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.

Censorship

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

That totally sucks! Heaven forfend we show anything like accuracy in history. Wonder if part of it was the coup de grace by the Romans at the end of the final battle.

I caught the last 30 minutes or so when my PBS station repeated it pre-sunrise, and wasn't enormously impressed. But they did say it's available from WGBH on both VHS and DVD if you have a burning desire to own it.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Cheer up, dear - you didn't miss much! It was much more "Monty Python" than "I Claudius" and skipped anything interesting like, oh, the tribal organization or why Boudicca was an inspiring leader in favor of new age music, some tasteful sex, a rape scene and Mystical Shamanism and the ending was just really stoooopid ;)

[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.

Re: Censorship

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

That totally sucks! Heaven forfend we show anything like accuracy in history. Wonder if part of it was the coup de grace by the Romans at the end of the final battle.

I had wondered when the timeslot was only an hour and a half long, and the DVD was two hours, but I didn't expect them to be so up front about their cutting. I guess that's better than hiding it, maybe? No one around here has said they liked it much, so at least I didn't miss high art or anything. It hasn't shown back up on the schedule though, which is annoying.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Hee! Okay, Boudicca the Python sounds like a trip and a half (a pepperpot in a chariot! A lumberjack in woad!), but that really is a shame. I wouldn't have minded some Xena-esque cheese, if they couldn't achieve actual quality. I'd rather have good (or passable, whatever) history, but cheese has its place. But I am so tired of the Mystical Shamanism gig- Marion Zimmer Bradley has a lot to answer for, if you ask me. Maybe it's a good thing that the show hasn't shown back up on the schedule yet.