DVD and TV Logging
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the_rckAt Bertram’s Hotel - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I followed the murder plot here quite well, even guessing the killer and the motive, but I must confess that I’m still utterly bewildered by the robbery plot. Possibly, another hour would have given that second plot time to unfold in a way that made more sense. I still very much like Hickson as Miss Marple.
Caribbean Mystery - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. This should come with a warning for period typical racism from a number of the characters. Miss Marple doesn’t seem to have issues in that direction, at least in this production. I have no idea about in the original book. The policemen involved in the case are all black and all quite competent, but the white characters who are suspects get very obnoxious about being questioned by black men. I was amused that the senior policeman knew Miss Marple by reputation because he’d trained with someone who had a high opinion of her.
4:50 from Paddington - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I’m pretty sure that I tried to read this one when I was in high school. I remember my mother having a copy of this (under the title What Mrs McGillicudy Saw) and of At Bertram’s Hotel on her shelves. They were paperbacks. I think they were purple and pink with circular illustrations on the covers. I remembered how the murderer was unmasked, but I think that’s because my step-father had told me rather than because I read the book.
Kung Fu Panda 3 - I liked this quite a lot. I’m hoping that they don’t try to do a Kung Fu Panda 4 because I don’t really see Po leveling up further or needing to grow up more. He could still have more cool adventures, I suppose, but the point of the movies has been him becoming himself. I liked the way that the story balanced Po’s fathers without trying to imply that one or the other was more his father.
A Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Um… I’ve forgotten the plot of this one already. Ah, yes. The wonders of the IMDb… I thought the murderer was pretty obvious, and I don’t usually spot that because I don’t pay enough attention. This one involves attempts on a movie star’s life. I got a couple of the male characters mixed up with each other which isn’t usually a problem with these adaptations.
Nemesis - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I have the sense, going through these, that Miss Marple is getting older. Which she would and which the actress must have been doing. But it also feels wrong because Miss Marple should be eternal.
A Pocketful of Rye - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I had seen the last ten minutes of this one at some point. I didn’t realize it until Miss Marple said one particular line, and then I went, “Oh, yes. That.” Scott watched a bit of this with me, and we both remarked on how very young Peter Davison looks in it.
She-wolves: England’s Early Queens - This DVD has three episodes. Matilda and Eleanor. Isabella and Margaret. Jane, Mary, and Elizabeth. I was actually a bit disappointed because I know a fair amount about the periods covered in the first and third episodes. I also don’t tend to think of the Tudors as early.
Sleeping Murder - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I watched an adaptation of this as done with Geraldine McEwan and didn’t really register much about it apart from a romance that I didn’t care for and a tangle of backstory that made no sense whatsoever. The set up and cast of characters here make more sense. This is the end of the Hickson that the library has, apart from a crossover with Poirot that I haven’t tried yet. Looking at the IMDb, that seems to be all of what she did as Miss Marple. Miss Marple actually isn’t in this one all that much, just kind of shows up at intervals to push things along. That made it a bit harder to watch than I’d hoped. I kept pausing the DVD and walking away for an hour or two. Then we lost power which lost my place in the episode. I didn’t want to rewatch, so I just gave up.
Teen Titans Go! season 3 part 1 - This was pure silliness which was kind of what we needed. The humor gets old kind of fast, however, and I'm not convinced there'd be value in rewatching, so it’s probably just as well that I got this from the library. We own season one because I somehow missed the moment when Cordelia stopped wanting to watch and rewatch every episode. At this point, she’s not interested in admitting that she ever liked the show.
Turn episode 1 - We watched most if not all of the first episode. It was more violent than we were comfortable with, but we wanted to try it. This show is about espionage during the American Revolution.
Voltron episode 1 - Scott and I tried this and made it most of the way through the first episode before we looked at each other and asked why we were bothering. I don’t think either of us ever watched the original, so there wasn’t any sort of nostalgia to carry us along, and it was, quite frankly, bad. I don’t know-- maybe later episodes introduce more female characters? (I’ve seen some AO3 tags that imply that this might happen, but…) Maybe some— any? — of the characters develop beyond cardboard and the we-must-have-one-like-this-ness?
