I *adored* the Granada Sherlock Holmes series. No one else will ever be Holmes for me. Not having seen Jeeves and Wooster at the time, I didn't recognize any of the supporting/guest actors much, but I'm sure I would today. :-) I've watched a few on PBS recently when our station was showing them. What a pleasure!
Fiona Gillies' Florence just has that martinet quality that is a perfect, jarring contrast to her prettiness. You can *just* see Bertie falling for "Flossie, old thing" (and isn't it hilarious when she cuts him dead on that), then seeing what a disaster it would be after Jeeves opens his eyes to Lady Caligula. Francesca Folan's Florence never quite clicked with me after that.
Richard Braine was the first Gussie I saw -- and then recently I saw the Steggles character just after reading the story and thought, ew--they used this guy to play Steggles *and* Gussie? Just *wrong*. And then I saw the earlier Gussie and thought, now that's more like it. Cute, clueless nerdy newt-fancier. You can sort of see how he and Madeleine would fall for one another.
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Date: 2009-08-18 04:43 pm (UTC)Fiona Gillies' Florence just has that martinet quality that is a perfect, jarring contrast to her prettiness. You can *just* see Bertie falling for "Flossie, old thing" (and isn't it hilarious when she cuts him dead on that), then seeing what a disaster it would be after Jeeves opens his eyes to Lady Caligula. Francesca Folan's Florence never quite clicked with me after that.
Richard Braine was the first Gussie I saw -- and then recently I saw the Steggles character just after reading the story and thought, ew--they used this guy to play Steggles *and* Gussie? Just *wrong*. And then I saw the earlier Gussie and thought, now that's more like it. Cute, clueless nerdy newt-fancier. You can sort of see how he and Madeleine would fall for one another.