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I like it but the same plots again and again.

posted 8 years ago by ib011f9545i
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I bought the boxed set a few weeks ago and am working my way through it.
I have reached the colour Emma Peel episodes.

I have enjoyed the boxed set as a whole.

Some episodes are great,some are awful.
I don't like Emma's costumes in the later series,they are uninteresting.

But my only negative issue is the lack of original plots,the show as a whole steals plots from itself,never mind elsewhere,so we get several plots about killer butlers or killer secretaries and one on killer nannies,there are at least 2 plots about railways.

I admire the quality of the shows,the often excellent guest stars and the 2 leads but did nobody ever say let us have an original plot this time?

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6544) 5 years ago

Those were different times. You didn't record them or binge watch them. You could maybe watch it once more after the first time on a re-run, but that was it.

People just watched this for a bit excitement once a week. Most shows were rather similar in this respect.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

Did you know that Sherlock Holmes is the most popular literary character in history? Do you know why readers made him so popular? Because they loved the character of Sherlock Holmes. In franchise entertainment—whether Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes or Game of Thrones—the characters carry the franchise. Emma Peel was the 3rd partner that John Steed had, but she was the 1 who put this show on the bloody MAP. You could cut the synergy between Steed and Peel with a butcher knife. I’ve coined a truism: Absent money, substitute genius. The Avengers had a shoestring budget. It rose to fame by substituting the genius of this magnet couple.

Do you know the source of Mrs. Peel’s name. The producers were always wanting to build up its male appeal, which they called “M appeal.” Then the proverbial cartoon lightbulb came on over their collective head, and Emma Peel emerged.

This show is so much cooler than that Marvel-coppycat wannabe that it’s nauseating.