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Current Talk '05 II / Re: The "B" Team in Spring 1970
« on: November 03, 2005, 05:02:34 PM »
Worst things about PT... the fact that the alternate choices idea is completely bungled... they just use PT as yet another excuse to knock all the pieces off the chess board and start all over again, without giving thought to anything making any sense. Apparently Quentin's different life choice was to be born in the 20th century, instead of the 19th. If I'm wrong, and different choices could actually have led to what we saw in PT, please tell me.
Secondly... the whole opportunity of PT was wasted by just doing Jeckyl and Hyde without a new twist, when it was a big cliche of 60s television already, and Hitchcock's "Rebecca", a movie I may not have seen as a kid, but I certainly had by the time I got the tapes in 2002. It's a major old Cary Grant movie. You can't build and build to a big climax that's exactly the same as in the movie you're stealing from. (Hoffman taunting Maggie to jump out the window.) Sure, with Barnabas we'd all seen Dracula, but did they redo that story? No, they added original twists, most notably the business about medically treating the vampire, and eventually making him the protagonist. That MADE the series. If Barnabas's story had just been Dracula's, verbatim, who would have cared?
PT gets watchable once Rebecca and Jeckyl and Hyde get resolved.
Secondly... the whole opportunity of PT was wasted by just doing Jeckyl and Hyde without a new twist, when it was a big cliche of 60s television already, and Hitchcock's "Rebecca", a movie I may not have seen as a kid, but I certainly had by the time I got the tapes in 2002. It's a major old Cary Grant movie. You can't build and build to a big climax that's exactly the same as in the movie you're stealing from. (Hoffman taunting Maggie to jump out the window.) Sure, with Barnabas we'd all seen Dracula, but did they redo that story? No, they added original twists, most notably the business about medically treating the vampire, and eventually making him the protagonist. That MADE the series. If Barnabas's story had just been Dracula's, verbatim, who would have cared?
PT gets watchable once Rebecca and Jeckyl and Hyde get resolved.