I enjoyed the episodes that I saw of Room 222 in its original run. The timing was bad. It started while I was in Vietnam and continued into the early part of my career in County elections (many days working late). Wikipedia tells me that VHS recording wasn’t even invented until after the show was over, so I wasn’t able to record any of it.
The 20–30-year-old actors are a fact for 99% of shows. Not only are they more experienced actors but, not being legally underage, they can work more flexibly.
P.S.:To Sir, With Love is one of my favorite movies.
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisApril 2, 2025 at 7:21pm
I wrote a review of the novel, movie, and song back in 2007. Sorry about the ads interrupting it.
One of the things that changes between the novel/memoir is the historical context. The written Sir teaches in the post-war world. The neighbourhood retains damage from the Blitz and many of the kids have fathers or other family members who died in the war. The movie version embraces its 1967 setting.
To Sir, With Love (review) by JD - Everything2.com
The crowded red double-decker bus inched its way through the snarl of traffic in Aldgate. It was almost as if it was reluctant to get rid of the over…
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisApril 2, 2025 at 7:19pm
I know why they do it, but I spent a significant part of my life working with young people and it looks stupid!
Also, Degrassi always used real teens. I was amused when one of the later-generation Degrassi girls, Shanae Grimes, went through high school on the show, graduated, I think reappeared as a recent graduate-- and then got a job on an American TV show playing a young high school student.
After spent two days writing (with some breaks to post) and completing a draft, I decided to finally start watching the new Daredevil series. I like the way it maintains the darker and more mature (these things being both present, not synonymous) tone of the original Netflix series, while incorporating a few more references to the greater MCU than the original series. The Netflix shows (now in the hands of Disney and official MCU-dom) only ever hinted at the MCU, though events in the first Avengers movies shaped the New York of Daredevil, the Jessica Jones series expressly references the widespread existence of superhumans, and various series contained brief Easter Eggs referencing Stark Industries and, oddly, the events of The Incredible Hulk.
To my knowledge, only the Daredevil characters have appeared in other MCU productions, once Disney regained the rights (specifically, She-Hulk, Echo,Spider-man, Hawkeye. Any others that anyone knows of?).
It is very "RTD" if you know what I mean. By the time he finished his first stint as showrunner, I thought he was maybe running low on ideas for new alien races with a unique twist, but his time away seems to have recharged his batteries, and this episode introduces a concept as unusual as anything he has ever created before. I am reluctant to say anything more lest I spoile it for you, but I will say that the "companion" introduced in this episode is of the reluctant variety, harkening back to Ian and Barbara. He invites her to travel with him, and she flatly refuses. But getting her back home to her proper time and place presents something of a problem. there are some parts of the plot that, frankly, don't make much sense (or hold up to scrutiny), but I don't think they are supposed to at this point. RTD is signalling one of those series-long story arcs in which everything will be resolved in the final episode with flashbacks to previous episodes releaving the hints we missed.
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I enjoyed the episodes that I saw of Room 222 in its original run. The timing was bad. It started while I was in Vietnam and continued into the early part of my career in County elections (many days working late). Wikipedia tells me that VHS recording wasn’t even invented until after the show was over, so I wasn’t able to record any of it.
The 20–30-year-old actors are a fact for 99% of shows. Not only are they more experienced actors but, not being legally underage, they can work more flexibly.
P.S.:To Sir, With Love is one of my favorite movies.
I wrote a review of the novel, movie, and song back in 2007. Sorry about the ads interrupting it.
One of the things that changes between the novel/memoir is the historical context. The written Sir teaches in the post-war world. The neighbourhood retains damage from the Blitz and many of the kids have fathers or other family members who died in the war. The movie version embraces its 1967 setting.
I know why they do it, but I spent a significant part of my life working with young people and it looks stupid!
Also, Degrassi always used real teens. I was amused when one of the later-generation Degrassi girls, Shanae Grimes, went through high school on the show, graduated, I think reappeared as a recent graduate-- and then got a job on an American TV show playing a young high school student.
Many of the Sir teens were played by... teens.
Wall to wall coverage of the stormy weather
Ella.
After spent two days writing (with some breaks to post) and completing a draft, I decided to finally start watching the new Daredevil series. I like the way it maintains the darker and more mature (these things being both present, not synonymous) tone of the original Netflix series, while incorporating a few more references to the greater MCU than the original series. The Netflix shows (now in the hands of Disney and official MCU-dom) only ever hinted at the MCU, though events in the first Avengers movies shaped the New York of Daredevil, the Jessica Jones series expressly references the widespread existence of superhumans, and various series contained brief Easter Eggs referencing Stark Industries and, oddly, the events of The Incredible Hulk.
To my knowledge, only the Daredevil characters have appeared in other MCU productions, once Disney regained the rights (specifically, She-Hulk, Echo,Spider-man, Hawkeye. Any others that anyone knows of?).
"THE ROBOT REVOLUTION": The first episode of the new season series of Doctor Who.
How is it? We never finished the previous season.
It is very "RTD" if you know what I mean. By the time he finished his first stint as showrunner, I thought he was maybe running low on ideas for new alien races with a unique twist, but his time away seems to have recharged his batteries, and this episode introduces a concept as unusual as anything he has ever created before. I am reluctant to say anything more lest I spoile it for you, but I will say that the "companion" introduced in this episode is of the reluctant variety, harkening back to Ian and Barbara. He invites her to travel with him, and she flatly refuses. But getting her back home to her proper time and place presents something of a problem. there are some parts of the plot that, frankly, don't make much sense (or hold up to scrutiny), but I don't think they are supposed to at this point. RTD is signalling one of those series-long story arcs in which everything will be resolved in the final episode with flashbacks to previous episodes releaving the hints we missed.
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