Post by niecie on Aug 24, 2013 20:20:33 GMT -5
Oh my! Considering what an Artie fangirl I am, it's probably pretty clear that this one is a big favorite!
The shot of the front gates of the spa give an opulent view in miniature: the fountain (complete with a pair of doves), the statuary, the guys dressed up as Indians. Jim is plenty dapper in his longer-than-usual jacket with the cane. I usually figure if either of Our Heroes is carrying a cane, there's bound to be a reason -- granted when it's in Artie's hand, the reason may simply be for him to twirl it.
The interior of the spa is nicely appointed too -- and isn't that the interior bay window again?
They redecorated the suite especially for the Polynesian prince. If they only knew him better, they wouldn't have bothered!
Jim uses a fake name: Roger Colby.
The lobby has such a lovely large fireplace! No wonder Artie wanted to stay there later on when he's dressed in feathers and a sarong!
But really, how (and why) did Jim manage to run into Lady Beatrice? Literally, I mean. He walked right into Kitten in the previous episode, and now this. There's no way Jim is clumsy.
Ok, so Lady Beatrice's two co-conspirators chat together and they already know who Roger Colby really is.
Jim checks out the adjoining suites. His own, Suite B, follows the same theme of opulence. And then there Suite A! Makes me wonder if they raided the backroom of the Gilligan's Island set. The pointy-tongued tiki in the corner is particularly, er, charming. (Oh, and it makes a later appearance in the teaser of TNOT Eccentrics, where we get to see it in color.)
While Jim's checking out Suite A, Lady B's two henchies are still talking. Finally one invites the other to join him for a view of the sunset. Seriously, the sunset. But when Jim sets out to contact Artie, we get to see what time it is: 2 o'clock! Where in the continental United States is anyone going to get a view of the sunset at 2?
Now here's the thing: when Jim sits down and the tiki shoots its tongue at him, whoever set that up aimed it wrong. It wasn't a matter of Jim sitting down off-center, or not off-center by much at least. The pointy thing hits on a part of the chair that one might expect won't have a body part leaning against it. (Not that I want Jim to get hit, of course. I just think it could have been staged a little more realistically.)
Jim breaks the cross-bow device in the back of the tiki, then replaces the pointy tongue. Kind of ew to me; I'd rather he had gotten rid of the projectile entirely.
So then he returns to his own suite and disassembles the cane to produce a working wireless telegraph. But isn't that anachronistic? And his cigar case holds the key and coils. It's while he's setting this device up that the clock strikes two.
Jim is sending Morse code over a wireless set-up, and Artie is receiving it on a moving train. That too is anachronistic, right?
The prince looks at the food on the table on the train and greets it as breakfast, and Artie responds that it's past 2 o'clock in the afternoon. And the prince says he enjoys an early breakfast!
Poor Artie, stuck with the task of trying to convince the prince not to go to the spa without telling him the real reason, that someone is out to get the prince. The prince is NOT cooperative.
And then Artie does one of those stage mannerisms: he claps his hands to show he has an idea. He does those mannerisms a lot, but that's an outgrowth of Artie having been a stage actor, right?
Artie probably shouldn't have said No to the prince...
The prince has this weird habit of saying a word three times in rapid succession as if the three were a single word.
The prince is scummy. Or my favorite name for him (since he's not called by a name in the episode) is Prince Creepy.
(Another mannerism: Artie hits the table to show his frustration.)
(Jim uses the same mannerism.)
The manager is pretty free with the key to the prince's suite!
I like how Jim tells Lady B the prince has dozens of wives. :-)
Lady B is sooooo fragile, just as Boojie said, eh?
Not the only time in the course of the show that Artie plays checkers (See TNOT Golden Cobra), but he sure looks freaked over playing it with real gem stones for the men.
Bless his heart, Artie sees that the train robbers are also going to kidnap the prince, so he immediately goes for the gun one of the bandits has. And gets clobbered over the head for his trouble.
Anyone recognize the voice Artie starts doing when he decides he'll play the prince? I've been told that's Ronald Colman, very famous for playing royalty and nobility back in the day. But I love this scene, how after Jim agrees, Artie starts thinking out loud and winds up poking Jim for not putting up an argument against Artie putting himself into danger, and ends up saying what a big mouth he (Artie) has.
