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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 21, 2005 16:07:45 GMT -5
Nice to see both of them on the cover this time. Just one thing: Am I seeing things or is the photo of Pierce flipped? The eyes and eyebrows look different, and his ear is not right either. It looks "right" to me now.
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Post by SaltheGal on Sept 21, 2005 16:28:34 GMT -5
Nice to see both of them on the cover this time. Just one thing: Am I seeing things or is the photo of Pierce flipped? The eyes and eyebrows look different, and his ear is not right either. Now that does look better to me too! Must say i'm really not liking that red what so ever! I must agree with you Ace the Blues would have been alot more better!
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 30, 2005 17:35:28 GMT -5
After the excuses they didn't have a good photo for the first cover -- it's a composite cover anyway and they look like they pruned some of SZ's bigger hair as well! I do wish they'd found a photo of Pierce with more of a Steele smirk -- even the eyebrow isn't as arched as it could be. Yes, we do finely calibrate those things. And I'd prefer a more roguish expression, myself. He looks like he has a touch of migraine. And you all know I prefer Laura's first season look to her 80's glamour magazine style but SZ does look seriously airbrushed, rather like Rene Russo did (so uneccessarily) on some of the Thomas Crown Affair posters. Or a smoking jacket, if you lose the bowtie. Shame they lost the blue color scheme, so easy on the eyes. Well, if red smoking jackets it is, <wink> one might as well have fun with it..... LH: Oh my god, it's Ambrose Blinn! [Steele is reclining, Devil Magazine in hand, in red smoking jacket and pipe and sporting a Hefner-esque hairstyle] RS: You think the pipe suits me? LH: Not in the slightest. This is all a crashing bore. Leering lotharios lounging in their pajamas in a state of perpetual bachelorhood. Or should I say arrested development? RS: [looks up from his centerfold-induced reverie] Arrested development? Hardly the case with Miss December here. Fascinating. Favourite color: blue. Turn-offs -- LH: Men!! Men, men, men!!!
RS: Really? Well, if she does have an aversion to the male sex, she puts up a marvelous front. Where was I? [reads aloud] Turn-ons: bubble baths, long walks on the beach, a skinny-dip in the Satyr's Grotto. Which reminds me, Laura, we've yet to experience that particular pleasure --
LH: [sniffs] Grotto! It's a glorified swimming pool. I hate the smell of chlorine.
RS: No problem, I'll spring for the bubble bath.
LH: [folds arms] I'm allergic.
RS: Well, then, is the beach free?
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Post by Ace on Oct 8, 2005 18:43:21 GMT -5
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Post by curious george on Oct 14, 2005 8:48:19 GMT -5
But...but....!! Goobers. cg
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Post by Ace on Oct 14, 2005 9:56:22 GMT -5
But...but....!! Goobers. cg Well you can buy both and give the first season as a gift. I think its a pretty good deal especially for someone from another country that put off buying the first set because of customs etc. -- and waiting for it to come out over there. Buying both at once should probably decrease the costs of customs and shipping and hey you get $10 off! Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Oct 14, 2005 16:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Oct 14, 2005 16:49:35 GMT -5
Congratulations! Have you watched all the episodes yet or are you pacing yourself? I gorged and now haven't watched any over the last month since I'm plannng to gorge again soon and am building up my stamina. Of course if you got the Queen of Everything to send you the sale discounted Seasons 1 & 2 you could probably turn around and sell 1 at a hefty blackmarket price to some needy German Steele fan who isn't so close to TQOE.
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Post by sparklingblue on Oct 14, 2005 17:07:39 GMT -5
LOL! No, I haven't watched them all yet. I'm indeed trying to pace myself and savour them one or two at a time. But I love, LOVE, LOVE them! It's so great to hear Steele speak with Pierce's voice. The visual quality is also a pleasure because I get more than just the occasional glimpse of how blue his eyes are.
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Post by Ace on Oct 18, 2005 10:32:50 GMT -5
WOW. You can now get both sets for $37.98 because Set #1 has been slashed to $19.99 and they're adding the $10 off when you buy two! So basically it's buy the 2nd set at Amaon and get the first set for $10.
