Matinee Idyll
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Love this one. Likely the most overwhelmingly intense and gripping episode of the series. It hardly lets up.
While the trench battle sequences are perhaps less visceral and powerful than the 'Verdun' episode, they still pack an enormous punch to the gut. The gas attack and flamethrower sequence is simply horrific, ...unfathomable.
That sequence has been put up on youtube (in Dutch I believe);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-3BNnbV_o
Seigfried Sassoon and Robert Graves are two great historical figures in this episode, interwoven seamlessly into the flow of the episode. A stunning reminder of beauty and arts ability to flourish and thrive in the most dehumanizing of situations.
I wonder if the Flanders episode that's referred to by Indy and Jacques was ever going to be filmed. I quite like how we leave Indy in London, then pick up the story 3 months later... a very different character we encounter.
A stunning episode.
While the trench battle sequences are perhaps less visceral and powerful than the 'Verdun' episode, they still pack an enormous punch to the gut. The gas attack and flamethrower sequence is simply horrific, ...unfathomable.
That sequence has been put up on youtube (in Dutch I believe);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-3BNnbV_o
Seigfried Sassoon and Robert Graves are two great historical figures in this episode, interwoven seamlessly into the flow of the episode. A stunning reminder of beauty and arts ability to flourish and thrive in the most dehumanizing of situations.
I wonder if the Flanders episode that's referred to by Indy and Jacques was ever going to be filmed. I quite like how we leave Indy in London, then pick up the story 3 months later... a very different character we encounter.
A stunning episode.