| Poem for Monday |
[May. 19th, 2008|12:32 am] |
( I'm Nobody! Who Are You? )
I spent Sunday being fangirly with ![[info]](http://piktures.deadjournal.com/userinfo.gif) dementordelta, adbaculum, treewishes and rubyrosered at the home of the latter, first having fantastic Japanese food at a restaurant called Grace's, then watching Peter's Friends, which I hadn't seen in ages -- long enough, at least, that the last time I saw it, I had no idea who Hugh Laurie was. I watched it for Branagh and Thompson, though it's the most dated of their collaborations -- not surprisingly, given that the archive footage shows Brezhnev, Arafat, the last Pope, etc. and that the theme is pretty much the same as The Big Chill (or maybe Rent's "There's only us, there's only this, forget regret or life is yours to miss"). It also has Stephen Fry, Phyllida Law, Rita Rudner (who's hilarious) and Imelda Staunton (who's devastating) so worth seeing again, though I was mixing it up with a couple of Woody Allen films in my head. Meanwhile Paul took the kids to Iron Man, so I will certainly be waiting for the DVD to see it.
( Sheep Shearing at Claude Moore Colonial Farm )
My kids wanted to watch The Simpsons season finale, and after that we put on both parts of The Sarah Jane Adventures' "The Lost Boy," which is really well done and confirms my belief that dismissing this as a kids' show is completely missing the point...the kids on this show deal as adults better than most of the supposedly sophisticated dark Torchwood, on which "adult" mostly means "sex and violence" just like on US television. Maybe it's just that people who don't have kids don't like to watch realistic kids on TV, because most kids on TV are plot devices or caricatures, not characters. ( Spoilers. )
Then we watched the beginning of The Tudors' endgame...god, Thomas Boleyn is despicable, he and Henry deserve each other, but his poor children. I appreciate the fact that Anne argues for the Reformation as a spiritual evolution, not for the profit of the King and Cromwell's friends, though she must have known that the King's actions had next to nothing to do with spiritual conviction and that she could quickly find herself in Katherine's position or worse. I've enjoyed this season a lot more than last season and am sorry only to have one more episode. |
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