When the manager of the spa was winding the clock at the start of Act Two, it occurred to me that he looked familiar. He is. He plays the bartender who doesn't believe anyone can predict an earthquake in the teaser of Human Trigger.
I love the exchange between Jim and Artie in the suite when Artie is complaining of how cold he is and Jim says he's going to get Artie's pants back (and hands him a revolver). Here's the thing though: when Jim leaves, Artie is freezing. But by the time Lady B shows up, Artie seems to be quite comfortable. I wonder what happened in the meantime? (Well, I do have a plot bunny. *grin*)
The guy whom Jim punches across the patio is a rather obvious stunt man for the real Boojie. Heroic Jim is heroic!
Jim has his own little flask hidden in his belt buckle, so that he merely pretends to be knocked out. And what's with the ick face Lady B makes when Jim passes out and lands in her lap? She shoves him off into the floor! Nice lady, huh?
Lady B bites her lip a lot.
This episode is often referred to as The Night of the Extended Shirtlessness. Not only is Artie in a sarong, but now we have Jim in a towel -- an amazingly tenacious towel too. Makes me wonder did they sew it around his waist, or maybe it had a velcro fastener. But that towel doesn't slip, slide, or fall off, not for anything!
'It's a wonder he didn't clank when he walked!' declares Boojie after they've stripped Jim of his hidden weapons (not to mention, his clothes). I'm not entirely sure why the bad guy also had to be in a towel. But here comes the mud wrestling!
As I said, we come back to Artie and he's happy, smiling, checking out the liquor provided in his suite. He sure warmed up somehow!
Notice how Artie tucks in his tummy while he's talking with Lady B! He's also very flirty. But poor Artie! He pulls a trick on Lady B, exposing her as a bad guy, only to have her pull a trick back and capture him!
Lots of focus on candles.
Jim is a crack shot, isn't he, shooting the arrow right off the crossbow!
Oh but poor Artie, hornswoggled by his own partner! Much as I love this episode, I find that part hard to believe, that Jim would trick Artie -- or that Jim would distrust Artie enough to withhold vital information from him. Artie's look is priceless when Jim lets him in on what he did, but that bit about Artie being safer if he didn't know is just wrong. Lady B was trying to get the information out of Artie, and because he really didn't know, she was going to kill him. If Jim hadn't shown up in time to shoot away the arrow, Artie would have died for not knowing. *grumpy*
And now Prince Creepy reveals his true colors. Makes me just wanna smack him!
Artie's back to freezing again.
Grrrrr! And the way the prince titters over Jim saying 'After the hunt.' Smack him some more!
That's a mighty small corral for the buffalo hunt, I think.
Artie's eyebrows seem a bit heavier than usual here, but I suppose that could be from his disguise as the prince.
The prince seems to have trouble controlling his horse.
I love how Jim snaps off the business end of the lance! And there's a small bit that lands at his feet too.
Did Jim get the same wound in the same spot in TNOT Puppeteer?
Lady B shows the prince her true colors at last. I think he really believed they were his friends!
'It's cheating; it's dishonest; it isn't even ladylike!' barks the prince. Like she cares!
Lady B wanted and has the jewels. And Jim instantly breaks out laughing. Artie catches on pretty quick and plays along, but Prince Creepy just about needs Our Heroes to draw him a map before he too claims the jewels are fakes.
But I love that, in telling Lady B the jewels are fake, Jim says, 'They're fake! Like everything else about him!'
But when Prince Creepy agrees with Jim and Artie that the jewels are fake, why does Lady B try to clobber the prince with her gun instead of shooting him? I thought she still had more ammo in her gun. She only fired one time, didn't she?
'Oh, I hate you!' Lady B screams into Jim's face, and he responds, 'You've just made my day.'
