Adam Adamant Lives!
Feb. 4th, 2014 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Again care of the wonderful N and S.
It's a very silly show, in the good way.
I think S's words were "I thought this'd be right up your street," and it was.
The set-up, for those who don't know far too much about '60s TV, is Edwardian adventurer is frozen in 1902 and unfrozen in the 1960s. Adventures ensue.
I love Adam Adamant, the character, because he's fun and he tries to do the right thing. For instance, on waking up in Georgie's flat after being unfrozen, his first reaction is to try to leave so as not to besmirch her reputation, and when she says that it won't, and that it's not like he's the only man who has ever been in her flat, Adamant jumps to utterly the wrong conclusion and immediately offers to write her a reference so she can escape prostitution. No judgement, just trying to help.
I love Georgie too because she has a fantastic nose for trouble and a great enthusiasm. Both for trouble and life in general.
I also like the valet/gentleman's gentleman and his and Georgie's bickering.
It's not that's it's not got its peculiarities, like the constant throwing of people off balconies and Adamant's on-going inability to believe that women can be lying to him (he does the heroic equivalent of 'crying woman - panic!!!).
The premises of the episodes and some of the scenes are spectacularly crack-tastic, particularly "The Sweet Smell of Sucess" or whatever the episode is really called.
I really liked how they shot his re-awakening, there was good use of location, bright lights and Dutch angles.
The thing that struck me was how modern it felt, so S and I were inventing a reboot. So far he's nixed my idea of Harry from Silent Witness as Adam Adamant, but we've agreed to have him waking up in the 2000s and having Mark Gatiss as the butler. Admittedly, since he's the narrator of the documentary featurette on the DVDs, so we thought that it wouldn't be difficult to convince him.
It's a very silly show, in the good way.
I think S's words were "I thought this'd be right up your street," and it was.
The set-up, for those who don't know far too much about '60s TV, is Edwardian adventurer is frozen in 1902 and unfrozen in the 1960s. Adventures ensue.
I love Adam Adamant, the character, because he's fun and he tries to do the right thing. For instance, on waking up in Georgie's flat after being unfrozen, his first reaction is to try to leave so as not to besmirch her reputation, and when she says that it won't, and that it's not like he's the only man who has ever been in her flat, Adamant jumps to utterly the wrong conclusion and immediately offers to write her a reference so she can escape prostitution. No judgement, just trying to help.
I love Georgie too because she has a fantastic nose for trouble and a great enthusiasm. Both for trouble and life in general.
I also like the valet/gentleman's gentleman and his and Georgie's bickering.
It's not that's it's not got its peculiarities, like the constant throwing of people off balconies and Adamant's on-going inability to believe that women can be lying to him (he does the heroic equivalent of 'crying woman - panic!!!).
The premises of the episodes and some of the scenes are spectacularly crack-tastic, particularly "The Sweet Smell of Sucess" or whatever the episode is really called.
I really liked how they shot his re-awakening, there was good use of location, bright lights and Dutch angles.
The thing that struck me was how modern it felt, so S and I were inventing a reboot. So far he's nixed my idea of Harry from Silent Witness as Adam Adamant, but we've agreed to have him waking up in the 2000s and having Mark Gatiss as the butler. Admittedly, since he's the narrator of the documentary featurette on the DVDs, so we thought that it wouldn't be difficult to convince him.
