Avenging 2014 (Reprise)
First of all, this whole ‘watch every episode and blog it’ thing has taught me that committing to write a blog post every couple of days, even when its just a […]
Month: December 2014
The Music of The Avengers
One of the things I fell in love with in The Avengers was the music – specifically Laurie Johnson’s incredible musical scores, and the wonderful theme The Shake. I love Johnny Dankworth’s original […]
Avenging December
So, that’s it. All the Avengers have now been watched. And December’s bunch – the second season of The New Avengers – have been as much of a mixed bag as […]
“Last Christmas” Podcast
Layers of fantasy, alienation. Dream logic, TV logic. A Doctor Who episode that’s so self-aware it’s virtually sentient and a Santa who is pulling all the strings… Moffat is an extraordinarily clever […]
“Emily” Review
Christmas eve. There stove is flickering merrily. Time to watch the 163rd, and last, episode of The Avengers I’ll have watched this year. Accompanied, of course, by a glass of bubbly. Emily is […]
“Gladiators” Review
The best moments in this episode seem to reference Emma Peel episodes – at the start, where we meet the titular gladiators, it’s shot almost identically to the opening of The Superlative […]
“Forward Base” Review
Straight back to Canada (we won’t escape it) with the pretext of following a soviet agent who is entering the country, the (new) Avengers follow this lead to the titular base […]
Overcoming Handbrake’s BBC Bluray Deficiency
When I rip my shiny discs to play on my iThings and my Apple TV, my workflow is simple: MakeMKV to transfer the film or TV show to the hard […]
“Complex” Review
This is the first episode of The New Avengers I ever saw, back in 1995 – in the 6.25pm Friday slot on BBC 2 (in which, a couple of years […]
“K is for Kill Part Two Tiger by the Tail” Review
Since this is part 2 of a two parter, we get a “Previously on…” from Macnee. Okay, he doesn’t actually say, “Previously on The New Avengers” but his staccato recap covers […]
“K is for Kill Part One The Tiger Awakens” Review
The first two-parter since episodes 1 & 2 of series 1 of the original show back in 1961 (and even then, the two episodes had different writers, directors). It’s glacially […]
“Hostage” Review
Sometimes simplicity can be effective, even if it means repeating the most frequently repeated tropes of a TV show. But I have my reservations about this one. The core elements […]