What TV series are you currently watching?

[Kalevala]

Not to forget the Corgi Batmobile car!

I couldn't possibly forget it, I was besotted by it!

Actually it was given to me for Christmas when I was five, and I don't know if you remember but it fired little pellets out of the silver gun barrels at the back. And that Christmas Day we went to church and believe it or not were sitting right in front of Harold Wilson who was Prime Minister at the time! And during the service the five-year-old me was running his new Batmobile up and down the ledge on the back of the pew and decided to try out his new pellet-firer ... When my mother looked round and saw what was happening she was utterly mortified, offering frantic whispered apologies, and I was put firmly back in my seat.
Then, in a gesture that made me have an affection for him that endures to this day, at the end of the service Harold Wilson came up to us and started asking me about the car, saying to my parents it had been no problem, he loved Batman too and watched it every week and loved my car.
All was forgiven and I met my first and only Prime Minister!  

What a fun story!  I've never seen that toy before, but it looks cool! 

And yes, I watched Batman too.  Particularly loved the episodes when Catwoman was on it. Poor torn Batman. lol 

K

[Iota]

Most interesting. You seem to be constantly in the presence of former or present Prime Ministers! Apparently Attlee used to get the last underground train home from Westminster to Pinner rather than waste tax-payers money on a taxi.

Haha, mercifully not, those were the only two who've crossed my path. Though my neighbour who moves in exalted circles and speaks his mind very freely, forcefully and alarmingly articulately, was telling Keir Starmer off at some garden party recently. He must have wondered what hit him.

[Kalevala]

Haha, mercifully not, those were the only two who've crossed my path. Though my neighbour who moves in exalted circles and speaks his mind very freely, forcefully and alarmingly articulately, was telling Keir Starmer off at some garden party recently. He must have wondered what hit him.

Interesting! 

The closest that I've ever been to a PM was via an autograph that I have in an old book (purchased at a mostly epherma related auction some years ago).

K

[Kalevala]

Haha, mercifully not, those were the only two who've crossed my path. Though my neighbour who moves in exalted circles and speaks his mind very freely, forcefully and alarmingly articulately, was telling Keir Starmer off at some garden party recently. He must have wondered what hit him.

My mistake.  I had forgotten who it was.  It was a member of Parliament.  It was John Burns.  I had purchased two books.  Not certain what you would call them.  They are basically *home-made diaries of events that she went to and people that she met complete with programs, memorabilia (the kind that one could glue/attach to a blank book).  In this case, she apparently contacted him in order to meet with him as he sent her a hand-written reply (telling her of when his hours would be there).  Fun to look at and makes me wonder what her life was like and what she was like.

*No written entries...more of a keepsakes.

K

[Karl Henning]

The man who gave us "You bubble-headed boobie!"

I should have guessed there would be more:

[Irons]

Most interesting. You seem to be constantly in the presence of former or present Prime Ministers!  Apparently Attlee used to get the last underground train home from Westminster to Pinner rather than waste tax-payers money on a taxi.

Unlike Tony Blair. After the end of his stint as PM he found it difficult adjusting that his car stopped at traffic lights!

[vandermolen]

Unlike Tony Blair. After the end of his stint as PM he found it difficult adjusting that his car stopped at traffic lights!

Yes, very unlike Tony Blair!

[Fëanor]

It's the second time you're doing it, so I'm just going to say that I do not care for the tone you're assuming when addressing my posts. I'm sure you are capable of voicing whatever reservations you have about ROP without trying to invalidate my opinion under pretense of an erudition that you obviously do not possess.
...

Then I must beg you pardon because it certainly wasn't my intent to offend, only to disagree.

Yes, I have read The Hobbit, Lord of Rings, and the Silmarillion (many times), also Unfinished Tales, Children of Húrin.  I admit I have some struggled through but not all of the related Tolkien compendiums;  if erudition relies on having fully digested all this material then surely I'm not erudite but then didn't I claim to be, (despite my moniker).

The first three above are considered "canon" for the very good reason that the other works such as History of Middle earth include frequent contradictory details.

To be sure having read the canonic works I'm aware that Morgoth created the Orcs from Elves he captured.  But the series' 'Adar' character, his "father of the Orcs" claim, his challenging of Sauron, etc., is not warranted "fill in" detail, IMHO.

