I hope to have the next update - a return to more familiar ground for this thread - ready in the next few days! So, until then...
As always, looking forward to it.
I hope to have the next update - a return to more familiar ground for this thread - ready in the next few days! So, until then...
You're welcome, Brainbin!---
Many thanks to Thande, vultan, and my newest consultant, Dan1988, for their invaluable advice in the making of this update! Also, thanks to Archangel for his help with Portugal, and to Don_Giorgio for his help with Greece. And, finally, thanks again to e of pi for proofing. It took quite some time to bring everything together, but I hope that you all found it as enjoyable to read as I found it rewarding to write! Though, I must admit, this update was never too far from threatening to run away from me.
There is an awful lot of information to digest in this very long update, for which I must apologize. I’ll be happy to answer any and all questions you might have, and I hope to post infoboxes with regards to the vital statistics of the various elections I’ve discussed in this update (except for the Papal Conclave, of course).
Which, I hope you will note, I have gone back and corrected, while at the same time clarifying some other sticking points.
Interesting figures. Never realised how strongly the press was pro-EEC at the time. Especially possibly the Mirror since the main core of doubt about Europe was more in Labour than the Tories at the time. Thanks for that.
Well, it still is. Except now the balance has shifted from hereditary to appointments as the majority. Although the hereditary members are elected...by the other hereditary peers. (Ironically this is the only election involving the British government that uses AV as the voting system).Fair enough - I switched it to "elective". Fortunately, back then, the House of Lords was strictly hereditary or by appointment
And back in the 70s, who the heck would have thought he would live the longest? Or that Captain Peacock would outlive Miss Brahms and Mr Lucas?This now leaves Nicholas Smith, aka Mr "Jug Ears" Rumbold, as the sole surviving original cast member of Are You Being Served?.
I saw parts of the farewell to TV Centre programmes last night, which may be worth linking to when it gets online (may be on iPlayer but I don't think foreigners can see that). Lots of references to classic moments.Something I heard on the news this morning - the last ever programme is going to be broadcast this evening from the BBC TV Centre. This is where a number of the British tv shows discussed on this thread were recorded, including Morcambe and Wise, Dad's Army, I Claudius, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Two Ronnies, Blue Peter and of course Doctor Who.
Here's an appropriate clip from The Goodies featuring the TV Centre.
Edit: Here's a longer documentary about the TV Centre. It also gives a glimpse into BBC culture in the Seventies.
Cheers,
Nigel.
I've begun looking at the documentary at the link. It's wow. Just wow.I saw parts of the farewell to TV Centre programmes last night, which may be worth linking to when it gets online (may be on iPlayer but I don't think foreigners can see that). Lots of references to classic moments.
[7] Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words – this moving picture should be worth about a million.
I saw parts of the farewell to TV Centre programmes last night, which may be worth linking to when it gets online (may be on iPlayer but I don't think foreigners can see that). Lots of references to classic moments.
I've begun looking at the documentary at the link. It's wow. Just wow.
I see a failure to understand the character's extremely important relevance to the thematic structure is common to adaptation attempts in all TLs then Honestly, one might as well cut Caliban out of The Tempest or something...(though the character of Tom Bombadil and subplots related to him were excised for dramatic irrelevance)
Which imo is a mistake because in the book these chapters explain how they manage to escape the Black Riders and how they got the Númenorean blades which were able to hurt the Nazgûl.I also like the idea of an animated Lord of the Rings. Tom Bombadil would also be the first part of the story that I'd cut in making a film adaption.
Which imo is a mistake because in the book these chapters explain how they manage to escape the Black Riders and how they got the Númenorean blades which were able to hurt the Nazgûl.
Leaving the scouring of the Shire out is the second mistake of all adaptions of the novels.
The big problem of adapting the novels into a trilogy of movies is that both books of the second novel do not end at the same time. Book three ends on March, 5th while books four ends on March, 13th. This (among others) makes adapting the novels difficult.
I can only hope that the design of the movies is much better in TTL than OTL.