State of refusing to frigging Play
Feb. 10th, 2009 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrSo I and Cam were watching "State of Play" (the original BBC miniseries, not the new american movie) It's a taut political thriller with lots of twists and turns. We were halfway through the last episode, heading towards a major revelation..and the disk stopped.
Argh! So we put it in my laptop. And it worked! Yay!
Cue impatient seconds waiting for the BBC logo to load, menu to come up etc and we go to chapter selection. And there on the screen, on the preview image for the last scene? Was a closeup up of a headline SAYING THE FINAL TWIST.
ARGH!!!
Still, overall quite good, just don't look at the frigging chapter selection. Very much a story of Flawed Manly Men doggedly pursuing a story/case/justice etc with women tending to either be background or The Secretary, The Wife, The Feisty Girl Reporter In Peril etc (non white characters tend to just get to be background and the less said about the gay characters the better) But once I resigned myself to that it was quite enjoyable and the characters well written within their bounds.
Argh! So we put it in my laptop. And it worked! Yay!
Cue impatient seconds waiting for the BBC logo to load, menu to come up etc and we go to chapter selection. And there on the screen, on the preview image for the last scene? Was a closeup up of a headline SAYING THE FINAL TWIST.
ARGH!!!
Still, overall quite good, just don't look at the frigging chapter selection. Very much a story of Flawed Manly Men doggedly pursuing a story/case/justice etc with women tending to either be background or The Secretary, The Wife, The Feisty Girl Reporter In Peril etc (non white characters tend to just get to be background and the less said about the gay characters the better) But once I resigned myself to that it was quite enjoyable and the characters well written within their bounds.
