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Current Talk '05 I / Re: Leviathans *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
« on: June 24, 2005, 07:37:59 PM »
I absolutely agree, and it's refreshing to find a thread lauding the very obvious merits of this grossly pilloried and under-estimated period of DS. For the record, I also think the final month of the 1897 storyline, which has been equally dissed in the official histories of DS published by the Pomegranate Press, was fabulous written and acted--you know it's gotta be good for me to say that, because my beloved Grayson had that month off (filming Adam at Six A.M. with "Mikey" Douglas in Podunk, Kansas).
Even though the second half of Leviathans does not maintain the same degree of intensity, I still think those episodes contain some of the best scenes in the entire series.
Just because the ratings went down during late 1897 and Leviathan doesn't mean that we have to give those shows a low evaluation today, watching the series in a very different way from the original broadcast. The extraordinary quality of DS is that it does often improve with repeated viewings--the acting and writing was that good.
G.
Even though the second half of Leviathans does not maintain the same degree of intensity, I still think those episodes contain some of the best scenes in the entire series.
Just because the ratings went down during late 1897 and Leviathan doesn't mean that we have to give those shows a low evaluation today, watching the series in a very different way from the original broadcast. The extraordinary quality of DS is that it does often improve with repeated viewings--the acting and writing was that good.
G.