New Seriei

Ok, so I may have made that word up.
Pretty good. A fine job of transfering the description and illustrations (by
the author) of the books to the screen. I'd guess that to the uninitiated,
the acting may seem over-the-top and overly actory, but it's entirely in
keeping with the author's originals. To my addled mind it does seem to be
progressing startlingly quickly, but that might be the feature of a poor
memory.

The princess does seem quite pretty though, and I'm not sure she's supposed
to. If anything, the characters aren't quite grotesque enough, hard as that
may be to believe, for those who've not read the books.

Meanwhile - what about this thing on Thursday evenings on Channel 5? "First
Wave".

I've not seen either episode yet, although rumour has it that it's quite
good. I'll watch ep1 tonight on video, but I'm curious to know how many IFIS
folk are watching it. It's in the "Earth, Final Conflict" slot. I'd guess
most of you are down the pub, but those with videos might have an opinion.

And Finally, for those who care, "Farscape", currently hiding at 11:20pm on
BBC2 on Fridays, has turned out to be a perfectly adequate programme, in a
simple, entertaining kind of way.

Dominic

"Mou mouri gen to" - A dead person is always wrong."
[Haitian Proverb]

It's been on in the States for ages now and seems quite good - I've only
managed to catch the odd episode here and there but the ones I've seen are
very good.
Seeing as how the Sci-Fi channel has finally started showing the last four
episodes of the first series (eight month wait doesn't really matter - thank
god for repeats!) I have to say that the last half of the series is much
better than the first half (although I liked the first half as well). It
definitely gets darker towards the end (some of it is getting quite nasty!)

And finally, the Americans are getting Lexx - I watched it and got really
confused 'cause they are way behind Europe and the announcer burbles about
"new episodes" and they're ones I've already seen!

Jacquie

The 1st episode of firts wave was good, the second went down hill a
bit but it still has potential.

Luke

Maybe, but I knew what you meant.
I hadn't even heard of Gormenghast until the Beeb started running trailers
for it, so I don't have the background knowledge of what it is supposed to
be like. However I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed the first episode. In
places the plot was progressing a little too fast for me to keep up, but I
liked it enough to keep watching. Even if I do lose track of the plot I will
still watch it because it is visually amazing. And Christopher Lee and Ian
Richardson are great.
"First
Haven't seen it.
on
You could always watch the Monday evening version (6:20, after the
Simpsons). Personally I would prefer ritual dismemberment, but that's only
my opinion.

Andy

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