Quote: Tim Walker @ May 1 2011, 1:04 AM BSTA contemporary drama with the overall narrative sprawling over a long episode arc, with complex and interesting characters involved in an engaging story that kept me guessing as to how it will be eventually resolved.
Mainly great characters, the more complex the better - but without supernatural powers or the need to solve crime or the need to save the entire world in order to make them interesting. Something that might make me think a bit would be good. Human stories, not escapist fantasies. The BBC, in particular, seem to believe that everyone thesedays must love sci-fi. Not everyone does. Some of us really hate it.
(So I've basically described The Sopranos or Mad Men or Six Feet Under or Traffik or GBH or...)
But each of those you described had a 'gimmick'. Yet what you claim you want, is something effectively 'gimmickless'. I suppose I understand the need to better disguise our gimmicks. Doctor Who is hardly subtle...
Quote: Vader @ May 1 2011, 1:06 AM BSTDon't worry, I was just misquoting zooo for mischief making purposes. You can pretend she really said that though.
I see your mischief and raise you 4chan
Quote: Tim Walker @ May 1 2011, 1:08 AM BSTEr, your post about Sherlock Holmes?
Out of sheer laziness, I haven't read back, but tone and feel I see as relating to an almost...well..unseen aesthetic. When you read a book you remember how you felt when you read it. Well, the closest any filmed adaptation of the Holmes stories ever came to emulating that 'tone' and 'feeling' for me was the latest BBC one. The rest have felt like they were designed to be slow, and methodical, which the books aren't at all!