There is also some kind of behind-the-scene special on Spooks that just came up on tv torrents. I'm downloading it along with 3.10. Somewhat frustratingly, the special is DL'ing a lot faster than the episode, which is slooooow as a snail's ass.
Yesterday, I watched 3.09 I'd downloaded earlier. I have to give it to them. They are
not afraid of getting their characters' hands dirty.
Also, I think I know what's going to happen based on the combination of the teaser and an oblique comment in K.'s LJ. Damnit.
Vonnie, I haven't read any oblique comments, but I think something I read on the official boards is slanting my expectations. I'm more than halfway through, and it's TENSE. I mean, it'd be tense anyway, but this is ugly.
Arrgh. I'm only at 3.5%, and oh, right. I'm at work. Hopefully it'd finish DL'ing by the time I'm ready to go home.
Apparently, one of the things mentioned in
Spooks
special is that
the actors playing Ruth and Harry are fashioning their performances as if these two are a bit in love with each other.
And I saw quite a bit of that subtext in 3.09. I like that idea very much indeed.
Ooh, that subtext thing is interesting.
This is a good ep. I can't believe I have to go to work before I'm done watching it.
Yeah, so I'll just be late into work instead.
t growls at ita and her Spooks-having
It was only about 40% done when I left the house this morning.
I only watched about 10 or 15 minutes of the Earthsea thing. I simply couldn't handle it.
It was worth being late for, in that can't-stop-now sort of way.
It's rare that a show's badness would give me bad dreams about how bad it was. I congradulate Earthsea on it's sucess in that regard.
Danny Glover was good though, gotta give him kudos for nuance and style.
Yep. Harry Potter, Lord of the Earthsea.
I can see the pitch being made.
"I read this book once. Well, I skimmed the Cliff Notes. Anyway, I'm thinking we could totally do this, except, you know, punch it up a bit."
"I dunno, Harry Potter is pretty popular right now. Is it like Harry Potter?"
"It could be. There's a school, I think. And it has a hero of low birth."
"Great, make sure you play up any similarities. Any fighting? Swords? Costumes? Aurthurian medievally stuff is always good."
"Well, I'm not sure what costumes they had, I don't remember the Cliff Notes that well."
"No matter, just stick them in something medievally. Oh, and can the prince guy be a king? People like kings. Like Lord of the Rings, you know...stuff"
"I have no problem with that."
"Oh, and we have a lot of actors under contract we'd like as guest stars."
"Again, I have no problem with that."
"Oh! and Kristen Kreuk from Smallville said she's free about the time you're filming this. She's pretty. Can you—"
"—Now wait a minute! Um, uh. well ok. You're writing the check."
"Fine, fine. Have fun. Try not to be too wed to the book. Authors can be such babies. Just bring it in on time and under budget. Don't waste time on reshoots and rehearsing and original lines and stuff."
"Righto. Gotcha."
Where does the LJ Spooks discussion live?
