Lewis

[altariel]

I really do like Lewis, which is as enjoyable and attractively made as Inspector Morse, but doesn’t have that miserable misogynist snob spoiling my fun. I like it even though they cruelly bumped off Lewis’ missus at the start of the first episode, just so that he could pretend he was mourning her and not Morse, which I probably shouldn’t like for all sorts of reasons.

I also like how the Lewis-Hathaway relationship replicates the Morse-Lewis one, only this time the over-educated misanthrope is the junior partner. It makes you believe that this dynamic stretches back and back, even unto the Middle Ages, where the medieval equivalent of a grumpy grammar school boy and a put-upon working class boy are forever together in the green wood, fighting crime.

Last week’s episode, “The Point of Vanishing” made much use of The Hunt in the Forest by Paolo Uccello. It made me think of Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the Narnia books, particularly the end of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, when the young kings and queens of Narnia go on a hunt in a forest and vanish from the world. Lewis did an episode about the Inklings at the start of the season: I’m surprised that’s not turned up in the Morse-verse before.

Comments

[sherlock1.livejournal.com]

It was quite pants in many ways. I've never liked the "law" part of it, so always get a bit bored once the lawyers take over. And I think the lawyers' lines were the more cliched (though both sets of characters had more than their fair share). The main non-pants aspects were, for me, that Bradley Walsh actually turned out to be very watchable, and that I got to look at Jamie Bamber being pretty. Though frankly they could have at least TRIED to have a few scenes in which he took his shirt off. (Having finally watched series 1 of Battlestar Galatica, the lack of bicep display was rather painful).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Bradley Walsh carried the show, I think. Bill Paterson and Harriet Walter were criminally underused - but then they didn't seem to have thought through how to use them. I'm afraid I don't think Freema Agyeman is very good.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, what do you think of BSG? I have Strong Opinions, based on not watching all of it ;-)