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| Paul McGann as "Clarence" and Louise Dumayne as "Eldritch" in "Fables of Forgotten Things" |
Four years ago, a little pilot that we shot for very little money and in very little time finally made a public appearance in the graveyard slot on BBC HD.
A LOT has happened since then. I've put on even more weight, quit smoking, started smoking, quit again, worked on all kinds of shows with much bigger...well, with budgets, and I've evolved from a baby writer into an adolescent. Or at least a toddler who knows a couple of swearwords.
I look back at "Fables of Forgotten Things" and see a million things I'd do differently - even when you take the constraints we were under into account. It's too slow. No, really. It's sloooooooowww x 1,000,000. It relies on voiceover which = SATANISM. Some of the dialogue clunks like Marley's chain. And there are evident traces of the trauma I suffered as a four year-old when I caught ten minutes of that Sapphire and Steele episode about the blank-faced man in the top hat:
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| Would you follow this man in the dead of night? |
While it's still available (and while the site still exists!), please take the time to check out Fables of Forgotten Things on the soon-to-be-gone BBC Film Network.
