tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22073066.post5295559769184808230..comments2023-06-03T06:16:38.027-04:00Comments on Estoreal: The Right Honourable LadyRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22073066.post-72626880878377504522007-10-27T22:46:00.000-04:002007-10-27T22:46:00.000-04:00I was also weirdly surprised to hear Mrs. Pritchar...I was also weirdly surprised to hear Mrs. Pritchard call the Opposition members "Right Honourable" -- MPs get to stick "Hon." before their names, but "Rt. Hon." is generally reserved for Prime Ministers.<BR/><BR/>Funny thing to get wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22073066.post-31746880407737442122007-10-27T07:05:00.000-04:002007-10-27T07:05:00.000-04:00I've only seen one episode of Torchwood. The prem...I've only seen one episode of Torchwood. The premiere. And I did feel a lot of sympathy with the cop girl...<BR/><BR/>But now that you mention it, I think you're right. Not that the cop girl shouldn't've got involved, but as Scipio might say, she would've been a much more important figure as a mirror for Harriet Jones...perhaps, even, she might have been amnesia-ized, except that <I>Harriet Jones</I> saw something in her, and forestalled the ammnesiafication. That could have been very nice. "Shut up, Jack! I say she stays!"<BR/><BR/>Better, in fact.<BR/><BR/>You're right, RAB. How did they miss that? Terry Nation wouldn't've missed it...<BR/><BR/>On The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard: after seeing the first episode, I directed my mother, the world's most extreme Jane Horrocks fan (and RAB, I'm shocked: no mention of her star turn in Life Is Sweet?), to watch it...and, you know, even my mother went off it after two episodes. Thing is, Jane notwithstanding (nor any of the other excellent actors), it's kind of, well, stupid.<BR/><BR/>Because it's The West Wing.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe it's Studio 60? There's an unconscious metacommentary there, the Purple Party, they were supposed to be a joke, they were so terribly obvious that no one would've voted for them...but look, now that they're in power, they're...they're...<BR/><BR/>Either conservative or liberal?<BR/><BR/>Either for order or equality?<BR/><BR/>The writing's good, and the acting's better, but it's still The West Wing. It's a little bit (inadvertantly) of a propaganda piece. It is, of course, a ludicrous beginning, and everyone knows it...that's the hook...but unless the writers have something truly wild and weird to offer us soon...then it'll have a ludicrous ending, and that WON'T be good. Mrs. Pritchard is not going to go to Northern Ireland...at least I hope she isn't. Mrs. Pritchard will probably tell George W. Bush to go fuck himself...at least I hope she will, because that's all this show is really about. Either one must be Tony Blair, or one must not be Tony Blair. But in the end one cannot be Guy Fawkes. Or even Ralph Nader (although clearly one is supposed to be). Which in the modern popular conception of politics is the same damn thing: far too extreme. And yet not extreme enough, because in the popular conception of politics, at least as they show it on TV, in a drama, all intentions, no matter how well-acted, count for nothing anyway.<BR/><BR/>Yes: give me Jim Hacker instead! A capable idiot. Whereas Mrs. Pritchard is, unfortunately, an incapable genius -- and her whole show is a very brilliant, very well-dressed, very gorgeously-acted, lie.<BR/><BR/>My gaze will outwear this show. Terrible but true. Even though Jane is my girl. Sad.<BR/><BR/>I agree with your assessment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com