Megalomaniacs Wanted. Requirements: Evil Laughter Over A Broad Range
Timothy Dalton!
Yes! Him! That was it!
(As far as nonsequiteurs go, it's a pretty good one, don't you think? No wait. This is relevant, not a nonsequiteur, I promise.)
My mother and I were conversing about campy, over-the-top British actors of a certain age with a resonant voice who excel at portraying the quasi-megalomaniacal and basically her point was . . . that anything Tim Dalton has been in, you could swap out with Tim Curry and it would be even more so.
Because, just imagine: leaping about in clinging green tights and plotting fearsome, jealous revenge against Flash Gordon and/or Emperor Ming, Prince Barin, lord of the forest planet! . . . as played by Tim Curry!
Or perhaps, more compellingly: crazed with power timelord from the dawn of history, bringing DOOOOOM and DARKNESS down upon us all, Rassilon! . . . as played by Tim Curry!
Did you brain just explode? I think it did.
Is my mother the awesomest for making this point? Yes, yes she is.
I am trying to sort out if it would work in reverse, Tim Curry's noted roles played by Timothy Dalton; something about it makes me less certain of the outcome.
In other news, we are enjoying the new Sherlock. The look on the supporting characters' faces when they realize that he is nothing more and nothing less than an arrogant know-it-all bastard who doesn't give a damn about people's opinions has been a joy and a pleasure to watch. Also Benedict Cumberbatch is talented at going around and thinking at people, which is often hard to make into interesting viewing. Well done him. Television needs more bastards like that.
(The graphic treatment is particularly pleasing, a sort of touch-back to Numb3rs and Stranger Than Fiction, but so pared down-concise and unobtrusive, exactly as it should be. The fact that I squee so much about it means that I am probably cured from Wanting To Be David Carson. Which only took . . . fifteen years. Free, free at last!)
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Yes! Him! That was it!
(As far as nonsequiteurs go, it's a pretty good one, don't you think? No wait. This is relevant, not a nonsequiteur, I promise.)
My mother and I were conversing about campy, over-the-top British actors of a certain age with a resonant voice who excel at portraying the quasi-megalomaniacal and basically her point was . . . that anything Tim Dalton has been in, you could swap out with Tim Curry and it would be even more so.
Because, just imagine: leaping about in clinging green tights and plotting fearsome, jealous revenge against Flash Gordon and/or Emperor Ming, Prince Barin, lord of the forest planet! . . . as played by Tim Curry!
Or perhaps, more compellingly: crazed with power timelord from the dawn of history, bringing DOOOOOM and DARKNESS down upon us all, Rassilon! . . . as played by Tim Curry!
Did you brain just explode? I think it did.
Is my mother the awesomest for making this point? Yes, yes she is.
I am trying to sort out if it would work in reverse, Tim Curry's noted roles played by Timothy Dalton; something about it makes me less certain of the outcome.
In other news, we are enjoying the new Sherlock. The look on the supporting characters' faces when they realize that he is nothing more and nothing less than an arrogant know-it-all bastard who doesn't give a damn about people's opinions has been a joy and a pleasure to watch. Also Benedict Cumberbatch is talented at going around and thinking at people, which is often hard to make into interesting viewing. Well done him. Television needs more bastards like that.
(The graphic treatment is particularly pleasing, a sort of touch-back to Numb3rs and Stranger Than Fiction, but so pared down-concise and unobtrusive, exactly as it should be. The fact that I squee so much about it means that I am probably cured from Wanting To Be David Carson. Which only took . . . fifteen years. Free, free at last!)
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