As for the production, I'll stick with seeing it as adolescent fantasy bordering on puerile.  As for my 'DEI' comment, Tolkien's idea of diversity was Elves, Dwarves, and Men;  portraying multiracial communities of each is merely anachronistic  pandering to current sensibilities.

[Todd]

After viewing multiple episodes of Mythical Kitchen, YouTube's super-powerful AI-powered algorithm determined I might like FutureCanoe, who started off as a TikTok star.  He's a good Chinese kid who lives on the Lower East Side, replicates online recipes and cookbook recipes, and delivers it with a cross-borough sensibility as his style reminds the viewer of Adam Friedland quite frequently.  He also addresses age-old questions, like does duck fat make everything better?

   

[NumberSix]

The Marvel series Agatha All Along on Disney+ is now through 5 episodes (4 more to go, I believe). Episodes drop on Wednesday evenings.

It's terrific. The whole cast are great, but Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza are particularly stunning (and not just their looks - but of course that, too ). The show is funny and dark and complex.

[Karl Henning]

About half-way through the first season of The Fugitive. loving it. Just watched an episode which was way ahead of its time in treating compassionately a character described (in the unkind way then current) as "retarded."

[Kalevala]

I'm back to watching "The Prisoner" after a bit of a break.  Just finished watching S1E08 (The Dance of the Dead).  The "goldfish in a bowl" line caught my attention.

@NumberSix By the way, you looked quite handsome in a tux. 

Stupid radio!   

K

p.s.  Really liked the acting of the actress, Mary Morris, who played No. 2 in this one.  Well done!

p.p.s.  And the cat should have stayed with him.  In real life, kitty would have run away from No. 2.  Cats know people and choose them carefully.

K

[NumberSix]

Yay! Glad you're enjoying it!

[Papy Oli]

Last night, Slow Horses S4 finale.

Gripping and very tense last hour.

Overall, I can't help feeling that this series was less "meaty" and less-dialogue based (too much reliance on "atmosphere" so to speak) than the previous ones. Still very good in its own right but something was missing. Maybe it is to be seen as a transition series into S5 as there are a few loose ends leftover too.

[Karl Henning]

I'm back to watching "The Prisoner" after a bit of a break.  Just finished watching S1E08 (The Dance of the Dead).  The "goldfish in a bowl" line caught my attention.

@NumberSix By the way, you looked quite handsome in a tux. 

Stupid radio! 

K

p.s.  Really liked the acting of the actress, Mary Morris, who played No. 2 in this one.  Well done!

p.p.s.  And the cat should have stayed with him.  In real life, kitty would have run away from No. 2.  Cats know people and choose them carefully.

K

It has to be more than a decade ago, I was in a Newbury Comics which is no longer there (I think they may still be in Quincy Market and on Newbury Street itself) I was in the queue for the register to buy the monaural remaster of This Was Jethro Tull, and my eye happened to stray to a shelf above the cashier's head, whereon I saw DVD boxes of The Prisoner and the "Monty Python 16-Ton Megaset" Instant impulse purchase.

[JBS]

It has to be more than e decade ago, I was in a Newbury Comics which is no longer there (I think they may still be in Quincy Market and on Newbury Street itself) I was in the queue for the register to buy the monaural remaster of This Was Jethro Tull, and my eye happened to stray to a shelf above the cashier's head, whereon I saw DVD boxes of The Prisoner and the "Monty Python 16-Ton Megaset" Instant impulse purchase.

So you were another day older and deeper in debt?

[Kalevala]

It has to be more than e decade ago, I was in a Newbury Comics which is no longer there (I think they may still be in Quincy Market and on Newbury Street itself) I was in the queue for the register to buy the monaural remaster of This Was Jethro Tull, and my eye happened to stray to a shelf above the cashier's head, whereon I saw DVD boxes of The Prisoner and the "Monty Python 16-Ton Megaset" Instant impulse purchase.

Both of them? 

K

[Karl Henning]

Both of them? 

K

Yes, indeed! There was also the box of Patrick McGoohan's earlier series, Secret Agent. I don't say I wasn't tempted, but such an extravagant haul would have been too tough a sell to my missus.

[Kalevala]

Both of them? 

K

Yes, indeed!

@Karl Henning Mind the parrot...and the penguin!

[NumberSix]

So you were another day older and deeper in debt?

Sold his soul to the Newbury Store. . .