tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506995090336963455.post4055172991570939344..comments2023-03-21T05:49:21.694-04:00Comments on Seeking Avalon: Laugh When They Pee Themselves. It's HealthierAvalon's Willowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07539301720154191607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506995090336963455.post-83109333396027802182008-10-08T21:37:00.000-04:002008-10-08T21:37:00.000-04:00Angeline:The Tarzan TV Series, which I watched a c...Angeline:<BR/><BR/>The Tarzan TV Series, which I watched a couple episodes of until I couldn't take the suck anymore was back in 2003.<BR/><BR/>It's been a shock to realize it was 5 years ago. The suck is still so strong in my memory. It starred Mitch Pileggi of X-Files fame and Lucy Lawless of Xena fame as the dueling relatives of the long lost John Clayton 'Tarzan'.<BR/><BR/>His aunt who wanted, seemingly, to protect him and help him acclimate to city life again. And his uncle who, seemingly, wanted him declared incompetant or insane, take over his shares in the family industy and lock him away forever.<BR/><BR/>I say seemingly because of what I remember about the show, we were forever being tilted one way or another to suspect that both relatives had ulterior motives and camoflauged ways of caring for Tarzan while feuding with each other.<BR/><BR/>It should have been so interesting. Especially with Jane being an NYPD detective caught up at first in tracking down Tarzan in the city and then protecting him from a) situations where he could be taken advantage of b) situations that set him up to look criminal, thus playing into his uncle's hands to have him declared incopetant etc.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately it was the most boring thing since watching shades of pink dry on a wall in summertime while you knew the circus was in town parading down mainstreet three blogs away but you were grounded and not allowed to move from the corner.<BR/><BR/>Half of it was the script and dialogue, a fourth was one particular premise that just made Jane too stupid to live. And the last fourth was, as did happen with Birds of Prey, the network trying to hedge its bets. It wouldn't committ to being a Speculative Fiction story with detective elements. And instead tried to sledgehammer in angsty emo, almost teenager love-story (even though the chemistry between the two leads was palatable and needed absolutely no purposeful scenes to make you believe it).<BR/><BR/>It was really, really sad. To this day I don't know if Travis Fimmel (the model turned actor) could really act, or would have grown into a good actor in that role. But there's no way he could work with what they were giving him.Avalon's Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07539301720154191607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506995090336963455.post-88148200950905212892008-10-08T05:59:00.000-04:002008-10-08T05:59:00.000-04:00They did a TV show of Tarzan? I'm nervous... I lik...They did a TV show of Tarzan? I'm nervous... I liked the Weismuller movies and the film, <I>Greystoke</I> especially, and it's a thing where I see the potential for harm with a big red flashing light on it...<BR/><BR/><I>- a show about Dick Grayson before his life changes forever, is freeze framing the moment before a cold bullet enters his heart. It's bullet-time torture.</I><BR/><BR/>YES. I hate character death; I hate bereavement; I don't like angst used as titillation. And while I know that comes from my personal situation and it's not true of everyone, something about the way death and bereavement are used in a lot of movies and TV feels sleazy to me. <BR/><BR/>And purely from a script standpoint, I just don't know how they'd spin this thing out into a series. I could see it as a feature-length special, maybe, or if it was the Batman story in general from Robin's POV, but to do a substantial amount of the series from the "before" point of view feels redundant, since he'll still be defined in viewers' minds by an event that hasn't happened yet.Angeline B. Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09193387146888000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506995090336963455.post-60502099923632901612008-10-03T13:50:00.000-04:002008-10-03T13:50:00.000-04:00Lurker:There's just no end to the evil Schumaker's...Lurker:<BR/><BR/>There's just no end to the evil Schumaker's done. It keeps going and going...Avalon's Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07539301720154191607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4506995090336963455.post-77528478215306513722008-10-03T03:25:00.000-04:002008-10-03T03:25:00.000-04:00I think they want a tv show about the Chris O'Donn...I think they want a tv show about the Chris O'Donnel Robin pre-movie. Which means I'm gonna blame Schumaker. Damn you batnipples! DAMN YOU!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com