Monday, October 19, 2009

To suffer the slings and arrows.


For the last seven months I have lived without a television. This experience comes with positives (more productive evenings, more books read, music listened to) and negatives (spend more money on DVDs, starting a blog, feeling like a social outcast when friends/students discuss things on TV). However, the honest truth is that I have rarely missed it. I don't miss the ads. I don't miss the news. I don't miss most of the programmes.

The only exception is Outrageous Fortune, which until two weeks ago screened every Tuesday night at 9:30pm. For this very reason I would avoid three of my colleagues every Wednesday morning as they always discussed and analysed the scandalous events of the previous night's episode. I didn't want to know. Now that season five has finished, I have ordered the DVD and await its arrival tomorrow. I'm a little excited.

In anticipation of this event I sat down on Sunday evening and re-watched the last two episodes of season four. This is worrying behaviour I know. They were good, especially the parts where Wolf must realise the love of his life no longer wants him.

But, while they are good, my favourite is Episode Ten, which is pure Shakespearean. It is the point at which, in great Lear style, a father realises he has spawned a child more evil than himself.

5 comments:

  1. You should be excited! Oh the last episode of Season 5 is jaw dropping. Seriously x

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  2. I've never watched this show. Does this make my life less significant?
    Richard (of RBB)

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  3. "I've never watched this show. Does this make my life less significant?
    Richard (of RBB)"

    Impossible.

    - The Mean Guy

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  4. "I've never watched this show. Does this make my life less significant?
    Richard (of RBB)"

    Maybe.

    - The Too Many Negatives In a Sentence Confuses Me Guy

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  5. You are too significant to be made insignificant by not having watched this programme Richard.

    The main reason I like it makes a dramatic day in the classroom seem like a series of normal, peaceful interactions! (it's about a criminal family in West Auckland)

    Laurel- I'll measure how far my jaw drops and let you know :)

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