Aug 10, 2008 01:16
I'm watching Due South, and just got to the fourth season, where Ray suddenly turns blond and everything turns kind of strange. And the strangeness, it took me a while to realize what it was.
No, not the suddenly apparent homoeroticism.
The new-and-improved Ray is a cylon. He is Leoben. (But younger.)
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Also watching The Avengers, series 4, with Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel. Seriously? This show was way ahead of its time. Mrs. Peel is one kick-ass woman, and this was in 1965. She can fight. She is a genius. She wears leather. She is highly educated. And she is witty. There is wonderful banter and UST. What other TV shows had kick-ass women like that at the time? Or even decades later? The show was pure WIN on so many levels. Plus great plots like Man-Eating Thinking Plants from Outer Space, and Evil Scientists Plotting to Take Over the World, etc. What's not to love? ^^
Also, it's fun to play "spot the guest actor" -- people who became well-known later on, like Gerald Harper, who went on to play Adam Adamant, or such very young versions of John Woodvine, Peter Bowles, and Bernard Cribbins.
telly,
the amazing power of british telly