![]() However the alternative is for him to be one of the ineffectual mob of pliant reporters who fill every press conference. Simon reasonably takes aim at Kolchak pissing off the police, whom he relies upon for his stories. The voiceovers make possible the sharp transition from comedy to tragedy. I think the voiceovers are important because they manage the sudden shift in tone from the previous scene – invariably a comic turn between Kolchak and Vincenzo, or Kolchak and a morgue attendant. Simon’s annoyance with voiceovers whenever another masseuse is walking home in the dark. How many other places have we seen that spooky house set with the stairs? I keep wondering if it’s the spooky mansion in the 70s ‘Salem’s Lot’ miniseries. High farce! Yes, this scene did colour my childhood impression of policing in America. I loved the police blasting away at anything and everything. Did SHJ sound too goofy to be explicitly name-dropped in the script? Given his numerous leaps from tall buildings and bounds over police cars, it appears the script intended The Ripper to also be Spring-heeled Jack. I agree with your criticisms of plot and production, yet I was still grinning from ear to ear as Kolchak connived and blustered his way through the episode. I’ll stop flogging this particular horse now. Available on YouTube – search on “1990 edward woodward”. The show concerns itself with the moral compromises made by both heroes and villains. The show is vaguely ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ set in a grim Orwellian police state Britain. Available on Amazon UK – you’ll need to search on “1990 – Series 1 ” and “1990 – Series 2 ”. I’ve previously mentioned this 1977 BBC series, the news is that both series 1 and 2 are getting a DVD release on March 20. The entire series is available on YouTube – search on “Invasion: Earth”. This has been released on DVD, but is currently be out-of-print. Overall, the subject is dealt with intelligently and you’re pulled into the plot, rather than yelling at the TV because everyone acts like fools. Some aspects of the threat left me feeling extremely uncomfortable when I first watched this, and it didn’t get any better when I recently re-watched. This was the first major use of CGI on UK TV, and the CGI has aged quite well, although that may have more to do with the nature of what it’s trying to depict. Part way through the first episode you think you’ve seen it all before, but the nature of the threat is a lot deeper and nastier than it first appears. Saying anything more would give away the show’s punch. This is a very dark 1998, 6-part BBC Scotland production involving a group of scientists and a NATO taskforce (more like UNIT with the serial numbers filed off) battling … let‘s call it an existential threat. Speaking of “what comes next”, here’s a couple of series suggestions, if you’re interested in seeing something you probably haven’t seen before: By the time they reached the series, they just went straight to the original idea they’d been dancing with twice before. They told the Jack the Ripper tale twice before, putting a supernatural twist on it both times. This is the retelling of the Jack the Ripper tale made supernatural. ![]() If every TV show about series killers is influenced or inspired originally by the horror that was Jack the Ripper, then surely so was the story of a reporter in Las Vegas chasing down a serial killer and slowing piecing together the notion that he was a vampire. Here’s what I missed: The Night Stalker was Jack the Ripper. Conclusion, in an effort to recreate the Night Stalker formula, they converted the real Jack the Ripper into a supernatural killer. We talked about how the Night Stalker movie was a more natural fit, and then we launched into some discussion about how Jack the Ripper is the archetype for all TV series’ serial killers. Today, I was screaming at myself.ĭuring the episode, Simon rightly points out that there’s no logical reason to make Jack The Ripper into a supernatural killer – except, of course, that this TV show is about supernatural killers. I tend to give my final listen to Fusion Patrol when it gets published and comes through my podcatcher. Sometimes the podcast host I’m screaming at is myself. I find myself screaming at a podcast host because they’re on to something, but they’re just not making the connection and running with it. I imagine, at times, other people find themselves in a similar situation as I do. I tend to listen to podcasts on my drive to/from work each day.
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