And back to the train. Prince Creepy gets the first-season-villainess treatment, in that he's going to get off scotfree, this time because he's a foreign diplomat, which grants him immunity. I've noted before how the dialogue here, with the prince wanting the boys to come visit him on his island where he'll arrange a hunt for them, makes it sound like there would be a sequel, and yet of course there wasn't one -- well, not in the actual show. (That's what fanfiction is for, right? *grin*)
And Artie's marvelous roll of the eyes to end it. :-)
The shot of the front gates of the spa give an opulent view in miniature: the fountain (complete with a pair of doves), the statuary, the guys dressed up as Indians. Jim is plenty dapper in his longer-than-usual jacket with the cane. I usually figure if either of Our Heroes is carrying a cane, there's bound to be a reason -- granted when it's in Artie's hand, the reason may simply be for him to twirl it.
The interior of the spa is nicely appointed too -- and isn't that the interior bay window again?
They redecorated the suite especially for the Polynesian prince. If they only knew him better, they wouldn't have bothered!
Jim uses a fake name: Roger Colby.
The lobby has such a lovely large fireplace! No wonder Artie wanted to stay there later on when he's dressed in feathers and a sarong!
But really, how (and why) did Jim manage to run into Lady Beatrice? Literally, I mean. He walked right into Kitten in the previous episode, and now this. There's no way Jim is clumsy.
Ok, so Lady Beatrice's two co-conspirators chat together and they already know who Roger Colby really is.
Jim checks out the adjoining suites. His own, Suite B, follows the same theme of opulence. And then there Suite A! Makes me wonder if they raided the backroom of the Gilligan's Island set. The pointy-tongued tiki in the corner is particularly, er, charming. (Oh, and it makes a later appearance in the teaser of TNOT Eccentrics, where we get to see it in color.)
While Jim's checking out Suite A, Lady B's two henchies are still talking. Finally one invites the other to join him for a view of the sunset. Seriously, the sunset. But when Jim sets out to contact Artie, we get to see what time it is: 2 o'clock! Where in the continental United States is anyone going to get a view of the sunset at 2?
Now here's the thing: when Jim sits down and the tiki shoots its tongue at him, whoever set that up aimed it wrong. It wasn't a matter of Jim sitting down off-center, or not off-center by much at least. The pointy thing hits on a part of the chair that one might expect won't have a body part leaning against it. (Not that I want Jim to get hit, of course. I just think it could have been staged a little more realistically.)
Jim breaks the cross-bow device in the back of the tiki, then replaces the pointy tongue. Kind of ew to me; I'd rather he had gotten rid of the projectile entirely.
So then he returns to his own suite and disassembles the cane to produce a working wireless telegraph. But isn't that anachronistic? And his cigar case holds the key and coils. It's while he's setting this device up that the clock strikes two.
Jim is sending Morse code over a wireless set-up, and Artie is receiving it on a moving train. That too is anachronistic, right?
The prince looks at the food on the table on the train and greets it as breakfast, and Artie responds that it's past 2 o'clock in the afternoon. And the prince says he enjoys an early breakfast!
Poor Artie, stuck with the task of trying to convince the prince not to go to the spa without telling him the real reason, that someone is out to get the prince. The prince is NOT cooperative.
And then Artie does one of those stage mannerisms: he claps his hands to show he has an idea. He does those mannerisms a lot, but that's an outgrowth of Artie having been a stage actor, right?
Artie probably shouldn't have said No to the prince...
The prince has this weird habit of saying a word three times in rapid succession as if the three were a single word.
The prince is scummy. Or my favorite name for him (since he's not called by a name in the episode) is Prince Creepy.
(Another mannerism: Artie hits the table to show his frustration.)
(Jim uses the same mannerism.)
The manager is pretty free with the key to the prince's suite!
I like how Jim tells Lady B the prince has dozens of wives. :-)
Lady B is sooooo fragile, just as Boojie said, eh?
Not the only time in the course of the show that Artie plays checkers (See TNOT Golden Cobra), but he sure looks freaked over playing it with real gem stones for the men.
Bless his heart, Artie sees that the train robbers are also going to kidnap the prince, so he immediately goes for the gun one of the bandits has. And gets clobbered over the head for his trouble.
Anyone recognize the voice Artie starts doing when he decides he'll play the prince? I've been told that's Ronald Colman, very famous for playing royalty and nobility back in the day. But I love this scene, how after Jim agrees, Artie starts thinking out loud and winds up poking Jim for not putting up an argument against Artie putting himself into danger, and ends up saying what a big mouth he (Artie) has.
