Argh! No fair, no fair!

[ealgylden]

I've been dying to see Warrior Queen on PBS since they first started teasing me with it months ago. So there I am at 9:00, tape in the VCR, finger on the record button, sugary snacks at hand... and up on the screen pops Madame Mall-Hair from the local PBS station, explaining that there will be no Warrior Queen tonight. No, it had to be sent back and "reedited for content," and instead we're getting something called Almost a Woman, the heartwarming story of a young Puerto Rican girl's coming-of-age in 1960's NYC. Aw, that's nice. I want Alex Kingston killing Romans! I want Boudica! No fair! Gimme my warrior queen!

There should be a mood icon for "throwing a childish tantrum," though admittedly that's a bit unwieldy. Hmph.

Comments

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

I watched the beginning and the end of Warrior Queen on the local PBS station. It was painfully bad, so I skipped the middle. Alex Kingston did okay with the snarling menace at the end, but her voice (blame it on the actress, or blame it on the sound editor) really didn't carry enough to make her speech rousing, and she waved her sword around like the obviously fake prop it was, not like a weapon with weight.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's a pity. I was hoping either for quality, since I generally like Alex Kingston and the glimpses of it in the ads were okay, at least, in that Gladiator-esque way of "not quite it, but good enough and there are so few options," or for high Xena-style cheese. But it doesn't sound like either bill was filled. What a pity.