baffling mysteries

[cimorene]

1. why is wax suddenly downloading medical investigation again?

2. why isn't the fry/laurie jeeves & wooster more popular?

3. why is peter wingfield NEVER just dressed in a t-shirt on screen? i remember big t-shirts being fairly standard dress in the 90's.

4. why do the producers of all the csis constantly put beautiful women in quantities of makeup great enough to actually interfere with their attractiveness?

eta: why are even (especially?) people of excellent good taste occasionally prey to the charms of purple prose? sea-glass eyes? i'm terrified i'm actually going to use that now.

Comments

[watergal.livejournal.com]

why is peter wingfield NEVER just dressed in a t-shirt on screen?

Just a t-shirt?! Works for me!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

you know, i had that thought after i hit "post", but then i decided: well, why isn't he in just a t-shirt on screen? so i left it.

[almostnever.livejournal.com]

2. why isn't the fry/laurie jeeves & wooster more popular?

I love it dearly, but even I found it a little tiresome by mid-season three. I think being crammed into an hour-long show each time hurts the stories; some of them need less time and some need more, but they all get inflated, conflated or deflated to fit the time-box of television. So, some of the episodes feel blown-out, empty and weightless, and some feel cramped, heavy and exhausting. Laurie and Fry are always irresistable, but when the pacing is too frenetic or too slow, the episode as a whole suffers, regardless of their charms. Also, it's bit repetitive. The fourth time Bertie has to steal something or face engagement to Random Society Shrew, you can't help starting to yawn a little.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, i've only seen the pilot episode, i must confess. i have heard the same bad things about the changes they made to bring it to the screen before. but in the first enchanting hour, i think fry and laurie's irresistability easily makes up the loss of the delightful narrative voice. i was pleasantly surprised by how well they translated to the screen.

...in written canon i don't get bored the fourth time he's in any given situation, or even the tenth; but that may be where the narrative voice really comes in.

[almostnever.livejournal.com]

Fry and Laurie are utterly perfect, no doubt about that. Even when the episode itself tests your patience, you can always count on them to be great.

in written canon i don't get bored the fourth time he's in any given situation, or even the tenth; but that may be where the narrative voice really comes in.

I think that's probably true.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

♥ they really were. there just isn't enough love in the world for that kind of perfectly matched comedic duo. ahhhhh. especially playing such a perfectly slashable pair.

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

I love the Jeeves & Wooster series--it's true that the quality goes down in the last two seasons, but the first two are great. Different from the books, and not always in a good way, but it's definitely worth watching, especially for the slash.

(Randomly reading your journal after reading your recs page--thanks for reccing my R&G stories, btw. And for banning those intro posts.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

And for banning those intro posts.

i seem to have earned a lot of good karma with that.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I loved Jeeves and Wooster, but towards the end they started with cringe-inducing stuff like drag!Jeeves or the bit where they leap off the ship, then turn up at the flat in jungle tatters. No. No. No no no. I could stand the changes being non-canon, but as a rule they weren't very funny.

I will note that the series sets have never gone out of print (or whatever one calls tapes-n-disks) in the US and the UK, which is no small feat.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

drag!Jeeves or the bit where they leap off the ship, then turn up at the flat in jungle tatters.

WHAT? omg, a world of know. i shudder to think of seeing it.

even though i was totally going to write a shipwrecked jeeves & wooster slash story myself.

i didn't know that they'd never been out of whatever, either. i just. i mean, i've only seen them in the bbc and public television catalogs. not even on tv, or in the public library. :sigh:

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh, write it! It will take the cringe away.

You can see an icon of drag!Jeeves here. If you dare.
http://www.journalfen.net/users/phosfate/63677.html

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i do plan to.

someday.

omg drag!jeeves is really disturbing. i don't like him at all.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*nods* He was more terrifying than funny.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the internationally tall stephen fry sort of hovers on that line all the time.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

"Hallo. FRY SMASH!"

[cimness.livejournal.com]

which i of course read as fry SLASH.

fandom wars take on a new level of scary.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

um. a world of NO.

i really don't know what makes me do that...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's the homonym agenda, forcing itself on us again.