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ALL STYLE AND LITTLE CONTENT.

posted 12 years ago by ib011f9545i
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I can remember watching the AVENGERS when I was a little kid in the 1960s,when my parents wwatching ere trying to get me to go to bed.
I then saw repeats on Channel 4 in the early 1980s,both times I liked the programme.
But watching the 1965 series on dvd I feel that most of the episodes have a clever idea that does not sustain interest over a whole episode,they have style but the plots are very often just daft.

I don't expect anything deep from something like this but as much as I enjoy the 1960s settings and some good performances from guest stars it feels almost like a kids show most of the time.

[–] Passport-To-Pimlico 12 years ago

it feels almost like a kids show most of the time.

Well, fancy that!!

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[–] PrometheusTree64 12 years ago

By '60s TV standards, it didn't get any better than this. Even in terms of content.

Seriously.

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[–] ehaas-3 10 years ago

It wasn't supposed to be particularly serious. But that said, many of the episodes were very inventive and some created a great sense of strangeness and menace.

That town of impostors in Season 4 freaked me out. How many other towns like this were there supposed to be? Did they just kill off all the original population including children?

[–] PrometheusTree64 10 years ago

Yes. I wasn't nuts about how Rigg's final year (the one in color) went a little too slapstick in the beginning, but by the end of that season, it was back in proper form.

Too bad she didn't do the last year of the show.

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[–] kenny-164 10 years ago

Since I think the single best thing about The Avengers was Diana Rigg's performance, and then second her interplay with MacNee, I obviously cannot agree that style in the conventional sense was primary.

Now style was an important part of the show, but if you will in a rather substantive way. There was a seamless connection between the characters, their way of being if you will, and the style they had. In other words I don't think their style was separate in any obvious or intelligible way from the way their characters behaved.