Someone hasn’t seen Blink yet.
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There is one episode of *Jekyll *where I had to watch from behind a sofa cushion, and was "Oh NO!! NOO!!!"ing at the TV screen. That’s when I remembered who the writer was, and how it came to pass that I now have a healthy phobia of stone statues.
Steven Moffat is certainly a writer to watch.
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Conclusion last night. Overall I am well pleased with the series from a performances standpoint and a tying up most of the loose ends standpoint (although, following Hyde’s death, the Jackman family was free to just wander out onto the lawn of the house where they’d just been held captive? Did literally every single person leave when Hyde showed up?) but the little denoument with Mother Hyde left me rather cold.
What I really want to see is a mini-series about Gertrude Jekyll! Okay, maybe not…she had a boring personal life. Now, Vita Sackville-West! There’s a woman you could make a mini-series about!
Been watching it since the beginning. I like the updating of the relationship of Jekyll/Hyde, and the flashbacks are good. That and the very pretty English ladies (made sure I’ll check out Bionic Woman!) kept me interested. Nesbit does a very good job switching, so that I really thought it was two diffirent people for awhile. I agree that Hyde was a bit over the top at first, but he grew on me. He’s just a kid, really. The episode about Hyde’s emergence was awesome.
“Wanna play lions?”
I liked it, except for the ending involving Tom Jackman’s mother, which introduced new questions. (It was nice to watch something that concluded in only six episodes, unlike some of the serial dramas that have been appearing on American television and which seem open-ended.)
When Jackman first “meets” Hyde on videotape, Hyde asked “Are You my Daddy?”
Yes - That was another non-sleep inducing moment.
I’m not sure about you, but after seeing what Hyde could do, I’d leave, too.
I’m also not sure Hyde’s really dead either. If they do a second series, I have a feeling it’ll focus on Harry and Eddie.
The one thing that really bugged me about the series was the horrible American accents. Really, we don’t all sound like we came straight out of a '30s gangster movie.
The civilians apparently left en masse, but the paramilitary? I suppsoe with Hyde dead the PTB could have just said to pack it up, but it was not at all clear from the episode.
Well, maybe you don’t.
If I were one of the guards I would have been seriously rethinking my options after seeing Hyde toss my leader off the roof without even breaking a sweat.
But that was at a completely different location, and there were guards at the mansion throughout. Indeed, Hyde was killed by guards. So Hyde is dead and the wife and kids are locked in the basement, and everyone just leaves? Just doesn’t make sense.
The flashbacks and flashforwards in the last episode left me a bit turned off, and it seemed a bit disjointed. I would also have liked to see a bit more about the cloning of “Mrs. Hyde” (who I can’t get over seeing as Jane from Coupling). But overall I enjoyed the show.
This has definitely been the summer of Cable. I’m hardly on the networks anymore – it’s BBC America, History, Discovery, Nat Geographic, etc. for me.