Posted on 08/11/2011 7:24:51 AM PDT by tlb
*So which recurring character will be gay??? Aunt Clara?? Uncle Arthur?? Dr. Bombay???*
Have you watched the show, which one of them wasn’t gay? They all seemed a little off to me.
Everyone needs a hobby.
Maybe in the remake he can be a meaningless government bureaucrat who takes home $250K/year with a 90% pension.
-PJ
Shows I watch that are current and have no or nearly no anti-wholesome messages:
NCIS (jury is going to be out on the next season though: Mark Harmon’s effect on the last season was at best to overly soften the plots). I miss Caitlin Todd!
Burn Notice: Mike Westen and Sam Axe forever!! Bruce Campbell rules!
Necessary Roughness (black culture gets really rough treatment on this one)
Blue Bloods is the only network show I will even surf by. The plots are retreads and the premise is contrived, which detracts from its core value of being resolutely all-American and entirely conservative.
Not quite so dependable:
Leverage has brilliant British-quality plots but thematically teeters into Pc-ness, especially on the bad guy side, but I don’t find it hopelessly obnoxious (besides, Gina Bellman distracts me). The premise that the cast work in a world where the first mistake will be their last one makes the show a modern-dress western and the plots have no mercy on whiners, cheaters and thieves who use the system to shelter their crimes and spoil their generally helpless victims, who usually are truly ordinary folks who don’t ask for a hand-out. I’d love to see them do a Job on some government functionary one of these days.
Eureka is very progressive, but somehow it still manages to come across as all-American. Don’t know why. Must be Colin Ferguson as the sheriff. That and the tone is agreeably breezy. There are the bad guys and they will do horrible damage if not corralled, but this is not Caprica: people are enjoying this universe and that’s a positive all by itself.
Alphas is fun and the characters are attractively flawed in ways that make them interdependent and vulnerable. Too new to evaluate, however: we’re in the fifth week.
Other than that, pretty slim, it’s true.
Sorry about this, Chief:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086450/
And it is really terrible. So, in a way, you’re right.
Brisco was the son of a slain US Marshal. James West was a Secret Service agent on special assignment from President Grant.
Brisco was supposed to be a blend of the Old West and Indiana Jones, with a lot of campiness thrown in.
The first season was cute until they threw in the sci-fi stuff. Then they added John Astin as the Mad Scientist in the later seasons.
-PJ
Umm...mosey on over to IMDB, pardner. John Astin was in the earliest episodes and then replaced by some guy I never saw again.
The ‘orb’ was the subject of the pilot, so Sci-Fi was an element of the show right from the start. In fact, touching the orb brought Brisco back from the dead in one early episode.
And Wild Wild West was chock-full of anachronistic gadgets. Moriarty was forever coming up with one madcap crackpot science project after another. Half the fun was figuring out how West was going to be tied up and how could he possibly escape? (Oh my!) And Brisco also was captured and menaced by some oddball trap or another in just about every episode.
Both series actually owe a lot to Dudley DoRight.
And Brisco had Kelly Ferguson.
West had Artimus Gordon as his partner, making all the gadgets.
Dr. Lovelace (Michael Dunn) was a common foe.
-PJ
IIRC, Klemperer insisted to the writers/producers that Klink NEVER get the upper hand (for obvious reasons).
ACK, yes, Lovelace was the name...and he made no gadgets?
Yes, Gordon was a 19th century proto-geek, that is true.
Sure wish Kevin Kline had caught the vibe that Gordon should be puckish (rather than racist). For a character who makes geekness hysterically funny, check Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison on ‘Leverage’.
-PJ
He was actually who I watched the show to see.
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