h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I watched the first episode of Wolf Hall last night. It's a fascinating counterpoint to the portrayal of Thomas Cromwell as written by Robert Bolt and played by Leo McKern in A Man For All Seasons, my favourite film bar none. Unfortunately the film has pretty much ruined, for me, any depiction of events surrounding Henry VIII's break with Rome because it's such a strong, rich piece of writing and acting. Thomas More will always be Paul Scofield, Henry will always be Robert Shaw, Cromwell will always be Leo McKern, Wolsey will always be Orson Wells.

But, despite McKern's scheming and devious Cromwell (and he was), a couple of events (one factual, the other probably a bit of artistic licence) in the first episode did have me leaning sympathetically towards him. I'm intrigued to see where this series is going to go.

It's fairly slow in its build up, probably to pad out episodes...

have you seen the size of the books? housebricks, each of them

I like slow. There's too much fast (and in other aspects of life besides storytelling), too much insistence on things being done as quickly as possible, and I don't get it. Fast doesn't always work, nor does fast always make things better. Especially in the workplace, and in training workers.