This series still holds up really well - great pace, great production design, excellent acting, skillfully crafted dialogue that tells just the story, ma'm. Why couldn't we have had 7 or 8 seasons of this fine stuff?
I described this to my daughter as a comic book in film. Today, watching it again, I realize what this means. It is as if a staff at Marvel came up with a team of characters, an intriguing business for them, and put them on paper. They drew the characters, made the environment simple in the way a comic book (excuse me, 'graphic novel') would show it. Then the director took the comic book and placed the actors in the frame made with the camera and made it all flow - with action.
The actors look like they would be drawn in a graphic novel. Does anyone have the handsome good looks and square jaw of Mark Valley and NOT make you think he could possibly be ten times more effective fighting crime than the next hero-type guy? The women are more feminine, more classy, more simply 'female'; the men are so male, quiet, understated, but ready for action.
I realize I still have a crush on these guys. They have all gotten older, moved on, and the same series (or even a movie) would not have this team. Trying to reproduce this very stylish series would be like trying to find someone 'like Benedict Cumberbatch' and tell him to act like Cumberbatch and be Sherlock. Can't improve on the real thing!
I described this to my daughter as a comic book in film. Today, watching it again, I realize what this means. It is as if a staff at Marvel came up with a team of characters, an intriguing business for them, and put them on paper. They drew the characters, made the environment simple in the way a comic book (excuse me, 'graphic novel') would show it. Then the director took the comic book and placed the actors in the frame made with the camera and made it all flow - with action.
The actors look like they would be drawn in a graphic novel. Does anyone have the handsome good looks and square jaw of Mark Valley and NOT make you think he could possibly be ten times more effective fighting crime than the next hero-type guy? The women are more feminine, more classy, more simply 'female'; the men are so male, quiet, understated, but ready for action.
I realize I still have a crush on these guys. They have all gotten older, moved on, and the same series (or even a movie) would not have this team. Trying to reproduce this very stylish series would be like trying to find someone 'like Benedict Cumberbatch' and tell him to act like Cumberbatch and be Sherlock. Can't improve on the real thing!