The Emma Peel Avengers
Mar. 5th, 2007 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollA friend has a box set of all the AVENGERS episodes that co-star Emma Peel, on whom a lot of young men (and probably young women) fixated in the 1960s. I borrowed them and up to A Surfeit of H2O. Some very idle thoughts:
I bet if Peel auditioned today, someone would call her chubby. They would be wrong. I laugh at them in absentia: ha ha!
Wow, have we learned a lot about staging fights on TV in the last 40 years. Some of the fight scenes, I couldn't figure out how exactly someone was supposed to get hurt. That said, Mrs. Peel could totally kick Buffy's ass.
Peel and Steed are remarkably unbothered by violent deaths, even the deaths of kindly old men that the agents left in high risk situations (If you're a supporting character in the Avengers, never ever meet Peel or Steed at the bad guy's hide-out. It won't end well). Steed is, of course, a combat veteran but I'm not sure where Mrs. Peel gets her attitude. Steed in particular seems to see the whole thing as a lark.
Wow, for spies, they sure have their covers blown on a regular basis. Perhaps using their own names is the problem....
I bet if Peel auditioned today, someone would call her chubby. They would be wrong. I laugh at them in absentia: ha ha!
Wow, have we learned a lot about staging fights on TV in the last 40 years. Some of the fight scenes, I couldn't figure out how exactly someone was supposed to get hurt. That said, Mrs. Peel could totally kick Buffy's ass.
Peel and Steed are remarkably unbothered by violent deaths, even the deaths of kindly old men that the agents left in high risk situations (If you're a supporting character in the Avengers, never ever meet Peel or Steed at the bad guy's hide-out. It won't end well). Steed is, of course, a combat veteran but I'm not sure where Mrs. Peel gets her attitude. Steed in particular seems to see the whole thing as a lark.
Wow, for spies, they sure have their covers blown on a regular basis. Perhaps using their own names is the problem....
