Comments on: Beauty and the Beast

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:41:45 +0000

The series came on when I was fourteen and I was hooked from then on. I loved it up until they killed Cathrine’s character off. I refused to watch after that. I confess I did buy the series on DVD and I watch the final season and I tell I did not like it. I highly recommend the first and second season.

By: beth farmer

beth farmer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:11:12 +0000

i think that beauty and the beast was way ahead f fanstasy and darma from its era and is a wonderful piece of art to watch now.And ive only jus begiining to watch the prgramme.

By: kaan

kaan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:19:46 +0000

im not sure but suppose wacthed when i was 5 or 6. i was like and affraid to vincent,because it was so interesting be a hero and wild lionman and later i was trying to understand,how would they do sex :) in 24 hours and 45 times:) = dead woman…now whenever i see pics of beast,i feel so sad,,perhaps i remember my childhood times :)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:06:50 +0000

I disliked this show back then. I now think its one of the greatest. I been watching it every night with my wife Deb who I have to thank for buying season 1. My heart is mature enough to appreciate the characters now. I miss the 80′s and it’s lack of reality (shows).

By: Dorothy Goldstein

Dorothy Goldstein — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:34:49 +0000

I watched the show faithfully when it first came out in 1987, and I was hooked. Totally. I taped all the episodes and re-watched many times over the years. It has been several years since I revisted my tapes again, and it was perfect timing, since I found out it was the 20th anniversary, found out about the wonderful Convention in Culver City, and the DVD was being released, and the CD “Of Love and Hope” was released again (I had it on cassette). The best CD ever.

It is not only a fantastic love story, but the music, the poetry, the tunnels, everything about it was a real fantasy land where people really cared about each other. A 2-1/2 season show will be with me always.

I have already ordered and received the 1st Season, have pre-ordered the 2nd Season which should come this week, and hopefully Season 3 will be released. I know it is a short season, but we do need to have this DVD to complete the series.

Thank you all so much for all your work and participation in Beauty and the Beast a work of excellence. We need more of this kind of writing.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:09 +0000

That would be cool, too, to get a contrary opinion. :)

By: James Schee

James Schee — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:46:42 +0000

You know, for some reason as a kid I hated this show. I don’t even know why now, but way back then I just really disliked it and I don’t think I even watched more than a few minutes.

Maybe I’ll Netflix the first disc and see if I’ve changed my mind or at least am reminded of my hate of it.

By: ~chris

~chris — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:46:30 +0000

“Portrait of Love” was indeed beautiful. :-)

It may be considered sacrilegious to say so, but though the story jumped the shark after Hamilton left, her “replacement” Jo Anderson portrayed a much better character (Diana) than Hamilton’s Catherine.

By: Ali T. Kokmen

Ali T. Kokmen — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:53:56 +0000

Ah, yes. I remember this series fondly. You do have to give yourself over to the atmosphere, but it’s easy to do so with this series.

I also remember the show for a few other reasons:

- for its tie-in comic “Portrait of Love” by Wendy Pini, which was beautiful;

- for demonstrating the “jump the shark” phenomenon before that phrase entered the lexicon when the show continued after Linda Hamilton left the show; and

- of course, for the Saturday Night Live parody with Vicent (Phil Hartman) and Catherine (Jan Hooks) doubledating with Demi Moore and Vincent’s-hapless-cat-faced-pal Jon Lovitz…

By: Jim Kosmicki

Jim Kosmicki — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:58:40 +0000

George R.R. Martin had quite a lot to do with the writing IIRC, so that had to have helped with the general quality. My wife and I were newly married when this was on, and it was our “romantic” show to watch. I ordered the set when it was announced (it came out right at Valentine’s Day), but we had to debate whether to watch it again. Older shows do not always live up to one’s memories. We were very surprised at how well this show did, and our two sons (13 and 10) also liked it and want to watch more episodes.

it’s definitely worth Netflixing, and I heartily recommend purchase if people remember it at all fondly. Now we’re waiting for the Picket Fences set to get a new release date so we can see how well that one holds up to our fond memories of the early seasons.