13th February, 2019.
Time …
Time being the operative, word, there.
As you know … ?
As you know, I’m jobhunting: so, occasionally?
You end up doing all sorts of things.
I’m very aware that this patch of unemployment? Has left me wiping my surfaces more than I’m used to. Wiping surfaces, and sweeping the floor.
I’d vacuum my carpet, as well.
If I could work out what’s wrong with my Hoover.
Hmmm …
Now I think about it, I might just have to … you know … empty the bag.
At some point!
~≈§≈~
OK, the point that seems to be rapidly escaping from me … ?
Is simply this.
That I have time on my hands.
Time that I’ve tried to use productively.
I haven’t always done so, successfully.
Today, though? Feels good: in that I’ve managed to do an online assessment for a potential employer, in Chelmsford.
I’ll admit: my confidence in my ability to do these things is not especially high.
We’ll have to see what happens, I think.
Wandering back to my point … ?
Today, I’ve had time to catch up with something that’s been sitting in my media collection, unwatched, until I found time.
Time, being the word.
Yes: I’ve spent this evening watching episode one of the second series of …
~≈§≈~
Episode 1 — Tiempo de leyenda/Time of legend — opens in 1079 with two mysterious figures: observing a very young El Cid fighting for his life against Almoravid attackers.
Successfully.
Only to be stabbed in the back by an unseen attacker …
When he is distracted by what our friend in the hoods are doing.
They’re filming him … …
~≈§≈~
Winding forward to the present day?
Whilst celebrating Julián’s (Rodolfo Sancho) return to active duty Amelia and Alonso (Aura Garrido and Nacho Fresneda) are hauled into Minister Marti’s (Jaime Blanch) office. He and Don Ernesto (Juan Gea) have a job for the team.
Julián has been re-assigned from frontline work: to leading the Infirmary.
Whilst Amelia and Alonso are teamed with Ambrosio Espinola (Ramón Langa) to find out why el Cid’s DNA — taken from him as a young child — doesn’t match the DNA in his tomb …
Complicated?
Oh, yes … !
~≈§≈~
Now …
I don’t know if you read my earlier reviews of El Ministerio del Tiempo’s first season — it’s possibly worth digging around, if you haven’t — but I came away being mightily impressed with it.
There was a cast with a fine emotional range, good writing, wonderful plotting — you HAVE to keep an eye on plotting, with time travel — and episodes that flow from point to point with wonderful pacing.
Thus far?
This first episode keeps that going: and adds to the emotion when — pushed to the limit by inactivity, with no way to visit his much loved wife — Julián picks a door … and escapes into an unknown past where he feels he, and his medical skills, will be needed.
Leaving the rest of the team to look for an alternative!
Frankly?
I’m hooked …
Again … !
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