George Gently
OK, so on the minus side I never posted about George Gently last week... but on the plus side that means I have two weeks' worth to talk about :)
Episode 2
The first thing I have to say is yay that we got to see GG in a vest and doing some boxing! He's in great shape, isn't he? It provided a funny storyline, and also something to look at, if you know what I mean *g* It's strange, seeing how different he looks now from when he was playing Doyle thirty years ago - not that he does look different, but the way in which he looks different, if you know what I mean. I'm not saying this very well, am I?! But Doyle was so thin and I think of that as characteristic of him[1], and yet GG looks so much more sturdy. I have to say, I prefer MS older from a sexual attractiveness point of view...
Anyway, there was also a plot. It was very nicely done, as always. I'd like to see a bit more of Bacchus, in a way - Iwe haven't actually met his wife and children, have we? I'd like to see them, and explore what he's like at home (if he ever goes home *g*), to compare to his flightiness when he's away from them. I'm not at all surprised about his little liaison with Fawn (erm, is that how you spell it??), and it's nice to see GG looking out for him and trying to turn him into a better policeman and person.
[1] He's always the boney one compared to Bodie when they get close... *bg*
Episode 3
To be honest, I think I enjoyed the plot of this episode to the last one. I could guess how everything was going to turn out from quite early on, but that didn't spoil it. It's weird to hear myself saying this, but one of the highlights of this one was Andrew Lee Potts' acting - I watch Primeval, where he's a sensitive geeky type but his role is rather limited in many ways, and I didn't realise he'd be so convincing as a Geordie hard nut[2].
In this one we also discovered that Bacchus is learning something from GG after all. I thought the way they tackled racial hatred was nicely done as well. Sometimes I think GG is too conveniently liberal to come across as a genuine 1960s character (and let's say he's 60ish in the 60s, which would likely mean an even more conservative attitude), showing the kind of tolerance that I don't think most citizens of the UK have reached yet. Here he started off that way again, telling Bacchus off for the way he refers to Asians... and yet we got a nice bit of backstory that tells us a lot about how he came to be so liberal. I thought that was a nice touch.
[2] Erm, probably most people reading this will think 'hard case' is a more natural expression?? But I grew up saying things like 'hard nut' or 'hard lad' (drop the 'h' in both cases - I come from an area of psilosis[3]), so that comes more naturally to me *g* Dialectology is interesting, isn't it?
[3] Think of Bodie saying 'red 'ead' - that's pretty much where I come from :)
Episode 2
The first thing I have to say is yay that we got to see GG in a vest and doing some boxing! He's in great shape, isn't he? It provided a funny storyline, and also something to look at, if you know what I mean *g* It's strange, seeing how different he looks now from when he was playing Doyle thirty years ago - not that he does look different, but the way in which he looks different, if you know what I mean. I'm not saying this very well, am I?! But Doyle was so thin and I think of that as characteristic of him[1], and yet GG looks so much more sturdy. I have to say, I prefer MS older from a sexual attractiveness point of view...
Anyway, there was also a plot. It was very nicely done, as always. I'd like to see a bit more of Bacchus, in a way - Iwe haven't actually met his wife and children, have we? I'd like to see them, and explore what he's like at home (if he ever goes home *g*), to compare to his flightiness when he's away from them. I'm not at all surprised about his little liaison with Fawn (erm, is that how you spell it??), and it's nice to see GG looking out for him and trying to turn him into a better policeman and person.
[1] He's always the boney one compared to Bodie when they get close... *bg*
Episode 3
To be honest, I think I enjoyed the plot of this episode to the last one. I could guess how everything was going to turn out from quite early on, but that didn't spoil it. It's weird to hear myself saying this, but one of the highlights of this one was Andrew Lee Potts' acting - I watch Primeval, where he's a sensitive geeky type but his role is rather limited in many ways, and I didn't realise he'd be so convincing as a Geordie hard nut[2].
In this one we also discovered that Bacchus is learning something from GG after all. I thought the way they tackled racial hatred was nicely done as well. Sometimes I think GG is too conveniently liberal to come across as a genuine 1960s character (and let's say he's 60ish in the 60s, which would likely mean an even more conservative attitude), showing the kind of tolerance that I don't think most citizens of the UK have reached yet. Here he started off that way again, telling Bacchus off for the way he refers to Asians... and yet we got a nice bit of backstory that tells us a lot about how he came to be so liberal. I thought that was a nice touch.
[2] Erm, probably most people reading this will think 'hard case' is a more natural expression?? But I grew up saying things like 'hard nut' or 'hard lad' (drop the 'h' in both cases - I come from an area of psilosis[3]), so that comes more naturally to me *g* Dialectology is interesting, isn't it?
[3] Think of Bodie saying 'red 'ead' - that's pretty much where I come from :)