Spoiler Yeah, I'll give you that, but they didn't know who. Roper became suspicious of everybody at that point, but Pine got a great deal of respect from him. Staging saving his kid bought him a lot of leeway for a long time.
Spoiler: NM They didn't know it was Pine. He had done such a convincing job of appearing to save Roper's son that Roper was put miles off the scent. Also, she had evidence of their corruption which she could have taken to her former boss, who was being kicked upstairs but still had access to bringing them down legally. It was why he was being kicked upstairs. They wanted to distance him from her and give him higher loyalties.
Alice in Wonderland is mine. I love Disney's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book. The Tea Party sequence is perfection, and I loved the Dodo while he was trying to smoke the monster out !
Lots of parents apparently complaining about C5 showing Watership Down on Easter Sunday because it upset their children. Umm...would it be too complicated to suggest changing channels?
I know. I understand that AiW frightens some kiddies too. As you say, watch something else. Actually, if you want kids to watch something properly terrifying then get them in front of Disney's Pinocchio.
John Le Carre said to be delighted with adaptation of The Night Manager and is writing a sequel. Olivia Coleman has said she would appear in one if asked, but hasn't been as yet. I knew there had been a failed film attempt....with Brad Pitt. Never been a big fan of his. Without giving anything away, the reason behind Roper's blindness about Pine is that he admired him, so believed that the Spaniard and Corkie were the moles rather than Jonathan. Jed said in an early episode that people were all attracted to Pine. Roper himself could be charming and he thought Pine was like himself. Roper was essentially lonely as everyone else was subordinate to him...he saw himself in Pine and didn't realise that the traits he admired...coolness, ruthlessness, intelligence...were being used against him, rather than for him. Pine repeated a Roper quote back at him at the end to reveal this. In the end, you have to recognise it is meant to be enjoyable fiction rather than reality.
It would have been up there for mine, but for this weekends bunny loss I also didn't think it was Disney. Is it?
Haven't children's stories and fairytales often been frightening? The idea was that kid's liked being a little scared and then being reassured....a learning process. Watership Down is known to be sad...like Bambi. Up to parents to warn their kids or, if very young, not to let them watch it at all. Why have people started to complain about everything...would never occur to me as TV isn't compulsory. No wonder modern kids are called the snowflake generation.
Don't know who coined it. Been used a lot to describe University students who request safe spaces where they don't have to hear views they don't agree with....oooh, does that mean we have snowflake fans on not606
Snowflakes, like cherry blossom, are often used in Japanese Buddhism as metaphors for life - fleeting, beautiful, doomed. A bit like Arsenal under Wenger (who is known to admire aspects of Japanese culture).
Saints are more like magnolias...can be beautiful, but prone to being nipped in the bud by adverse conditions.
http://news.sky.com/story/1668335/british-tourist-tries-to-swim-to-cruise-ship 65-Yr-old woman tries to swim back to a cruise ship that left without her. How did she imagine she could get up into the ship....have you seen the height of them. She was rescued by fishermen....she was still clutching her handbag, so at least she had her priorities right.
Cooee, just looked over the way and a tree has taken out the porch of a neighbour's house. Otherwise we all appear to come through Storm Katie reasonably OK round here. Bugger. Just realised that tree was a very mature conference pear which kids used to climb and take fruit from when ripe, back in the days when kids still climbed trees. All sawn up now. Things come and go.
Yep. We bought the original Grimms Fairy Tales to read to the kids and some were bloodcurdling. Kids loved 'em. Vin
