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Jul. 19th, 2007 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceMy plans for this evening include watching a rerun of "Jeeves and Wooster" - yes, the Fry & Laurie series, which I think is pretty much definitive for my generation - and also watching an episode of "House", which is of course Laurie in much different mood.
What's interesting me today, though, is that between the two I shall be rereading "The Nine Tailors" - and, y'know, that Fry/Laurie Jeeves/Wooster thing, it transposes very easily into Bunter/Wimsey; and the newly-revealed Laurie could certainly manage both sides of Wimsey, the silly-ass and the deep & bitter romantic; and it would make a fabulous counterpoint to the earlier series, and there never has been a truly satisfactory TV version, and...
What's interesting me today, though, is that between the two I shall be rereading "The Nine Tailors" - and, y'know, that Fry/Laurie Jeeves/Wooster thing, it transposes very easily into Bunter/Wimsey; and the newly-revealed Laurie could certainly manage both sides of Wimsey, the silly-ass and the deep & bitter romantic; and it would make a fabulous counterpoint to the earlier series, and there never has been a truly satisfactory TV version, and...