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Post by curious george on Oct 18, 2005 13:37:37 GMT -5
This is not good - not only because I paid $25 for the first season, but because it sounds like they are trying to get rid of Season 1 sets that didn't sell. Can somebody give me a more positive outlook on this (that has some basis in reality)? cg
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Post by Ace on Oct 18, 2005 13:51:42 GMT -5
Considering that the RS set ranked in the top 10 (or was it 11?) of all DVDs sold it's first week (aad #1 for TV DVDs) and it's ranked steadily pretty highly on the Amazon sales charts and has for the past few months, I don't think they're having any trouble selling them. It's not uncommon for Amazon to do a sale of sets when there are more than one seasons and the new set is coming out. I've seen them do the same thing with The Simpsons and 24 in the past, and even Mary Tyler Moore Season #2 when it was coming out the week RS Season #1 did. But $10 -- makes for a great gift (or even just an in case duplicate -- rather tempting) I don't mind that I paid more for the first season, cause I didn't want to wait 3 more months and at the price I got it it was still a steele for what I got. Ace
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Post by Ace on Oct 18, 2005 16:38:00 GMT -5
Just looked at the #100 Best Selling TV Shows on DVD and there are tons of sets on sale. Wow, Due South is selling for under $19 a season -- bizarrely they're still selling the old sets for $100. I don't care what extras are on the older sets, if there are any, they're not worth 5 times the price. Ah... I see they're remastered from VHS tapes. Weird,. Still if I could get two seasons for $34 instead of $250, I might not care.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Oct 19, 2005 1:25:45 GMT -5
My copies are on order. Incidentally, Amazon has "buy two" offers all the time. They learned early that suckers like me will fall for it nearly every time. Take a look at this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ASDFIG/102-5561826-5041702?v=glance&n=130&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glanceNotice the title: Hart to Hart - The Complete First Season DVD ~ Robert Wagner Me thinks somebody has something against the Stefanies (ph). Again, the female is behind the man's shoulder. ???Look which series HtoH is paired with: Now look at McMillan & Wife's title: McMillan & Wife - Season One DVD ~ James Sheldon www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JNHS/102-5561826-5041702?v=glance&n=130&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glanceNeither star gets top billing!! Go figure. McMillan is paired with McCloud, which does make lots of sense since the two series alternated with each other and Columbo as part of the Mystery Movie. I loved those shows and watched every week, when possible (no VCRs back then ) Life was tough!
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Post by Ace on Oct 19, 2005 2:10:37 GMT -5
And to make cg feel better, she can compare the Amazon sales rank of RS season 1st and 2nd sets to McMillian & Wife and Hart to Hart (and the dates they were and will be released) Very strange that Rock Hudon doesn't get top billing. Is that the director? It's been so long sicne Ive caught the show in reruns but I can't recall if he started out as just McMillian before he had a wife or ended up just McMillian and his wife was off screen. I could swear there was a time he was on his own. Do you recall? Amazon used to have the buy two DVDs and get $5 or $10 off quite a loy several years ago, then it dissapeared and was basically buy these two and pay the same price as if you bought them separately. What fun was that?
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Post by Barbara on Oct 19, 2005 12:47:11 GMT -5
After Susan St James had her first kid, and left the series, McMillian was a widower, and was on his own. I do believe they even got rid of the housekeeper.
Love...B
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Post by Ace on Oct 19, 2005 14:52:35 GMT -5
How did they kill her off? And why can't anyone ever just get divorced? Ace
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Post by Barbara on Oct 19, 2005 16:44:15 GMT -5
She and her and McMillian's baby died in a plane crash that was referred to, but not seen.
SsJ left suddenly (aka was fired) between seasons, so at one moment she was around, and the next, she and the kid were dead.
What was really weird was you never really saw MacMillian dealing with being a widower.
Take care!
-- Barbara
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Post by clervaux on Oct 24, 2005 13:01:51 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Oct 24, 2005 13:34:49 GMT -5
Thanks. That's a very interesting article, not just for pointing out the classic timelessness but for the marvelous insight into how they were both role players and that's why they intrigued each other. The only person on the show who really appreciates Laura is, ironically, Steele: as someone who doesn't want to be controlled or pigeonholed either, and who switches identities for that very purpose, he understands that there's more to her than most people are willing to see. He also appreciates her, of course, because he knows first-hand how good she is at what she does. And he is interested in her not in spite of the fact that he can't control her, but because of that -- just as her attraction to him is largely based on what she doesn't know about him.
As the above description makes clear, it's also a show about role-playing. The two lead characters have both built their lives around playing parts and constructing fake identities. They're both con artists of a sort, and many of the best episodes strongly hint that they're not just playing these games to get work; they actually need to play roles and hide behind masks, and the big question is not only who they really are, but why they feel a need to disguise themselves so much. "Vintage Steele" (the Trouble With Harry takeoff, with the immortal line: "He was the Abbott of Costello") suggests that Laura's whole businesslike persona may be an act: Steele meets her ex-boyfriend, who remembers her as a frighteningly uninhibited person. The episode shows glimpses of the way she used to act with her boyfriend, but leaves it open as to whether she was acting with him, or if she's acting now, or just what and who she really is.
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But Murphy, at least, was an unfortunate loss, because he not only gave the show a romantic triangle -- he was in love with Laura and anxious to keep her away from Steele -- he was the normal, genuine person whose basic normalcy made it easier to understand how weird the two leads were. Murphy, like Steele, admires Laura's skills and doesn't mind taking orders from her; he is basically the perfect man for her in every way. But he's not a role-player, not a faker; in the first episode he's saying how much he hates going along with Laura's Remington Steele imposture, and she waves him aside. He's too genuine for her, too normal; her interest is in people who share her own penchant for playing a part.
Laura has no interest in people who aren't faking to some extent; her career is based on finding out who people are, as opposed to what they pretend to be, and romance is for her an extention of the same thing. "Remington Steele" is a great hybrid of detective story and romance because it treats romance as similar to detective work: it's about finding out what the other person is hiding.
I can't agree with the conclusion of the article that the 2nd season is what marked the change in their "power" -- the evolution to that change was pretty evident all though the first season. It started significantly as early as "Though Shalt not Steele" and by "Circulation" it was glaringly obvious. Ace
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