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I've been watching & became a huge fan of the PBS series "DOC MARTIN". Apparently it's an import, but that's OK as it is done in good taste.

A friend of mine recently commented that "Frasier" was one of the best intellectual comedies. After watching "DOC MARTIN", "FRASIER" ranks well below.

The reason why I'm mentioning this here is that prior to my joining this group( as an amateur i am ), I noticed the appliances, such as the under cabinet refrigerators. Also there are a few scenes w/ various appliances seemingly discarded in back yards.

Prior to my posting here, I thought of scrap metal. Now I KNOW there is more to them than their monetary value. They have personality.

Thank you,

Jason

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The link is a random "Doc Martin" episode from the you tube. I just hope you can get past the opening commercial. While the commercial is annoying, the content is free to view. (just thing TV before cable, etc.... I know I do, as I'm on antenna only & LOVE IT!) -----ok..i miss "deadliest catch".

 
hooked too

Thanks! been watching all the episodes I can on You Tube, it is great. thanks for the heads up. I liked the "Psycho" episode where they had all the old appliances in the house and outside. I might have to order the DVDs...I wonder why it isn't shown in the US?
 
Oh come on

Even several years after its run finished, Frasier remains one of the very BEST shows ever produced in the US - and this from a Brit - where Doc Martin is made. Fraiser just seemed to be quality from end to end.

I must confess I was not actually aware that Doc Martin was a comedy, despite Martin Clunes (who tends to play in comedies) being in the title role - it generally plays in a "retro" time spot (generally alternating with several other series set back in the 1960s - rose tinted glasses anyone?) on Sunday nights on a network I tend not to watch - maybe I should check it out if there are old appliances on display ......

Al
 
Hmm,

I fall asleep over Fraiser, but my very old parents love it.

No doubt it is too intellectual for my simple mind.

I'm still angry at Russell T Davies for killing off the love-affair between Ianto and Jack. His passion for un-happy endings might have been cute back in the days when it was "hip" to be all "schwarze Zukunft" and totally negative, but today it just is weary making. That said, British TV programmes are generally speaking much more fun than the American stuff. There just isn't all this political correctness crap.
 
It was a bit of a leap to Torchwood

Panthera

WELL! I was just about to go into one "Who are you calling old" but I see that our birth dates are about three months apart so I will just confess that I too can nod off in front of the TV too, although not with Frasier.....

They dont half get through the cast members in Torchwood though I have not actually seen the last series where apparantly Ianto gets killed as I was mega busy at the time it was broadcast but I have it on a DVD for watching over the Christmas break.

Did you know that just prior to that TV transmission they did a series of 3 or 4 radio plays as well. They are bound to crop up on BBC7 (digital radio, also on broadband www.bbc.co.uk/radio7) so if you like I wil keep an eye out for the repeat - that is if you can get BBC7 in Germany .... If you like science fiction they run all sorts of series usually a strip 18.00-19.00 each night - UK time of course.

I did think the relationship was a bit contrived as Ianto initially had a girl friend (and a cyberwoman at that) but I suppose there are many shades of grey, or should that be pink? or even pank LOLOLOL

Al
 
Thanks, Al,

I was able to get the radio plays - you may want to review them again before CoE.

Davies has always made me mad. Such a creative spirit, but he's got self-hating, must end badly written into all his productions.

I read a lot of slash.fic Torchwood (well, slash doesn't quite apply) and many of the really good writers just plain picked up the last two days of CoE and rewrote them, creating an AU. Davies' plot just is so contrived, it reminds me of those terrible New Wave German films of the seventies when they'd bend the laws of physics to have a bad ending, just to be 'realistic' and 'true to the Dramaturgie'.

I don't think their relationship was necessarily contrived. Just the opposite, it was a case of pure exploitation: Ianto seduced Jack with his Torchwood One knowledge (as an archivist, of course he knew what Jack was and when he came from as well as that he was polysexual) and his weakness for hot, tall, hung and Welsh.
What Ianto didn't expect was that Jack would awaken love in him. The explanation in CoE is as poor as the entire week's plot, by the way. In fact, it mirrors almost exactly one of the books the BBC put out for teens on the topic the year before. Except for a bad spell in the late seventies, I can't recall any Whoverse script so poorly written.

I really don't see where Torchwood can go from here and the only way I might ever forgive Davies would be if DGL were to be a reincarnation of the Dr. and not a short one, either. One who likes tall Scotsmen and doesn't wear much beside tight fitting jeans and shrunk t-shirts. Then, maybe.

To each his own.

I'll try to track down a brilliant fic on Ianto's seduction of Jack which is very graphic and plays off the Scottish/Anerican and Welsh/German vocabulary of Barrowman and David-Lloyd with one of the hottest non-wing (or tentacle) sex scenes I've read.

Jack mistakes the Welsh to mean this is great when Ianto is really sobbing an apology to Lisa in the crate they're, well, using.

I'm not quite at the stage where I nod off in front of the TV, but Fraiser just never did it for me. I think, as ensemble work, it was quite good and the episodes in which his dad took the lead were often genuinely funny, just, not really my thing.
 

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