spinning wheels and televisual feasting

[anotheranon]

Ever have one of those days where no matter how furiously you work at it, you feel completely ineffective?

Yep, one of those fell in my lap today. I think the coffeemaker setting off the smoke alarm was the first bad omen (fixed, gratefully [crosses fingers]). The second was the biscuits I was making for work not rising as I'd like. Irritating, but my co workers seemed to like them anyway - at least my secret identity as BiscuitMistress is still under wraps! :P

After a day of much furious tail-chasing, I settled down to watch the teevee:

Regency House Party part 2: Some historic fashion aficionados hate this show and other "historical reality" tv, continually bitching that the producers should have cast proper re-enactors who would know how to behave. I disagree - if I want to watch people who know what they're doing in an 1811 country house, I'll rent "Emma" :P Besides, I don't think I'd do any better if I had to stay "in character" for 2 solid months, and I confess the sadist in me enjoys watching them misstep - often wildly!

Highlights: this episode, the women ordered/trimmed their dresses for the Summer Ball, and the men resurrected the Hellfire Club. Next week - what's that girl doing on the buffet table? Enjoying this one very much.

Henry VIII on Masterpiece Theater - er, not so much. What's Henry doing with a Cockney accent? He looks/acts ok but they should have put him through voice lessons. And Helena Bonham Carter manages to make Anne Boleyn, historically a plain but exciting girl into a pretty but boring one.

Not sure why I'm watching this one, actually. They've butchered/grossly oversimplified the story in the first part and don't even start me about the costumes (put your hair up, dammit!) I guess the masochist in me hopes eternally that they'll redeem themselves in the 2nd half. Besides, I hate to leave things half-finished.

I'm hoping for a better day tomorrow. Today just felt utterly...

Comments

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

See my vague comments about Henry VIII in my LJ. I am normally a slut for Tudor England but I was bored out of my skull by the first hour of part 2 even though I lust after a number of the stars in it. It's sad when the most exciting part was watching Sean Bean being tortured. (At least he was shirtless).

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

While a shirtless Sean Bean is a welcome addition to any film, I'm not sure it will save this turkey!

He's playing a Catholic agitator though, right? If so this will be the first movie of Henry's reign that I've seen that addresses ANYTHING other than his 6 wives! Let's hope the writers tried a little harder to get the history right :/

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

It didn't - he was a Catholic agitator but unless he was in part 1 doing stuff I didn't see, he didn't really do much here other than get captured and tortured and hung up in public without a shirt.

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

yup, yeasterday was not an optimal day, World wide it seems. today will be better, damm it!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

A case of "Mondays" all round! :/