Beauty and the Beast-What's with the Medieval clothes?

[broberfett]

They are showing Beauty and the Beast on Chiller. This episode has Lance Henrikson(Bishop) and that super gaunt dude that played the Romulan Senator on DS9("It's a faaake!"). I don't really know what is going on, but these people live in some sort of underground city or town. They wear medieval clothes. Why do they live there? I understand avoiding things like the cops and the IRS, but these people have really gone all out. The only really bizarre person I've seen so far is Ron Pearlman who is some sort of lion dude.

Edit-A Quark sighting! Armin Shimmerman is chatting with Lion-O.

 

[Starbreaker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(TV_series)

 

[LeahBoBo]

If you had started at the beginning of the story instead of the end, you'd have your questions answered.

I don't usually take insults to Vincent kindly, but your Lion-O remark was funny.

 

[diankra]

Vincent's community - made up of people who've dropped out of contemporary New York society, through choice or because they have no otehr option - live in tunnels below and linked to the New York subway system.
The medieval-ish clothes make some sense for the same reason they were worn in times gone by - hard wearing, practical and easily repairable. Plus, they also provide an echo of fairytale to a series which is a modern-set fairy tale.

 

[Forbin]

I've been watching the show on DVD from the beginning lately. I loved the show when it was on first-run. But I'm having a hard time taking it now. I have a great appreciation for high melodrama, but, in the middle of the second season now, the show is pegging my melodrama meter and threatening to burn it out. My wife, who also loved the show on TV, bailed completely.

 

[broberfett]

I actually finished the episode after having recorded the remaining bit. Things did not go too well for Bishop. He plugged a few helpless tunnel losers before he went down though.

 

[Anwar]

Lance Henrikson and Stephen McHattie in the same show together? Did they play brothers or something?

 

[broberfett]

I didn't listen to every line of dialogue. My girlfriend was there. What I gathered was that they had been involved in business before. Bishop was an assassin hired to kill Vincent. They had a few disagreements during the episode. Bishop destroyed the other guy's 2,000 year old Chinese warrior statue just to make a point with him(By blowing it apart with his gun). Bishop gets killed(at least I think he was dead-a bunch of stalactites fell on him, but not all spikey like, it looked like rubble) and then Vincent drags the guy to a rooftop and screams Mr.Gaunt-Face's name.

 

[M'Sharak]

^ Gabriel was the name of Stephen McHattie's ("Mr. Gaunt-Face") character, iirc. Been years since I've seen any of the show, though.