Caribbean Mystery - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. This should come with a warning for period typical racism from a number of the characters. Miss Marple doesn’t seem to have issues in that direction, at least in this production. I have no idea about in the original book. The policemen involved in the case are all black and all quite competent, but the white characters who are suspects get very obnoxious about being questioned by black men. I was amused that the senior policeman knew Miss Marple by reputation because he’d trained with someone who had a high opinion of her.
4:50 from Paddington - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I’m pretty sure that I tried to read this one when I was in high school. I remember my mother having a copy of this (under the title What Mrs McGillicudy Saw) and of At Bertram’s Hotel on her shelves. They were paperbacks. I think they were purple and pink with circular illustrations on the covers. I remembered how the murderer was unmasked, but I think that’s because my step-father had told me rather than because I read the book.
Kung Fu Panda 3 - I liked this quite a lot. I’m hoping that they don’t try to do a Kung Fu Panda 4 because I don’t really see Po leveling up further or needing to grow up more. He could still have more cool adventures, I suppose, but the point of the movies has been him becoming himself. I liked the way that the story balanced Po’s fathers without trying to imply that one or the other was more his father.
A Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Um… I’ve forgotten the plot of this one already. Ah, yes. The wonders of the IMDb… I thought the murderer was pretty obvious, and I don’t usually spot that because I don’t pay enough attention. This one involves attempts on a movie star’s life. I got a couple of the male characters mixed up with each other which isn’t usually a problem with these adaptations.
Nemesis - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I have the sense, going through these, that Miss Marple is getting older. Which she would and which the actress must have been doing. But it also feels wrong because Miss Marple should be eternal.
A Pocketful of Rye - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I had seen the last ten minutes of this one at some point. I didn’t realize it until Miss Marple said one particular line, and then I went, “Oh, yes. That.” Scott watched a bit of this with me, and we both remarked on how very young Peter Davison looks in it.
She-wolves: England’s Early Queens - This DVD has three episodes. Matilda and Eleanor. Isabella and Margaret. Jane, Mary, and Elizabeth. I was actually a bit disappointed because I know a fair amount about the periods covered in the first and third episodes. I also don’t tend to think of the Tudors as early.
Sleeping Murder - Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. I watched an adaptation of this as done with Geraldine McEwan and didn’t really register much about it apart from a romance that I didn’t care for and a tangle of backstory that made no sense whatsoever. The set up and cast of characters here make more sense. This is the end of the Hickson that the library has, apart from a crossover with Poirot that I haven’t tried yet. Looking at the IMDb, that seems to be all of what she did as Miss Marple. Miss Marple actually isn’t in this one all that much, just kind of shows up at intervals to push things along. That made it a bit harder to watch than I’d hoped. I kept pausing the DVD and walking away for an hour or two. Then we lost power which lost my place in the episode. I didn’t want to rewatch, so I just gave up.
Teen Titans Go! season 3 part 1 - This was pure silliness which was kind of what we needed. The humor gets old kind of fast, however, and I'm not convinced there'd be value in rewatching, so it’s probably just as well that I got this from the library. We own season one because I somehow missed the moment when Cordelia stopped wanting to watch and rewatch every episode. At this point, she’s not interested in admitting that she ever liked the show.
Turn episode 1 - We watched most if not all of the first episode. It was more violent than we were comfortable with, but we wanted to try it. This show is about espionage during the American Revolution.
Voltron episode 1 - Scott and I tried this and made it most of the way through the first episode before we looked at each other and asked why we were bothering. I don’t think either of us ever watched the original, so there wasn’t any sort of nostalgia to carry us along, and it was, quite frankly, bad. I don’t know-- maybe later episodes introduce more female characters? (I’ve seen some AO3 tags that imply that this might happen, but…) Maybe some— any? — of the characters develop beyond cardboard and the we-must-have-one-like-this-ness?
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