From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: graemecree@aol.com
Subject: Re: Off-Topic: For those of you who hate ST: 2009
On Jan 13, 10:52aam, Wickeddoll wrote:
> Which is that? I own all of the TZ versions, and don't remember that one
> at all. aYou sure it wasn't something like Alfred Hitchcock Presents?
> It's not the old Outer Limits, either; those I know very well, since I
> have both seasons.
I'm pretty sure it was Twilight Zone. One of the hour long Season 4
episodes. I think the title was just "The Bard". The plot involved
Shakespeare in the present helping the hack writer, and had lots of
little satirical observations on the nature of TV.
> Not my favorite BA - I like 2 & 3 best, with Hugh Laurie playing that
> idjit George. aI think he's a much better comedian than dramatic actor,
> though he's amazing in any part.
I just used that quote because it fit what I was talking about. They
were performing the play "Death of a Scotsman", which takes place in
Egypt, to try to get McAngus killed, by substituting real knives for
the stage knives he gets stabbed with. The Queen and Harry are
watching, the Queen asks what a Scotsman is doing in Egypt in the
first place. Harry doesn't know either, but knows that the play got
good reviews, which is all that matters to him.
It sort of reminded me of how they'd stuck the Azim character into the
Kevin Costner Robin Hood. What's a Muslim warrior doing in the Robin
Hood tales? I don't know, but apparently we're supposed to like it.
The reviewers did. (It sounds like we'll be having the same
discussion about the Thor movie too.)
Usually any time I can come up with a quote from a movie or TV that
fits what I'm posting about, especially from Red Dwarf or Blackadder,
it ends up as a sig.
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