Dang! I'm still going to watch ... but not, perhaps, with as much enthusiasm as I felt a few weeks ago.
I'm glad to hear that McKellan brings a level of "impishness" to his portrayel of #2 ... but sorry to hear that his character was, "written with assiduous humorlessness by Bill Gallagher" - didn't Gallagher ever see Leo McKern's portrayel of #2? And which #2 did the original series' producers bring back for the closing episodes?
I'm also less-than-enthused by the references to a LOT of back-story created for the #2 character ... what's the point?
Oh, well ... still ... be seeing it ... and, "Be seeing you!"
I liked the idea that the Number 2 characters were easily replaced in the original series.
"I'm the new Number 2," to which Number 6 replied each week, "Who is Number 1?"
The Number 2 in the first episode, Guy Doleman (Count Lippe in the James Bond film, "Thunderball"), was replaced mid-episode by George Baker (Tiberius in "I, Claudius").
As good an actor as Ian Mckellen can be, I like the idea of a new Number 2 in each episode.
And yes, I agree. None were better than the late, great actor Leo McKern, who portrayed Number 2 in the second episode and the last two episodes.
I was rather disappointed in the last episode when I first saw it, but I still love the original series. I'm watching it again for perhaps the 20th time.
I plan to watch the new series as well, and it may suprise me.
Jim Caviezel is a fine, strange actor ("The Thin Red Line" and "The Passion of the Christ"), so he may be good as the new Number 6.
I'm not sure I like the updated version, in which Number 6 resigns from a corporation rather than a secret government organization.
Aww, I was looking forward to this, even though I'd forgotten about it recently. The final episode of the original was too weird though. I suppose it got some of their convoluted message across, but I thought they were trying to do too much with it and should have simplified it a bit. The whole season gave us characters and the finale gave us types.
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ReplyDeleteDang! I'm still going to watch ... but not, perhaps, with as much enthusiasm as I felt a few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that McKellan brings a level of "impishness" to his portrayel of #2 ... but sorry to hear that his character was, "written with assiduous humorlessness by Bill Gallagher" - didn't Gallagher ever see Leo McKern's portrayel of #2? And which #2 did the original series' producers bring back for the closing episodes?
I'm also less-than-enthused by the references to a LOT of back-story created for the #2 character ... what's the point?
Oh, well ... still ... be seeing it ... and, "Be seeing you!"
I liked the idea that the Number 2 characters were easily replaced in the original series.
ReplyDelete"I'm the new Number 2," to which Number 6 replied each week, "Who is Number 1?"
The Number 2 in the first episode, Guy Doleman (Count Lippe in the James Bond film, "Thunderball"), was replaced mid-episode by George Baker (Tiberius in "I, Claudius").
As good an actor as Ian Mckellen can be, I like the idea of a new Number 2 in each episode.
And yes, I agree. None were better than the late, great actor Leo McKern, who portrayed Number 2 in the second episode and the last two episodes.
I was rather disappointed in the last episode when I first saw it, but I still love the original series. I'm watching it again for perhaps the 20th time.
I plan to watch the new series as well, and it may suprise me.
Jim Caviezel is a fine, strange actor ("The Thin Red Line" and "The Passion of the Christ"), so he may be good as the new Number 6.
I'm not sure I like the updated version, in which Number 6 resigns from a corporation rather than a secret government organization.
Well, be seeing you!
Aww, I was looking forward to this, even though I'd forgotten about it recently. The final episode of the original was too weird though. I suppose it got some of their convoluted message across, but I thought they were trying to do too much with it and should have simplified it a bit. The whole season gave us characters and the finale gave us types.
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