ahhhh, you genius, thankyou! oh my god, a dvd would make my life. i'm in the middle of watching the original friday night, saturday morning interview on iplayer, but as soon as i'm done watching that, i'm watching holy flying circus again so i can properly squee/enjoy all aspects of it without the awkwardness of slightly holding back when you're watching something with your parents.
it seems odd to criticise the programme for the caricatures, as if they were going for a realistic portrayal but just lapsed into exaggeration, when i'm pretty sure they set out with caricatures in mind from the off. & yes, exactly, it's what you'd get if you'd sat the Pythons down and made them affectionately scribble take-offs of each other on beermats. hence the excessively nice palin, the deliberately contrary cleese, & the spaced-out gilliam. but they didn't utterly rely on the caricatures like they were just doing one giant piss-take. there was a lot of heart to the characters, the humour helped to humanise them, & i came out of watching that with a redoubled fondness for the real people behind the python personas.
tl;dr, sorry, i just love it SO MUCH.
& god, i just want all the stories about michael & jones the wife. & in the context of this film, Terry totally knows that John is in love with Mike, but he's pretty laid back about it because Mike is The Nicest Man In The World and there's no way he'd reciprocate, because "John is the Annoying One" anyway... i just - HEARTS IN MY EYES. that bit at the end when michael leaves after the televison debate & john says i do love you to the empty doorway, & just, alskldkhjfk. ♥ ♥ ♥
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it seems odd to criticise the programme for the caricatures, as if they were going for a realistic portrayal but just lapsed into exaggeration, when i'm pretty sure they set out with caricatures in mind from the off. & yes, exactly, it's what you'd get if you'd sat the Pythons down and made them affectionately scribble take-offs of each other on beermats. hence the excessively nice palin, the deliberately contrary cleese, & the spaced-out gilliam. but they didn't utterly rely on the caricatures like they were just doing one giant piss-take. there was a lot of heart to the characters, the humour helped to humanise them, & i came out of watching that with a redoubled fondness for the real people behind the python personas.
tl;dr, sorry, i just love it SO MUCH.
& god, i just want all the stories about michael & jones the wife. & in the context of this film, Terry totally knows that John is in love with Mike, but he's pretty laid back about it because Mike is The Nicest Man In The World and there's no way he'd reciprocate, because "John is the Annoying One" anyway... i just - HEARTS IN MY EYES. that bit at the end when michael leaves after the televison debate & john says i do love you to the empty doorway, & just, alskldkhjfk. ♥ ♥ ♥
brb, watching this forever.