'Heart Of Gold'
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I wish my PBS station would run Dr. Who. Or anything cool. They have a 2 hour block of Are You being served on the weekends and then a couple of other shows that have been run to death.
The other PBS affiliate also shows Are you being served and As time goes by and Keeping up appearances, but at least they throw in Coupling.
Now THAT, I might watch.
It's also on DVD, fyi.
The HGTTG series is only 6 eps long, so I can't imagine it replacing Dr Who, at least not for more than a month. (The TV show wasn't as good as the books or the radio show, but still worth watching.)
The TV show wasn't as good as the books or the radio show, but still worth watching
I've only heard bits and pieces of the radio show, but I'll definitely agree wrt the books. I really liked the Arthur and Ford, but Zaphod and Trillian seemed all wrong to me.
but a couple of heydol-derrydols would have done a world of good.
AAAARRRGH!!! No way. Just, ew.
AAAARRRGH!!! No way. Just, ew.
With Sean and everyone else who's against any Bombadil. As much as I like the Barrow-Wight scenes, it was worth losing to lose TB.
Granted, part of the problem is I've always heard Bombadil's voice in my head with a hillbilly accent, which can't be the impression Tolkien wanted to make. No idea why, but that's how it translated mentally.
part of the problem is I've always heard Bombadil's voice in my head with a hillbilly accent
I always pictured him as the Ghost of Christmas Present from the Movie Musical "Scrooge" - a big, happy-go-lucky guy without a care in the world.
I was thinking they would have cast Uma Thurman as Goldberry. I think TB would have removed a lot of momentum from film.
I was thinking they would have cast Uma Thurman as Goldberry.
Didn't they cast Uma as Arwen, but she had to back out due to pregnancy?
Granted, part of the problem is I've always heard Bombadil's voice in my head with a hillbilly accent, which can't be the impression Tolkien wanted to make.
Weird, Frank. I hear the same sort of accent in my head reading those parts.
I was thinking they would have cast Uma Thurman as Goldberry.
That would have been interesting.
I think TB would have removed a lot of momentum from film.
Yes this. Even if you just threw him in a little. Plus, as they say in the behind-the-scenes stuff, once you've established the Ring as this irresistable force of evil that starts destroying anybody who puts it on, any character, even just one, who can put it on and laugh at it, or resist its effects in any way, destroys the icon of evil you've worked to build in your film, and renders Frodo's journey void.
It's the same reasoning behind the much hated changes to Faramir, which I totally understood and agreed with. Not that I want to rattle a yardstick around inside that particular hornets' nest....