[h-cost] Re: robin hood

2007-03-06 Thread Catherine Kinsey
You can get more info on the website: http://www.bbcamerica.com/ I can't comment on the story yet. I though the first episode was passable in a Robin Hood meets hip 21st century youth sort of way. The costumes are the usual mix of attempts at authenticity and modern fantasy. I'm not sure

Re: [h-cost] Re: robin hood

2007-03-06 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 3/6/2007 9:04:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You know you are in trouble with a show when the peasants look more authentic than the leads. *** This happens all the time in film and TV. I saw HBO's Rome for the 1st time last night.

Re: [h-cost] Re: robin hood

2007-03-06 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 3/5/2007 6:10:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: though I still wish BBC would discover more 19th-century authors instead of perennially refilming Jane Austen, Dickens, and a handful of others. ** I just caught North South. YUMMY!

[h-cost] Re: robin hood

2007-03-05 Thread Gail Scott Finke
Is it on DVD? I don't have cable. I'll watch if the story is good, unless the costumes are awful. Did anyone catch the new Dracula, which was just on here (probably last year's BBC season). I saw about five minutes and couldn't take it after Lucy's new husband left the wedding to perform some

Re: [h-cost] Re: robin hood

2007-03-05 Thread Lavolta Press
Everyone usually massacres Dracula in the same Freudian way Well, Bram Stoker _did_ have syphilis; so all those connections between sex, transmission of a condition by tainted blood, and death are probably not just modern interpretations. I haven't seen the new Dracula. I just watched my

Re: [h-cost] Re: robin hood

2007-03-05 Thread Dawn
Gail Scott Finke wrote: Is it on DVD? I don't have cable. I'll watch if the story is good, unless the costumes are awful. You can get more info on the website: http://www.bbcamerica.com/ I can't comment on the story yet. I though the first episode was passable in a Robin Hood meets hip