Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:56 am
I'm a bit sad that nobody picked on my use of the words "Crichton-Bull of the F.O." ...
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Well you said it may be a pun on Carlton-Brown of the FO... not much more to say than thatdissolute wrote:I'm a bit sad that nobody picked on my use of the words "Crichton-Bull of the F.O." ...
yes....100 %...he was truly the eternal bachelor..and certainly not one to settle down..lolFrankymole wrote:Sounds right. And they would both have eaten Steed alive if he had become their husband for real. I think he is the eternal bachelor - whether he wants to be, or not. And they're definitely merry widows!
I love Tuke proudly boasting about his "private elephant", that whole speech just tickles me. Avengers humour at its best.dissolute wrote:I've gone back through the first 22 episodes and updated them all to have more direct quotes from the scripts, and to beef up the TV Times listing coverage. Let me know what you think!
dissolute wrote:I've gone back through the first 22 episodes and updated them all to have more direct quotes from the scripts, and to beef up the TV Times listing coverage. Let me know what you think!
This is a great episode for quotes, although I confess some of the others were a struggle.Frankymole wrote:I love Tuke proudly boasting about his "private elephant", that whole speech just tickles me. Avengers humour at its best.dissolute wrote:I've gone back through the first 22 episodes and updated them all to have more direct quotes from the scripts, and to beef up the TV Times listing coverage. Let me know what you think!
It is also another case of the classic foreshadowing, like the ambiguous wording you mentioned from the Major. Tuke's "I like it. I like him come to that. I’d be daft to let anything happen to him and I’m not daft son, just remember that" is eerie in retrospect, and simultaneously more honest.
One of the rare (perhaps the only?) stories where the villains get away with the crime, unpunished. In this case there little "avenging" except perhaps taking out some incidental rebel assassins along the way.
Good idea, rather you than me though - I just know I'd end up spelling something wrong. I'm more yer Grauniad newspaper than the TV Times. I wish I had more knowledge of the regional TV listings mags, too (like TV World), as some of those sometimes had different articles about series and actors than the TV Times.dissolute wrote: I'm especially proud of my revamped TV Times coverage; I'd always sort of ignored it in the past but I had great fun working out the code for displaying a recreation of the listing and displaying it alongside the cuttings.
Yes, I felt like my expanded plot summaries had buried the original short recap so I pulled out the TV Times teaser summaries.Frankymole wrote:Good idea, rather you than me though - I just know I'd end up spelling something wrong. I'm more yer Grauniad newspaper than the TV Times. I wish I had more knowledge of the regional TV listings mags, too (like TV Woprld), as some of those sometimes had different articles about series and actors than the TV Times.dissolute wrote: I'm especially proud of my revamped TV Times coverage; I'd always sort of ignored it in the past but I had great fun working out the code for displaying a recreation of the listing and displaying it alongside the cuttings.
https://www.transdiffusion.org/2014/09/ ... he-tvtimes
I also like the TV Times "tag line" you have as a summary in a different block on the plot pages.