Elle Smith Fagan

I read the books and my childhood enjoyed some joyful Scottish love and so I was charmed and the story sent me to google for factoids over and over. And when the series was announced I hedged, fearing it might disappoint....but it has been wonderful, so far! Great cast to play out the adventures, and super camera work, and costumes and makeup....the way their characters change in the various times and places...grand and elegant or filthydirty and howling, they ARE. The music integrates seamlessly and the spirit of the story is so healthy ! I am lifelong SciArts, and if the public is supposed to cave and take it all in, it should be healthy and "Outlander" is all that. It's scary to realize that we can lose sight of the essentials and then wail when things fail because of that oversight. As for Claire and Jamie, my late husband and I thought we were a pair , so I rejoice in the gift of love and the power it brings to a life....worth traveling thru time and space for! Worth it. The have both grown so much over time and through it. Yes. And now it's about North Carolina - where we Connecticut Yankees lived for 14 years and loved it as much and somewhat the same - a new land - new life for us. So good! All I can say it "thank you " and hope the story goes on an on.... one more thing: my children may not see Gone With the Wind, especially the Melanie/Ashley reunion- that wildly joyful moment is still treasured in hearts worldwide, but even the grand stories fade. So I cheered and wept at Brianna and Roger's triumphant reunion, "spot on" . I instantly hoped that viewers seeing that kind of scene for the first time, might keep it JUST that dear! I had that moment with my officer home from war to me and our firstborn son, and it's jubilant till this day 50 years later! They cannot take such triumphs away - powerful medicine against all the hate and sorrow. My son has his first degree in Film and Video and to me it's as important as the lifesaving medicine his Father made....and often more fun! Thank you so much

I never miss it - the "Variation on a theme" interests me and "the puzzles" challenge. I like the leads and the others in the cast, and the quality production details. Supershow.

Film is a film history icon! Paramount. George Raft's favorite because it allowed him to show his dance artfulness - he was a dancer on the East Coast before he came West to become a famous gangster movie actor. Carole Lombard won film fame fairly early on, then married Clark Gable in one of Hollywood's most popular romances - and her early death in a wartime plane crash only held her banners high forever. The film story is a classic, as well - the styling of sets, costumes and choreography holds its own even today. Memorabilia from the film prices high in sales. Finding an active copy in DVD or streaming is not so easy - I viewed it at Youtube and was won again!

The thing to say is that I remember it - years later, after watching another Helen Mirren in the Art World film - I remember the story and the progress of the mystery and its resolution. Intense, draining in its revelations, quality work in the acting, sets, costumes etc. Worth the Watch.

Super job in every way, especially the soul of the story we love to anguish through. "Beautiful" I was a "small child" when the 1933 iconic "King Kong" first aired as a TV Movie show feature around 1955. I think I watched it ten times or more, like most of the "kidz on the block" I was an English major later in school and Freud and Kinsey and all the others were quoted daily and sourced for truth and symbolism and the Grand Message to the Group Unconscious as expressed in "King Kong". So I tuned into this 2005 version Thrilled and confident. " ... if Peter Jackson did it, it will be RIGHT", I thought. I like being right, fifty years later. See Imdb for the details, but Mister Jackson is "Peter Perfect " again - and we thank him very much! There was a time in our development and/or history when the story went out of favor and comedians made a lot of unkind jokes about him, so it's good that they waited till we wanted it again to do this version. Good job! Great viewing and thank you very much! Fan of Peter Jackson cameos? Wikipedia said: "In his 2005 "King Kong" he appears as a biplane gunner attacking Kong in New York, reprising the cameo which original King Kong filmmaker Merian C. Cooper made in the original 1933 film." Wachootinkondat?

The most charming of the Marples, I think - though I love them all - Margaret Rutherford, Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan, and Julia McKenzie. It's fun to watch them ALL and compare productions and styles. Exciting.

I am a senior- The Batman was one of my brother's superheroes - I loved Wonder Woman and always told the truth. The orginal Batman Backstory was full love and beauty but over the decades, the entire thing has gone darker than any one should view.! Bad stuff for most minds.

This turns out to be the BEST sunny Sunday thing to view! About death? Psaw! but YES. Because she uses her powers to say LOVE as an action word - in a hundred ways in the program, and since her focus is about grief and grief recovery, that is a big compliment. Having healed from a major grief myself, and later counseled others and follow more serious lifelong grief counselors as well, I am Expert at this. Arts try to make light of a death and fail every time - they disappoint when the audience paid for maybe a ray of hope in their own grief. But not this lady! Alyssa Limperis does not deny the reality and realizes that true healing takes time - but we do our lives WHILE the profound movers and fires are doing as they please, within and all around us and ,though grieving, life goes on, and our delightfull destinies are still there and demanding our attention. So off we go. But at first it may not feel like healing is happening agt all. And those who sometimes fight their own best lights may be causing their own UNrecovery. Alyssa Limperis acknowledges her own stubborn marriage to her faults, but then she makes such a nice graceful show of coping with difficulties, and is pretty exemplary. She engages with her audience, and the segments of the show bring up a topic and almost always stay there, with digression for the humor of course. She paints a portrait of herself and her family and their path in things that wins laughs every several seconds, but her remarks are NEVER obscene or profane AND they help us to understand and to be helped as we deal with similar challenges - the sort that never quit at us.! At the end of her wonderful performance, she shares photos of her Father who inspired the show, and then members of the audience are given some airtime to share the name and good wish for their own loved one who has passed. Really nice moment! I enjoyed a feeling of oneness with humanity that is not always there - the famous theater "fourth wall" on the stage does not fall - it is not knocked down - it melts in the face of the good spirits cooked up by the performance and audience reception. I am so impressed! She should take this show to our churches - we need it! Covid alone has created an abnormal number of grieving souls, and, if each death leaves at least six people dealing with grief. We really need great shows that address grief recovery. OK, My serious grief journey was decades ago so I MUST correct her on ONE point: She is six years on after the loss of her close and special Dad and she declares to the audience - "there is no healing - grief does not heal". UNTRUE That factoid of loss of a loved one through deatth is there always. But life seeks life and, eventually, it feels normal and often really specially normal to cherish and enjoy the good memories, once the main tears pass. You'll see!