starting on Fox tonight, I think.
Is it going to be a remake of the old series? As in, the beauty is a reporter, the beast lives in a secret underground city?
Or is it a new imagining?
CW actually - same channel as Supernatural, etc.
I hope that people aren’t going to be too disturbed by the utter hideousness of the Beast.
AHHHH! She’s grotesque!!!
(What?)
I probably should have seen that coming.
I know this is trite of me, but things like that really grind my gears.
For fucks sake, the whole POINT of the original damn fairy tale was an allegory about a young woman leaving the safety of her family home to marry and live with a powerful and dangerous stranger who held the power of life and death and happiness over her, til death shall you part, amen, and her trying to control and “tame” that strange beast of a man with love and female wiles like good cooking and gardening and shit so he would become her prince, and they’d live happily ever after until she died in childbirth.
Even in the Disney versions, the uglification had a point - trying to teach the bastard to be at least somewhat humble. Hell, if I was most men, I’d purposefully cheese off the damn fairy to end up looking like that bastard. Chicks dig scars, yannow?
Grr arg and get off my damn lawn. Fairy tales: yer doin’ em wrong!
I never saw the original but I just watched it (the new one) and that was pretty bad IMO.
I liked the original with Linda Hamilton & Ron Perlman.
Tv guide described the new beast as being uncontrollably powerful when he’s angry.
Sounds like beauty & the hulk
I’ll never find out. I bailed on the show half an hour in. Beauty is utterly unbelievable as a cop, Beast is incredibly handsome, and… basically, I decided going downstairs to empty the dishwasher would be a more interesting way to spend the time.
I’d like to see a Scottish version of this, called Beastie and the Beaut.
Review on TV.com
“It is our duty as rational thinkers to constantly compare, contrast, evaluate, quantify, and qualify every sensation or notion we experience during our brief existences in this realm. These snap judgments are not only necessary for learning and adapting to new things, it’s how we develop tastes and the ability to seek out the best things. So it’s good, then, that terrible things exist, because terrible things help us determine what’s great. That is one good thing about Beauty and the Beast:”
Now, I would say that he didn’t like it.
So…is the “Beast,” like, tentacles or something from the waist down? Have crazy chainsaws instead of hands? Have to eat human brains to survive? Undead? Violent, unpredictable psychological disorder?
I mean, just from that photo, it looks like 90% of his problems could be solved by just growing his beard out the rest of the way.
And applying some makeup to that little scar he has.
One observation regarding the original TV series-Ron Perlman conclusively showed that he could act very well during that show’s run (a mean feat considering he had to do it through all that makeup). Since then tho he’s played virtually nothing but hardass taciturn tough guys, where the required acting chops were minimal (even in Hellboy he seems constantly in deadpan mode, even when his love interest is on the screen). I wonder how he would do if he was given a straight dramatic role which didn’t require him to carry around a machine gun for 3/4ths of the movie…
More like Beauty and Angel with his game face on. Grrr, Arrgh.
Dude’s cute; I’ll watch until it’s cancelled in January.