, raf. He was a penguin, and the joke is that he used a rubber glove on his head and pretended to be a chicken as his disguise. Even down to his nickname of "Feathers", when penguins don't have any. (Well, not so they're obvious, anyway.)
> "Season 4 wasn't a disaster. I said fiasco."
What you're meaning to convey by the word "fiasco" I'm uncertain, lotte, but I can only say I enjoyed series 4 immensely. So much, in fact, that having bought the BD set, I binge-watched all three episodes back-to-back last night, and it's now nearly dawn. I was completely engaged, and personally I found The Final Problem spellbinding. I thought Sian Brooke was pretty amazing throughout the series.
For me, I didn't feel the storytelling flagged, though I do accept that there was a definite tonal shift from previous series, and in particular from the first two series.
I'm content if the show stops there. Not from the "aaaggh, horrible, please don't ruin it any more!" perspective some people are expressing, but because I found the storytelling satisfying to the end.
(Slight caveat: I would like to see the Irene Adler situation revisited and perhaps resolved, but I can live with it if it's not, and I don't think it's important enough to re-open the storylines just for that.)
A "Christian" program? How on earth do you figure that?!
But yeah, I get no hint that Sherlock is gay, but it's got nothing to do with religion. It's just that there's nothing gay in his character. John Watson is like the yin to Sherlock's yang, not an undeclared lover.
I think Mycroft would be a far better candidate for being gay, if anyone was ... but I'm pretty sure he isn't actually gay either, since he seems to be having a dalliance with Lady Smallwood.
Yeah, he's been memorable in everything I've seen him in.
He definitely made his mark in the HBO prison drama, OZ.
I think it's pretty clear they didn't want a structured drama based on archaeological fact; they wanted a motion comic they could populate with CG spectacle and American clichés.
> "The short film "Rings" included on the DVD of "The Ring Two" is a much worthier follow up. "
Certainly is, Ollie.
They ruined the Blu-ray of the first US film by altering the colour timing (from a CRT TV's blue glow to -- I presume -- a well-water mould green, but the blue made more sense in the story), but they did get a couple of things right, and one was including the short film "Rings" that had originally been on the second film's DVD.
The US remake is easily my favourite of all the Ring flicks (yes, including the Japanese originals), so I'm content with having it as a stand-alone story, and the short film as it coda, and forgetting both the full-length US sequels. (I haven't seen the third US film yet, but I've been told by friends not to bother.)
I know you wrote this a long time ago, Muggy, but yeah, I'm just watching it now.
I've liked this show since it first aired, mostly for the way it plays with real-life history and UFO lore. By comparison, I've always had a bit of a love/hate for Chris Carter's little effort [ ;-) ], which I've often felt jerks its audiences around too much; at least with this one, Zabel and his team genuinely tried to develop a strong, connected plot.
The complete show is on DVD in the US from Shout Factory, and still available for purchase from Amazon. If you like the show, it's well worth getting, and includes the unaired pilot (with its original Mark Snow score) and details of the plans they made for a second year of the show.
In its first year, I was a bigger fan of this show than of its Fox competitor. I was always sorry the studio didn't trust audiences to be able to deal with more than one Sci-fi/UFO show at the same time.
For those in Region B who want this on Blu-ray without paying TT prices, I can thoroughly recommend the dual-format (Blu-ray and DVD) release from Indicator. It has everything the TT release has, plus a few extra goodies.