"Sweep! Sweeeeeeeep!"

[icepixie]

I may have a tiny little crush on Paul Gross. He is quite pretty, after all (there is no way he's in his mid-40s, surely), and he appears to play a lot of softspoken, sensitive, very-intelligent-but-very-oblivious-and-maybe-a-bit-crazy characters I like, and play them well. Hence, today I watched Men with Brooms.

It was predictable and a bit cheesy in places, but, dude. It's about curling, which is possibly the goofiest sport ever invented. It probably could've been ten times more predictable and cheesy and still been funny. I know there are people who take it seriously, but I can't see two people furiously sweeping a patch of ice in front of a slooowly sliding ball of rock without cracking up, I just can't.

Paul Gross's character is very much like Geoffrey Tennant, so all you Slings & Arrows fans rowdycamels, you may want to check it out. He even went crazy and left his fiancee at the altar, and, apparently, can at least hear a dead father-figure, if not respond to him. And as far as I can tell, PG has it stipulated in his contract that everything he does involves a shot of his naked rear end. So, lots of similarities. Obviously.

And Beth, Sharon's kinda-but-not-really girlfriend from Wonderfalls, shows up in this! She's blonde this time. I think she looks better as a blonde, actually, although she's quite pretty no matter what.

Anyway. Obviously, I now need to see Due South.

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[rensong.livejournal.com]

Chinatown is another good one, too. There are accidental fireworks at the end!

Also, I totally know how you feel about the not willing to spend money on DVDs thing. The *only* series set of DVDs I own *is* Due South, and I argued with myself for months before I finally gave in and bought them, using the excuse that "I may as well buy them now while I still have the money to afford them before tuition sucks up every penny I earn". ;) And I bought all three seasons (well, four depending on whether you lived in Canada or the US). The US version of the DVDs cost about 70 $ plus shipping for all three seasons. Canadian, though they are supposedly of higher quality (US versions were burned off of tapes rather than DVDs, or something) cost a pretty penny more for about 200 total for all the seasons. Not sure if they have extras or not, though.

Anyhoo, I have the US versions, and aside from the occasional split second of slightly garbled image (think what you get sometimes with Digital Cable or Satellite dish during sun flares or something), they they are perfectly watchable. So, if we ever do manage to sway you, those are the ones I'd go for. ;)

and I'll shut up about Due South now.

[icepixie]

Well, I watched the pilot, and now that I want to see more, I'm going for "A Hawk and a Handsaw." A Shakespeare reference in the title can only be a good thing, right?

BTW, got any recs for episodes featuring Diefenbaker? "Diefenbaker's Day Off" sounds like a good prospect.

If I buy DVDs, I'll definitely be going for the cheapo US versions. I was thinking about looking for used versions, but I have horrible premonitions of scratched up disks on no refunds, so maybe not.

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Any Shakespear ref is a good one! Fraser quotes it to some of the other people in the asylum. No, really. ;)

Diefenbaker's Day Off is a good one for Deif-related episodes, though he doesn't get *quite* as much screen time because Ray and Fraser are also investigating on their own, as cops are apt to do every once in awhile.

One of the ones that I remeber being almost entirely Dief-centric, though, is The Wild Bunch, late in first season. I won't tell you what all happens since I don't want to spoil, but I will admit that I almost cried for Diefenbaker once or twice. And I went "Awwww!" quite a lot. ;)

Due South is one of those rare television shows in which the animals are as big a member of the cast as the humans are. Pretty much any episode you watch with feature Dief in some small-or-large way, and he and Fraser
"talk" almost as much as Fraser and Ray do. I'm not entirely sure why the dog never got his name in the opening credits, though. He had to get at least as many lines (or, well... Growls?) as Darwin did on Sea Quest. :D

Good luck finding decent DVDs if you get addicted! You could always try looking for stuff like "Never been opened" or "only watched once". That happens occasionally.

~ Maren
who really misses her diefenbaker icon
(http://photobucket.com/)

[icepixie]

Watched it! Heh, I could see glimmerings of the Geoffrey Tennant character from Slings & Arrows when Fraser was in the asylum, quoting from Hamlet. Hee.

I've been spoiled a bit for The Wild Bunch. I know Dief fathers some puppies. But after Mountie on the Bounty, it's next on my list.

Yay doggy!