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Aven and the the rest of the 7 were cool...almost ridiculously so; I always thought Aven was Blake (surname or something) until I saw the episodes where they referred to Blake as another person and of course the episodes towards the end that actually featured Blake. Why is it that we British are so good at Science Fiction; DR WHO,THE PRISONER (though I only read about this one),HITCH HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY etc and yet we're...so bad at implementing or rather we cut them off before they can cross the pass. I think it comes down to perhaps the fact that SCI-FI makes people think even our hard drinking,football loving working classes would be stirred into intellectual activity of some kind and that's the last thing we need...I HAVE A SOLUTION! These Brilliant programmes should be made again...but show them late (11pm or midnight) when most people are tired and asleep from a hard evenings drinking. YOu make your money by Selling the shows to the USA, Japan, Europe etc...That way no compromise on intellectual quality and no worries about masses of drones getting uppitty....Everyones Happy.

The Chinese Detective played by David Yip was a masterful study in understatement. I felt David Yips Performance was Superb even though I kept wanting him to (please forgive the stereotype)do some Kung Fu every time he was up against some villains. He was a real rounded British oriental professional and whats more he was a kick ass cop...The only thing and the reason perhaps that it wasn't renewed was that they (the writer/producer/director etc) didn't give (David Yip) an opportunity to have a harder edge otherwise we could have seen him develop into perhaps a more edgier (Kung Fu kickin'...oh I'm sorry there I go again)...Detective. It would be fantastic if they made a follow up or a sequel to the series (though they wouldn't call it the Chinese Detective perhaps something that hints at the central character being oriental and please make sure he gets to do some friggin Kung Fu or Muay thai or even a bit of Marquis of Queensbury!). In the Meantime release the old series on DVD...what are you waiting for do you know how many people Oriental, Caucasian or Afro Caribbean or otherwise that would wanna watch this seminal show...no obviously you don't...well wake up and make some money from your back catalogue...and please stick David Yip in the follow up or sequel series.

This was not as good as I'd hoped it would be; BRad pitt was good, Eric Bana was good, however the stand out performance was that of SEAN BEAN who is well known for his workmanlike performances in films such as RONIN with Deniro and Jean reno and as a Poignantly powerful but confused BOROMIR (one of the most human characters in LOTR (if only for his human failings- the characters that is)). In this his (Sean Beans) Odyseus is a wiley warrior who is (almost) psychoanalytical in his knowledge and understanding; it was a masterful performance. I really would be pleased if some one were to make a movie about Odyseus for somewhere between $20 to $50 million ('cause it wouldn't be fair to rest the weight of $100 million or even $200 million on Seans shoulders) with SEAN as the Star/Lead and to make sure it will be a success make it a rollicking psychological action adventure film. I think it would be cool too to see Sean Bean, patrick Swayze and Michael Keaton in one movie as 3 brothers in some sort of action adventure film. Either way I Know that his performance in Troy was one that I greatly appreciated and identified with.