Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 285172" data-attributes="member: 33">Hey David, your first post is about Columbo! Welcome to the forum.I totally get what you mean but I will attempt to push back on some of what you said. Yes, 1990s Columbo a a whole wasn&#039;t as good as 1970s Columbo as a whole but TV had moved on and it was right that the series moved on too. I think the quality of the new episodes was more of a reflection of some of the writing and the budgets that were available for the cast than it was for trying to give the New Columbo a distinct feel. I think it&#039;s wrong to be dismissive about all the 1990s episodes because I think there were a few diamonds amongst the dirt. Similarly, it&#039;s easy to think of the 1970s episodes as being better but there were a few stinkers back then that were far worse than some of the newer episodes.Peter Falk&#039;s performance was much less nuanced in the new episodes and at times Columbo became more of a caricature but I think this was more about trying to attract audiences by giving them what the producers thought viewers liked about the character. People liked his quirks so I can imagine a decision was taken to put more of them in and to make them more obvious. Did that make New Columbo bad or did it make it different? It probably did both but it wouldn&#039;t necessarily feel that way to someone who hadn&#039;t seen the original series.There are some episodes of the 1990s series that I would happily watch &quot;an endless number of times the way you can most episodes of the original series from the late 60s and the 70s&quot; but given the choice, I would chose an episode from the original series.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 285172, member: 33"] Hey David, your first post is about Columbo! Welcome to the forum. I totally get what you mean but I will attempt to push back on some of what you said. Yes, 1990s Columbo a a whole wasn't as good as 1970s Columbo as a whole but TV had moved on and it was right that the series moved on too. I think the quality of the new episodes was more of a reflection of some of the writing and the budgets that were available for the cast than it was for trying to give the [I]New Columbo[/I] a distinct feel. I think it's wrong to be dismissive about all the 1990s episodes because I think there were a few diamonds amongst the dirt. Similarly, it's easy to think of the 1970s episodes as being better but there were a few stinkers back then that were far worse than some of the newer episodes. Peter Falk's performance was much less nuanced in the new episodes and at times Columbo became more of a caricature but I think this was more about trying to attract audiences by giving them what the producers thought viewers liked about the character. People liked his quirks so I can imagine a decision was taken to put more of them in and to make them more obvious. Did that make [I]New Columbo[/I] bad or did it make it different? It probably did both but it wouldn't necessarily feel that way to someone who hadn't seen the original series. There are some episodes of the 1990s series that I would happily watch "an endless number of times the way you can most episodes of the original series from the late 60s and the 70s" but given the choice, I would chose an episode from the original series. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?