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I loved "Children of the Stones". I am off work with COVID so I rewatched it this week. Novels, films TV serials to do with the supernatural side of ancient sites have always been some of my favourites since childhood. I also read the novel of, "Children of the Stones" and it's sequel, "Return to the Stones". Both good. Another good TV series, on at about the same time was, "The Moon Stallion". I did mention earlier about trying to get a dvd version of it and finally tracked down a VHS version of it. I got permission off the BBC and had it transferred successfully to dvd. The novel is easy to procure, worth a read.
I do remember it being on, although I did not see all of it.
Thank you both of you. Both of your answers do make sense. In that when the monster moves, it takes it's web with it. That is probably why it is my favourite episode (in a macabre way). The fact that it is so mysterious.
The novel had a similar funny end. It was a good novel and went into a lot of detail. I found the ending very abrupt though. From memory. Jean Valjean dies and there is an epilogue saying that his gravestone is in a cemetery. It does not say was became of Cosette and Marius or anyone else.
I have read, "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley. I never realised that it had been made into a film though. Interesting.
In the original novel he takes the place of a dead South African officer who had been killed in action. His character had worked in South West Africa as a mine engineer before the war. His superiors knew this and they thought that he would know enough about South African culture to pass as a a South African. It was a hurried, last minute arrangement. So finding a South African uniform which fitted property probably would have been difficult.
In the original novel, the wounded nurse can speak German. She realises that Anthony Quayle's character is a German agent, but she is too weak by that time (although she tries to tell them) to communicate this to the others.
I think that it would have been more humane to have killed Louis, rather than condemning him to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement with that mask on. Granted, he was not a nice person, but I do not think that he deserved that.
Exactly. I would have had sympathy for him if he polished off the abusers. Why take it out on those women, who as far as we know, had hurt no one?
How can anyone be rooting for him?! He is a murderer and a sex pest with no mercy for his victims!
Yes, that is exactly what I have heard. It was because Trevor Eve wanted to move onto other things and they used ideas for further Shoestring plots in Bergerac instead. I really enjoyed the Shoestring series at the time, read the two novelisations and have recently finished watching series two on dvd. I was quite sad that it did finish only after two serials. I liked Shoestring's character and the other regular members of the cast were likeable. They could probably have had a few further serials and developed the characters more. As other people have said though, it was probably better to finish on a high. Some UK tv serials at the time, which were popular at the start, just got farcical towards the end because they had gone on for too long. My favourite episode I think, was when Shoestring was after that blackmailer (The Teddybears). I found the blackmailer funny!
We have relatives who live in a village called Congressbury in the south west. I remember Radio West starting there in the early 1980's. Always used to retune the car radio to it if ever we went down there. The station is still going, but it is called Heart FM Bristol.
Good analysis!
You saw him start to strangle her, you did not actually see him kill her though. So hopefully she might have escaped still.
Yes. As far as I am aware a hero will do the right thing and try and be decent about it. Whereas an anti hero will try and ultimately do the right thing (in this case avenge his law abiding, murdered brother). Sod who gets in the way though, whether they are guilty (Eric and Peter the Dutchman), only partly involved (Margaret) or completely innocent (the two people in the car which Cliff Brumby lands on).
Seen them both. Can recommend.
I am not saying that being a streetwalker is not such a bad thing. It is a bad thing to be forced to do. As you said it is dangerous, unpleasant, people look down on you and you do not always get the legal protection that you should. I am not defending anyone having to take that up as a job. The point which I am trying to make is that society saw what they did, as you say, as disgraceful, socially unacceptable and you were treated as a social pariah. Whereas if you went out killing people, with the war being on, you were seen as respectable and socially acceptable.
Brilliant film. Have got it stored on the BT vision box.
I do not think that I would make much money!
The point that I was making was how society thought that prostitution was terrible (those two did not hurt anyone) but a war was going on and killing was seen as not only fine, but seen as a respectable thing to do. Not that I am not criticising members of the armed forces, but warfare in general and how it was seen as the respectable thing to do back then.
My grandmother lived in London in WW1 and she could remember the Zeppelins coming over.
Apparently the Zeppelins had orders from Kaiser Bill not to bomb Buckingham Palace because his relatives lived there.
"Deck the halls with bones of Orville" (sung to the tune of, "Deck the hall with boughs of holly")