Richard Willis > Jeff of Earth-JMarch 20, 2025 at 2:57am
I was surprised by what Omni-Man did. I won't be reading the Invincible comics because I can't keep up with everything. I looked at the Wikipedia page for the Invincible comics and it seems consistent with the show. I finished watching season 1 and will continue as time permits.
We just started Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024) on Netflix. No matter how many times I study this period, I find something new. Most of the first two eps were insightful review (though it has some of the most disturbing Hiroshima footage I've seen, and that's saying quite a lot, and a lot more about Putin's admiration for Stalin, often underplayed in western media), but I admit that I cannot recalling hearing about Karma Deane and her young dancing girls before. They may be a footnote, but the footnotes to history tell important stories.
Given that one thesis of the series is that we're in a Cold War again, I suspect that this series will need a tenth episode. I shudder over its possible contents.
We're on a post-first-season hiatus from Gilmore Girls, which we both enjoyed, but found it overused the comedy trope of "this entire problem would be resolved if character x and character y just communicated for two seconds." Light years from nuclear holocaust, however.
I caught a handful of old Room 222 episodes. I don't really remember the show from my childhood, other than its existence and the theme song. It really was ahead of its time, for series television, breaking ground that subsequent shows would be more famous for developing.
It's a very different thing from To Sir, With Love, but the influence is obvious.
You still have to deal with a bit of a cheese factor, dated references, and 20-to-30-year-old teenagers, but it remains watchable.
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.
Many of the Sir teens were played by... teens.
ClarkKent_DC > JD DeLuzioAugust 19, 2025 at 11:31pm
I absolutely loved Room 222 when I was a kid. Denise Nicholas and Karen Valentine were two of my first TV crushes (along with Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie).
I wasn't a teenager then, so twenty-something actors playing teenagers didn't bother me. But there was one character, Bernie, who had a receding hairline; that sometimes took me out of the story.
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I was surprised by what Omni-Man did. I won't be reading the Invincible comics because I can't keep up with everything. I looked at the Wikipedia page for the Invincible comics and it seems consistent with the show. I finished watching season 1 and will continue as time permits.
We just started Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024) on Netflix. No matter how many times I study this period, I find something new. Most of the first two eps were insightful review (though it has some of the most disturbing Hiroshima footage I've seen, and that's saying quite a lot, and a lot more about Putin's admiration for Stalin, often underplayed in western media), but I admit that I cannot recalling hearing about Karma Deane and her young dancing girls before. They may be a footnote, but the footnotes to history tell important stories.
Given that one thesis of the series is that we're in a Cold War again, I suspect that this series will need a tenth episode. I shudder over its possible contents.
We're on a post-first-season hiatus from Gilmore Girls, which we both enjoyed, but found it overused the comedy trope of "this entire problem would be resolved if character x and character y just communicated for two seconds." Light years from nuclear holocaust, however.
THIS makes me unhappy.
I caught a handful of old Room 222 episodes. I don't really remember the show from my childhood, other than its existence and the theme song. It really was ahead of its time, for series television, breaking ground that subsequent shows would be more famous for developing.
It's a very different thing from To Sir, With Love, but the influence is obvious.
You still have to deal with a bit of a cheese factor, dated references, and 20-to-30-year-old teenagers, but it remains watchable.
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.
I absolutely loved Room 222 when I was a kid. Denise Nicholas and Karen Valentine were two of my first TV crushes (along with Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petrie).
I wasn't a teenager then, so twenty-something actors playing teenagers didn't bother me. But there was one character, Bernie, who had a receding hairline; that sometimes took me out of the story.
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