2nd June, 2019*.
Right … I have to mildly confess: I’ve spent this evening with my family.
Right … I have to mildly confess: I’ve spent this evening with my family.
Or, at least, had dinner with them.
Which was interesting …
Jude, bless him … ?
Seemed interested in getting Ruth (Mummy), Aunty Anna and I in involved in — believe it or not — a quiz.
About football.
At one point … ?
Aunty Anna was five points ahead, whilst I was three points behind.
Which will possibly only make sense in about a decade …
~≈§≈~
The SAD bit of news … ?
Is simply that one of the local pubs in the area, the Brewery Tap, has closed.
As a non-drinker, I never actually used it: so it’s possibly a little two-faced of me to say this.
But … ?
That’s a sad thing to see.
A lot of these little one room community pubs are little gold mines. If run right, and given a unique selling point.
The Tap certainly had one: if you wanted to see the best beer garden in Brentwood, it had it. It won awards, several times.
It …
Well, what can I tell you … ?
Apart from the fact it’s a loss.
~≈§≈~
Let’s move on, shall we?
As you know, I like TV shows.
No, really.
You might have noticed.
And … ?
Well, I’ve been watching El Ministerio del Tiempo/The Ministry of Time’s third series, over the past few days.
If you’ve never heard of it … ?
You’re missing something …
~≈§≈~
Episode 6 — Tiempo de esclavos/Time of slaves — opens in 1881: and Alfonso 12th has commissioned a new batch of ships from one of the biggest businesses in Spain.
Only to be gunned down by Tomasín , a frustrated house slave: who’s actually aiming at the Marquess de Comillas (Chete Lera), the man who owns the shipping company …
And Tomasin.
If the King dies, now?
Several of his heirs will not be born.
Changing the course of history in a bad way.
The doctor the agency sent, can’t help.
So the team — Alonso, Amelia and Pacino (Aura Garrido, Nacho Fresneda, and Hugo Silva) — have no other option.
There have to travel back in time, to stop the Marquess buying the slave.
There’s worse to come.
There’s other time travellers around.
A group calling itself the Sons of Padilla.
A group …
Led by Amelia’s Uncle Pere …
~≈§≈~
Lordy … that was a good episode!
Good … whilst simultaneously sad.
Let’s deal with good, shall we?
I think I can safely say that El Ministerio del Tiempo has produced episodes that are good old fashioned romps: exploring familiar tropes in interesting ways.
AND dragging up spins on old ideas.
Love triangles, paradoxes, awkward family meetings …
And, in Tiempo de esclavos?
Seeing a dash to save a life …
Oh … and beat an unexploded bomb.
Remote control bomb defusing, whilst wearing a GoPro?
The traditional “Do we cut the red wire or the green wire?” turned into a hunt for a VALVE … with a brown wire in a rat’s nest of cabling!
I am convinced Alonso’s doing more swearing that the subtitles are letting on!
That’s one thing …
There’s something else.
We saw goodbye to actress Aura Garrido (Amelia) as — as this point in the show’s history — moving on to make a couple of lucrative movies.
Good luck to her on that.
But … ?
The producers have given Amelia a tearful send-off, leaving Amelia’s arc open for a later return.
It’s sad to see her go, though.
Frankly?
I’m going to have to see how the next episode goes with Amelia’s replacement†.
* Over the past few weeks, I’ve opened most posts with a video. I didn’t, initially, today … as Google seems to be having Youtube issues.
† It doesn’t happen often enough: but there’s a nice little scene between senior Ministry staffers, Don Ernesto (Juan Gea) and Irene (Cayetana Guillén Cuervo) discussing that very point. Lola (Macarena García) has already betrayed the Ministry, once …
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