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"When the wolves were running"
Bloody hell, it's windy! Still, it proved to be fabulously atmospheric weather for tonight's Torchwood. More of that later.
Anyway, for those of you in the loop, today was the beginning of the Great Christmas Tradition that is the annual Box Of Delights rewatch. In the spirit of the old screenings on Children's BBC, way back in the day (pre-Phillip Schofield. Jeepers), we have one episode a week, with the last one on Christmas Eve. It's the best way to get into the mood for Christmas. Yes, it's a show that dates from 1984, so the FX aren't quite up to everybody's standards, but these things have never worried me, so I'm as happy with the way the show looks as I was back then. The mix of live action and animation is quaintly dated, but given the old-fashioned feel of the show anyway, that almost seems fitting. And anyway, who cares what the FX look like when the story is this good?!
Episode one, and the wolves are running. Kay Harker is back home from school for the Christmas holidays, and his little town is suddenly filled with witches and wolves and creepy churchmen. Herne gallops about at night, dressed in shining white, and cryptic messages get passed about the town. A human-sized talking rat acts as spy for the gloriously despicable Abner Brown, and in the middle of it all is Cole Hawlings, one of the greatest characters on television, and perhaps Patrick Troughton's best ever role. Thousands of years old, with a glint in his eye, and a pocketful of very special magic.
Christmas is coming. You can hear it in the theme music. :)
"In my box are such delights..."
Anyway, for those of you in the loop, today was the beginning of the Great Christmas Tradition that is the annual Box Of Delights rewatch. In the spirit of the old screenings on Children's BBC, way back in the day (pre-Phillip Schofield. Jeepers), we have one episode a week, with the last one on Christmas Eve. It's the best way to get into the mood for Christmas. Yes, it's a show that dates from 1984, so the FX aren't quite up to everybody's standards, but these things have never worried me, so I'm as happy with the way the show looks as I was back then. The mix of live action and animation is quaintly dated, but given the old-fashioned feel of the show anyway, that almost seems fitting. And anyway, who cares what the FX look like when the story is this good?!
Episode one, and the wolves are running. Kay Harker is back home from school for the Christmas holidays, and his little town is suddenly filled with witches and wolves and creepy churchmen. Herne gallops about at night, dressed in shining white, and cryptic messages get passed about the town. A human-sized talking rat acts as spy for the gloriously despicable Abner Brown, and in the middle of it all is Cole Hawlings, one of the greatest characters on television, and perhaps Patrick Troughton's best ever role. Thousands of years old, with a glint in his eye, and a pocketful of very special magic.
Christmas is coming. You can hear it in the theme music. :)
"In my box are such delights..."