The plot thickens: In "The Last Page" (S2.20) character Taylor directly calls TM, "Tom." They were not friends but had a mutual friend in TC. At this point, TM is working for Taylor, so more a professional relation. At this emotional moment Taylor reverts to the cultural default--use of nicknames f...

GM as always you are well spoken. I don't know how you do it. Maybe in your boyhood in France watching MPI, your brain totally absorbed the dialogues each week, ending up as eloquent a speaker as TS. I see we are well aligned and so I went back and read your earlier post. Shazaam, it's nicely writt...

Geek Spelunker Award :geek: "Winner goes to, uh, Mark de Croix." (Please excuse my immodesty in the service of humor. Actually I've pined to be a true geek but it continues to be elusive.) Did anyone notice the writing on the landmine in the scene? The writing is in English!! Was it placed by Briti...

The plot thickens: In "The Last Page" (S2.20) character Taylor directly calls TM, "Tom." They were not friends but had a mutual friend in TC. At this point, TM is working for Taylor, so more a professional relation. At this emotional moment Taylor reverts to the cultural default--use of nicknames f...

GM as always you are well spoken. I don't know how you do it. Maybe in your boyhood in France watching MPI, your brain totally absorbed the dialogues each week, ending up as eloquent a speaker as TS. I see we are well aligned and so I went back and read your earlier post. Shazaam, it's nicely writt...

A very interesting debate, but I wonder in what proportion and with what attention to detail here the scriptwriters have integrated these subtleties (very appreciable by the way) in the evolution of the scenarios. I'm not sure they really pursued this voluntarily and to that extent. There is also t...

A very interesting debate, but I wonder in what proportion and with what attention to detail here the scriptwriters have integrated these subtleties (very appreciable by the way) in the evolution of the scenarios. I'm not sure they really pursued this voluntarily and to that extent. There is also th...

The plot thickens: In "The Last Page" (S2.20) character Taylor directly calls TM, "Tom." They were not friends but had a mutual friend in TC. At this point, TM is working for Taylor, so more a professional relation. At this emotional moment Taylor reverts to the cultural default--use of nicknames f...

Excellent write-up, Gorilla! Spot on! If I didn't know any better I would have thought you were Ukrainian yourself. The only thing is that the statues of Lenin had been taken down long before Poroshenko or Yanukovych or Yushchenko. They were taken down as soon as the Soviet Union fell apart in the ...

Amazing! :higgins: Thanks for posting.... :magnum: Thanks again '308' :D I tried to figured out where Dr Tessa hideout was set... However, after so much time i was not able to locate the outdoor stage location... I've got some insight about it, but nothing sure... I think Sam would have to help ! :D

3-16 : « Birdman of Budapest » . In this sequence, Magnum goes in search of Dr. Tessa's camp: a former anti-Soviet activist exiled since the Budapest uprising of 1956. One of the zookeepers directs him to Haiku Valley. As often in the series, the indication is wrong and it is indeed the famous Ka'a...

Thank you GM for the thorough explanation. Thank you 80’s Big Hair for bringing up the topic. Language may be the most critical element of any culture and attempts to regulate or minimize it strikes very deeply at human emotion, to say the least. Thanks Pahonu, Well, I'm not interested in playing p...

Thank you GM for the thorough explanation. Thank you 80’s Big Hair for bringing up the topic. Language may be the most critical element of any culture and attempts to regulate or minimize it strikes very deeply at human emotion, to say the least. Thanks Pahonu, Well, I'm not interested in playing p...

I found a very interesting article (in French, that is for ou Styles !...) about the origin of the modern language policy in Ukraine and the origins of the present war... https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/europe/ukraine-2histoire.htm#8_La_crise_ukrainienne_de_2014_ I will try to summarize it here... T...

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but I noticed something while I was showing this episode to the family last night (it was my turn to choose what we saw). What I noticed was that for about around an hour or two of screen time (from the breaching of Robin's next till after the discover...