What will you show me?

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I see you have just settled. Now tell me what you are going to show me.

Arrived today. Just settled
Arrived today. Just settled

Although I was rather fond of the old little tube TV, I also have a sense of apprehension when thinking about some of the heart-breaking images it showed me in those years I had it in my lounge: the 9-11, all the wars and conflicts that followed, Christchurch Earthquake on 22 February 2011 and Tohoku Earthquake and the Tsunami on 11 March 2011. I hope the bigger, shinier and more reassuring looking new TV will show me fewer tragedies and more good things.

Incidentally there are some good shows coming up as I’ve set the new entertainment unit up, including “Endurance – Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition” on Maori Television, “Tron: Legacy” on TV2, “War News New Zealand Edition” on Prime TV and “Hope and Wire” on TV3.

“Hope and Wire”, premières tonight, is “A drama inspired by the stories of Christchurch”, created by Gaylene Preston, and has been highly anticipated to deliver a strong and emotional viewing. I intended to watch it tonight (, giving “Sleepy Hollow” a cold shoulder :p). I think a full box of tissue will be a must. But I also hope seeing it on the big screen of this shiny new unit will help me move on from the tragic era spent hugging that dreary little CRT screen. Long live the big screen!

Originally posted to mimismum.wordpress.com

11 replies on “What will you show me?”

  2. I’ve got an AVI of “Sleepy Hollow” (if you mean the Tim Burton film) which I could send you in a trice. I use WeTransfer. They send you an email after I upload it, and it gives you a URL where you can download it. They keep it for a week before they erase it. Let me know.

  3. Cheers, guys! 🙂

    @Aadil: Rather unashamedly flash unit, aye? Not many fingerprints on it, yet. 😀 😀 😀

    @derWandersmann: Thanks. But I was referring to this “Sleepy Hollow”. 😉

    PS
    Whoops! Just realised I had another senior moment: “Sleepy Hollow” is not on tonight, but on Tuesdays. It will still get pushed over by “Endurance”, though.

  4. Well, I hope you enjoyed it … I’m certain that I would not. As a person raised on the classics, I find most tampering with them to be … well, a little offensive. And the first premise of the series, that Ichabod Crane beheaded the Headless Horseman, is enough to set my teeth on edge. I have very great difficulties with Disney’s travesties of such classics as “Winnie the Pooh”, “Mary Poppins”, and “The Sword in the Stone”. Thank god he never attempted “The Wind in the Willows”! I’m sure I would have been compelled to exhume him and impale his heart on a pike before burning it in a sulfur flame.
    Even the really quite well-done LOTR had a couple of things that really could have spoilt it for me: 1) the little episode when Aragorn was supposed missing after a battle with the dogs, which was entirely unnecessary and did nothing to advance the plot, and 2) why, oh why, was it necessary to make Gimli a figure of fun? The idea of lowering one’s work to please hoi polloi does nothing for hoi polloi, but cheapens and degrades the work. The only possible explanation is money … well, I reckon that cheapens a person enough.

  5. I’ve actually grown quite fond of Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills. They have very good chemistry going, the one that is more about friendship and loyalty instead of the “pinch of sexual interest to make the story more marketable” kind of chemistry. I do admit I’ve a thing for “tall, dark and British” (eg Richard Armitage and Benedict Cumberbatch). But I see Sleepy Hollow for more than just TDB. Crane’s quips about the modern life and society are also often very funny. Re the violence used to sell the show: I also remember Tim Burton film had rather a lot of blood and horror things in it. This TV series is not too bad after the first few eps. Also, someone has to behead the Headless Horseman to make him headless, right? :p

    Yes. PJ sneaked a bit of his own ideas into his Two Towers. But I doubt if he did that for money. I’m sure those of us who went to the cinema (Embassy Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand :D) to see the film would still have done so even without those PJ’s extra.

  7. Damned “Follow” thing didn’t notify me … WTF. anyway? Is all the software on this site gone wacky? I reckon mine didn’t notify you, either … I thought you weren’t posting.
    I think the blood, etc. in Burton’s film was OK … Washington Irving was not averse to scaring the crap out of you, and the cartoon format introduces an air of unreality.

  8. The video won’t play on my Opera 12.17. Most likely my content blocking (not allowing third party scripts, etc.). :p Can you please post the link to the youtube page so that I can go see it there?

    I subscribe to the RSS feed for comments to this blog, rather than rely on WP’s notification. Then when I come here to check comments, I also check my WP reader page to see what you and others I follow are up to.

    Tolkien’s books are quite violent, too. Legolas and Gimli competing how many orcs they could kill, for example. Repeated slaying of fellow elves by the Noldor and the brief description of Maedhros’ torment and how Fingon had to cut his arm off to rescue him (in Silmarillion) are other examples of horror and violence in his books. I actually would have liked to see PJ making films based on Silmarillion rather than the Hobbit. Darker, more stark Silmarillion would suit better to his style. (Blood splattering horror comic was how he started his film career.) But The Hobbit most likely has a lot more readers than Silmarillion, so there, I think, the money spoke.

  9. I think that you just click on the YouTube symbol at the bottom, it will take you there.
    Somehow, my copy of the Silmarillion has got losted. I haven’t seen it for some years, now that I think about it. Damned curious.

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