I'm having more fun than I expected. It's not like I haven't watched favourite eps here and there ever since I got my set, but sitting down to devour the whole lot of it is - nice. :-)
Funnily enough, when I watched S1 of the Professionals last year, Stakeout was the only one I really enjoyed. But you can guess why, I think. :lol:
(Even if he was being an awful cowardly racist terrorist. It was still wonderfully silly from my slightly biased point of view. And a car went into a pile of cardboard boxes, so then I felt culturally fulfilled.)
And I did love Gordon Jackson as Cowley. He was especially awesome and the main reason I watched the rest of the series. (Not that I can't see the appeal in the main two leads, but they aren't quite as great as Cowley. :lol:)
... I should probably learn how to watch TV properly, shouldn't I?
Yes, yes, I do believe that I know exactly why you really enjoyed Stakeout. *g* Also, cultural fulfillment through pop-culture tropes? I can totally dig it....
I've always been fond of Gordon Jackson. I liked his turn as the lawyer in A Town Like Alice, and I kept an eye out for him when the spouse had The Great Escape on the telly. :-)
Also I phrased that badly, I didn't mean to imply that I didn't enjoy any of the others at all. I wouldn't have watched the whole of S1 had that been the case. (Just at the time it was an important part of regulating my routine, so I watched 3 eps a day or whatever DVD set I was going through and... three eps a day of The Professionals was just a bit too much aggressive 1970s sexism in my life at once. Ridiculous David Collings-related supposedly terrorist shenanigans was fine, however. ;-D)
Yes, I am definitely going to look out for him in other things now.
CQ really shows Bodie off in a bad way. My biggest beef is how very unprofessional he is from the get go. Of course, if he had used his head, called Cowley right off, the story would have ended in the first five minutes and a better script could have been written. *bg*
I do think that throughout the series, Bodie's character is written in a bad light several times. I guess for the writers this was a plot device. For me, it was lazy and annoying.
Well, yes, even if he'd just maintained observation, they'd have had a great chance of catching them. But as you say, that wouldn't make an exciting ep. Wild Justice is another ep where Bodie's reckless, lone wolf tendencies are played up for Great Drama, and again I find it a hard ep to watch. I want to like the silly bugger, dammit!
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(Even if he was being an awful cowardly racist terrorist. It was still wonderfully silly from my slightly biased point of view. And a car went into a pile of cardboard boxes, so then I felt culturally fulfilled.)
And I did love Gordon Jackson as Cowley. He was especially awesome and the main reason I watched the rest of the series. (Not that I can't see the appeal in the main two leads, but they aren't quite as great as Cowley. :lol:)
... I should probably learn how to watch TV properly, shouldn't I?
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I've always been fond of Gordon Jackson. I liked his turn as the lawyer in A Town Like Alice, and I kept an eye out for him when the spouse had The Great Escape on the telly. :-)
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Also I phrased that badly, I didn't mean to imply that I didn't enjoy any of the others at all. I wouldn't have watched the whole of S1 had that been the case. (Just at the time it was an important part of regulating my routine, so I watched 3 eps a day or whatever DVD set I was going through and... three eps a day of The Professionals was just a bit too much aggressive 1970s sexism in my life at once. Ridiculous David Collings-related supposedly terrorist shenanigans was fine, however. ;-D)
Yes, I am definitely going to look out for him in other things now.
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I do think that throughout the series, Bodie's character is written in a bad light several times. I guess for the writers this was a plot device. For me, it was lazy and annoying.
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