Dandy Forsdyke wrote:Obssession. We don't need to go back to 1971 and see Purdey in a daft wig, acting so out of character in an apallingly slipshod made episode - they couldn't even get the opening right - the stock footage they used from the RAF - had they thrown in the towel by then? And to put the tin hat on it also features the loathesome smug Martin Shaw.
It was 1970, actually, Dandy.
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And I'll respectfully disagree--I think it's a wonderful character sketch, and quite brave from the series. To portray the Avengers girl in a potentially abusive relationship is something the original never would have touched. And Purdey never seems terribly out of character at all. She's only in her early twenties, naive and idealistic. I think it works to explain Purdey's character better than any other story, actually--I always felt that Purdey was the Avengers character with the most visible "issues," and this explains a lot of them. TNA was all about giving the characters a little depth--that was what was meant to make it so different from the original.
Dead Men are Dangerous did pretty much the same thing with Steed.
I agree about the terrible wig, though.
I'll also chip in that I've always found
Too Many Christmas Trees overrated, too. It's not a terrible episode by any means, but it doesn't grab me the way it should for a "classic." (Ditto
The Cybernauts).