[tv] long way down
Dec. 7th, 2007 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroEveryone else is blogging about the season finale of Heroes. I slept through it and haven't had a chance to watch the tape yet.
The other series that ended this week (and also took me several days to get around to watching) was Long Way Down, the sequel to Long Way Round.
For those of you not familiar with the concept, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman get on great big motorbikes and drive around the world (Long Way Round) and from John O'Groats to Cape Town (Long Way Down). Long Way Round was a wonderful, life-affirming, life-changing experience - the message is to say fuck it and follow your dreams. I'm willing to admit that could have been because of where my head was at when I was watching it, and that it's easier to say fuck it and follow your dreams when you're a rich famous person, but I still loved every minute of it.
So I was really looking forward to the sequel. Parts of it were nearly as good as the first trip, but it just didn't grab me as much. I think it really suffered from being in six parts instead of ten (though here Wikipedia tells me that the version of the DVDs that my rental company sent was an extended special), as it felt really rushed all the way through. Granted, they didn't have the extreme terrain to deal with that they did in Mongolia and Siberia (there are, believe it or not, better roads in Africa). Many of the places they visited on the way down were seriously inspiring.
I've had the book since before the series started, but I thought it was cheating to read the book first. I am sad and need to get a grip. I can start it now.
The other series that ended this week (and also took me several days to get around to watching) was Long Way Down, the sequel to Long Way Round.
For those of you not familiar with the concept, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman get on great big motorbikes and drive around the world (Long Way Round) and from John O'Groats to Cape Town (Long Way Down). Long Way Round was a wonderful, life-affirming, life-changing experience - the message is to say fuck it and follow your dreams. I'm willing to admit that could have been because of where my head was at when I was watching it, and that it's easier to say fuck it and follow your dreams when you're a rich famous person, but I still loved every minute of it.
So I was really looking forward to the sequel. Parts of it were nearly as good as the first trip, but it just didn't grab me as much. I think it really suffered from being in six parts instead of ten (though here Wikipedia tells me that the version of the DVDs that my rental company sent was an extended special), as it felt really rushed all the way through. Granted, they didn't have the extreme terrain to deal with that they did in Mongolia and Siberia (there are, believe it or not, better roads in Africa). Many of the places they visited on the way down were seriously inspiring.
I've had the book since before the series started, but I thought it was cheating to read the book first. I am sad and need to get a grip. I can start it now.
