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thisbluespirit) wrote2014-03-13 05:21 pm
thisbluespirit) wrote2014-03-13 05:21 pm
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One more thing
I knew there was something else: and I bought (as a reward for doing hard stuff, including some money-saving/gaining things) the TV tie-in book of Enemy at the Door for 1p on Amazon. I was worried, because TV novelisations do tend to be a special kind of terrible. Anyway, it arrived today! And I will say more some other time (now, I have my parents up here - almost a rl again! Also I should answer comments), because it took a sudden lurch into making me wonder if it was being novelised by Ben Steed (and nobody wants that), but I got my money's worth by about p3 when the author had an go at describing Alfred Burke's face (as Major Richter):
"He [a random Police Inspector] sensed at once that Richter had a capacity to charm that might cloud a man's judgement... Richter was too quiet, too urbane, with a face of that ascetic cast which is acquired by saints, librarians and aristocratic confidence tricksters... Perhaps aware of this himself, Richter had grown a beard, but it did little to hide his saintly expression..."
Alfred Burke grew a beard to spare us all his face, because it was Too Much, trufax, people. Well, there's one mystery of life solved.
(It is very odd about this. It lovingly describes some of the characters as played by the particular actors, down to funny little quirks of how they played a scene and then others not, or he seems to have decided to make up his own version.)
Anyway, "saints, librarians and aristocratic confidence tricksters" :lol: :lol: :lol:. Gosh. I don't know why I went for being a librarian myself, then.
"He [a random Police Inspector] sensed at once that Richter had a capacity to charm that might cloud a man's judgement... Richter was too quiet, too urbane, with a face of that ascetic cast which is acquired by saints, librarians and aristocratic confidence tricksters... Perhaps aware of this himself, Richter had grown a beard, but it did little to hide his saintly expression..."
Alfred Burke grew a beard to spare us all his face, because it was Too Much, trufax, people. Well, there's one mystery of life solved.
(It is very odd about this. It lovingly describes some of the characters as played by the particular actors, down to funny little quirks of how they played a scene and then others not, or he seems to have decided to make up his own version.)
Anyway, "saints, librarians and aristocratic confidence tricksters" :lol: :lol: :lol:. Gosh. I don't know why I went for being a librarian myself, then.
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That description of Richter is priceless. I'm a bit disappointed that he's a philosopher, though - the ones I've met while working in a university bookshop have been combative rather than saintly! :( Also, I know nothing of the subject...
However, I'm still giggling at my rewatch of "Committee Man". Like, no-one questions why the other doctors, the dentists and the vet have been rejected by "the authorities" for the position. EVERYONE KNOWS WHY.
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The description of Richter is the reason why I kept the book afterwards. It is particularly excellent, and I think I read it after watching Public Eye and I'd been floundering about hear trying to explain how awesome Alfred Burke's face was and failing and then there was that. :lol:
As to the Philosophy, I got this when trying to write Outcomes of War because it bugged me that I didn't know what Richter's subject was. He was hardly likely to be a scientist, and Lit. of some kind didn't seem quite right, so I was assuming one of the social sciences but couldn't think which one, until Philosophy finally occurred to me. I can't remember now why, but I did some obviously not too dusty internet and episode rewatching detecting. But, yeah, I don't know much about it. And Richter is always up for a debate anyway!
However, I'm still giggling at my rewatch of "Committee Man". Like, no-one questions why the other doctors, the dentists and the vet have been rejected by "the authorities" for the position. EVERYONE KNOWS WHY.
Indeed. Though, to be fair, the dentists, doctors and vet had turned it down on grounds of being too busy, but the chemists etc. were not deemed good enough because there was only one man for the job. :-D