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Feb. 20th, 2008 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI've been watching Due South. I'll no doubt have some more in depths descriptions at some point, but a few observations:
* Thank you Liz for lending the DVDs
* When his Dad's ghost (or hallucination) appears, that's a wonderful moment, indicative of what the whole series is like.
Fraser Sr.: Hello, son.
Fraser Jr: [warily] Hello, Dad. How are you?
Fraser Sr.: I'm dead, son. Other than that, do you mean?
Fraser Jr: No... That is what I was asking.
* In the next episode, on the stake-out, it is pleasant to see them playing poker with detectives Huey and Louis, that despite the extent they don't get on, they are colleagues at some level
* Reading truepenny's reviews (written on a second watching, so from the point of view of the series as a whole, not just what's revealed now, which is interesting), reading some opinions about something really does add to the experience, which i guess is one way literary analysis really does start.
ETA:
* In a Hawk and a Handsaw, it's very sweet how Fraser is as exasperated at Defenbaker's excessive suaveness as Ray is at Fraser's :)
* And also, his interview to get into the asylum, the series could almost be summed up by how well his kind but honourable attitude fits in, and how quickly the nurse hit the "insane" button after hearing him describe the exact truth of how a mountie came to be living in chicago with a deaf wolf.
* Thank you Liz for lending the DVDs
* When his Dad's ghost (or hallucination) appears, that's a wonderful moment, indicative of what the whole series is like.
Fraser Sr.: Hello, son.
Fraser Jr: [warily] Hello, Dad. How are you?
Fraser Sr.: I'm dead, son. Other than that, do you mean?
Fraser Jr: No... That is what I was asking.
* In the next episode, on the stake-out, it is pleasant to see them playing poker with detectives Huey and Louis, that despite the extent they don't get on, they are colleagues at some level
* Reading truepenny's reviews (written on a second watching, so from the point of view of the series as a whole, not just what's revealed now, which is interesting), reading some opinions about something really does add to the experience, which i guess is one way literary analysis really does start.
ETA:
* In a Hawk and a Handsaw, it's very sweet how Fraser is as exasperated at Defenbaker's excessive suaveness as Ray is at Fraser's :)
* And also, his interview to get into the asylum, the series could almost be summed up by how well his kind but honourable attitude fits in, and how quickly the nurse hit the "insane" button after hearing him describe the exact truth of how a mountie came to be living in chicago with a deaf wolf.