I give you an overtly serious Chief Inspector Barnaby. Does this picture not say, "Stay out of my kingdom"?It is the funniest thing ever (to me only, as funniest things go) that despite the fact that I was rather unhappy with him for a long while at the news that some day (two years) John Nettles will be leaving as Tom Barnaby, I started watching a few episodes the other day and already am coming around. The man only has to pleasantly arrest some bastard and I feel very warm--about him, about me, about all things. I will keep reminding myself that it is nothing to do with Tom Barnaby, but more John Nettles. He has been Inspector Barnaby for quite a while. I don't really look at him and think, "Ah ha! You've aged!" However, I am aware at times that he isn't exactly as he was at the beginning of the series... Never mind when exactly I started watching, needless to say I can cram 11 years into a short span of time as well as or better than anyone. Never mind also that I have found a specific time frame where I would like to freeze him, even though I don't really think of him in terms of having or not having a hot bod. He's a very nice, fuzzy, safety-inspiring man, who wears a wonderful big coat. And has won me over--again.
As per our wonderings yesterday, here's a list of the books featuring Evil Tom and Bigot Troy.
ReplyDelete* The Killings at Badger's Drift, 1987
* Death of a Hollow Man, 1989
* Death in Disguise, 1992
* Written in Blood, 1994
* Faithful unto Death, 1996
* A Place of Safety, 1999
* A Ghost in the Machine, 2004
I tend to think of the Causton of the books vs that of the TV series much like Dark Silent Hill vs Foggy Silent Hill. In Foggy Silent Hill there can still be slightly sinister things afoot, but the fences aren't rusted chain link with bodies strung up at regular intervals, and the faucets don't run blood.
I imagine Scott was damned to Dark Silent Hill. That's where he went - to a place where the sins of the guilty are made manifest, as befits a smug-nosed interloper. Or maybe he just went back to London. I do not know.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with Jones. I just don't know about his ability to carry the franchise. He'd better become 100x more amicable, stat.
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