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Miss Scarlet & the Duke: Origins (2024)
Plotholes in story line come together
Although a likable series and this episode has an interesting plot, two things in this flash back episode clash with the current story line:
1) In the first series Eliza and William act as if they have never met before. Complete strangers to each other.
2) the original Duke as in the title makes a reappearance after being out of the series since season 2; the original Duke was the financial benefactor for Miss Scarlet in the first series.
It was really odd when the inspector was addressed three times in a short time near Scotland Yard as "the Duke" in an episode; as if every one knew his nick name and always addresses him with that nick name.
Wish they did not make those stupid changes, make you cringe, really annoying,
Harry Wild (2022)
Disappointing
The premise of the series sounds good, but the stories are not well developed. The plots have an artificial structure.
Short cuts and sheer coincedances are made to finish the story within the 50 minutes time frame.
In the first episode a reference to an obscure play from the 16th Century are made and only Harry (a retired professor in Literature) sees the connection. In another episode she is an expert in Russian Literature with connections to Dostojevski, and Harry is the only person to make the links As she suddenly sees the connection with a corpse found in the water with a WW2 operation.
There is potential but they should expand the episodes and remove those artificial shortcuts.
La rosa di Bagdad (1949)
La Rosa di Bagdad: digitally restored
Based upon the Stories of 101 Nights this is a simple tale.
A young musician, Amin, who secretly is in love the singing princess Zeila. He steals a magic ring from the caliph's adviser Jafar, made for him by the sorcerer Burk. Amin is caught and physically changed, so no one recognizes him. An old lady, Fatima, gives him Aladdin's lamp with the ghost, with whom he saves the princess from the spell of the ring and out of the hands of Jafar.
The animation is inspired by Disney's "Snow White" and "Pinocchio". The backgrounds are beautiful, thanks to Technicolor. They are paintings of themselves.
Recently digitally remastered and available with Italian sound and subtitles. Some releases claim to have English subtitles, as well. as an extra a documentary on the making of this animation (in war time), no subtitles here.