When the manager of the spa was winding the clock at the start of Act Two, it occurred to me that he looked familiar. He is. He plays the bartender who doesn't believe anyone can predict an earthquake in the teaser of Human Trigger.
I love the exchange between Jim and Artie in the suite when Artie is complaining of how cold he is and Jim says he's going to get Artie's pants back (and hands him a revolver). Here's the thing though: when Jim leaves, Artie is freezing. But by the time Lady B shows up, Artie seems to be quite comfortable. I wonder what happened in the meantime? (Well, I do have a plot bunny. *grin*)
The guy whom Jim punches across the patio is a rather obvious stunt man for the real Boojie. Heroic Jim is heroic!
Jim has his own little flask hidden in his belt buckle, so that he merely pretends to be knocked out. And what's with the ick face Lady B makes when Jim passes out and lands in her lap? She shoves him off into the floor! Nice lady, huh?
Lady B bites her lip a lot.
This episode is often referred to as The Night of the Extended Shirtlessness. Not only is Artie in a sarong, but now we have Jim in a towel -- an amazingly tenacious towel too. Makes me wonder did they sew it around his waist, or maybe it had a velcro fastener. But that towel doesn't slip, slide, or fall off, not for anything!
'It's a wonder he didn't clank when he walked!' declares Boojie after they've stripped Jim of his hidden weapons (not to mention, his clothes). I'm not entirely sure why the bad guy also had to be in a towel. But here comes the mud wrestling!
As I said, we come back to Artie and he's happy, smiling, checking out the liquor provided in his suite. He sure warmed up somehow!
Notice how Artie tucks in his tummy while he's talking with Lady B! He's also very flirty. But poor Artie! He pulls a trick on Lady B, exposing her as a bad guy, only to have her pull a trick back and capture him!
Lots of focus on candles.
Jim is a crack shot, isn't he, shooting the arrow right off the crossbow!
Oh but poor Artie, hornswoggled by his own partner! Much as I love this episode, I find that part hard to believe, that Jim would trick Artie -- or that Jim would distrust Artie enough to withhold vital information from him. Artie's look is priceless when Jim lets him in on what he did, but that bit about Artie being safer if he didn't know is just wrong. Lady B was trying to get the information out of Artie, and because he really didn't know, she was going to kill him. If Jim hadn't shown up in time to shoot away the arrow, Artie would have died for not knowing. *grumpy*
And now Prince Creepy reveals his true colors. Makes me just wanna smack him!
Artie's back to freezing again.
Grrrrr! And the way the prince titters over Jim saying 'After the hunt.' Smack him some more!
That's a mighty small corral for the buffalo hunt, I think.
Artie's eyebrows seem a bit heavier than usual here, but I suppose that could be from his disguise as the prince.
The prince seems to have trouble controlling his horse.
I love how Jim snaps off the business end of the lance! And there's a small bit that lands at his feet too.
Did Jim get the same wound in the same spot in TNOT Puppeteer?
Lady B shows the prince her true colors at last. I think he really believed they were his friends!
'It's cheating; it's dishonest; it isn't even ladylike!' barks the prince. Like she cares!
Lady B wanted and has the jewels. And Jim instantly breaks out laughing. Artie catches on pretty quick and plays along, but Prince Creepy just about needs Our Heroes to draw him a map before he too claims the jewels are fakes.
But I love that, in telling Lady B the jewels are fake, Jim says, 'They're fake! Like everything else about him!'
But when Prince Creepy agrees with Jim and Artie that the jewels are fake, why does Lady B try to clobber the prince with her gun instead of shooting him? I thought she still had more ammo in her gun. She only fired one time, didn't she?
'Oh, I hate you!' Lady B screams into Jim's face, and he responds, 'You've just made my day.'
And back to the train. Prince Creepy gets the first-season-villainess treatment, in that he's going to get off scotfree, this time because he's a foreign diplomat, which grants him immunity. I've noted before how the dialogue here, with the prince wanting the boys to come visit him on his island where he'll arrange a hunt for them, makes it sound like there would be a sequel, and yet of course there wasn't one -- well, not in the actual show. (That's what fanfiction is for, right? *grin*)
And Artie's marvelous roll of the eyes to end it. :-)